by Brian | Mar 9, 2017 | Recipes, TBT, Uncategorized
When I first posted this recipe, I was bold enough to call them the best baked beans. They still are. It adds up. You make baked beans once or twice a month. Do that for fifty years and you can righteously claim to have strived for perfection 1000 times or more. It...
by Brian | Mar 8, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
Have you ever put something special down, intending to use it the next day? And then a couple of years later, you pick up a piece of paper and, oh my, there that thing is. You’d forgotten all about it and now you wonder how that could ever have happened. I got...
by Brian | Mar 8, 2017 | Recipes
Here’s a bread secret. Those croissants you love? Get them as soon after they are baked as possible. After about four hours, they are not the same. They may still be good, but they will not be great. If they have been sitting in the bread case of your local...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
Are French fries the world’s favorite food? In the opinion of Blake Lingle, the answer is decidedly yes. Blake is the founder of Boise Fry Company. They sell fries. You can get a burger, too, but it’s all about the fries. In Fries, Blake tells the...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This is the fourth recipe Suzi and I tried from the wonderful Baking Style by Lisa Yockelson. I’m not going to give you more recipes from this lovely book. It was published in 2011 and you can still get your own copy. You want to. Lisa loves intense...