by Brian | May 25, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Spring is ending, summer is beginning, and fruit is everywhere. This lovely book, from the publisher Ryland Peters & Small way back in 2006, takes two key components we all love and perhaps actually need: fruit and dough. Or fruit and crust. In combinations that...
by Brian | May 25, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
A few years ago I blogged a Pavlova with Peaches and Blueberries, lovely summer dessert from the delectable book Meringue by Linda K. Jackson and Jennifer Evan Gardner. In a sentence, a pavlova is a big meringue shell with a high edge, filled first with pastry cream...
by Brian | May 24, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
On the web you can read about Emily Han: recipe developer, educator, herbalist, writer. It’s much simpler just to call her an alchemist, a natural alchemist, with a talent for selecting and mixing that I simply envy. There have been a number of advanced cocktails...
by Brian | May 24, 2017 | Recipes
Great soup does not come from a can. It simply cannot. You need a pot or a Dutch oven and some time. Fresh ingredients are a boon. You don’t need any of those preservatives, listed on the side of that soup can, because you are eating this the day it is made,...
by Brian | May 23, 2017 | Recipes
When you pick up a cookbook with a picture of one of the recipes inside — and not all cookbooks do that — jump to that very recipe inside the book. See if the recipe inspires you as much as the pretty picture. This recipe adorns the cover of Let Them East Kale! by...
