by Brian | May 22, 2017 | Recipes
I haven’t tried this yet. I will. Well, actually, I won’t but someone I know will. I have a culinary friend who loves to do outrageous recipes. He’s the guy who did a deep-fried turkey for Thanksgiving while I stood back. Way back. And he did a Turducken [turkey...
by Brian | May 21, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
My wife Suzi has 100 to 200 people a week come into our kitchen and cook meals. She runs the hands-on cooking school Cooking by the Book and teams visit here to have fun, learn, and enjoy a perfect meal. That perfection comes in part from our ingredients. We use the...
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by Brian | May 20, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Suzi and I have a few obsessions, like peony soap. We’ve searched endlessly for a successor to a bar we bought twenty years ago. We’ve come close, but a few dozen bars down and still more to go. And so it is with the other obsession: a really good Bloody Mary. We’ve...
by Brian | May 19, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
We all sin. Some of us more than others. But sin seems to be an inherent part of being human. So is this dessert. I would not eat this on a weekly basis. But, oh, once a year? Heck yes. It’s pretty simple, for a complex dessert. Fry some bananas, top them with banana...
by Brian | May 19, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
When it comes to Turkey, what do you imagine? Istanbul? Minarets? Turkey is actually larger than the state of Texas and presents a vast and quite diverse set of geography: the different coasts of the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Aegean; the snow-capped mountains of...
