by Brian | Jun 23, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Ah, a perfect summer book. Author Suzy Ashford is Australian with a love for France. A self-taught chef and food writer, this first book presents her concepts for the ideal picnic on a day in Paris. Sunday in front of Notre Dame perhaps? Sitting on the banks of the...
by Brian | Jun 23, 2017 | Recipes
When you see an onion, what do you think? A thick slice on top of a burger with melted cheese drizzling down. Thins fragments in a salad? Marmalade? Oh, surely not marmalade. Whatever would you do with onion marmalade? A lot. In his book Bread Nick Malgieri offers...
by Brian | Jun 22, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
It’s summer. Happens every year, mostly. As long as you don’t live in Seattle. From a few years ago, here’s an intense summer dip. No onion soup mix here. Real, natural, ideally out of your garden ingredients. Bribe is such an ugly four-letter word....
by Brian | Jun 22, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This book is 24 years old. It will be in use forever. It’s brilliant. And quite comforting. Okay, bad pun. Meatloaf is, surely, one of the top ten comfort foods. If you grew up in the 50s or 60s, you probably had meat loaf once a week. If you grew up not upper middle...
by Brian | Jun 21, 2017 | Recipes
This recipe comes from Gail’s Artisan Bread. Roy Levy and Gail Mejia wrote this cookbook based on their bakery experiences in London. The intent was to provide great [aka French quality] bread in a town that was not famous for its bread baking. The first store opened...
