by Brian | Aug 17, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
Here’s a TBT recipe from 7 years ago. I don’t normally think of mint and spaghetti in the same breath, but Lidia does. Besides the mint, you’ll need capers and anchovies and red pepper flakes. It’s a summer sizzler. Imagine New Jersey was an...
by Brian | Aug 16, 2017 | Recipes
I first blogged this dish in May using the picture from the book. We made it. And we made it into an elegant main course with summer veggies as you can see. This is a wonderful dish that scales up for a party of any size. When we made the biscuits, we could not find...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2017 | Recipes
Here’s the scenario. It’s the weekend. Early afternoon. You’ve just returned from the store with some wonderful racks of St. Louis style spareribs. You want them for dinner and you search for a recipe. And that’s when reality hits. There are lots of barbeque and meat...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2017 | Cocktails, Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I know, people think of the Whisky Sour as a rather Old Fashioned beverage. Pun intended, thank you. And the classic recipe can be very simple, starkly simple. On the Crown Royal website, they propose just four ingredients: 5 ounces Crown royal Delux Whisky .5 ounces...
by Brian | Aug 11, 2017 | Recipes
From the lovely Eat in My Kitchen by Meike Peters there comes this visually stunning salad. So pretty you may not want to eat it at first. Just muse over the arrangement of fruit and cheese and meat. And then enjoy the aroma of the dressing: a maple vinaigrette. Meike...
