by Brian | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
When it arrives on your table, a dish should be beautiful. In form, in color, and even in aroma. While that final plating is quite important, having beauty every step of the way is certainly beneficial. Here’s a shot of last week’s vegetable stock from Suzi’s...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2018 | Recipes
On cold winter weekends, nothing can match the warmth and aroma of a slow-cooking meat dish, filling the kitchen or the whole house with promises of a luscious meal. The recipe title says “roasted” and the picture shows “simmering” ribs. You do both here, an initial...
by Brian | Jan 12, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
America’s Test Kitchen is a Boston-based organization famous for television programs and cookbooks of the highest quality. The Perfect Cookie is their latest book and it is, in a word, perfect. This is an important and substantial cookbook. There are over two...
by Brian | Jan 12, 2018 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest
The wonderful new cookie book, The Perfect Cookie from America’s Test Kitchen, you will encounter one perfected recipe after another. We all grew up with Oreos and the idea of a sandwich cookie as something “special” is now almost genetically ingrained in us. Ah, but...
by Brian | Jan 11, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
You know the name, the brand: Aidells. You may well have sampled his sausages in the past couple of decades. Teaming with writer and food expert Denis Kelly, Bruce Aidells fashioned four major meat cookbooks. This one, written in 1998, describes itself as the “juicy...
