by Brian | Feb 22, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
It’s National Margarita Day so we need margaritas. Or, even better, variations like The Paloma made with grapefruit juice. This recipe comes from a wonderful regional cookbook: The Texas Cowboy Kitchen by Grady Spears and June Naylor....
by Brian | Feb 22, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Sometimes a cookbook can sit on your shelf for decades, used perhaps only once a year, but never, never relegated to the basement or attic. How could you do that to Anna Teresa? Anna Teresa was larger than life, by many orders of magnitude. And loud. She was...
by Brian | Feb 20, 2018 | Recipes
Last week I started a project Muffin Monday. Yesterday was Presidents Day and I took Monday off. But, I still made muffins. These are the best muffins ever, according to my wife. Suzi is not a pastry person, a morning muffin or biscuit person. Bagel? Sure! But...
by Brian | Feb 17, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Sometimes it is fun to confuse people. At her cooking school in New York City, Cooking by the Book, Suzi employs a staff of twenty with many professional chefs. We offered one of them, a superb dessert maven, a bite of this cake. He tasted, he smiled, then he scowled....
by Brian | Feb 16, 2018 | Recipes
The audacity: a cookbook writer from Great Britain tries to make hot chicken wings. The humbling: damn, these are as good as it gets. Not Buffalo, New York hot. Not quite, but the sweetness and stickiness more than compensate. For over a decade, Gizzi Erskine has...
