by Brian | Apr 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are hundreds of recipes for quick pickled onions. This is just a template for you. You can adjust the amount and types of vinegar, the herbs and spices you employ, and whether you elect to add some sliced peppers of any variety: jalapeno, habanero, even Scotch...
by Brian | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
This recipe is comfort food: plain, pure and simple. Spring leeks are cooked in a cream and mustard sauce, all nestled in a super easy crust made of cream cheese. It is hard to find “fast food” that is actually sumptuous, but this surely is. This pie can be assembled...
by Brian | Apr 13, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
David T. Smith has a singular passion: gin. And it almost did not happen. As he explains in the introduction to this clever volume, by the year 2000 gin was waning. Again. There had been that period of “bathtub” gin when the spirit has been discredited during...
by Brian | Apr 12, 2018 | Recipes
Suzi and I wait for spring with impatience. For two reasons. First, of course, is the snow. We love snow. We want the snow gone. And then, second, we want spring asparagus combined with lovely risotto and the warm of cheese. If you have never ever had this...
by Brian | Apr 11, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You know the mantra: “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Yeah, sure. Whoever wrote that did not have an 8:30 meeting and need to drop the kids off to school. Or come home in the afternoon and get the kids to soccer and then shop for food and then think...
