by Brian | May 15, 2018 | Recipes
I have always considered toasting nuts to be [1] a waste of time and [2] a pain in the ass. I’ve been wrong. The penetrating aroma of roasted pecans is strikingly evident in these biscuits. That differentiated flavor makes for a morning surprise. Tomorrow, I’ll...
by Brian | May 14, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Any book by Diana Henry is one you want to add to your kitchen library. This prolific British author is famed for her distinctive recipes featuring ideas, ingredients, and techniques from around the world. London is truly a culinary capital with stores offering...
by Brian | May 14, 2018 | News
Well, I really, really botched it. Yesterday was Mother’s Day and we celebrated by gardening, cooking and entertaining. I had cards for Suzi but in the madness of a most busy day, I forget to give them to her. She never said a word. Of course, her attention was...
by Brian | May 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
In her lovely, and now classic book from 2007, The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters presents an encyclopedia of “simple” foods. Her skill is the transformation of simple ingredients into dishes of elegance and culinary power. Take mushrooms. Simple mushrooms. Take, in...
by Brian | May 11, 2018 | Recipes
We noticed something intensely in our recent trip to Sicily. Artichokes were in season, really in season. You could buy them unbelievably cheaply: 10 for 1 Euro. So every restaurant had artichokes aplenty. While “stew” is not the most charming word in the English...
