by Brian | Feb 17, 2019 | Recipes
This soup is gargantuan. Most of us have early and devastating soup experiences: the watery slop of grade school, those red cans that are opened up and heated on the stove. Heated, not cooked. By the time we leave home, we are souped out. And it can be decades...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2019 | Recipes
One of the secret pleasures of Asian dining is the sauces. I love our local Thai restaurant with its sticky, sweet [and succulent] dipping sauce. In Adam’s Big Pot, Chef Adam Liaw provides the Vietnamese version of this sauce. You can use it at home for spring...
by Brian | Feb 14, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
It’s not snowing outside. I can see shoots of spring crocus in some of the flower beds. Perhaps, perhaps … Use this recipe from 2015 to get yourself primed for spring, whenever and wherever it arrives. When spring arrives, in the supermarket if not...
by Brian | Feb 14, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review goes way back to 2000 when French Cheeses was written by, wait for this, two Japanese authors: Kazuko Masui and Tomoko Yamada. There is a forward by Joel Robuchon, but interestingly these two authors never combined on another book....
by Brian | Feb 13, 2019 | Recipes
In Adam’s Big Pot, Chef Adam Liaw strives for the book’s subtitle: Easy Meals for Your Family. This salad is truly easy but employs a scrumptious combination I bet you’ve never had: coconut, prawns, grapefruit, cucumbers, peanuts, and shallots. On your...
