by Brian | Apr 17, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I reviewed this book in 2014. Suzi and I have a passion for comfort food and that continues. Today, we are in Utah eating tacos and burritos and … Comfort food. This book that plenty of comfort for you. Plenty. This is the time of year when we often talk about...
by Brian | Apr 17, 2019 | Recipes
The Art of the Party by culinary guru Kay Plunkett-Hoge contains a range of classic recipes that Kay has literally perfected. From the south of France, this combination of onions, garlic, thyme, anchovy, and olives is a head-rocking testament to...
by Brian | Apr 16, 2019 | Recipes
I’m just warning you. I love onions. So from now until September, you are going to see onions popping up all over this blog. But perhaps not in ways you might expect. In her new cookbook My Greek Table, Diane Kochilas offers this simple, stunning...
by Brian | Apr 16, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There will be spring. There will be summer. And thus there will be potato salad. From 2014, here’s the bible of potato salads. There is a hotel near us upstate — the Emerson — with a gift store that Suzen and I often visit. There is an exceptional blend of good...
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by Brian | Apr 15, 2019 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
The Italian Regional Cookbook by Valentina Harris is a 600-page bible of Italian recipes. And, techniques. This cake, beautiful to behold, is quite unusual in the way it is made. Normally, when using beaten egg whites, you reserve them to the end and...
