by Brian | Apr 11, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
From a couple of years ago comes this lovely spring idea: Spring Vegetable Tartare. Feel free to improvise here. There is no way to go wrong and an infinite number of ways to go great. Enjoy this Ducasse wonder. I just posted a review of the wonderful new book...
by Brian | Apr 11, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzi and I are in New Mexico where we can probably score citrus by the boxload. There is much more to citrus than juice and this book proves that. Take a look, get some lemons and limes and enjoy the power of citrus. Here’s the 2015 review of a superior...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2019 | Really Simple, Recipes
When Suzen has classes at Cooking by the Book, everybody gets to work in the kitchen. The whole team coming to us is divided up into smaller groups, each group prepares one dish of the meal, they cook for about an hour, and then go eat their creations. It’s all...
by Brian | Apr 9, 2019 | Recipes
As a kid Fridays were tough for me. I ate at public school but, in deference to Catholics, they served only fish-sticks mac-and-cheese. Friday night at home, my mother was only mac-and-cheese. She was not a “from scratch” kind of cook so I saw a lot of...
by Brian | Apr 8, 2019 | Recipes
It’s almost faster to make Mulligatawny soup than to say the name. The dish has Indian origins but these days it really is considered an English soup. When a recipe travels that far, there can be lovely variation in the recipes that now appear. For...
