by Brian | Aug 30, 2019 | Cookie Jar, Recipes, TBT
The cover of Retro Cakes and Cookies shows an old friend. I grew up on Pinwheel Cookies although here they have the name Double Chocolate Pinwheels. The double part comes from using white chocolate in the white dough. As a kid, sixty years ago, I don’t...
by Brian | Aug 30, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzi and I spend about five hours a week in our commute from Manhattan to our weekend house in the Catskills. There is often back traffic and we used soothe ourselves by listening to radio, especially the satellite channel devoted to old time radio. We are...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review is designed to fill a gap. This year has not seen a slew of good Mexican cookbooks. I just haven’t found many that sparkle. But this one, from 2015, does give you that burst of inspired flavor. Publishers are tributaries, their...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I posted this just five years ago. I wrote then about having had a cold summer, so that it took until September to get really sweet carrots. Well, it’s been cool again. Normally in New York, August is sweltering. Temperatures in the 90s or about 100. This...
by Brian | Aug 28, 2019 | Recipes
Don’t worry. This is a gazpacho recipe with NO tomatoes. I obsess over gazpacho and I admit I post gazpacho recipes on a frequent basis. But, it’s a great soup and a healthy dish. I will admit even I can tire a bit of red tomato gazpacho. When Suzi and I were...
