by Brian | Aug 15, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
Way back in 2012 I was on a honey kick. I never left it. Honey is a wonderful ingredient. Just a tricky one because the bounty of honey flavors out there can produce significant shifts in the final outcome of a recipe. Here, no shift will matter. We are at peak season...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review is a tip of the hat to Kim Laidlaw. There is only one problem with Kim: she doesn’t write enough books. This one, Dessert of the Day, is from 2013 and she did, to her credit and to your good service, release Everyday Slow...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2019 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
When people speak about Guinness, they just say Guinness, not beer. Guinness is a rich Irish stout beer. Stout? That just means strong. And strong Guinness is. When you take a sip, you know it is not Pabst Blue Ribbon. The flavor is so distinct and so intense,...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Those “1000 Things to Do Before You Die” kind of books? I find them oppressive. 1000 is a big number. What if I had done 998 and was about to die? I might be filled with regret. Worse, if I were dying and had only done 314, how badly might I feel about hundreds...
by Brian | Aug 13, 2019 | News
Actually, this is not a funny post today. This is serious. Like, no more banana splits or banana bread serious. I posting a link here to a National Geographic article alerting us to a truly dire threat. Bananas in East Asia have been decimated by a fungus that, though...
