by Brian | Feb 26, 2020 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
It is the warmest January in 141 years. I’m not running around in shorts, yet, but I do look longingly in my snowshoes handing in the basement. It’s not that there hasn’t been enough snow to use them. There hasn’t been snow, period. I pass my time now getting ready...
by Brian | Feb 25, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You will like this book. More importantly, you will use this book. It is clever and smart and a tool to make your week easier. Everybody eats. Every day. Well, most of us. Suzi and I are foodies and we love to cook. But even we need a break from the kitchen. Trying to...
by Brian | Feb 25, 2020 | Recipes
Roasted or raw? What do you with your tomatillos. Raw tomatillos in a salsa make for a sharp tang. When roasted, the tomatillo flavor is deeper with more “spread” across your mouth instead of that immediate sharp tang. And, making salsa with raw tomatillos is faster....
by Brian | Feb 24, 2020 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
It was a dark and stormy night on a rocky road when … When you make brownies, what do you do? Just bake, pull them from the oven and devour? I know, the aroma of fresh brownies is very hard to resist. But, resistance is not futile. And, and, there...
by Brian | Feb 20, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
This week’;s TBT cookbook is from 2014 and is one I often turn to. When I first got this book, I wnet through, recipe by recipe, and scanned in the ones I “had” to try. Fifty-three of them. I think that’s strong evidence that...
