by Brian | Dec 12, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I first posted this recipe four years ago, and it is one Suzen and I have enjoyed on a regular basis ever since. For your holiday table, sweet potatoes just have to appear somehow, someway. This is The Way. And if you have yet to settle on a sweet potato recipe then...
by Brian | Dec 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2008 Diane Morgan wrote The New Thanksgiving Table, a rework of her milestone 2001 volume The Thanksgiving Table. Suzi and I turn to both books with regularity. I know, Thanksgiving is past us but there is almost a month of the holiday season before us. Not...
by Brian | Dec 11, 2019 | Recipes
This is a recipe from Betty Rosbottom’s American Favorites, a glorious book I have review for TBT. Betty’s mom was true Southern cook. She made pork chops, actually smothered pork chops. Her mom buried the chops in onions and Betty has “modernized” the recipe by...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In retrospect, I suppose I was being cruel. My elderly grandmother would bake cookies and as a kid I would help her. She’d count the baked product and be puzzled, “I’m supposed to have 48 but there are only 45. I don’t understand.” I was sneaking and eating the...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2019 | Recipes
I think I tried eating a date when I was ten or eleven. I did not like it. Sixty years later, I’m changing my mind. Suzi and I needed to bring a “lite” appetizer to a holiday party. We knew they were serving steak, so we needed something with a touch of sweetness and...
