by Brian | Nov 22, 2014 | Dessert Digest
This cake is not gingerbread. Now, I personally love gingerbread, the spicier the better, but some folks have a different palate, one that does not appreciate the assault of too much ginger on the tongue. For those of you, and I respect you ginger sensitivity,...
by Brian | Nov 21, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There are three kinds of “healthy” cookbooks: The bad ones The very bad ones The handful of thoughtfully written ones with recipes you can actually enjoy and possibly relish Jim Peyton is one of those very thoughtful writers who has researched and written...
by Brian | Nov 21, 2014 | Recipes
This was first posted four years ago when Dorie Greenspan's magnificent Around My French Table was a soaring and stunning rage. While the buzz may have abated, there is no decline in the importance of Dorie's work. This recipe is surely one you might consider...
by Brian | Nov 20, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Sometimes progress is not totally positive. Nicholas Butcher, British by birth, wrote Recipes from the Spanish Kitchen in 1990, by then living in Spain and endlessly traveling the back roads. He moved village to village, region to region. The roads...
by Brian | Nov 20, 2014 | Recipes
I first posted this blog in February when we enjoyed it with an early spring meal of pork chops topped with a chipotle sauce. You see that deep red/orange flavor in the background of this picture. Speaking of colors, that's how to cook this souffle: all...
