by Brian | Nov 6, 2014 | Recipes
Incentive. You sometimes need incentive to get people to eat their veggies. We often resort to sweetness: carrots sautéed in sugar and orange juice. [Don’t be righteous, it’s good.] But it would be better if this culinary bribery could be...
by Brian | Nov 6, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
“Where is it?” my wife asked. Her voice displayed urgency but not panic. Suzen never panics. Well, that’s not true but I don’t want to get myself in deeper trouble than normal. And in this case, I was getting panicky myself. “I’ll...
by Brian | Nov 5, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
We adapted this complex dessert from Diana Henry, who calls it Peasant Girls in a Mist. Here, we’ve added a layer of caramel to the mixture so there is plenty of sweet and crunchy and fruit, all proudly presented in a clear glass bowl. It’s one of those...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2014 | Recipes
So, if you cannot say something nice, then, then invent something kind. It is hard to find a sweet potato that you would want to take home to mom. They are, candidly, just plain ugly. Perhaps that is extreme. They are certainly more than a little raw around the...
by Brian | Nov 3, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Our friends gave a dinner party last weekend and asked us for the Alpha and the Omega. For a Mexican-themed dinner, my role was to supply margaritas and dessert. We knew the main entry, pork shoulder cooked for hours with spices and chiles, would leave people with...
