by Brian | Sep 29, 2023 | Recipes
The country has endured a brutally hot summer. Well, actually, just some of the country. Here in the Hudson Valley, we used our air conditioner one night. Just one. The other nights, if we wanted to sit on our porch and listen to the stream, we had to don...
by Brian | Sep 28, 2023 | Recipes
It’s Thursday and time for a Throwback Thursday recipe. Sort of. Ten years ago this month, I drafted this post, a lovely roll from Fine Cooking. I never published the draft. When I looked today for the Fine Cooking website, I discovered that the magazine...
by Brian | Sep 27, 2023 | Recipes
Chowder. We are into the first week of autumn and chowder is the word I love now. Tonight, the temperature will dip into the 40’s. And I can’t bear to think what mornings will be like a in a couple of months. The only hope is chowder. But, what is a chowder?...
by Brian | Sep 26, 2023 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Yesterday I posted a recipe from Bliss on Toast: Fingerling Potatoes, Nasturtium and Garlic Mayo on Oatmeal Bread. That Oatmeal Bread is both the foundation and a keynote of the recipe. Suzi went in search for a recipe and turned, of course, to Bread by Jeffrey...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2023 | Recipes
Last week I posted a cookbook review for Bliss on Toast by Prue Leith. Bliss is a delightful book filled with 75 recipes that are simple and yet wonderfully different. Like this one. Oatmeal bread is toasted, spread with mayonnaise mixed with garlic and nasturtium...