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Throwback Thursday: Candied Bacon Cashew

by Brian | Oct 26, 2023

As the holidays approach, we can all use a little party food. From October 2012 here’s a TBT tidbit: cashews, bacon and brown sugar. You’ll probably want to add a whiskey sour. This...

Cookbook Review: Thanksgiving Dinner by Anthony Dias Blue and Kathryn K. Blue

by Brian | Oct 24, 2023

Last week I mentioned that as Thanksgiving approaches, we all need great sources for our great national feast. There are four great Thanksgiving cookbooks that endure: The Thanksgiving Table by...

Cookbook Review: Cocktail Food, Ideas for Light Meals During Thanksgiving Week

by Brian | Oct 21, 2023

Here’s a little Thanksgiving help. One you need to consider now. Actually, it is not about Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. It’s about Wednesday, the day and the night before. Many of us travel for the...

Chicken and Ginger Pad Thai from Cook with Me

by Brian | Oct 20, 2023

What is your favorite cuisine? For Suzi and me it’s often the cuisine in that restaurant we are about to enter. We eat everything: American, Mexican, Tex-Mex, French, Italian and Asian. Oh, Asian?...

Throwback Thursday: Stuffed Cornish Game Hens with Concord Grape Sauce

by Brian | Oct 19, 2023

I have started my pre-Thanksgiving march now, trying to give you a bevy of options for the coming holiday. Some people, and I’m not naming names, don’t like turkey. And some people have...

Arthur Schwartz’s Fifties-Style Crips Peanut Butter Cookies from The Cookie Book

by Brian | Oct 18, 2023

There is this book, The Cookie Book by Holly Garison, published in 1996 that Suzi and I still use. Weekly. I think I posted a review once, long ago, and I try to find that for you. But, as I said,...

Karen Goodlad’s Favorite Apple Bread from Stirring the Pot

by Brian | Oct 17, 2023

Stirring the Pot is a fascinating recipe collection from the New York branch of Les Dames d’Escoffier. Les Dames is a world-wide charitable organization with membership for distinguished women in...

Cookbook Review: The Thanksgiving Table by Holly Garrison

by Brian | Oct 15, 2023

Cookbook Review: The Thanksgiving Cookbook This week I mentioned that as Thanksgiving approaches, we all need great sources for our great national feast. There are four great Thanksgiving...

Cookbook Review Redux: The New Thanksgiving Table

by Brian | Oct 14, 2023

This week I mentioned that as Thanksgiving approaches, we all need great sources for our great national feast. There are four great Thanksgiving cookbooks that endure: The Thanksgiving Table by...

Cookbook Review: The Thanksgiving Table — And More Thanksgiving Ideas for You

by Brian | Oct 13, 2023

Thanksgiving is THE American holiday. Over 90% of us gather at the table, regardless of family background or religion. It is our universal holiday and the ultimate food holiday. Some of us are...

Throwback Thursday: BestEver Bourbon Brownies

by Brian | Oct 12, 2023

The things you find. I was going back 10 years for this week’s Throwback Thursday blog and I found this recipe. Which was never posted. It’s been sitting in my directory as...

French Apple Tart from Ina Garten for Cooking Parties

by Brian | Oct 11, 2023

It is apple season. Bushels of apples are in your supermarket and, even better, at your local farmers markets. Or, best of all: you can go pick your own. You know, get a ladder, steady it on uneven...

Mint Chutney [ Quick before the frost comes!]

by Brian | Oct 7, 2023

Have you ever done something really stupid? Not just silly. I mean stupid. And then done it again. And again. For twenty friggin’ times? And not even known it, until suddenly the light bulb comes...

Cookbook Review: Stuffed by Heather Mubarak

by Brian | Oct 6, 2023

Well, this is not just another cookie book. This is THE COOKIE BOOK. If you buy one cookie book a year, this is the one. The subtitle is “The Sandwich Cookie Book.” I know, people think sandwich...

Bacon Cheddar Biscuits

by Brian | Oct 5, 2023

This week’s Throwback Thursday is a paen to comfort food. I bet when I say “biscuit” you can smell them. I’ll even wager that the image in your head is from that...

Throwback Thursday: Mustard-Crusted Pork Tenderloin with Apple Cider Reduction

by Brian | Oct 5, 2023

Here’s a throwback from 10 years ago that you won’t throw away. It’s fall. At least for us. The lawn is scattered with leaves. Not dotted. Scattered far and wide. This hearty meal...

Esspresso Buttercream from Stuffed by Heather Mubarak

by Brian | Oct 4, 2023

I will warn you now that this blog post is a tease. Today, it is the Espresso Buttercream filling that you see in the photo. It looks a little stiff because I just took it out of fridge. I’m using...

Coffee Lover’s Cookies

by Brian | Oct 3, 2023

I promised you this recipe yesterday, teasing you with the Espresso Buttercream filling. On a scale of 1 to 10, this is approaching 14. I’ve only had a couple of cookies that were as good. I’ve...

Sour Cream Cookies from Mable Hoffman with Frosting from Brian

by Brian | Sep 30, 2023

We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had just set out for a doctor’s appointment in NYC, three hours away. Suzi checked her phone and saw we were to go to the Westside Broadway office, but we had talked...

Watermelon Gazpacho

by Brian | Sep 29, 2023

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...

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Throwback Thursday: Candied Bacon Cashew

Cookbook Review: Thanksgiving Dinner by Anthony Dias Blue and Kathryn K. Blue

Cookbook Review: Cocktail Food, Ideas for Light Meals During Thanksgiving Week

Chicken and Ginger Pad Thai from Cook with Me

Throwback Thursday: Stuffed Cornish Game Hens with Concord Grape Sauce

Karen Goodlad’s Favorite Apple Bread from Stirring the Pot

Cookbook Review: The Thanksgiving Table by Holly Garrison

Cookbook Review Redux: The New Thanksgiving Table

Cookbook Review: The Thanksgiving Table — And More Thanksgiving Ideas for You

French Apple Tart from Ina Garten for Cooking Parties

Mint Chutney [ Quick before the frost comes!]

Cookbook Review: Stuffed by Heather Mubarak

Bacon Cheddar Biscuits

Throwback Thursday: Mustard-Crusted Pork Tenderloin with Apple Cider Reduction

Watermelon Gazpacho

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