by Brian | Dec 11, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This is a book about the culinary culture of the Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and some island in the cold sea. There are 700 recipes in this massive book that surveys centuries of careful recipe development. These lands have only 160 growing...
by Brian | Dec 11, 2015 | Recipes
In The Lemon Cookbook, Ellen Jackson very convincingly presents the idea that we can use lemons from breakfast to midnight. Lemon can be a dominant element, as in lemonade, or more often provide just the accents needed to take a dish from good to wonderful. On these...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
The holiday season is the time for baking: cakes, pies, and most certainly cookies. It is THE cookie season. Suzi and I have a few cookie books. About two hundred actually. You’d think we would stop. The dialog goes something like this. “Suzi, look at this...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2015 | Recipes, Thanksgiving
That's the "before" picture above. Just to be clear. Yesterday’s post was for a very intense Thanksgiving side dish: Smoked Gouda and Apple Wood Bacon Gratinee of Cauliflower. Here’s another, simpler idea form the same source, Adirondack...
