by Brian | Dec 9, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I’m writing this review at the perfect time. I just made dinner. A one-pot sumptuous meal: Potato, Bacon, Cheese and Wine Casserole. It’s a terrific dish, rich and steaming hot and complex as bacon and cheese flavors flow across the slices of potato....
by Brian | Dec 9, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Around this time of year, there is a tendency to “go for it” when it comes to desserts. That chocolate roulade or the extra-dense pumpkin pie topped with cinnamon flavored whipped cream. Even our cookies get a holiday coating of extra stuff. Here, there...
by Brian | Dec 8, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
When you marry someone, it is because they are “the one.” Same thing can happen with cookbooks. Oh, Nuts by Patrick Evans-Hylton has lots of good things in it. But there is “the one” — that one recipe that you see and immediately know you...
by Brian | Dec 8, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Holidays, Recipes
If you do have a Christmas dinner, and most of us do, how do you go about planning for it? There is always that resistance to just “do Thanksgiving over again” right down to the pumpkin pie. Yes, heresy. Let’s start over for Christmas. From Marcel...
