by Brian | Nov 14, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Thanksgiving
Last summer, 2017, I reviewed Adam’s Big Pot by Australian Adam Liaw. It’s a great book with an important subtitle: Easy Meals for Your Family. If you need to feed several mouths, and they want food Monday-Friday when you are off working, then you need this book....
by Brian | Nov 8, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Ah, fall. Time for those hearty dishes that you could not imagine on a summer night. Roasts, simmering veggies. Potatoes and carrots and parsnips. Oh, you’ve never eaten one have you? I can remember walking through the grocery store with my mother and pointing...
by Brian | Oct 27, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I remember my first time. I was ten, yes, a young ten. It was 1955 and I was walking through the famed Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax in Los Angeles. It was my first return to California since we left in 1948. I smelled something, something wonderful. A whole sheet...
by Brian | Oct 17, 2018 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
In her lovely new book, Rose’s Baking Basics, reviewed here, provides a kitchen-full array of baked goods. Where to start when testing a baking book? Brownies, of course. And which one? Well, Rose calls this My Best Brownies. The secret ingredient here is cream...
by Brian | Oct 12, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
The season for Concord grapes is almost over, lasting just from the end of August to mid-October. Then you have to wait a full year. Act now. There is no other flavor like Concord. Which explains the juices and the jams. There are other ways to employ Concord grapes,...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I guess the one thing you can’t do with parmesan is sip it. Beyond that, well, the potential is endlessly wonderful. In the lovely, and very important, Not-So-Humble Pies, Kelly Jaggers gives us a constellation of bravo recipes. My full review is here. Today, I want...
