by Brian | Apr 3, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
In 50 Great Curries of Thailand, Vatcharin Bhumichitr guides us through the very spicy world of curry, Thai Curry. And, more than curries, some of the side dishes that you would find in the local restaurants and family kitchens in that country. Ajart, or fresh...
by Brian | Apr 2, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I never ate eggplant until I was forty. My life was just not on a track that wandered through vegetables. Now I encounter eggplant in Italian and Chinese food weekly. As a kid, my Italian experience was limited to macaroni and cheese from Kraft. Our weekly take...
by Brian | Apr 1, 2017 | Cookie Jar, Recipes, Uncategorized
Yes, I think that picture above is pretty darn appealing. The cookies gleam and shine and, oh yes, they taste good, too. Very good. We are used to chocolate cookies with one chocolate element, perhaps some chocolate chips or some cocoa as in a brownie. Here...
by Brian | Mar 31, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed a wonderfully brilliant cocktail book, Wild Cocktails by Lottie Muir. The concept of this book is simple: go outdoors, into your garden or the forest, pick some elements of nature, and use them at home to make components:...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
With all the cocktail books that have appeared, we finally see many cocktails secrets in the spotlight. Authors are telling us those special things that mixologists, for generations, have done to fashion exceptional cocktails — ones that we have been unable to...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
We often eat fish in restaurants but rarely cook fish at home. Cooking a whole fish? Cooking 6 whole fish? We were having a dinner party for 25 and had a request: whole sea bass. What did we do? We went straight to Home Cooking with Jean-Georges by famed chef and...
