by Brian | May 15, 2019 | Recipes
Let’s Eat France is a grand new tome filled with recipes, ideas, chef biographies, and details to make you believe, well start to believe, you might be a French chef. This idea appeared in a little sidebar. Take a leg of lamb — bone it....
by Brian | May 14, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I just posted a happy review of Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails. And this is the first cocktail there that caught my eye. How can you pass on a Zombie? Yes, I do watch the Walking Dead on TV [although I have 35 episodes recorded but not yet watched]. I think I’m going...
by Brian | May 7, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Earlier today I wrote about the family of Malfy gins, just the best gins I have ever tasted. I’m having fun trying out each member of the family — original, lemon, grapefruit, and blood orange — and inventing new cocktail ideas. Here’s my first shot and...
by Brian | May 2, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
From a few years ago, here is a lovely spring recipe: asparagus, peas, and onions sitting on top of puff pastry. It’s a rich and satisfying introduction to the new season. And filled with color beyond the flavor!...
by Brian | Apr 22, 2019 | Recipes
Fava beans, a spring arrival, can be a pain. You have to peel them and it seems an endless task. Can those husks, which are actually quite tender and sweet, somehow be used? Yes. This recipe comes from Estella, a cookbook and a Manhattan restaurant. Both...
by Brian | Apr 21, 2019 | Recipes
As I mentioned yesterday, Suzi and I are on our last weekend of Spring Break. As I write this on April 5, I’m gambling here that spring has not yet arrived in the East. Yesterday I posted an Irish Stew with lamb. Today, it is a chicken and potato stew from...
