by Brian | Apr 8, 2019 | Recipes
It’s almost faster to make Mulligatawny soup than to say the name. The dish has Indian origins but these days it really is considered an English soup. When a recipe travels that far, there can be lovely variation in the recipes that now appear. For...
by Brian | Apr 7, 2019 | Recipes
When you scan through The Italian Regional Cookbook by Valentina Harris a couple of things strike you. First, you have to get it off your lap and onto a table. At 600 pages and 5 pounds, the book has heft. Good heft. The book is flooded with photos that...
by Brian | Apr 5, 2019 | Recipes
Suzi and I are working our way through Basque Country by Marti Buckley. We had plans for a spring trip to Spain and Portugal this year. Life has some twists and that trip will occur next year. Which is good news because we can spend more time learning about the...
by Brian | Apr 4, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
This idea from three year’s ago is a definitely new twist of Shepard’s Pie. This one actually tastes good and you’ll be proud to bring it to the table. Are you ever embarrassed by a dish that is ethnically yours? I am. I am Irish and I’ve tried...
by Brian | Apr 3, 2019 | Recipes
In Basque Country author Marti Buckley takes you on a tour of the real food of the Basque homeland. These are the dishes of each mother and grandmother and the little restaurants that may be out of the way but worth a trip. Marti says that peppers,...
by Brian | Mar 28, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I am a waffle ho’. I have to admit. Last year I got a second waffle iron for the city — we had one upstate but we are only there on weekends. And I’ve been experiment with old and recipes. I find this recipe to quite different from...
