by Brian | Oct 19, 2023 | Recipes, TBT
I have started my pre-Thanksgiving march now, trying to give you a bevy of options for the coming holiday. Some people, and I’m not naming names, don’t like turkey. And some people have long, long Thanksgiving holidays extending through the weekend. By...
by Brian | Oct 18, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
There is this book, The Cookie Book by Holly Garison, published in 1996 that Suzi and I still use. Weekly. I think I posted a review once, long ago, and I try to find that for you. But, as I said, we still turn to this book for ideas. While she lives in Olive, NY...
by Brian | Oct 17, 2023 | Recipes
Stirring the Pot is a fascinating recipe collection from the New York branch of Les Dames d’Escoffier. Les Dames is a world-wide charitable organization with membership for distinguished women in the culinary word. Chefs, cookbook authors, teachers, wine makers,...
by Brian | Oct 12, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
The things you find. I was going back 10 years for this week’s Throwback Thursday blog and I found this recipe. Which was never posted. It’s been sitting in my directory as a draft and for 10 years you haven’t had the pleasure of this...
by Brian | Oct 11, 2023 | Recipes
It is apple season. Bushels of apples are in your supermarket and, even better, at your local farmers markets. Or, best of all: you can go pick your own. You know, get a ladder, steady it on uneven ground, trust that your spouse won’t let you fall. Suzi and I pick. We...
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by Brian | Oct 7, 2023 | Recipes
Have you ever done something really stupid? Not just silly. I mean stupid. And then done it again. And again. For twenty friggin’ times? And not even known it, until suddenly the light bulb comes on? Suzi and I built our Catskill house in the fall of 2001, right in...
