by Brian | Mar 6, 2019 | Recipes
Vegetables. For some people this is a four-letter four word. People just don’t like them. In part, it may be that many veggies include a component of bitter flavor and our genes are programmed to avoid bitter things. They can be poisonous. But carrots?...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2019 | Recipes
As soon as I saw this recipe, I jumped on it. Yeah, it is cold and snowing and potato salad is only for the heat of the Fourth of July but you want to taste this now. It’s not quite you Mom’s potato salad. There are lentils. And maple syrup and capers and...
by Brian | Mar 1, 2019 | Recipes
Yesterday’s TBT Cookbook Review was for Piedmont, one of the books in the Flavors of Italy series by Time Life. I love trout, love them. I cook them and I eat them still smoking from my cast iron pan. So, this method of cooking struck me as bolding different....
by Brian | Feb 28, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
It surely is still winter outside. Here in NYC we have the cold, but not the snow. We are down 97% from our typical snowfall for the season. Good news for driving. Bad news for water in the summer. But, that is months away....
by Brian | Feb 27, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I’ve just reviewed the lovely book Field Guide to Bitters and Amari devoted to all those ingredients and liqueurs we love. Love with mystery. I can tell you when I had my first Mai Tai. And how it I made it. The year was 1967. I was starting graduate school. I...
by Brian | Feb 26, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I’ve just reviewed the lovely book Amaro devoted to all those bitter liqueurs we are learning to love. I still have trouble with Campari, but an Aperol Spritz is a gift from God. Actually, there is a an even better version of the spritz I have posted here: Sunshine...
