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by Brian | Feb 25, 2019 | Recipes
The wind today is up to 50 miles per hour. Chill factor is bad. Am I going out for my morning croissant? No. It’s a waffle day. Suzi finally relented and I got a Belgian waffle maker. The deal is this: we go out for brunch on weekends and on Monday I make...
by Brian | Feb 22, 2019 | Recipes
Suzi and I love the Potsticker Chronicles by Stuart Chang Berman. He’s fun and flavorful. He entices you to this recipe. You see unadorned shrimp up at the top of this post. Now, use your imagination. Remember sitting in a Chinese restaurant eating sweet and...
by Brian | Feb 19, 2019 | Recipes
Today’s Cookbook Review is for Rustic Mexican from Williams Sonoma. I’ve included this picture for a Mixed Green salad. The photo is glorious. More importantly, if this was put on the table before you, could you bear to eat it? It’s a work of art. Well, maybe I...
by Brian | Feb 18, 2019 | Recipes
Here are the two most important things about Cornish Game Hens: [1] They do NOT taste like chicken. The flavor is more intense, far less boring. [2] They can be prepared with total ease [3] Yes, this is the third of two things: that easy preparation will...
by Brian | Feb 17, 2019 | Recipes
This soup is gargantuan. Most of us have early and devastating soup experiences: the watery slop of grade school, those red cans that are opened up and heated on the stove. Heated, not cooked. By the time we leave home, we are souped out. And it can be decades...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2019 | Recipes
One of the secret pleasures of Asian dining is the sauces. I love our local Thai restaurant with its sticky, sweet [and succulent] dipping sauce. In Adam’s Big Pot, Chef Adam Liaw provides the Vietnamese version of this sauce. You can use it at home for spring...
