by Brian | Feb 6, 2020 | Recipes, TBT
This week’s TBT recipe is from 2012 and is a gift from Patricia Wells. Smoked trout, tarragon, and cucumber adorned with horseradish cream. This is a universal recipe. I...
by Brian | Jan 31, 2020 | Recipes, Super Bowl
For Super Bowl, I have one more appetizer idea. I know: it’s crab again, like my Crab Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers earlier this week. Here, there is NO jalapeno, just the mellow flavor of warm crab mingled with the tang of Parmesan cheese. It would be an interesting...
by Brian | Jan 30, 2020 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes, TBT
On Sunday, while watching the Super Bowl, you may tire of the salsa, the nachos, the wings … You may want something intensely sweet. Here’s a cookie from One Bowl Baking that gives you fudgy texture, some nuts, and relief from the Mexican spices rolling...
by Brian | Jan 29, 2020 | Recipes, Super Bowl
Crab. Cheddar cheese. Jalapenos. Oh, and cream cheese. That’s a list of “comfort foods” for me. Now let’s take them all and create a comfort food recipe that is, in a word, magnificent. For Super Bowl, these are a “nosh” of substance. You can’t eat just one, but you...
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by Brian | Jan 28, 2020 | Recipes
This recipe comes from the lovely Mexican Breakfast Cookbook, a treasure from the 1990s. The recipe there calls for using blue cornmeal. Well, I tried several stores. I couldn’t find it. I told my wife. “Don’t worry about it. I think the color...
by Brian | Jan 27, 2020 | Recipes
For this Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, millions of us will be dabbling with Mexican food. Nachos, guacamole, salsas galore, chips by the bagful. What if, instead of a nosh, you could serve a real dish of substance. A savory dish with fire. And avocado leaves – see, it’s...
