by Brian | Jul 8, 2017 | Recipes
It’s not Throwback Thursday, but it is time to revisit a friend. My daughter Kelly is in from Seattle. She brings a modest suitcase each time and a bigger cooler of Northwest goodies. See what you can do her with smoked salmon, real Seattle-made smoked salmon....
by Brian | Jul 7, 2017 | Recipes
Oh, you don’t like fish? Look again. See the beauty in that trout? The quality continues with every bite. This recipe comes from Eat in My Kitchen, the award winning first book from Meike Peters. To many people, fish all tastes the same. For some of us there...
by Brian | Jul 6, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
I first posted this recipe in 2014 and we return to it often. Beets are a magical vegetable, made so much better with a Buttermilk-Cheese Crema. I do like beets, but it was not the “beets” word that got me here. The “buttermilk-goat cheese cream” is the magic phrase....
by Brian | Jul 2, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Strawberry margarita? Sure. Berries into the blender. Raspberry? Yes, same thing. Blackberry. Uh, no. The seeds, the seeds. You can’t just put the blackberries into that blender with the booze. Those seeds will percolate onto your tongue and destroy the joy of a...
by Brian | Jun 29, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
Spring is officially over, and once that meant asparagus season was over too. Happily, we can get asparagus almost year round. I posted this a couple of years ago, suggesting something this pretty should appear on a fall holiday table. Well, there’s...
by Brian | Jun 28, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Yesterday I posted a review of Chocolate Master Class. Here’s the first recipe I’m going to try: Chocolate Cream with Jelled Coffee. What is Chocolate Cream? Melted chocolate mixed with milk and cooked with egg over simmering water. Jelled Coffee? It’s espresso...
