by Brian | Mar 8, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
It’s a confusing time of year. A friend of mine, with a house in rural Pennsylvania, said her crocus are up. Would mine be up? I can’t tell. I have 14″ inches of snow. A very confusing and tempting time of year. Spring is so close, with its bounty of...
by Brian | Mar 1, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
This dressing is lovely on salads, particularly if you “protein” the salad up with the suggested chunks of poultry. Or, just applied to a wedge of lettuce and topped with that ever impressive blue cheese! Here, for example, is a Tomatillo Salad Dressing...
by Brian | Feb 22, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
It’s National Margarita Day so we need margaritas. Or, even better, variations like The Paloma made with grapefruit juice. This recipe comes from a wonderful regional cookbook: The Texas Cowboy Kitchen by Grady Spears and June Naylor....
by Brian | Feb 22, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Sometimes a cookbook can sit on your shelf for decades, used perhaps only once a year, but never, never relegated to the basement or attic. How could you do that to Anna Teresa? Anna Teresa was larger than life, by many orders of magnitude. And loud. She was...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2018 | TBT
Now. Now is the time to strike out and make all those asparagus dishes you have been savoring since asparagus finally disappeared last summer. You’ve seen ideas since then, craved them, clipped them, saved them in a drawer or on your computer. I know, it’s just...
by Brian | Feb 8, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
I always check my iPhone for the current temperature before venturing out in the winter. There’s the “temperature” and then there is the “chill factor.” I live on a very, very windy street in lower Manhattan. The intense breeze can make...
