by Brian | Oct 12, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Lisa Tanner wrote two cookbooks, this one The Brownie Experience in 1984, and The Potato Experience in 1986. I have not had the potato experience yet, but I’ve had many brownie experiences over the years. This is one of the older brownie books in my collection and I’m...
by Brian | Oct 12, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
Here a lovely salmon recipe from a couple of years ago. We ate this in January of 2015 when there was snow on the ground and a little chipotle heat was in order. The combo of heat and sweet, chipotle and pomegranate, makes this salmon a year-round recipe for...
by Brian | Oct 5, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
I first posted this treat in 2012. Every fall, Suzi and I go to the North Fork of Long Island to pick pumpkins and get some pies from Briermere Farms [look it up, go, eat!]. We will buy food out there, but we will take along the core of a beach-side picnic. This is...
by Brian | Oct 5, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
If you see a book by Debbie Moose, and she has seven of them, you want to buy it. She’s an accomplished writer specializing in slim little volumes devoted to single subjects: Potato Salad, Wings, Buttermilk, … And Deviled Eggs. Published in 2004, Suzi has been using...
by Brian | Sep 28, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Suzi and I love cookbooks. Our only problem is keeping track of where they are: in our NYC apartment, in the house upstate? Oh, it’s worse than that. In NYC, in the front room, in Suzi’s office, in Brian’s office, in the basement, in the storeroom that was my...
by Brian | Sep 21, 2017 | Cocktails, TBT
This has been a strange summer. “These are rotten,” Suzen announced to me. I had brought home peaches from the farmers market and they were soft to be sure. But, not close to rotten and very, very sweet. Perfect for this beverage. Or the smoothie of your...
