by Brian | Aug 30, 2019 | Cookie Jar, Recipes, TBT
The cover of Retro Cakes and Cookies shows an old friend. I grew up on Pinwheel Cookies although here they have the name Double Chocolate Pinwheels. The double part comes from using white chocolate in the white dough. As a kid, sixty years ago, I don’t...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review is designed to fill a gap. This year has not seen a slew of good Mexican cookbooks. I just haven’t found many that sparkle. But this one, from 2015, does give you that burst of inspired flavor. Publishers are tributaries, their...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I posted this just five years ago. I wrote then about having had a cold summer, so that it took until September to get really sweet carrots. Well, it’s been cool again. Normally in New York, August is sweltering. Temperatures in the 90s or about 100. This...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
This week’s TBT recipes is primed for peach season. The peaches are here and they are ripe. They are quite sweet and, thankfully, they have some legs: they do not ripen and then rot in the blink of your eye. But do, after you have purchased your peaches, get...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
Way back in 2012 I was on a honey kick. I never left it. Honey is a wonderful ingredient. Just a tricky one because the bounty of honey flavors out there can produce significant shifts in the final outcome of a recipe. Here, no shift will matter. We are at peak season...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review is a tip of the hat to Kim Laidlaw. There is only one problem with Kim: she doesn’t write enough books. This one, Dessert of the Day, is from 2013 and she did, to her credit and to your good service, release Everyday Slow...
