by Brian | Apr 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are hundreds of recipes for quick pickled onions. This is just a template for you. You can adjust the amount and types of vinegar, the herbs and spices you employ, and whether you elect to add some sliced peppers of any variety: jalapeno, habanero, even Scotch...
by Brian | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
This recipe is comfort food: plain, pure and simple. Spring leeks are cooked in a cream and mustard sauce, all nestled in a super easy crust made of cream cheese. It is hard to find “fast food” that is actually sumptuous, but this surely is. This pie can be assembled...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
USA Today and The New York Times are famous for their infographics. Beginning about thirty years ago, the rise of graphics to portray information, instead of words, became integral first to those publications and then to ones across the nation. Infographics are now...
by Brian | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is post 3001 here at Suzi’s blog. That’s a big number and Suzi and I are delighted to have written so much for so long. Food blogs are intense work and crafting several hundred words a day, every day, can be a bit of a mountain. We are lucky to have...
by Brian | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
When you walk through a casino door, is there a sure thing? Well, losing money is a sure thing, unless you play blackjack and count cards. Blackjack, if played according to strategies developed by mathematicians, is the one casino game that offers a slight advantage...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dave Broom is a most interesting gentleman whose deep Glasgow accent will put you at ease. A few sentences in, and you realize this is a demur man of humor and intellect. Serious intellect. Beverage intellect. An acclaimed writer on drinks and drinking, he has been a...