by Brian | Mar 18, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Kids underfoot? Cold outside? Cabin fever? What you need is some family hot chocolate. Something kids and adults can all relish. In the summer, you make s’mores together. Time for S’mores Hot Chocolate from Hot Chocolate by Hannah Miles. There are duties...
by Brian | Mar 17, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
If you have eaten in a Japanese restaurant, you may have enjoyed a noodle dish, an Udon noodle dish. Thick, luscious, these noodles almost seem alive. In any dish, like the soup in the picture at the bottom of this post, the noodles become the central element, the...
by Brian | Mar 17, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
Sometimes a cookbook, even one 334 pages long, is very easy to describe. Onions Etcetera is magnificent, as perfect as a cookbook can be. The first cookbook by the husband and wife team of Kate Winslow and Guy Ambrosino, surely there will be many more. Kate is...
by Brian | Mar 16, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
When she died at age 90 in 2012, Marion Cunningham left a culinary legacy that might be matched but that could never be surpassed. A California native, she became an expert in that specific cuisine and support both California chefs and culinary movements for...
by Brian | Mar 16, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I first posted this a couple of years ago. For Valentine's Day, Suzi offered a meal with duck breast. Such a substantial main dish demands a great side dish. I know we think of baked potatoes as simple. But if you twice bake them, and add caviar, then the duck on...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
In Toast Hash Roast Mash: Real Foods for Every Time of the Day, British Chef and Author Dan Doherty offers some “everyday” ideas that are hardly everyday food. It’s a book filled with recipes that combine a just a few things for rambunctious...
