by Brian | Mar 8, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
Have you ever put something special down, intending to use it the next day? And then a couple of years later, you pick up a piece of paper and, oh my, there that thing is. You’d forgotten all about it and now you wonder how that could ever have happened. I got...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
Are French fries the world’s favorite food? In the opinion of Blake Lingle, the answer is decidedly yes. Blake is the founder of Boise Fry Company. They sell fries. You can get a burger, too, but it’s all about the fries. In Fries, Blake tells the...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This is the fourth recipe Suzi and I tried from the wonderful Baking Style by Lisa Yockelson. I’m not going to give you more recipes from this lovely book. It was published in 2011 and you can still get your own copy. You want to. Lisa loves intense...
by Brian | Mar 6, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Uncategorized
Three years ago Alice Medrich wrote a key book: Flour Flavors. In this volume she offers ways to uses flour alternatives, either as a complete substitute or as add-ins to create a flavor evolution. She presents recipes with teff, buckwheat, sorghum, rice flour and...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I cannot image two veggies more distinct than cucumbers and radishes. Cucumbers are sweet and soothing. Radishes can wake the dead. Both have crunch it is true, but the cucumbers more quickly succumb to your bite. Radishes resist to the bitter end. Pun...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Okay. Let’s start with the word: Spatchcock. It can seem a bit terrifying. We believe it is Irish in origin and rather recent, just 18th Century. A spatchcock is a chicken literally split down the middle, crushed by hand to be flattened and then cooked....
