by Brian | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
In yesterday’s post for Throwback Thursday, I spotlighted the wonderful From the Tables of Tuscan Women by Anne Bianchi. The book is 20 years old and timeless. In a couple of days, it will be Easter and in scanning From the Tables I discovered this Easter Cake....
by Brian | Sep 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
How do you eat? Literally. Figuratively. Forks and knieves but also noses and eyes. “What are you going to do with these?” I asked Suzen. I was holding some very fresh and fragrant plums. “Put them in the bowl,” she said. “You want...
by Brian | Aug 16, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Often we prepare our potatoes with swiftness. One [step] and done. Baked or fried or boiled. Salt, pepper, butter or mustard or sour cream. Quick and ready to eat. Consider a different, slower, more complex, but oh-so-good path. These potatoes are cooked twice: once...
by Brian | Aug 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
From your advanced calculus course, you may remember the definition of a fixed point for a mathematical function f: An attractive fixed point of a function f is a fixed point x0 of f such that for any value of x in the domain that is close enough to x0, the...
by Brian | Jul 26, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
No, that’s not my usual high definition picture. I don’t happen to have a bottle of Kraft dressing around, actually. Suzen and I live on a make-from-scratch basis. So, the next time we want Thousand Island Dressing, we’ll use the recipe below...
by Brian | Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is a test of new features coming to this post. This is a test