by Brian | Oct 11, 2023 | Recipes
It is apple season. Bushels of apples are in your supermarket and, even better, at your local farmers markets. Or, best of all: you can go pick your own. You know, get a ladder, steady it on uneven ground, trust that your spouse won’t let you fall. Suzi and I pick. We...
by Brian | Oct 4, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
I will warn you now that this blog post is a tease. Today, it is the Espresso Buttercream filling that you see in the photo. It looks a little stiff because I just took it out of fridge. I’m using it later to glue together the two cookie halves to make an incredible...
by Brian | Oct 3, 2023 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I promised you this recipe yesterday, teasing you with the Espresso Buttercream filling. On a scale of 1 to 10, this is approaching 14. I’ve only had a couple of cookies that were as good. I’ve never ever had anything betters And I’m over 50. This sandwich cookie...
by Brian | Sep 30, 2023 | Cookie Jar
We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had just set out for a doctor’s appointment in NYC, three hours away. Suzi checked her phone and saw we were to go to the Westside Broadway office, but we had talked about the Eastside office on York. I wanted York because a block away...
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by Brian | Sep 28, 2023 | Recipes
It’s Thursday and time for a Throwback Thursday recipe. Sort of. Ten years ago this month, I drafted this post, a lovely roll from Fine Cooking. I never published the draft. When I looked today for the Fine Cooking website, I discovered that the magazine...
