by Brian | Mar 31, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Where does German Chocolate Cake come from? Germany, right? Wrong. Texas. The cake was created by Sam German, an immigrant from Germany who, with many other Germans, settled in Central Texas. This distinctive cake, with its caramel-coconut frosting, has found a home...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2010 | Recipes
St. Patrick’s Day. I may be Irish but I’m ambivalent. Rowdy people, too much beer, an ungodly long parade, and food that has never attracted me. Irish Soda Bread has always seemed to me to be one of the worst things man and woman have ever created. Incredibly dry, as...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
On Valentine’s day Suzen and I tried a different approach. Rather than do cards, roses, or gold, we agreed to cook something together. And it had to be a dish we’d never done before. Something red. Something sweet. Something chocolate. All things considered, those...
by Suzi | Feb 10, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
March has traditionally been a slow month for me at Cooking by the Book. Exhausted by winter, people are anxious for spring, checking flower beds for just one green shoot poking through all that white stuff on top. Several years ago I had the March-nudgies and I was...
by Brian | Feb 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
I am a butter man. I bake with butter. When I see a recipe that uses oil instead of butter, my first reaction is to keep flipping the pages of that cookbook. Why? Well, probably because I like to eat the batter and I love butter but the idea of eating oil … I...
