by Brian | Feb 3, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I don’t want to get into a debate about global warming. I’m a scientist so I respect the recent evidence that something is happening. Thing is, whether you just look at the history of the ice ages or go back for tens of millions of years, there have been significant...
by Brian | Jan 28, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Recipes
How many times have you made chocolate chip cookies? Honestly? Yes, you have to start counting from childhood, when you tugged on Mom’s apron and got one big serious lick of cookie dough. That’s when our common addiction started. Long after Mom is gone, that...
by Brian | Jan 20, 2010 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I was actually going to call this blog Casablanca and Corn Starch. You see, Casablanca and corn starch are intimately connected. In the movie Casablanca, there is the classic song, “As Time Goes By.” With the line that lives in your brain forever, “A kiss is just a...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2009 | Cookbook Reviews
I’ve been baking since I was six. Well, if you count brownies out of a box. As I truly learned to bake, I become good, sometimes very good, but never great. My faults were standard ones: just a tad sloppy in measuring and often impatient as I rushed to complete...
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by Suzi | Nov 17, 2008 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest
While Brian has been the willing recipient of many goodies from Amy’s wonderful new book – country loaf, pecan rolls, challah, sour dough bread semolina bread, the list goes on – I have been the one really baking recipes from her book. Brian and I...
