by Brian | Feb 17, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
When the chill factor is 50 below, and you can’t make it to your favorite tropical island, then you can bring a bit of the islands to you. This lovely cake, which is gluten free, has an intense flavor of intertwined coconut and almond. Added in, of course, are a...
by Brian | Feb 12, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Warm Bread and Honey Cake is lovely book with two components: interesting recipes from around the world — ones I’m sure you won’t have seen before — and very detailed background histories on each treat in the book. Take gingerbread. This cake...
by Brian | Feb 2, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
My wife is a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, where the only olive trees are in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, under glass. And her great-grandparents and grandparents emigrated from Poland where, again, any olive trees have to be grown indoors. Yet Suzi craves olives as...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
It’s the second week of January and I have to meet my New Year’s resolution to make one great cookie a week. And again I turn to Cookie Love by Mindy Segal. Her story for this cookie is funny. She’s a cookie genius. She can make anything. Actually,...
by Brian | Jan 5, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
What do you do for dessert as the New Year begins to unwind? You may be desserted out, in need of something light, a bit sweet, maybe with just a bit of a bite. As soon as I saw this recipe I had to make it. I’m a sucker for anything coated in powdered sugar and...
