by Brian | Nov 16, 2017 | Recipes, TBT, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized
I posted this last year and I’m reviving it here as a lovely Thanksgiving dessert idea. It’s beautiful and earthy. Ideal for a fall celebration. Yes, parsnips for dessert. I’m fine. Really. No need to adjust my meds. Taste buds are fine. I’m looking...
by Brian | Nov 14, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In the impressive and delightful What Can I Bring? Elizabeth Heiskell covers a lot of territory. On display her is true Southern food, comfort food to be sure, authentic to the last detail, and powerful in every bite. This is her recreation of one of her mother’s...
by Brian | Sep 18, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
You are damn lucky to see a picture here. This cake almost did not make it into the oven. Over a few decades, I have eaten my share of batter: cookies and cakes and brownies and … Easily, very easily, this is the best batter I have ever tasted. I just wanted to eat...
by Brian | Sep 14, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, TBT
It’s leaning into peak apple season. Here’s an idea, a very French idea, from Suzi. We published this in 2011 and return to it each fall. Brian and I miss France. Over the years, we’ve...
by Brian | Jun 18, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
We learned on Friday that Flo Braker has died. Do you know the name? She was not as famous as Julia Child, but, she was surely as important, one of the seminal bakers in America in the last century. She wrote only three cookbooks, but hundreds of newspaper columns....
