by Brian | May 9, 2015 | Recipes
When I hear the word “roulade” my image is of chocolate sponge cake, covered in whipped cream, and wrapped into a roll for Christmas Dinner. This roulade is not a dessert. This is an appetizer idea, a template really, for an endless array of wonderful hors...
by Brian | May 8, 2015 | Recipes
On the web this week there was an article about skiing in New England. Unlike earlier, warmer years there has been plenty of cold and snow this winter and now deep into spring. It’s May and people are still maneuvering down white mountain sides. That...
by Brian | May 5, 2015 | Recipes
I hear the word “strata” and I think Italy and cheese. I think of centuries of Italian home cooks testing, refining, personalizing this wonderful breakfast casserole dish. Oh, dear. It’s American. And the first recipe only appeared a century ago in...
by Brian | Jul 10, 2014 | Recipes
Blue cheese. I just hate assocaitin the word "bacteria" with something so beautiful. And so versatile. I love to eat blue cheese, directly, on crackers, by the quarter pound. But the truth is blue cheese belongs in salad and soups and, yes sauces....
by Brian | Jun 6, 2014 | Recipes
Sometimes you want just a sweet bite of this, a little taste of that. Bites so small it’s hard to call them tapas even. Consider Gale Gand’s Just a Bite. Published in 2001, we often pull it from our bookshelf. The 125 recipes here are, technically, all desserts. And...
