by Brian | Mar 21, 2018 | Recipes
Gee, yesterday was the first day of spring. Today is day two. It is snowing in Manhattan. Tomorrow is the third day of spring. Another 8 inches of snow. It is time for comfort food. Tasty, hearty and easy to make. We already have chicken breasts. We always have jars...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
Spring will be here in less than a week. And the fourth snowstorm in less than two week. What else can we do but hunker down with comfort food. I simply adore dumplings. The chicken is lovely too, but really as an avenue to the gravy. I hope this brings relief. If not...
by Brian | Mar 8, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
It’s a confusing time of year. A friend of mine, with a house in rural Pennsylvania, said her crocus are up. Would mine be up? I can’t tell. I have 14″ inches of snow. A very confusing and tempting time of year. Spring is so close, with its bounty of...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2018 | Recipes
I meant to post this recipe on Friday. Last Thursday I did a TBT cookbook review of the Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Cookbook from 1999. I was blogging the book and looking at the weather reports simultaneously. A storm was coming. “We should leave for upstate and miss the...
by Brian | Feb 16, 2018 | Recipes
The audacity: a cookbook writer from Great Britain tries to make hot chicken wings. The humbling: damn, these are as good as it gets. Not Buffalo, New York hot. Not quite, but the sweetness and stickiness more than compensate. For over a decade, Gizzi Erskine has...
