by Brian | May 31, 2012 | Recipes
I love potato salad. The eggs, the pickles, a little celery, the parsley on top, … And what if you took all of that away? All of those classical components? Now what? From Fresh Mexico comes this potato salad adding the sweetness of corn and the fire of roasted...
by Brian | May 16, 2012 | News, Techniques
A mild winter has its benefits. You haven’t broken your leg while skiing. Your heating bills were not as high as the Federal budget. And corn is available way early. We have Florida corn in our local supermarket. Big ears, with lots of well-formed kernels. This early...
by Brian | May 8, 2012 | News, Recipes
Suzi and I pride ourselves on finding great cookbooks and giving you an early alert of a new gem ready for you to enjoy. Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2011 cookbook awards. Two of the awards went to books we’ve already blogged here,...
by Suzi | Sep 22, 2011 | Recipes
Everybody probably recognizes the phrase “sufferin’ succotash.” The phrase was uttered by the cartoon cat Sylvester and at times by Daffy Duck. That was in a gentler time when F-bombs were not strafing our cultural environment. “Succotash” itself is an Indian word...
by Brian | Jul 27, 2011 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
There are certain days that haunt us all for the rest of our lives. A tragedy, a death, a monumental world event. You remember where you where, what you thought, how others around you reacted. I always remember the morning after I proposed to Suzen. Not the night I...
