by Brian | Jul 10, 2016 | Recipes
How do you feel about eggplant? I was in my 30s before I ever ate one, and it was not very good. I don’t remember seeing them in produce section of my supermarket in Oregon as a kid. And, after I married Suzi, she stopped asking me to eat them and simply...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2016 | Recipes, TBT
This week's TBT recipe is a celebration of a personal culinary milestone. Until I met Suzi, I never ate eggplant. Oh, I'd sample a couple of tastes in Chinese restaurants and fled to the bathroom. I had come to believe that there is nothing worse on earth....
by Brian | Jun 8, 2015 | Recipes
Have you had this experience yet? The day after Thanksgiving, you eat the leftover stuffing and say to yourself, “Damn, this is better the next day.” Same thing here. This dish smells powerfully wonderful coming out of the oven. It will be hard to restrain...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2015 | Recipes
I’ve done a bad thing. It’s been bothering me for a couple of weeks and I would like to resolve it. Thing is, having done this bad thing, having confessed to it, I suspect I will do it again. And again. Oh, I did not do it alone. In fact, Suzen was the...
by Brian | Feb 18, 2015 | Recipes
This year’s Valentine’s Day feast at Cooking by the Book featured duck breast — yes, that recipe will appear tomorrow. Now, duck is a little tricky. There’s the fat and how to cook it without generating duck leather. And with its own intense...
