by Brian | Apr 5, 2015 | Recipes
It is Easter Sunday, a day devoted to the colors yellow and purple and orange. Oh, those are just the colors of heirloom carrots! If you are still hunting for an excellent side dish for your holiday meal, then this dish is just what you need. We made this for my...
by Brian | Feb 7, 2015 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
I don’t mean to be a bad person. I’m just weak. We were in Boston and while Suzen attended a conference, I was off exploring. We have two wonderful cookbooks, Flour and Flour Too by the most talented Joanne Chang. She was in graduate school, began...
by Brian | Oct 3, 2014 | Recipes
The leaves are yellow now. As yellow as that watermelon in the background. Before the leaves are gone, before the last watermelons disappear, before the mint blackens in that first frost, this is a recipe to capture the last lights of summer. This gazpacho is best...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2014 | Recipes
Have you ever followed a recipe in a cookbook, really and truly and honestly followed it, and the result was a disaster? It wasn’t you. It was the cookbook. And the failure of the author and publisher to make sure that each and every recipe in the book...
by Brian | Aug 4, 2014 | Recipes
Green beans are wonderful. You can depend on them, for they always taste the same. Same flavor, same drying mouth feel, same trailing after taste that screams: you just ate green beans. Since it is one of the few vegetables Suzen can readily get me to...
