by Brian | Oct 22, 2017 | Recipes
Southern Cast Iron is a magazine you want to consider in your life. I know, you have too many magazines. This one is deliciously important and different. Comfort food is a necessity. A true necessity. A warm roll. Melted cheese. And an army of herbs, marching...
by Brian | Oct 18, 2017 | Recipes
In Deviled Eggs Debbie Moose positions deviled eggs in a new light. New, bright and so very intense recipes bop around these pages. Now, it is October and this recipe is called Springtime Herb Delights and those are Easter eggs in the background, but we can get herbs...
by Brian | Sep 13, 2017 | Recipes
This recipe comes from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges and it is a prototype of the elegant food you will find in his book. While we do cook fish at home, most of us tend to prepare it simply: a pan-fry or barbecue, the fish plated on its own, some sauce or lemon on...
by Brian | Aug 17, 2015 | Recipes
We had a perfect light summer dinner last night: corn on the cob, avocado and cherry tomato salad with vinaigrette and pumpernickel bread with mango chutney atop a spread of coeur a la crème. For the crème, I have to thank my doctor and Ina Garten. My...
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by Brian | Aug 16, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Often we prepare our potatoes with swiftness. One [step] and done. Baked or fried or boiled. Salt, pepper, butter or mustard or sour cream. Quick and ready to eat. Consider a different, slower, more complex, but oh-so-good path. These potatoes are cooked twice: once...
