by Brian | Jul 15, 2017 | Recipes
Do I follow the recipe or not? From the 1994 classic Burning Desires by W. Park Kerr, here is a rather different glaze for your barbecuing. How often do you cook with curry? I was reaching for the curry container when my hand passed over a jar of mango chutney. “Well,...
by Brian | Jun 7, 2017 | Recipes
This is a recipe template, one for you to play with. And one, candidly, that will never be the same twice. You can buy flavored honeys, of course, but I find it fun to do it myself. “Not too much adobo,” my wife was advising me. And Suzi likes adobo. But, I can, at...
by Brian | May 22, 2017 | Recipes
I haven’t tried this yet. I will. Well, actually, I won’t but someone I know will. I have a culinary friend who loves to do outrageous recipes. He’s the guy who did a deep-fried turkey for Thanksgiving while I stood back. Way back. And he did a Turducken [turkey...
by Brian | Dec 23, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For this holiday season, how about a very different dessert from a place that is always, or almost always, cold. Here is a Honey Cake with Orange Buttercream recipe from Scandinavian Baking by Trine Hahnemann. It’s a lovely book filled with recipes from a...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2016 | Recipes
In Biscuit Bliss, James Villas suggests that your perceptions of a “simple biscuit” might be wrong. In fact, those perceptions are wrong. While a straightforward light and fluffy biscuit is sublime — with that butter and jam or honey —...