by Brian | Nov 18, 2014 | Recipes
Last Saturday I lamented the obscurity of carrots on restaurant menus. Carrots are no longer exciting it seems. They are have become secondary and that is regrettable. On Saturday, the recipe was carrots + onions + parsley for a blended dish with alternating...
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 | Jul 11, 2014 | Recipes
I feel a little guilty. I just ate a steak with a wonderful side dish, a barbecued onion topped with goat cheese and fig and honey. The recipe came from Vegetarian Grilling: 60 Recipes for a Meatless Summer by Karen Schulz and Maren Jahnke. I hope the...
by Brian | May 26, 2014 | Recipes
You may well have purchased a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. It’s a key ingredient in Mexican cuisine, and certainly a way to add zip to your guacamole. There are both domestic and imported brands. Suzen and I are fond of that La Morena brand, although...
by Brian | May 3, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Syrups
Habaneros are hot. That we all know. In 2000, with its Scoville scale of 100,00-350,000, the habanero was considered the world’s hottest chili. Thanks to genetic engineering, and perhaps man’s endless quest for pain, the habanero has been displaced from the top...
