by Aaron | Feb 14, 2020 | Recipes
My God, but this is good. I like comfort food. I crave it. My favorite? Gee, how about a baked potato with butter and sour cream and chives. Maybe with some dashes of hot sauce. I now have a new favorite. Still potato-based but now mixed with buttermilk, bacon,...
by Brian | Jan 29, 2020 | Recipes, Super Bowl
Crab. Cheddar cheese. Jalapenos. Oh, and cream cheese. That’s a list of “comfort foods” for me. Now let’s take them all and create a comfort food recipe that is, in a word, magnificent. For Super Bowl, these are a “nosh” of substance. You can’t eat just one, but you...
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by Brian | Jan 28, 2020 | Recipes
This recipe comes from the lovely Mexican Breakfast Cookbook, a treasure from the 1990s. The recipe there calls for using blue cornmeal. Well, I tried several stores. I couldn’t find it. I told my wife. “Don’t worry about it. I think the color...
by Brian | Nov 28, 2019 | Recipes, Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving and you want to make some stuffing. Not just any stuffing. But something with pizazz. You may have a favorite recipe. Maybe your family would rebel if you did not serve it. Maybe everyone in your family is secretly bored with it. Now you know...
by Brian | Sep 5, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I first posted this six years ago, when the first Le Pain Quotidien stores began to appear in New York City. Now, there are many more of them and they are a welcome stop. A “tartine” used to be a rarity but now they are common and as wonderful as ever. If...
