by Brian | Dec 30, 2015 | Holidays, Recipes
Do-Ahead Christmas by James Ramsden is filled with recipes that will make your holiday feast ideas – but without exhausting you. The recipes here can be started hours or days in advance, then easily finished just before meal time. Now, Christmas may be over, but...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2015 | Holidays, Recipes
Over the next two weeks, we have some holidays and the opportunity to create feasts with new flavors. This most elegant recipe is from Andrew Wong and his book A. Wong The Cookbook. Xinjiang is a province in the far northwest of China, huge in area with 1.6 million...
by Brian | Oct 8, 2015 | Recipes
Kim Laidlaw’s Quick Slow Cooking contains a bevy of recipes from around the world. And while the original recipe from half a planet away might not be prepared in a slow cooker, Kim’s particular expertise in this book is using that slow cooker to craft a...
by Brian | Aug 28, 2015 | Recipes
August is stumbling to an end. I say stumbling because it has not fended off fall at all. Some years, summer is strong into September. This year, fall was appearing in the first week of August. You may have some “tell” trees near you. We do. These...
by Brian | Jun 23, 2015 | Recipes
At Cooking by the Book, Suzen has surrendered. There are just some dishes that she cannot get her corporate clients to eat. Guests come here, cook together in our large kitchen, and dine on their own creations. People will just not eat Bambi. Not here, but they do in...
