by Brian | Aug 20, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Peach flavor is actually complicated. It can be very intense and yet there is an underlying subtlety that must be protected. Take the recipes for peach daiquiri. My recipe below uses peaches and just peaches. But other recipes call for peach liqueur, alone or in team...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2014 | Recipes
Cole slaw comes in a zillion forms, most of them bad, or not terribly healthy. Or both. I sometimes am tempted by the heaping mounds of glimmering slaw in the counter at a market, I take a plastic carton home, I taste the slaw, and then in frustration I go to my...
by Brian | Sep 15, 2014 | Recipes
For years I have struggled making peach pie. Suzen was totally scared off. We could not get the right flavor balance: too sweet or too spicy. And there was the issue of sogginess. Big, sloppy, the-first-piece-out-of-the-pie-is-a-disaster problems haunted us. I would...
by Brian | Sep 9, 2014 | Recipes
Eating a peach with salt, basil and olive oil is not something I would automatically do. Just too strange. But when Michele Scicolone suggests it, Suzen and I were intrigued. This salad is a favorite for Suzen’s culinary team building events. It is the ideal...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
How best to drink a peach? White or yellow, a Bellini is a noble way to devour every flavor molecule. At another extreme, there is Peach Agua Fresca, which was blogged here just a few days ago. The agua fresca, alcohol aside, is equally refreshing. And, on yet another...