by Brian | Sep 8, 2017 | Recipes
I’m off to get the morning paper. The sun is out, no clouds in the sky. I step outside. I stop. I go inside and then return to the street with a jacket on. Fall has arrived. Time for warmer foods, fall comfort foods. From Broth and Stock by Jennifer McGruther comes...
by Brian | Aug 18, 2017 | Recipes
Two weeks ago I saw the first red leaves. Now, on August 18th, there are red and gold dashes up and down the Hudson Valley. And many of those trees that were bright green in July have adopted serious traces of brown camouflage Autumn is arriving, sooner than normal...
by Brian | May 24, 2017 | Recipes
Great soup does not come from a can. It simply cannot. You need a pot or a Dutch oven and some time. Fresh ingredients are a boon. You don’t need any of those preservatives, listed on the side of that soup can, because you are eating this the day it is made,...
by Brian | Apr 11, 2017 | Recipes
We are all a tad spoiled. We can walk into a supermarket now and it almost, just almost, doesn’t matter what season we are in. We can find anything. Watermelons in February. Berries year round. Asparagus all the time … Oh, no. We can’t do that. Not for everything is...
by Brian | Mar 17, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
If you have eaten in a Japanese restaurant, you may have enjoyed a noodle dish, an Udon noodle dish. Thick, luscious, these noodles almost seem alive. In any dish, like the soup in the picture at the bottom of this post, the noodles become the central element, the...
