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...
by Brian | Jan 17, 2017 | Recipes
“What am I gonna eat?” I asked. I happen to be a little allergic to shellfish. Like deathly allergic. For her hands on cooking class at Cooking by the Book, Suzi had piles of clams and mussels and shrimp. “I have some meatballs,” Suzi...
by Brian | Nov 21, 2016 | Recipes
That Thanksgiving dinner is something we all look forward. The aftermath, of leftovers and dirty dishes and kitchen chaos, is of course worth the price. But the benefits do not end on that Thursday night. You have leftovers and you can enjoy them with relish equal to...
by Brian | Sep 12, 2016 | Recipes
Now is surely the time when the carrots are ripe and sweet. A summer’s worth of the sun’s energy makes them sublime. Thing is, what do you do with them all? Raw carrots are fun, but that crispness can get to you after a while. [My teeth start to...
