by Brian | Jul 21, 2015 | Recipes
Today’s cookbook review, on a separate post, is for Mr. & Mrs. Sunday’s Suppers by Lorraine Wallace. It’s a book filled with dinner ideas for any day of the week, although personally I think these are Saturday and Sunday night meals. The recipes...
by Brian | May 21, 2015 | Recipes
No, it’s not tomato soup. It’s pimento soup. Creamy pimento soup. In her book Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook author Perre Coleman Magness serves up a tribute to the sparkling pimento pepper. Often the pimentos appear in recipes for pimento cheese...
by Brian | May 16, 2015 | Recipes
In My Perfect Pantry, Geoffrey Zakarian uses simple pantry elements to forge wonderful, full flavored dishes. He has a list of 50 pantry ingredients that he employs in appetizers, side dishes, main courses and desserts. Here the simple ingredient is black beans. Beans...
by Brian | Apr 23, 2015 | Recipes
Light, quick, refreshing. No, not just refreshing, penetrating. Here is gazpacho without a hint of red. It’s all green: cucumber, jalapeno, avocado. And it’s delicious. From start to eating, it’s 30 minutes for this because you do need some time for...
by Brian | Feb 21, 2015 | Recipes
Suzen and I were delighted to see that Cold-Weather Cooking by Sarah Leah Chase has been republished by Workman just last September. We love Sarah’s books and Cold-Weather Cooking is filled with solutions to a problem Suzie and I face today: the chill factor...
