by Brian | Jan 12, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Really Simple, Recipes
Carrots are an odd veggie. Yes, you can eat them raw, although it might challenge a weak crown in your mouth. Face it, carrots are dense and hard. So the tendency is to cook them long, often in the presence of lots of butter and sugar. The resulting product tastes...
by Brian | Jul 14, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Man goes into a bar. [Sorry, for timing reasons it has to be a man.] The bar is in New York City. The man pulls his stool up to the edge of the bar. Sawdust shuffles as the stool legs scrape along the floor. The bartender, large and flush, says, “What’ll you...
by Suzi | May 21, 2012 | Recipes
There are people who do not believe in evolution or genetics. I think they are wrong. This recipe all started many years ago when I met Maria Guarnaschelli. CBTB was selected for testing The Joy of Cooking and Maria was the editor. At the time Maria told us of...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2012 | Recipes
Mayonnaise is almost as important to sandwiches as bread. It’s automatic that we spread mayo on that bread, or incorporate it into a salad filling: chicken salad, tuna salad, ham salad, … Mayo from the store is a good product....
by Brian | Jan 23, 2012 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
If you mention the name “Jacques Pepin” to someone at random, you stand a pretty good chance hearing, “That’s somebody I’ve heard of, although …” Foodies, of course, can pinpoint this name of one of the world’s top chefs. But non-foodies galore will look at you and...
