by Brian | Mar 19, 2020 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, TBT
I am writing this the week that we evacuated from New York City. We are upstate, staying home from the virus. In this period of stress, we all need comfort food. I’ll be blogging away with ideas. Suzi and I hope you are well and safe. This recipe is from...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
In 2015 I first posted this review of Jacque Burdicks’s lovely French Cooking en Famille. Published in 1989, it brought rave reviews, like this one from M.F.K. Fisher: “French Cooking En Famille is written with so much skill and knowledge that it si...
by Brian | Feb 27, 2020 | Recipes, TBT
Snack food. I was part of a prescription drug study for a couple of years where they asked about my daily eating. “Do you...
by Brian | Feb 20, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
This week’;s TBT cookbook is from 2014 and is one I often turn to. When I first got this book, I wnet through, recipe by recipe, and scanned in the ones I “had” to try. Fifty-three of them. I think that’s strong evidence that...
by Brian | Feb 13, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Now is the time of year when, although the days are getting longer, they are still short and cold. If not frigid and snowy. That gives us some extra time to doddle in the kitchen, fashioning comfort food or, even better, constructing a world class cake....
by Brian | Feb 6, 2020 | Recipes, TBT
This week’s TBT recipe is from 2012 and is a gift from Patricia Wells. Smoked trout, tarragon, and cucumber adorned with horseradish cream. This is a universal recipe. I...
