by Brian | Feb 18, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For this Throwback Thursday recipe, I dug two years back to a cold February in 2014 when Suzi and I tried this. You'll like it. Double down with an Irish coffee and suddenly, all the troubles drift away. There is more to molasses than gingersnaps and baked...
by Brian | Dec 8, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Holidays, Recipes
If you do have a Christmas dinner, and most of us do, how do you go about planning for it? There is always that resistance to just “do Thanksgiving over again” right down to the pumpkin pie. Yes, heresy. Let’s start over for Christmas. From Marcel...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
How do you make a great cocktail? Mixologists are in constant migration, searching, testing, tasting, and celebrating. There are an infinite number of combinations and techniques. It’s tough to say something is the best, the ultimate. So, on that scale of...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In last week’s Throwback Thursday Cookbook Review, I featured one of the works by an American icon: Maida Heatter’s Book of Great American Desserts, TBT Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter’s Great Book of American Desserts This is a wonderful and...
by Brian | Feb 16, 2014 | Recipes
There was no way I was not going to make this. First, the header notes says it is a “decadent dessert for cold winter days.” Second, it has the word “molasses” in the title. “You are a sucker for titles,” Suzen says to me. “You are just lucky I happen to like a pretty...
