by Brian | Jun 8, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Two years I posted this exceptional dessert idea. It’s fabulous rich and cool and perfect for our summer weekends. There are exceptions to every rule. I have a rule: never mix fruit and chocolate. Black Forest Cake? Please I hate it. I like fruit, I am addicted...
by Brian | Mar 8, 2017 | Recipes
Here’s a bread secret. Those croissants you love? Get them as soon after they are baked as possible. After about four hours, they are not the same. They may still be good, but they will not be great. If they have been sitting in the bread case of your local...
by Brian | Jun 5, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
A month ago, we were wondering if spring would ever come. Cold and nasty in the Catskills. And in fact, spring never came. It is suddenly in the 80’s or 90’s each day. Somehow the leaves all came out in a couple of weeks and it is now green, sweltering and...
by Brian | Jan 1, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In The Homemade Kitchen, Alana Chernila calls this a Summer Trifle. And indeed we usually offer up this dish with mounds of fresh summer fruit. However, nowadays even in the dead of winter you can get berries galore. Fresh peaches? No, I admit we can’t find...
by Brian | Jun 25, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Kim Laidlaw’s Dessert of Day has lovely recipe ideas for every single day of the year. This gallant galette is perfect for the coming 4th of July holiday. On the 4th, you may be overbooked. There’s the fireworks, of course, but also that feast before....
