by Brian | Oct 25, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
My wife hates ginger. My wife loves ginger. I’m perpetually confused about the circumstance under which she will like a “ginger something.” My approach? I don’t tell her. I let her taste and if she makes a face, I head for another room. She...
by Brian | Aug 20, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Cookies. They are among the first foods we eat and they fit into a special niche in our lives. Cookies are not dessert. They don’t count for that. And they are small so basically calorie free. There is a gracious, guilt free feeling about cookies. Uh, there should be....
by Brian | Jul 2, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Sangria. Wine purists think of it as a four-letter word. How could one possible contaminate wine, they say. Unless, of course, it’s not “proper” wine. If you want to make sangria with some cheap red from some Mediterranean country on the verge of bankruptcy,...
