by Brian | Sep 26, 2017 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Sweet and Tart is a lovely “single subject” cookbook. It features 70 recipes featuring citrus. The royalty of citrus is the Meyer lemon, small in size and intense in flavor. The Meyer lemon trees are native to China but were imported to the US in 1908. They were grown...
by Brian | Apr 25, 2017 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I just posted a cookbook review of Butter & Chocolate by Shelia G. Mains, the founder of the Brownie Brittle company. You may have snacked from of the millions and million of bags she has distributed across the country. In her cookbook, she has many chocolate...
by Brian | Apr 1, 2017 | Cookie Jar, Recipes, Uncategorized
Yes, I think that picture above is pretty darn appealing. The cookies gleam and shine and, oh yes, they taste good, too. Very good. We are used to chocolate cookies with one chocolate element, perhaps some chocolate chips or some cocoa as in a brownie. Here...
by Brian | Aug 26, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Yesterday I did a TBT review of The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. This is the very first recipe in the book. And this recipe is reason enough to buy the book. Elinor says the cookie dough is barely sufficient to hold together the chips, pecans, walnuts and...
by Brian | Aug 19, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
By now you may have heard about management changes at Cooks Illustrated magazine. While who running America’s Test Kitchen is not your most important priority in life, the quality of their recipes just may be quite important. Many of us look to Cooks each...
