by Brian | Nov 30, 2018 | Dessert Digest
Remember fruit cocktail? We used to get it in grade school, though I doubt they do that anymore in the pizza-age. When was the last time you even bought a can of fruit cocktail? For Suzi and me, it was about forty years. But an amazing book, American Cake by Annie...
by Brian | Nov 8, 2017 | Recipes
I know, something “Mint Julep” is surely something for spring. But this Mint Julep idea comes from a wonderful new cookbook, What Can I Bring?, a book that you will surely want to flip through every page discovering wonderful Southern-style comfort food. Here a mint...
by Brian | Oct 26, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
I was in Seattle last month and again enjoyed a smoothie at Pike Place Market. Tiny’s makes the best smoothies ever. Just wonderful. Their secret? Fresh fruit always and apple juice as the liquid. No yogurt, no protein mix. Just fruit and juice. Seattle is...
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 13, 2015 | Recipes
Author Sherri Brooks Vinton, of Put’em UP! Fruit and Put’em UP! fame, notes that mostardas have long histories. They were created in medieval Italy when sugar and mustard where used to preserve fruit. Sugar and mustard were then affordable only by the...