by Suzi | Aug 22, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
Yesterday’s post for Double Chocolate Brownies suggested adding ice cream. Here is what we serve at Cooking by the Book: a rich, bourbon spiked vanilla treat. This recipe follows the classic technique of carefully making custard. The steps here are well described and...
by Suzi | Aug 13, 2010 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla? Chocolate? About 90% of Americans are covered by those two flavors. Strawberry comes in third in most locations. After that, well, there is a spectrum of flavors. Like one of those ice cream stands with 40 flavors,...
by Suzi | Jul 29, 2010 | Restaurant Reviews
Ice cream. It’s a food, of course, but I believe it deserves to be classified as a vitamin. Vitamin IC. And the best source for IC is New England, the world’s capitol of IC. If you travel the roads here, you are always stumbling on local, seasonal ice creams stands....
by Brian | Apr 26, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
Down the road from us is lady with a yard filled with chickens running around and laying eggs. The egg shells come in rainbow colors — almost like Easter eggs without the artificial dye. Inside, each egg is radiant with an intensely orange yolk and lovely white that...
by Brian | Nov 6, 2008 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest
Sometimes you just get lucky. I used to work for the government, in one of those agencies with three letter names. On dull, slow days, my colleagues and I would kill time by thinking up new versions of acronyms. We found hilariously new uses for various three and four...