by Brian | Jan 22, 2019 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Ordinarily, I think of cornmeal for two reasons: lining a pan before baking and actually baking cornbread — either loaf or muffins. Here cornmeal is the essential ingredient in a lovely dessert. You don’t want to frost this cake. You want to garnish it with fruit and...
by Brian | Oct 25, 2017 | Recipes
This recipe is from Adam Liaw’s fabulous Adam’s Big Pot, a book dedicated to big and easy meals for your family. Adam began cooking when he was eight years old and vividly remembered this dish he made for his family. It was warmly received and, for decades, he’s...
by Brian | Jul 23, 2017 | Recipes
My wife and I have division of labor. I am allowed to find recipes, but not to cook them. Something about my being cavalier in the kitchen. Suzi cooks. I clean. So, I am the alpha and omega of our meals. She is just the middle man. Or woman. Or whatever. She’s really...
by Brian | Apr 6, 2016 | Recipes
When acclaimed author Diana Henry wrote A Bird in the Hand she meant chicken, the whole chicken, and nothing but chicken. It’s a single topic book: chicken. It’s the best chicken book I have ever seen. This was the first recipe Suzi and I prepared: Bourdon...
by Brian | Apr 5, 2016 | Recipes
Cliché is, of course, a French word. And you may think that it is centuries old, but it is not. The word only appeared in the mid-19th century and did not accelerate in use until around World War II. So cliché is relatively young. On the other hand Duck...