by Brian | Mar 29, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Everyone seems to love pound cake. When there is a secret player of cinnamon streusel, the love only deepens. You will know this cake is perfect long before you bake it. How? Just taste the batter. In Step 4, author Tish Boyle of The Cake Book has you beat sugar and...
by Brian | Mar 12, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
How you gonna spend the weekend? The calendar says that winter is almost gone. Here in the Catskill Mountains, winter really never came. Our driveway was plowed once. We never had enough snow to use our snowshoes. Suzen is smiling. Not a winter girl much anymore. More...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2015 | Recipes
In Citrus, Valerie Aikman-Smith and Victoria Pearson offer chapters dedicated to different citrus fruits. The ideas in Citrus give you new ways to enjoy the particular power and zest that only citrus can offer. Here’s a recipe with Spanish inspiration, a dish...
by Brian | May 30, 2015 | Dessert Digest
Pound cakes have been baked in our ovens for centuries. There is that old story about “a pound of flour, pound of butter, pound of eggs, pound of sugar.” Along the way, modifications occurred and an English standard was to include some brandy in the cake....
by Brian | Apr 30, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
When I was five, I lived on a dead end street at the far north end of Portland, Oregon. By the time the ice cream truck got to my house, it was iffy. What would be left? The ice cream sandwiches were always gone. The Fudgesicle rarely made it that far. But on a good...
