by Brian | Aug 29, 2018 | Recipes
Earlier today I review Around the World in 120 Salads, a wonderful book filled with an amazing array of salad idea. Salads come in all forms in this book and this one is surely a “main course” idea. It’s pork shoulder bathed in warm, sticky and very sweet pineapple...
by Brian | Aug 27, 2018 | Recipes
A few weeks ago Suzi and I spent a day in Manchester, Vermont. We went to Hildene, the estate of one of Abraham Lincoln’s sons. There we saw the massive peony garden on the peak day of the year. We wandered the village area, enjoying a magnificent bookstore and...
by Brian | Jan 8, 2018 | Recipes
Okay, it is not Christmas any more. But, some of us look for presents. Football presents. It is the playoff season and we have seven games left, including the Super Bowl. Millions of us will gather around our big screens, cheering, jeering, and surely eating. A...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2017 | Recipes
At first blush, I think of salsa as a summer food, something to go with my chips and margarita on a summer afternoon. Or morning. But, when I stop to think about it, Suzi and I do salsa all year round. Dinner for us last night was a new margarita — so good I’ll blog...
by Brian | Aug 6, 2017 | Recipes
The other day I made a Watermelon and Pineapple Salsa with a Splash of Tequila. The salsa is lovely, but I found myself with some leftover pineapple and over half a watermelon. What to do? Agua fresca! The red color here comes from the watermelon. The flavor though is...