by Brian | Apr 16, 2013 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
“What do you think of this?” Suzen showed me a picture. Quite an attractive picture. “You know I’m color blind,” I said. “Blue-green. Not red. You don’t run red lights.” “Not with you in the car,” I said. “So? What do you think?” “I think it’s spectacular.”...
by Brian | Jul 14, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Man goes into a bar. [Sorry, for timing reasons it has to be a man.] The bar is in New York City. The man pulls his stool up to the edge of the bar. Sawdust shuffles as the stool legs scrape along the floor. The bartender, large and flush, says, “What’ll you...
by Brian | Feb 28, 2012 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Tuition for my first year of college, at a good private school in Portland, cost $800. You may deduce that I wasn’t born yesterday. By the time I graduated, it cost $1500. I got a great education. I was a physics major who minored in Russian. Look at me now. Tonight,...
by Brian | Feb 22, 2012 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I am sorry about the quality of the picture above. I had two perfect cookies to photograph. They were just here. And now I cannot find them. I would ask Suzen to help me search, but you have no idea what that would entail. “You ate them all? Yourself?” That’s how...
by Brian | Jul 24, 2011 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
“I don’t feel like a drink tonight,” Suzen said. It’s hot, she’s tired, and a bit over the edge. “Taste it,” I said. She sipped. She smiled. “Mine,” she said. Success. It’s a night when I’m tired...