by Brian | Jan 12, 2018 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest
The wonderful new cookie book, The Perfect Cookie from America’s Test Kitchen, you will encounter one perfected recipe after another. We all grew up with Oreos and the idea of a sandwich cookie as something “special” is now almost genetically ingrained in us. Ah, but...
by Brian | Jun 13, 2017 | Recipes
In One Pan to Rule Them All, authors Howie Southworth and Greg Matza suggest, no prove, that if your kitchen has but one pan it should be cast iron. The ability of cast iron to retain heat and to brown make it ideal for days when you need intensity and endurance....
by Brian | Nov 3, 2016 | Recipes, TBT
I posted this several years ago. It's a wonderful sandwich and today is National Sandwich Day, so I'm happy to put the spotlight back on pork + gerkins + cabbage + apples. It's a Fall recipe supreme. When we say, “I’ll have the pork...
by Brian | May 11, 2016 | Recipes
When we say, “I’ll have the pork sandwich,” here in America that very often means pulled pork with Carolina-style barbeque sauce. Yeah, you can taste it now, can’t you? There are other ways to do pork, other delicious ways. We have Num Pang...
by Brian | May 9, 2015 | Recipes
When I hear the word “roulade” my image is of chocolate sponge cake, covered in whipped cream, and wrapped into a roll for Christmas Dinner. This roulade is not a dessert. This is an appetizer idea, a template really, for an endless array of wonderful hors...
