by Brian | Aug 22, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
This week’s TBT recipes is primed for peach season. The peaches are here and they are ripe. They are quite sweet and, thankfully, they have some legs: they do not ripen and then rot in the blink of your eye. But do, after you have purchased your peaches, get...
by Brian | May 6, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Yup, same picture as yesterday. Suzi’s cooking school, Cooking by the Book, did an early Cinco de Mayo event yesterday. I served as bartender and did margaritas and sangria. The margaritas were happily received — I had doubled the tequila level. But the sangria was...
by Brian | May 21, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
My wife Suzi has 100 to 200 people a week come into our kitchen and cook meals. She runs the hands-on cooking school Cooking by the Book and teams visit here to have fun, learn, and enjoy a perfect meal. That perfection comes in part from our ingredients. We use the...
by Brian | Jun 5, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
A month ago, we were wondering if spring would ever come. Cold and nasty in the Catskills. And in fact, spring never came. It is suddenly in the 80’s or 90’s each day. Somehow the leaves all came out in a couple of weeks and it is now green, sweltering and...
by Brian | Jul 5, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
The planet is experiencing rapid growth: population, pollution, and mixologists. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I do not have bad associations with that mixologist word. In fact, when I retire, I am going to open up a B&B: Bar and Bakery. But as the number of...