by Brian | Nov 18, 2019 | Recipes, Thanksgiving
Ah, rice. Is there anything more innocent looking than rice? And when the cooking is done? Fire from China, richness from Thailand, gooey complexity from Louisiana, … Rice is a platform used worldwide to provide, not just sustenance, but excellence. This recipe...
by Brian | Nov 10, 2015 | Comfort Food, Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
Suzen and I are always on the lookout for new side dishes for Thanksgiving and other fall feasts. We want dishes that the right “autumnal” notes. Here late fall corn and wonderful in-season butternut squash are combined into a dish that just might rival...
by Brian | Nov 3, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Fall is pumpkin season, for decoration and for eating. Pumpkin pie is surely the most common way we consume those lovely orange spheres. Here’s a very different way to enjoy pumpkins, and, most importantly, it does not use that canned pumpkin stuff. No, here you...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2014 | Recipes
So, if you cannot say something nice, then, then invent something kind. It is hard to find a sweet potato that you would want to take home to mom. They are, candidly, just plain ugly. Perhaps that is extreme. They are certainly more than a little raw around the...
by Brian | Oct 23, 2014 | Recipes
Heresy is a word we rarely use these days. Now that burning at the stake is no longer a risk, we really don’t pay attention to the rabble rousers. There are fanatical types on the other side other planet but very few in Manhattan — I’m ignoring politics policy. Some...