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Most people who drink wine regularly have learned “rules” of pairing wine with food. There are very precise rules—Chablis with oysters is one—and general pronouncements, such as white wine with fish. You can go to the website FoodAndWinePairing.org and get guidance such as a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Malbec with lamb. But conventional wisdom, which…
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Some might think that we publish too many cheesecake recipes. But when cheesecake is one’s favorite comfort food, how many are too many? Plus, we need to get our last licks: “Cheesecake season” concludes at the end of spring. The dense cream cheese cheesecake we favor is too heavy for summer. So this may be…
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“Spring lamb” is so called because before modern times, the sheep gave birth in the spring. If you wanted lamb in other seasons, it would be frozen. Today, animal breeders know how to enable birth year-round, so lovers of lamb need never be without it. Use the ingredients of spring to (below) create your own…
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Recently a friend gave us a cache of Sixlets left over from Halloween. She didn’t want to keep them for next Halloween, and figured we could “do something for THE NIBBLE” with them. So we started to decorate desserts. None of our efforts looked as good as the examples on Sixlets’ Facebok Page, so take…
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If you’re inclined to entertain between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter, here’s an idea from Van Gogh Vodka: A “Starry Night” cocktail part, to celebrate the March 30th birthday of Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Vodka has created a cocktail named for, and inspired by perhaps, one of his best-loved works, The Starry Night (De…
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