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Chef Bruce
The post content touches on diverse topics, including the author’s culinary background, experiences, and specific recipes. It also delves into the historical development of the kitchen brigade system and the evolution of cooking techniques from primitive times to the present. Continue reading
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Watercolor Dreaming
It is Friday afternoon and I am standing at the kitchen counter. I am not making Meatballs, or Meatloaf, or Linguine with Shrimp and Asparagus, or One Pot Japanese Curry Chicken and Rice, or Cranberry Pepita Buttermilk Cake, or Butternut Morning Glory Muffins, or Jambalaya, or any other recipe. I am about to put paint… Continue reading
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Chicken Thighs with Shallots and Grapes
Susan recently returned home from her hairdresser appointment looking beautiful and with a recipe torn out of a magazine. That’s Susan on the right holding our dog, Freddy, a mini labradoodle. You can’t get arrested for looking beautiful and/or ripping a recipe out of a magazine–can you? I think she’s safe, plus I am giving… Continue reading
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The Last Day in January.
It was Sunday. It snowed all day. I was reminded of the last paragraph of “The Dead” by James Joyce, widely considered to be his best short story, called by the New York Times “just about the finest short story in the English language” and by T.S. Eliot as one of the greatest short stories… Continue reading