Recipes

Recipe: Pistachio Cake From Franny’s In Brooklyn

Franny's Restaurant in Brooklyn is, alas, now gone.  We sold their cookbook and I continue to use my copy. Their...

River Cafe’s Fresh Raspberry Aperitivo Recipe

Another outstanding and oh-so-easy cocktail to make for guests or just yourself from the River Café cookbook.  It works well...

Valerie Hill’s Coconut Cake

  This coconut cake became justifiably famous at the original Majestic Cafe in Alexandria when it was opened by Chef...

Juicy Post: In Praise Of Polpo, Cicchetti and Bacari

Polpo Is More Than A Cookbook I am a late-in-life convert to bar-hopping, something I loathed in my impetuous youth,...

Recipe: Joy’s Pumpkin Cookies

Bite Size Mexican Sopes Recipe

This mouth watering bite size mexican sopes recipe was brought over from the classic La Cuisine website.

Old Cookbooks Contribute To A New Easter Meal

  A Little History About the Cookbook Choices An Easter meal always heralds Spring, even in the dreary doldrums of...