The Baked NYC cookbook Baked Explorations is a favorite of mine, so I was thrilled when Shake gave me the two other books in the collection about a year ago. (There’s now a fourth, released this past fall.) I’ve made a couple other recipes from them before. I know that... Read More
Once upon a time, Shake tried to make bacon-infused bourbon. A friend had told us about the recipe from PDT and their famous Bacon Old Fashioned. We were having a cocktail party and Shake decided he wanted to make this drink for everyone. We gamely fried bacon, chilled it, strained... Read More
No, this is not a jar of flames sitting next to a bowl of bacon. This was our little Bacon Bourbon Snow Globe Project. Before it looked all snow globe-ish. Maybe you saw the photos I posted on Facebook of the in-progress project. Here’s one: Post by Sugar + Shake.... Read More
National Bourbon Day is June 14. (I found that out without the help of my friend @Chef_Jay, although he’s usually my source for “It’s ____________ Day!” knowledge.) This is a day that the Sugar + Shake household feel should be celebrated with gusto. While Shake would happily toast through the... Read More
Throughout December, I have either been at work or in the kitchen cooking, leaving no time for photo processing or blogging. I’m back now and resolving (it’s that time of year, isn’t it?) to be a better blogger in 2013. In lieu of the regular, piles-of-words blog post, here’s a... Read More
Been absent from blogging for a while, but I’m back with a toast to Fall. Honestly, here, the fall season isn’t much different from the rest of the year. The surf’s a little bigger, and in our apartment, it actually gets HOTTER, not cooler. That’s about it. But I like... Read More
