A friend of mine, who also happens to be a Federal Judge, invited me to breakfast last week and served Hangtown Fries. This exceptional dish is basically bacon, eggs and fried oysters, and it has a very interesting history.
Fun Stuff
Marcella Hazan – Death of a Star
We’ve spoken about the great Marcella Hazan in the past. She is the author of “The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking”, one of the three best cookbooks ever written – in our humble opinion and in the opinion of many others… Read More ›
Bravado Hotline
It’s the big day and you have a Bravado crisis. Forgot how to make gravy? Need a substitute for some ingredient? Is you partner hiding under the bed because he/she doesn’t like crowds? We’ here for you. Call the Bravado… Read More ›
Making It At Home: Chicken Broth Cubes
A true Bravado chef makes a lot of things at home. We like to avoid things in bottles, cans and boxes with a lot of printing on them. While we won’t forget our classic dishes, in the coming weeks we… Read More ›
Easy Printing and iPhone App
Printing Some have been bugging me about finding a way to easily print the now famous Bravado recipes. Well, we found a way – check out the new “Print and PDF” button at the end of each post. You can… Read More ›
The Three Best Cookbooks
Here is an interesting story. As you know, the Bravado Cooking Society is an amateur organization and, as such, we get to make our own rules. The moniker “Bravado Chef”, for example, is given out at our discretion and usually… Read More ›
Cooking and Wooing – Risotto with Black Truffles
This is my favorite romantic recipe in the whole world, and it is relatively simple. If this dish doesn’t do the trick, either that special person has lost all taste buds and olfactory senses, or you have made a colossal… Read More ›
Use Extreme Caution with One-Handed Pie Crust
My friend, Howard, just called. He was working on the One-Handed Pie Crust (see earlier post www.bravadocooking.com/2011/09/23/315/), and his girlfriend was in the kitchen with him. At first he used his free hand to hold a glass of wine as instructed… Read More ›
As You Enjoy Bravado Cooking, Think About Supporting World Vision
Four years ago my sister-in-law, Ellen, returned from Rwanda where she had gone with an organization called World Vision on a “village transformation project”. She told me that we needed to help a child named Violette in the village of… Read More ›
Cooking and Wooing
While writing the chapter called “Cooking and Wooing”, I decided to practice one of the recipes with Barbara, the special person in my life. I’m sort of Bravado proud of the result. This is an individual beef wellington. Note the… Read More ›
Bravado Cooking 