Just visited my daughter in Arlington, VA last weekend. The purpose of the trip was to help her out with her new house so I was doing the Dad thing with plumbing and landscaping which really turned out well. But in the course of things I noticed that her culinary life could also take a step up. Sure it seems daunting to her to pull together a quick creme brulee (sounds better in French than “burnt cream” in English doesn’t it?) which may be why she has a ton of cookbooks but never seems to make anything. So [...click to contimue reading...]