Month: August 2023

Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce

This is a great little tomato sauce. It’s the perfect recipe to keep in your back pocket for any number of dishes.  While it is a simple recipe, the textures and flavors  are quite interesting with the large wedges of onion and the smoky flavor…

Oatmeal Brown Butter Cookies and The Maillard Reaction

Oatmeal Brown Butter Cookies and The Maillard Reaction

Cookies never get old.  These Oatmeal Brown Sugar Cookies are a delight worth adding to your repertoire of cookie recipes. This recipe is from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Cookbook Shelf Love. The cookie is called Verena’s Road Trip Cookie in the book.  It is a…

Oldies But Goodies: Sweet and Savory Corn Fritters

Oldies But Goodies: Sweet and Savory Corn Fritters

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for Sweet and Savory Corn Fritters. You will find the link here.

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Pretty as a Picture: Lemon Berry Yogurt Cake

Pretty as a Picture: Lemon Berry Yogurt Cake

  Lovely. Such a nice word. This cake is lovely. It’s pretty. The swirl of berries inside makes it beautifully appetizing. And, most importantly, it is delicious.  Right now, we are in the midst of a bountiful berry season here in Southern California, so this…

Elegant Little Mushroom Soup

Elegant Little Mushroom Soup

“Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman — not an artist. There’s nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen — though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion…