Food, Photography and Bon Mots
There are lasagnas and then there is this beauty of a lasagna made with butternut squash. This is quite a different take on the usual bechamel rich lasagnas that are commonly served. No bechamel here. Instead, this lasagna is stuffed with thin slices of butternut…
I needed some comfort food this week and this baked Frittata was perfect. First, it’s beautiful. The appearance of food is important to me. In my kitchen, the colors and textures of food (not to mention the plating) play an important part in my appreciation…
Ellen was one of my students at Los Alamitos High School. We reconnected a few years ago through our mutual love of bread baking.
Now I am her student.
Ellen operates a You Tube channel, Bread Machine and Baking Videos With Ellen Hoffman. Her specialty is bread baking using a bread machine for the mixing and proofing stages of the bread making process. She has more than six thousand subscribers and has posted dozens of videos for everything from Soft White Bread to Bagels to this wonderful Pumpernickle bread.
Ellen’s videos are smart and funny and her tips and recipes on bread baking are spot on.
This Pumpernickle loaf is exceptional. It is moist and fragrant and ever-so-flavorful.
Here is the link to Ellen’s videos and her recipe for this wonderful bread: Ellen’s Pumpernickle.
Here is a link to Ellen’s web page: Ellen’s Bread Machine Recipes.com.
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 Asparagus In Puff Pastry Here is the link to the recipe: Asparagus In Puff Pastry. You don’t…
Whoa! It’s Christmas at my local Costco! I haven’t even embraced the idea of Halloween yet, let alone considered spending $1000 (Yikes!) for an artificial tree. (For that price, maybe the tree comes complete with the presents!) Pumpkin is beginning to sound good to me, though.…
