Month: April 2024

Maple-Roasted Carrot Salad

Maple-Roasted Carrot Salad

This is a beauty! Having grown up in a household where a chopped iceberg lettuce salad (with Wishbone Italian dressing) was the only game in town, I have always sought out beauty and variety on the salad plate in my adulthood.  This Ina Garten salad…

Bouchons au Chocolat

Bouchons au Chocolat

I don’t know about you, but corks don’t sound all that appetizing to me. Nevertheless, these chocholaty treats, Bouchons au Chocolat,  are basically called “little corks.”  This Bouchon au Chocolat recipe is from Aleksandra Crapanzano’s wonderful cookbook Gateau: The Suprising Simplicity of French Cakes. Crapanzano…

Oldies But Goodies: Italian Chickpeas With Pesto

Oldies But Goodies: Italian Chickpeas With Pesto

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 perfect to celebrate spring. It’s a recipe for Italian Chickpeas With Pesto.

You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again.

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It’s all in the sauce: Indian Butter Chickpeas

It’s all in the sauce: Indian Butter Chickpeas

Having enjoyed perhaps more than my fair share of wonderful Indian butter masala (makhani) recipes, I’m a tough critic of “butter” recipes. From the original Moti Mahal restaurant in Old Delhi (which claims to have invented the dish)  to the scruffy airport restaurant in Bagdogra,…

Who Knew? Japanese Potato Salad

Who Knew? Japanese Potato Salad

My friend Joyce recently made a heritage trip to Japan with her daughter. From luxury hotels to rustic ryokans, they savored the sights and tastes of Japan.  As dedicated foodies, Joyce and I talked a lot about Japanese food before her trip. While we were…