Month: November 2025

Avocado Caesar Salad Dressing

Avocado Caesar Salad Dressing

This is quite a good variation on traditional Caesar Salad Dressing, enriched as it is with a ripe oily Haas avocado.  This recipe is based upon one that appears in America’s Test Kitchen’s The Complete Salad Cookbook. The cookbook is available through your local bookstore…

Good Luck With These Cookies! Peanut and Black Sesame Sand Cookies

Good Luck With These Cookies! Peanut and Black Sesame Sand Cookies

This is a truly great cookie. This recipe is from Helen Goh’s new baking cookbook, Baking And The Meaning of Life. (Great title, by the way!) You can order her cookbook through your local bookstore or on Amazon. This is Goh’s debut solo cookbook. She…

Oldies But Goodies: Cranberries!

Oldies But Goodies: Cranberries!

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 Goodies recipe is  for a Thanksgiving classic: Here is the link: Cranberry Relish.

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Coconut and Corn Soup

Coconut and Corn Soup

It’s cold. It is pouring rain. I have a @!%!! roof leak.  I’m craving soup…again! Here is a recipe from Joanne Chang’s Myers + Chang At Home cookbook. You can buy the cookbook through your local bookstore or on Amazon here.  In the introduction to…

Vegetable Soup Au Pistou

Vegetable Soup Au Pistou

Got those change-of-seasons blues? This Soup Au Pistou is just the right soup to blast you right out of those doldrums.  It hits all those fall color vibes, too. Look at those orangey colors! Not visible in this photo is the dollop of basil pistou…