Food, Photography and Bons Mots
For just about every basic recipe, you need “the little black dress”–the basic fall-back recipe that never fails. Here is a wonderful vinaigrette that hits all the right notes. It is tangy with just the right amount of sweet. This was a gift recipe from…
Persimmons! My kitchen fruit bowls are brimming with persimmons this year. In the past, finding myself with persimmons in the winter, I’ve pretty much defaulted to making the usual fruit-cake-like loaves of persimmon bread. Those loaves have been good–sometimes very good–but eventually that iteration…
Have I ever mentioned that I love soups?
OK. I know I have—over and over and over. Forgive me.
Here is a new favorite. This is a Deborah Madison recipe from her cookbook Vegetable Soups. This is her recipe for Broccoli Soup With Garlic, Ginger and Chile. That constellation of ingredients sounds (and is!) wonderful. You’ve got to try this one! It will sooth away those holiday jitters that are coming on about now. (Vegetable Soups is available through your local bookstore or on Amazon here.)
Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen.
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 Caramelized Carrots. Here is the recipe: Caramelized Carrots. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just…
