Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Here is a great comfort food to get you through unsettling times: Cream of Mushroom Soup. I used small brown baby bella mushrooms in this soup but you could mix things up with other mushroom varieties. This recipe uses a lot of mushrooms and yields…
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 Eggplant Curry. Here is the link: Stuffed Eggplant With Curry and Coconut Dal. Want to dive deeper…
Pavlova: A meringue-based “cake” with a soft marshmallow-like center and a crisp crust.
How good does that sound?
Throw in a story about a famed Russian ballerina and a century-long petty diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand about the origin of the recipe and you have an interesting recipe, indeed! I don’t know about you, but I especially enjoy making a recipe that has an interesting back story.(Caesar Cardini’s Caesar Salad, Catherine de Medicis’ Macarons and Pimento Cheese Sandwiches come to mind.)
Must be that high school history teacher “phase” in my life.
Some years ago, 2016 actually, Blue Cayenne featured a Pavlova recipe. Here is the link to that previous post Pavlova complete with a photo of the recipe’s famous namesake ballerina decked out in a quirky swan costume. (Below,too, you will find a photo of that delicious Lemon Curd and Berry”Pav” that we baked (and enjoyed) back in 2016.)
The other day, while searching the King Arthur Baking site, we found KAB’s simplified take on the pavlova batter and gave in to serious Pavlova cravings So, here we are with another Pavlova recipe and a simpler option for the meringue.
Here is still another iteration of this pavlova recipe, this time with mascarpone whipped cream (wow!), lemon curd and berries. I loved the color scheme of this one!
Here is King Arthur Baking’s simple Pavlova recipe as we prepared it in our kitchen. You can find the original recipe here.
I’ve used the analogy before. There are simple recipes for cooking staples that I’ve compared to that little black dress in your closet. You know the one; it anchors your wardrobe whatever the crisis. This is another one of those anchors, a delicious and simple…
