Food, Photography and Bons Mots
I’m a unashamed stone fruit devotee. I particularly love plums. This is my season! There were perfectly ripe plums at my local farmers’ market this week. So, it being summer, I decided to make ice cream. This is a David Lebovitz recipe from his cookbook…
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 Plum Conserve–perfect for slathering on your morning toast or for incorporating into your pastry recipes. (Here…
This recipe brings back fond memories of parties in my home. On my buffet table, a three bean salad was always a reliable dish–easy to put together, flexible, and interesting.
Recently, my local Farmer’s Market has been offering beautiful yellow was beans that reminded me of that long-ago canned bean dish. And, my good friend and neighbor Sarah has shared some fresh green beans with me from her garden. So, I revisited the Good Housekeeping Cookbook recipe .
Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. The amounts are approximate. This is one of those recipes where you use what you have in your pantry. This recipe is inspired by one that appears in my first cookbook, the 1963 edition of The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, and the Three Bean Salad With Coriander Viniagrette recipe that appears in The Williams Sonoma Salad of the Day Cookbook. Both books are available through used book stores.
Here is the recipe as I made it in my kitchen.
It is the height of the tomato season and what a season it is! My farmer’s market has a great selection of heirloom varieties and I’ve been delving into some of the interesting versions of Gazpacho. (We’ve featured Gazpacho before on Blue Cayenne– here and here…
This is one wonderful salad dressing. A real keeper. This Creamy Sesame-Ginger Dressing is a Samin Nosrat recipe from The New York Times. You can find the original recipe here. Nosrat is the gifted author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an exceptional cookbook that should…
My beautiful friend Michelle had the good fortune to visit San Francisco’s Buena Vista Cafe recently and enjoyed a glass of their legendary Irish Coffee.
As she described the coffee’s deliciousness, I knew I needed to try this. And, of course, it was wonderful.
Here is a link to a YouTube video that shows a bartender at the cafe preparing the coffee…with considerable flare, I might add. Feel free to make your own drama when you make the delicious drink. (Buena Vista Irish Coffee).
Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. I enjoyed my Irish Coffee to the tune of Glen Yarborough’s “So Long San Francisco.” Join me: Glen Yarborough Sings So Long San Francisco.
Apricots and I go back a long way. Growing up, I always had a “Paradise Cake” for my birthday. The cake was two layers of yellow cake slathered with a tangy dried apricot puree and covered in coconut. I’ve tried to find the recipe online…
It’s flaky. It’s tender. It’s sweet. It’s savory. There is a bit of a sour feta bite. It’s wonderful. This is a riff on Greek Tiropita–layers of crisp and flaky phyllo dough stuffed with pungent feta cheese. This recipe brings back memories of glorious stays…
This is a delicious hybrid recipe. It’s a riff on a hummus recipe we ran on Blue Cayenne back in April of 2019 here
It occurred to us that a rich topping of roasted grape (or cherry) tomatoes and roasted eggplant cubes would complement the creamy hummus. It did. Gloriously!
The roasted tomato portion of this dish was taken from Yotam Ottolenghi’s wonderful cookbook Simple. That cookbook 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 Goodie recipes are for plum cakes–two different plum cakes but equally delicious. Your call. ( Here is the recipe.) Want…
