Food, Photography and Bon Mots
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.”Here is a hearty favorite bean recipe: Guinness Baked Beans. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our…
I’m of the school of thought that hot spicy food makes you feel cooler. (Who doesn’t want to be cool?) It is a hot November (!) day here in Southern California. Chili was calling my name. This recipe is adapted from a cookbook titled Ama,…
Tuesday is my day. That’s the day when I sort out my refrigerator vegetable bins. Often, that means a hearty and ever-changing soup for me. That’s good news. I love soup, particularly during these early Autumn days with just the beginning of a chill in…
What is the world’s largest edible bean? Look that question up on the Internet and you are in for a trip down the rabbit hole. There is a Guinness record for the World’s Tallest Bean plant. (46.3 feet/2003.) There is a record for “The…
The leaves are turning. The mornings are crisp and cold. It’s autumn—bean weather. Need some music to get you in that autumn state of mind? Put on a warm sweater, grab a steaming cup of Darjeeling tea (stirred with a cinnamon stick, of course)…
There have been too many to count. One was sweet and sultry and oh-so-smooth. Another was decidedly rough at the edges–kinda took my breath away. Then there was–<yawn>– the steady and reliable one. And on and on…and on. (<Blush>) Now– it’s a…
“Ask not (’tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years, Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers. Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past, Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our…
Brrrr. It doesn’t take Punxsutawney Phil to tell us it’s soup time. Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone Save Recipe Print Recipe My Recipes My Lists My Calendar Ingredients2 T. extra virgin olive oil1 large onion (finely chopped)1 carrot (cut into medium chunks)1 celery stalk (cut…
For Julia Child it was Coq Au Vin. Marcella Hazan’s tour de force was her amazing Tomato Sauce. Chez Panisse’s Alice Waters rocked the culinary world with her Baked Goat Cheese With Baby Lettuces. “A signature dish is a recipe that identifies an individual chef…
According to Smithsonian Magazine somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000,000 people will be eating green bean casserole this Thanksgiving, many of them following some version of the recipe Dorcas Reilly (pictured below) created in 1955. Dorcas was a food expert working for Campbell’s Soup Company…
