Food, Photography and Bon Mots
This is a beautiful little cake cookie whatever–delicious, white chocolatey, and just a wee bit cookie textured. This recipe is an adapted version of the Lemon Vanilla Dream Bars recipe from the great little book Pure Vanilla by Shauna Sever (Amazon). You will find recipe…
I’ve told you before how I feel about stone fruits. They rock my world. But, alas, the season is coming to an abrupt end and I find myself scouring the produce aisles of my local markets for the last stone fruits of the season. I’m…
I’m pretty sure that Marie Antoinette had THIS Apricot Upside-Down Cake in mind when she said “Let them eat cake.” It’s to die for. Here’s the recipe: This recipe is adapted from a Vallery Lomas recipe in The New York Times. You can…
Stone fruits! I’m pretty sure I could eat my weight in plums. Don’t even get me started on nectarines. And apricots! What velvety beauties they are! The Greeks called apricots “the golden eggs of the sun.” How pretty is that? They’re all in season right…
Brunch. It’s a portmanteau– a made up word joining two words and two meanings. You know, a blend. List and article: Listicle. Smoke and fog: Smog. Breakfast and lunch: Brunch. Actually, Blue Cayenne’s sweet Chief Quality Officer (CQO) Juliet is probably a portmanteau, too. Juliet…
Alice Waters. Chez Panisse. Slow Food. Living as we do in the era of fast and faster food–you know flamin’ cheetos and deep fried oreos–how good it is to slow down and reflect upon what we eat, when we eat it, and to appreciate the…
I’ve never liked brownies. Until now. Esteemed New York Times’ food writer Melissa Clark has rocked my world with this Bittersweet Brownie Shortbread. Truth be told, I can’t stop eating them. (Please send help.) So, what’s the big fuss? Clark has paired a bittersweet fudgy…
How about a hug? Some days you just need a hug or a little cake in your life. This is a year full of those needy days. Norwegian statesman Jens Stoltenberg said it well: “When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small…
OK. So I had cake for breakfast. Strawberry Snacking Cake, actually. My customary breakfast of oatmeal and flax seeds was getting old. And…why shouldn’t I have cake for breakfast? Aren’t muffins cake? (I rest my case.) In any event, I’ve always subscribed to…
In the world of binges, a cookie binge isn’t such a bad thing. So…here is another cookie recipe close on the heels of the oatmeal cookie recipe (here) posted a couple of weeks ago. That oatmeal cookie comes together with a mix of traditional ingredients.…
