Food, Photography and Bon Mots
I gifted a few of these Rum-Raisin-Oatmeal Cookies to my neighbors. My neighbor confessed that her husband ate two of the cookies after breakfast as a “breakfast dessert.” No harm in that. Right? The cookies are oatmeal cookies, after all, and oatmeal is a respectable…
Here is a belated valentine from Blue Cayenne’s Chief Quality Officer, Juliet, and a delightfully-simple Lemon Cake recipe you should consider adding to your repertoire. (Forgive the lateness of our good wishes. Blue Cayenne’s editorial staff–that would be me–was laid…
I still haven’t figured out whether it’s scone (rhymes with phone) or scone (rhymes with dawn). (Heck! As far as elocution goes, I’m still trying to learn how to pronounce Kamala. But I digress…) So, I found this delightful clip from a popular British/Irish…
We owe a big thank you to H. David Dalquist. He invented the bundt pan for the Nordic Ware Company in 1950. As the story goes, Mr. Dalquist, a co-owner of Nordic Ware in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was approached by two women from a local Jewish…
There are a lot of cookies out there. Tough cookies. Smart cookies. The Cookie Monster’s favorite old-fashioned sugar cookies. (Recipe for The Cookie Monster’s Favorite Cookies) Writer Barbara Johnson once sagely wrote that “a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” Wise lady. Could…
This is a great little snacking cake. There are lots of healthy blueberries in the cake and it’s sprinkled with sugar just before baking to give the finished cake a delightful sugar crunch as you bite into it. Remember that blueberries, rich in antioxidants, are…
If a cake and cornbread got married… This is an addicting little cake. It’s beautiful in a simple but elegant way, too. I confess that it becomes an “every single morning” part of my breakfast routine whenever I bake it. Dusted with just enough powdered…
A lot of people have had a lot to say about cake. There was, of course Marie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette. Julia Child famously quipped “A party without a cake is really just a meeting.” British PM Boris Johnson stated his position on cake:…
It’s September, people! It’s fig season here in the Northern Hemisphere. Buy figs now while you can during their excruciatingly short season from August through early October. Figs, a member of the mulberry family, are among the oldest fruits consumed by humans. That said, figs…
Eat your bananas! They’re healthy–fiber rich, low in calories, and high in potassium which helps regulate blood pressure.The animo acid tryptophan and vitamin B6 in bananas just might elevate your mood, too. Who doesn’t need that right now? This little cake pushes all the…
