Food, Photography and Bon Mots
This is superb! Easy, too. There are recipes for variations on this dish all over the Internet. Apparently, interest in this dish caught fire in 2018 when it was posted online by a talented Finnish blogger named Jenni Hayrinen. Here is a link to the…
I’m sitting here waiting for the big storm that is headed for Southern California. Right now it is sunny and the billowy white clouds drifting over my home are beautiful…the calm before the storm. Two nights ago, during the pre-storm wind storm, a couple…
You want raisins with your spaghetti? Turns out that you definitely do. This Spaghetti With Spinach, Pine Nuts and Raisins is a knock-it-out-of-the-park variation on traditional spaghetti recipes. There is the silky smoothness of the noodles, the crunch of the pine nuts, the healthfulness of…
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” You will find a link to a recipe for Midsummer Pasta With Corn, Zucchini and Tomatoes here. You don’t want to miss this great…
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 recipe for a tasty Macaroni Salad that appeared on Blue Cayenne in 2015: Macaroni Salad. You don’t want to miss this great…
Need a substantial side dish for your holiday table? This Orzo Puttanesca might just be what you are looking for. This is a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. This cookbook is available from your local bookstores and from Amazon. The…
Thinking about what you eat and why you eat it? Wondering what a really healthy diet might look like? Welcome to the world of Mark Bittman. Bittman is the Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman’s School of Public Health. He’s written thirty…
Every month, Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than 350 recipes. Here is a Pasta Alla Vecchia Bettola recipe you won’t want to miss…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one of the categories at the top…
When I was twenty-two and had my own kitchen for the first time, I knew absolutely nothing about cooking. Nothing. So…I bought my first cookbook–a used copy of the 1963 edition of The New Good Housekeeping Cookbook. The book’s provenance is interesting. The name Sugar Bardy…
“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size zero.” —Sophia Loren I’m with Sophia. Why not start your pasta…
