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.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for a Shaved Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad. You can find the link here. You don’t want to miss…
I’m a salad person through and through. I have six cookbooks on my bookshelves that are dedicated entirely to salads. I have a new one on order. When I buy a new cookbook, one of the first sections I check out is the salad section.…
You can never have too many salad dressing recipes. It’s the end of April and it has been a month of birthdays and food indulgences. A great green salad is in order for this last dinner of the month and this salad dressing is a…
If you are into creamy “ranchy” salad dressings, this is a spectacular dressing. I first fell in love with this type of dressing as a teenager. My family used to buy pizza from a Belmont Shore (CA) restaurant called Domenico’s. For them, it was all…
Guilty food pleasures. Mine are Ranch Dressing, Cheetos and refried beans. Yours? And about that Ranch Dressing… The recipe here is a homemade version of the iconic dressing introduced in 1950 by Steve Henson under the name Hidden Valley Ranch. Henson was a former…
Summer salads are a “thing” at my house. Cool and light after a hot day, a salad is the perfect way to wind down the day and ease into a cool evening with a good book and a sweet pup. Here is a…
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…
Koolsla? Koolsla is Dutch for what most Americans call coleslaw–cabbage salad. Dutch settlers in New York introduced koolsla to the American table in the 17th and 18th centuries. This Mango Slaw recipe, with its sweet lime dressing, is a delight. It works with barbecue or as…
A couple of swells… Are you trying to place that expression? It’s from the classic 1948 MGM musical Easter Parade. It was the highest grossing MGM movie in the 1940s–a real crowd please, apparently. Here is the link: Astaire and Garland: A Couple of Swells. Aah.…
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…
