Salads

Red Potatoes With Lentils and Avocado Sauce

Red Potatoes With Lentils and Avocado Sauce

  Interesting salads. I love interesting salads! Clearly, I’m not alone.  Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a “funeral garden”  outside a rock-cut tomb on Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor. Apparently, they have found four thousand year-old evidence of lettuce! There also are ancient…

A Galentine Celebration and Michelle’s Greek Salad

A Galentine Celebration and Michelle’s Greek Salad

“The Greeks invented that.” That is my good friend Michelle’s answer to most “who invented?”  questions. It’s become a gentle joke among good friends. Michelle is my Greek friend. She is in my Zoom group. We call ourselves The Seesters. We’re eight mostly retired teachers…

Oldies But Goodies: Spicy Corn and Chile Salad

Oldies But Goodies: Spicy Corn and Chile Salad

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 Spicy Corn and Chile Salad. It’s just the thing to warm up those cold winter days.  You…

Potato Pancake With Apple Salad

Potato Pancake With Apple Salad

A potato pancake under your salad? Who woulda thunk it? This recipe is adapted from one that appears in  Brooklyn-based Hetty McKinnon’s wonderful new book Tenderheart, A Cookbook about Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds. (Tenderheart is available at your local bookstore or on Amazon here.…

Beet, Walnut and Arugula Salad with a Schmear of Goat Cheese

Beet, Walnut and Arugula Salad with a Schmear of Goat Cheese

There is a surprise in every delicious bite of this unusual salad! The big surprise here is a big schmear of softened goat cheese and cream cheese hiding under this pretty pile of greens and golden beets.  More good news! There can be a real…

Oldies But Goodies: Peach and Raspberry Salad

Oldies But Goodies: Peach and Raspberry Salad

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 Peach and Raspberry Salad. You will find the link here. You don’t want to miss this…

Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette

Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette

Like that proverbial little black dress, it’s important to have a collection of delicious salad dressings at the ready. You never know. This Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette is a great candidate for your salad dressing repertoire. It’s mildly spicy, mildly sweet and mildly tangy. In other…

New Year’s  Day Traditions and  Black-Eyed Pea Salad

New Year’s Day Traditions and Black-Eyed Pea Salad

As the old Southern New Year’s saying goes, “Peas for pennies, greens for dollars, cornbread for gold.” In other words, these foods, when eaten on New Year’s Day, promise prosperity.  My mother was in the black-eyed-pea school of Southern New Year’s cooks. I always wondered…

Oldies But Goodies: Shaved Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad

Oldies But Goodies: Shaved Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad

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…

Hot Weather Food: Spicy Corn and Chile Salad

Hot Weather Food: Spicy Corn and Chile Salad

We’re under an extreme heat “dome” here in SoCal.  An hour ago Alexa told me the temperature was 104 degrees F. Just now, with a little more cloud cover, Alexa says it is 84 degrees F. Is that kind of precipitous temperature drop even possible?…