Food, Photography and Bon Mots
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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 beautiful Beet and Lentil Salad: Pickled Beet Salad With Lentils and Feta. 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…
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…
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…
