Sauces

Mexican Sauces: Part Two (Red)

Mexican Sauces: Part Two (Red)

In my last Blue Cayenne post, I introduced two Mexican sauces that I had enjoyed. My program only allows me to format one recipe at a time. So, here is part two of that post with the red sauce recipe. This sauce recipe is from…

A Winner!  Mexican Salsa Verde

A Winner! Mexican Salsa Verde

I’ve finally found it. I’ve been on a life-long quest to find restaurant-quality red and green chile sauces for tacos, enchiladas and all manner of Mexican food delights. Like so many things in life, this recipe discovery came unexpectedly while I was chasing another recipe…

Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce

This is a great little tomato sauce. It’s the perfect recipe to keep in your back pocket for any number of dishes.  While it is a simple recipe, the textures and flavors  are quite interesting with the large wedges of onion and the smoky flavor…

Holiday Oldies But Goodies: Cranberries!

Holiday Oldies But Goodies: Cranberries!

Wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving! Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here are a couple of Blue Cayenne’s most-requested holiday favorites: https://bluecayenne.com/two-holiday-favorites-from-blue-cayennes-archives-cranberry-relish-and-squash-apples-and-cranberries. You don’t want to miss these great recipes…again. Want to dive deeper…

Julia’s Provencale Tomato Sauce

Julia’s Provencale Tomato Sauce

  We have a lot of things to thank Julia Child for beyond the fact that she popularized French home cooking here in the U.S. She made cooking cool. She pioneered a cooking show genre that has exploded into the countless cooking shows that eat…

Red Pepper-Ricotta Pesto

One of my favorite cooking magazines, Cook’s Illustrated, runs a quirky “Quick Tips” column that I love. In a two-page spread in each issue, cooks around the country send in ingenious “hacks” they have developed to get around some of cooking’s daily annoyances. (Did I…

As American as enchilada sauce…

  “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” —-Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy 4th of July. In deference to the America that embraces both diversity and unity, here is a great recipe for your holiday table where enchiladas are as…