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For Your Holiday Table: Stuffed Dates

For Your Holiday Table: Stuffed Dates

This wonderful Stuiffed Date appetizer is a snap to make, freeing you to enjoy your event and to party with your guests. Here is the recipe from Blue Cayenne’s archives Dates Stiffed With Walnuts.

For Your Holiday Table: Ellen’s Pull-Apart Rolls

For Your Holiday Table: Ellen’s Pull-Apart Rolls

My friend Ellen Hoffman runs a wonderful Internet and You Tube site for bread making, Ellen’s Bread Machine Recipes. . Her specialty is using her bread machine for the mixing of the bread through the first rise. Here is one of her recipes for pull-apart dinner…

Christmas Cookies? Swedish Shortbread Cookies!

Christmas Cookies? Swedish Shortbread Cookies!

Here is a great cookie for your Christmas cookie tray. It is a delicate Swedish Shortbread Cookie. Here is the link: Swedish Shortbread Cookies.

Oldies But Goodies: Cranberry Sauce

Oldies But Goodies: Cranberry Sauce

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 popular holiday Cranberry Sauce. It would be perfect for your holiday table. You will find…

Wine-Braised Mushrooms With Gnocchi

Wine-Braised Mushrooms With Gnocchi

I finally got my hands on a copy of Melissa Clark’s Dinner In One cookbook. To say that the cookbook’s delivery was “delayed” is an understatement. Seems that in the crush of pandemic-delayed shipping, the original cargo container carrying Clark’s cookbook went plunging into the…

Oldies But Goodies: The Queen’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Oldies But Goodies: The Queen’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake

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 Chocolate Biscuit Cake that was said to be a favorite of Queen Elizabeth II. Here…

Creamy Italian Dressing

Creamy Italian Dressing

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…

Tequila Lime Cake

Tequila Lime Cake

This little Tequila Lime Cake is wonderful. With generous amounts of tequila and lime juice in the batter, it’s a Margarita with all the flavor and none of the guilt. This recipe also is interesting for its inclusion of masa harina ( flour made from…

Lemony Cauliflower and Carrot Soup

Lemony Cauliflower and Carrot Soup

Could you use a steaming bowl of creamy rich soup about now? The world is having a heartbreakingly-bad week. This recipe is adapted from Melissa Clark’s recipe on the NYT site. Here is a link to the original recipe: Lemony Carrot and Cauliflower Soup.

Oldies But Goodies…Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone

Oldies But Goodies…Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here is a hearty favorite soup recipe: Cabbage and White Bean Minestrone. You don’t want to miss these great recipes…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one…