Food, Photography and Bons Mots
This is an exceptional recipe. Exceptional. I don’t use that word very often. This is an Ottolenghi recipe from his website here. The Ottolenghi lede to the recipe suggests these pears as a topping for pancakes or French toast. Trust me. These are wonderful with…
I’ve used the analogy before. There are simple recipes for cooking staples that I’ve compared to that little black dress in your closet. You know the one; it anchors your wardrobe whatever the crisis. This is another one of those anchors, a delicious and simple…
Marian Burros has died. She developed the famous Plum Torte recipe that ran for years in The New York Times Cooking Section. It is a wonderful recipe. It would be perfect to make right now as this year’s plum season winds down. Here is Burros’…
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 Arabic Beans (Arabic Baked Beans). Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one…
This is one wonderful salad dressing. A real keeper. This Creamy Sesame-Ginger Dressing is a Samin Nosrat recipe from The New York Times. You can find the original recipe here. Nosrat is the gifted author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an exceptional cookbook that should…
Shirley Temple, remember her? In 1935 she made the song Animal Crackers In My Soup insanely popular, performing the song in her movie Curly Top. Here are the lyrics if you want to sing along: Curly Top/Animal Crackers in my Soup. Curly Top takes you on…
These stuffed pears are stunningly beautiful and delicious. They’re easy and quick to prepare, too. What’s not to love?
This is an excellent way to use left-over risotto. You can use your favorite risotto recipe. I suggest you use Blue Cayenne’s Porcini Mushroom Risotto recipe (omitting the green peas). You can find that recipe here. This recipe is from Susan Spungen’s cookbook Veg Forward.…
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.
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…
