Vegetables

Green Beans For Thanksgiving?

Green Beans For Thanksgiving?

Are green beans on your menu for Thanksgiving? Try this delicious take on the holiday tradition. Here is the link to this great Green Bean With Dried Cherry Vinaigrette dish from Blue Cayenne’s archive of more than 400 recipes: Green Beans With Dried Cherry Vinaigrette.

Mediterranean Greens and Phyllo Pie

Mediterranean Greens and Phyllo Pie

Need a delicious way to eat your greens?  This Mediterranean Greens and Phyllo Pie is just what your need. This recipe makes a large pie and, with a little reheating in the oven to crisp the phyllo layers, lasts for days.  This recipe is from…

Carrots and Birthdays

Carrots and Birthdays

It’s our birthday! Blue Cayenne is nine years old. Our first post was on October 6, 2015. Here we are more than six hundred  posts later still cooking and writing and photographing. Who knew? We certainly didn’t. Neither I nor my ever faithful Chief Quality…

Rustic Turkish Lentil Soup With Sizzling Mint Butter

Rustic Turkish Lentil Soup With Sizzling Mint Butter

  This started out as a recipe post. Sadly, it has become a eulogy to a gifted chef.  Greg Malouf has died.  He and his former wife, food writer Lucy Malouf, did much to introduce the western world to the delights and subtleties of  Middle…

Sweet and Sour Tofu With Corn

Sweet and Sour Tofu With Corn

  This Sweet and Sour Tofu With Corn is a wonderful Asian-inspired tofu recipe.  Preparation is pretty fast, too—perfect for a lazy end-of-summer meal. It’s beautiful, too.  Curious about tofu? Tofu was first produced in China more than 2000 years ago, probably as a happy…

Oldies But Goodies: Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread

Oldies But Goodies: Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread

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 Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread, a bread that would be just right as the base for some…

Tomato and Basil Fried Rice

Tomato and Basil Fried Rice

Love fried rice? I certainly do.  This fried rice recipe just might tickle your taste buds. The New York Times Food Section featured a recipe for Tomato and Basil Fried Rice by cookbook author Hetty McKinnon  this week. McKinnon is the author of a number…

A Culinary Walk Down Memory Lane: Wedge Salad

A Culinary Walk Down Memory Lane: Wedge Salad

Remember the 1970s with its  leisure suits, lava lamps, and platform shoes? (I saw a 60-something lady today at the local Sprouts Market teetering along in jeans and sky-high platform shoes! Whoa.) Foodwise, I remember those  wonderful wedge salads served with generous dollops of roquefort…

Oldies But Goodies: Turkish White Beans

Oldies But Goodies: Turkish White Beans

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 forTurkish White Beans. You’ll find the recipe here. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click…

Zucchini Casserole Widmer

Zucchini Casserole Widmer

This is a recipe for Zucchini Casserole Widmer. Who in the heck was Widmer? I found this recipe deep in the pages of my recipe collection. I haven’t made it for years but I (rightfully!) remember it fondly. I transcribed it in my handwriting, so…