Vegetables

“A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.”                                                  …

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 tasty main dish, Chermoula Eggplant With Bulgur and Yogurt.   You will find a link…

Joyce. She’s smart, kind, talented, elegant–all the things I want to be if I ever grow up. Joyce and I used to work together. Serendipitously, her daughter was a student in one of my classes: Smart. Kind. Talented. Elegant. (It runs in the family.) Now,…

Need an easy but impressive dish for the end of the month? This Asparagus in Puff Pastry just might fit the bill. Don’t be put off by the puff pastry ingredient. There is no need to make your own. You’ll find puff pastry in the…

What ever happened to those wonderful Swedish smorgasbord restaurants?  They were having a moment when I was a younger cook. I remember the beautiful buffets of delicious delicacies. I still crave the savory breads. So it was with great anticipation and a good bit of…

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.”  You will find a link to a recipe for Midsummer Pasta With Corn, Zucchini and Tomatoes here. You don’t want to miss this great…

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.…

As we head into a hot summer, who doesn’t need a calming bowl of hot soup? I know I do.   Hot soup????  In the summer? It turns out that there is some science behind the practice of eating hot soup on hot days. Epicurious,…

  This recipe for Mediterranean Zucchini and Feta Fritters is from Yasmin Khan’s cookbook Ripe Figs. The book is available from your local bookstore or on Amazon here. Khan’s cookbook was a James Beard International Cookbook finalist and was included on The New York Times’ “Best…

Look at the beautiful color of this soup! I’d venture to guess that  you are thinking that this is a tomato-based soup. But, no. This is a Lentil and Beet Soup and it is downright delicious. This soup is cooked from a recipe in Naz…