Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Ah, Moosewood! I owe them big time. I honed so many of my cooking skills on their cookbooks, beginning with Mollie Katzen’s delightful handwritten and self-illustrated Moosewood Cookbook back in the 1970s.. Katzen introduced me to everything from hummus to banana raita. The book is…
Need a substantial side dish for your holiday table? This Orzo Puttanesca might just be what you are looking for. This is a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. This cookbook is available from your local bookstores and from Amazon. The…
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…
I’m of the school of thought that hot spicy food makes you feel cooler. (Who doesn’t want to be cool?) It is a hot November (!) day here in Southern California. Chili was calling my name. This recipe is adapted from a cookbook titled Ama,…
Every month Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here is a great breakfast recipe: Chinese Stir-Fried Tomatoes and Eggs. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one…
I’ve written about Yotam Ottolenghi here before. He is one of my favorite cookbook authors and his newer vegetable cookbook Flavor, written with Ixta Belfrfage, has quickly earned a prominent place on my cookbook shelves. Ottolenghi has written a number of best-selling cookbooks. Flavor is…
Tuesday is my day. That’s the day when I sort out my refrigerator vegetable bins. Often, that means a hearty and ever-changing soup for me. That’s good news. I love soup, particularly during these early Autumn days with just the beginning of a chill in…
Guilty food pleasures. Mine are Ranch Dressing, Cheetos and refried beans. Yours? And about that Ranch Dressing… The recipe here is a homemade version of the iconic dressing introduced in 1950 by Steve Henson under the name Hidden Valley Ranch. Henson was a former…
Summer salads are a “thing” at my house. Cool and light after a hot day, a salad is the perfect way to wind down the day and ease into a cool evening with a good book and a sweet pup. Here is a…
Bulgogi? It’s a Korean specialty. Koreans have been making the classic dish for hundreds of years—sometimes grilled and sometimes in a broth. In recent times, the dish has become rockstar-popular on Korean and international menus. Bulgogi roughly translates to “fire meat.” Although the dish is…
