Food, Photography and Bons Mots
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…
Every month Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here is a Russian Salad recipe. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one of the categories at the…
Thinking about what you eat and why you eat it? Wondering what a really healthy diet might look like? Welcome to the world of Mark Bittman. Bittman is the Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman’s School of Public Health. He’s written thirty…
She was so gifted a writer that W.H. Auden said of her: “I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.” She was so elegantly beautiful that the Dadaist artist Man Ray begged to photograph her, fascinated as he was…
Look at those beautiful curves and the saucy way the leaves curl. And that ombre color palette… Wow! There’s no way around it; this is the Marilyn Monroe of cabbages. (Or the Kim Kardashian. You pick.) In addition to its radiant beauty, we also are…
