Food, Photography and Bon Mots
This Corn Custard is a wonderful way to showcase fresh-off-the-cobb white corn. The fresh taste of the corn really shines through in this dish. I served this pudding as part of a Mexican-themed menu at a recent party and it got high praise from all…
Like that proverbial little black dress, it’s important to have a collection of delicious salad dressings at the ready. You never know. This Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette is a great candidate for your salad dressing repertoire. It’s mildly spicy, mildly sweet and mildly tangy. In other…
I’ve eaten samosas all over the world. In my experience, the best ones were in Hyderabad, India, and in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but there were close competitors served from a street food stand in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Udipi Palace, a small Indian restaurant in…
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 Confit Tandoori Chickpeas. You’ll find it here. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to…
I grew up thinking beans belonged in a bowl. (The cuisine in my childhood home was pretty devoid of spice and imagination. Mine was a meat and potatoes kind of family.) Then I grew up and went to India. There, in the Taj Mahal Hotel…
It’s the end of the month. It’s cold. What better time for a hot spicy bowl of chili? If you’ve been curious about some of those meat substitutes that have come on the market, here is a chance to try them out. Or, not. This…
I’m sitting here waiting for the big storm that is headed for Southern California. Right now it is sunny and the billowy white clouds drifting over my home are beautiful…the calm before the storm. Two nights ago, during the pre-storm wind storm, a couple…
You want raisins with your spaghetti? Turns out that you definitely do. This Spaghetti With Spinach, Pine Nuts and Raisins is a knock-it-out-of-the-park variation on traditional spaghetti recipes. There is the silky smoothness of the noodles, the crunch of the pine nuts, the healthfulness of…
Like suitors proffering lovely flower bouquets, young men stood along the side of the road offering beautiful bunches of fresh green asparagus. It was a long-ago trip and we were on the road from Rabat to Tangier. I was enjoying the green countryside, but I…
“When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I…
