Food, Photography and Bon Mots
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.
What is Thanksgiving without soft yeasty rolls? Here is a great recipe from Blue Cayenne’s archives: Soft Dinner Rolls.
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 popular holiday Cranberry Sauce. It would be perfect for your holiday table. You will find…
Since 2020, Americans have consumed between fifteen and nineteen pounds of apples per person per year. Whoa! Time to amp up your apple consumption if you haven’t been doing your part. This apple cake is tasty as a simple breakfast cake with a steaming cup…
My Chief Quality Officer (CQO) Juliet and I wish you a happy Halloween and a happy season of fall baking. This Pumpkin Cake With Maple Frosting is perfect for both occasions. This cake recipe is from Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen Keepers. You can buy…
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 Roquefort Salad Dressing You will find the recipe here. Want to dive deeper into our…
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…
Bored with all the traditional recipes for banana bread? Here is a unique variation on the traditional banana bread recipe—one replete with optional (and tasty) Middle Eastern vibes. (If you are a banana bread traditionalist, don’t pass this recipe up because of the perhaps-unfamiliar Middle…
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…
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…
