Food, Photography and Bon Mots
This great little cake would look wonderful on your holiday buffet table. It is a Browned Butter Cranberry and Apple Cake. The browned butter is a genius addition to the cake. The whole cranberries in the cake give a surprise burst of tart flavor to…
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,…
OK. We missed it. February 23 was National Banana Bread Day. Bummer. Here’s a way to make up for our banana gaffe–combine bananas with your seasonal pumpkin bread. (National Pumpkin Bread Day was October 30. We missed that one, too.) First commercially imported to the…
Six. Years. Old. Who could even imagine it? Won’t you join us for a piece of Salted Halvah Blondie to celebrate Blue Cayenne’s sixth birthday? The birthday cake recipe is from Claire Saffitz’ Dessert Person cookbook and it is sweet and savory and very…
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…
With fall tiptoeing in, it’s tough to find plums now. Luckily, I was able to find some squishy prune plums at my local Farmers Market. Actually, my Farmers Market is a Middle Eastern market that carries a large array of fruits and vegetables, usually…
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” —M.F.K. Fisher There are some pretty special moments in one’s food life. A bowl of hot soup on a freezing winter’s…
Ube, aka purple yam, is a tuber native to the Philippines. It is closely related to the sweet potato. Starchy and sweet, the purple yam is widely used in desserts in the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia, but it can also be served as a…
This is a beautiful little cake cookie whatever–delicious, white chocolatey, and just a wee bit cookie textured. This recipe is an adapted version of the Lemon Vanilla Dream Bars recipe from the great little book Pure Vanilla by Shauna Sever (Amazon). You will find recipe…
