Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Beans! Glorious beans! This is an enthusiastic repeat recipe for Blue Cayenne. We originally featured the recipe back in May of 2024. Here is the link and the recipe: Turkish White Beans. This recipe is from Yasmin Khan’s cookbook, Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories From Turkey,…
I was having an “off” cooking day yesterday. A recipe from one of my favorite cooks, Eric Kim, just wasn’t turning out for me. Hate that. So, I had a Marie Antoinette moment. I let myself eat cake for comfort. As it turned out, my…
Love to try interesting-sounding new recipes? Me, too! Get a recipe failure now and then? Me, too! All may not be lost. I enjoy experimenting with new recipes. Sometimes, a recipe just doesn’t appeal to my taste or it lacks the visual appeal that is…
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 Goodies recipe is for Eggplant Curry. Here is the link: Stuffed Eggplant With Curry and Coconut Dal. Want to dive deeper…
I subscribe to an interesting app. It is titled Eat Your Books (https://www.eatyourbooks.com/myhome). Eat Your Books allows me to intelligently (and efficiently) search my burgeoning cookbook collection. Here is how it works. You enter the titles of the cookbooks you own. Once that is done,…
I remember first encountering bok choy years ago on a trip to China. Whether we were in Bejing or in The Stone Forest, bok choy was on our plates. It’s a staple in the Asian kitchen. Today, back in the United States, bok choy is…
Jose Andreas. Marcella Hazan. Jacques Pepin. Elena Zalayeta Masaharu Morimoto Marcus Samuelsson. And on and on and on…and on. These women and men have enriched the American culinary world. Immigrants all. So here, in the spirit of recognizing and celebrating the creativity, drive and good…
These cheese blintzes were a walk down memory lane for me. I used to serve them for brunch all the time, but somehow they fell off my menu in recent years. I have a local supermarket nearby that specializes in Eastern European foods. I kept…
As I sat steaming bowls of this beautiful soup in front of my New Year’s Day guests, I remember saying “This may be the most beautiful soup in the universe.” And it is. The intense orange color of this soup is spectacular. And the edgy…
For just about every basic recipe, you need “the little black dress”–the basic fall-back recipe that never fails. Here is a wonderful vinaigrette that hits all the right notes. It is tangy with just the right amount of sweet. This was a gift recipe from…
