Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.”Here is a recipe for a tasty Macaroni Salad that appeared on Blue Cayenne in 2015: Macaroni Salad. You don’t want to miss this great…
Need some recipes for dinner dishes that you can make right from the pantry? There are nights when I sure do! Here is a cookbook for you to consider. It is Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Shelf Love. The premise of the book is just that—recipes…
I usually march to the beat of my own drummer, but the crush of interest in recipes for Burnt Basque Cheesecake has piqued my interest. It turns out that Burnt Basque Cheesecake originated in the 1990s as a Tarta de Queso at La Vina Restaurant…
This is a beauty of a galette–redolent with lightly-caramelized onions, loaded with tender potatoes and sitting atop a layer of Boursin cheese and a generous crisp crust. There is a lot of love here. A galette, by the way, is a rustic free-form tart from…
Raisin Bread, you ask? Who invented Raisin Bread? Lest we look too deeply, the answer would seem to be Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau’s biographer, Walter Harding, credited him with the recipe, after all. But…alas… Harding later retracted that colorful claim when he learned that the…
There was a bit of a “you say granula, I say granola” tiff involved in the naming of granola. First, it was “granula.” Granula was invented by James Caleb Jackson in the 1860s. Jackson was an abolitionist, a medic, a Christian evangelist and a therapy-spa…
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart…
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.”Here is a hearty favorite bean recipe: Guinness Baked Beans. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our…
When I was growing up, “Eat your spinach” was touted as the route to good health. I can still sing the Popeye spinach song, too: “…I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach.” (Damn. That little earworm will be in my head all…
Wishing you a happy new year filled with all good things–including great gastronomical delights. As for me, I’m looking for comfort food as we ease into 2022 and this New York Times soup recipe (Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup) has “comfort” written all over…
