Food, Photography and Bons Mots
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…
Ah, Moosewood! I owe them big time. I honed so many of my cooking skills on their cookbooks, beginning with Mollie Katzen’s delightful handwritten and self-illustrated Moosewood Cookbook back in the 1970s.. Katzen introduced me to everything from hummus to banana raita. The book is…
Need a substantial side dish for your holiday table? This Orzo Puttanesca might just be what you are looking for. This is a recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. This cookbook is available from your local bookstores and from Amazon. The…
Cookies are everywhere right now. People are gathering for festive neighborhood cookie exchanges and boxes of carefully-curated homemade cookies are being left on doorsteps around the world. There are a lot of cookie cookbooks available at bookstores now, too–The Great Minnesota Cookie Book, King Arthur…
I know. It’s ANOTHER cranberry recipe. What can I say? I’m on a cranberry binge. It happens. Maybe this binge is a latent expression of my angst over those many years when that wiggly cranberry-sauce-in-a-can graced our Thanksgiving table–you know, the one with the…
Wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving! Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here are a couple of Blue Cayenne’s most-requested holiday favorites: https://bluecayenne.com/two-holiday-favorites-from-blue-cayennes-archives-cranberry-relish-and-squash-apples-and-cranberries. You don’t want to miss these great recipes…again. Want to dive deeper…
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…
