Food, Photography and Bons Mots
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 a good friend. I keep going back to it again and again and again.
Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen:
Persimmons! My kitchen fruit bowls are brimming with persimmons this year. In the past, finding myself with persimmons in the winter, I’ve pretty much defaulted to making the usual fruit-cake-like loaves of persimmon bread. Those loaves have been good–sometimes very good–but eventually that iteration…
Have I ever mentioned that I love soups? OK. I know I have—over and over and over. Forgive me. Here is a new favorite. This is a Deborah Madison recipe from her cookbook Vegetable Soups. This is her recipe for Broccoli Soup With Garlic, Ginger…
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 Caramelized Carrots. Here is the recipe: Caramelized Carrots.
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This is quite a good variation on traditional Caesar Salad Dressing, enriched as it is with a ripe oily Haas avocado. This recipe is based upon one that appears in America’s Test Kitchen’s The Complete Salad Cookbook. The cookbook is available through your local bookstore…
This is a truly great cookie. This recipe is from Helen Goh’s new baking cookbook, Baking And The Meaning of Life. (Great title, by the way!) You can order her cookbook through your local bookstore or on Amazon. This is Goh’s debut solo cookbook. She…
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 a Thanksgiving classic: Here is the link: Cranberry Relish.
Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one of the categories at the top of this page or use the category search drop down menu on the right side of this page.
And…here is a link to Blue Cayenne’s main page:Blue Cayenne. .If you are in the mood to cook (or eat!), we hope you will take a moment to look at the many excellent recipes we have featured.
It’s cold. It is pouring rain. I have a @!%!! roof leak. I’m craving soup…again! Here is a recipe from Joanne Chang’s Myers + Chang At Home cookbook. You can buy the cookbook through your local bookstore or on Amazon here. In the introduction to…
