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Welcome Bijouxs Collection Membership

Bijouxs Collection Membership

Welcome to change. Since 2009 Bijouxs Little Jewels has been bringing you hundreds of my favorite recipes from my personal collection for free along with ad-free experience. I will continue to provide beautiful & simple recipes for the home cook.

THE COLLECTION MEMBERSHIP

New to the Bijouxs Little Jewels blog is the Membership Collection. The quickly changing world of social media created great changes within the blogging and all content websites. You may have noticed that almost all major websites require a subscription to view their content. This in part is due to the costs to run a blog/website, including fees for servers, and all technical peripherals and needed tech to support a blog/website platform. All of this has made it cost prohibitive to provide you with free recipe content. 

TEN YEARS OF RECIPES

Change is the only thing that is consistent. I have been proud to provide you for over 10 years free content and an ad-free experience. The Bijouxs Membership Collection will continue to bring you access to all 500+ recipes for a small membership fee. It’s $35, the price of a cookbook, for a 1-year subscription.* You also won’t have to go searching for or lug a heavy cookbook in the kitchen. Less clutter and we can save some trees.

BEAUTIFUL FOOD BY DESIGN

To my many loyal readers over the past 10 years, I thank you for your support! I also now thank all of you who subscribe to my independent project. Memberships will ensure the continuation of the Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen as you know it and love it. I will be updating things in the coming weeks.

For now, I thank you all!

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Pappa al Pomodoro

Pappa al Pomodoro | BijouxsLittle Jewels

This simple soup is my year-round favorite, often made with canned San Marzano tomatoes when the fresh tomatoes disappear. Pappa al Pomodoro is a true Little Jewel.

THE RIVER CAFE

One of my favorite soups, hand down. I first tried this Italian classic in, of all places, London at the famed Rogers and Gray restaurant the River Cafe. I can not define the simplicity of this classic Tuscan Soup, but the flavor of that journey remains. This is really what Italian rustic cuisine is all about.

TOMATO & BREAD SOUP

What could be more basic that tomatoes, garlic and olive oil, built into a satisfying soup using day-old rustic bread. Italian genius. Tomatoes, fresh or canned, are simmered with garlic and olive oil, then day old rustic bread is added at the end to create an amazing bowl of soup. I think this about as close as food served in Italian homes.

SIMPLE AND RUSTIC

Chefs Roger and Gray created a window into Italian cuisine. The restaurant and their classic cookbook “Italain Country Cookbook” 1995 is one every home cook needs to have on their shelf. More than just a cookbook is speaks to a way of life and beautiful cooking in Italy. Nothing goes to waste.

 

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Really Rich Arrabiata Sauce

Rich Arrabiatta | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Does the world really need another Arrabiata Sauce recipe? I asked myself that question then tried this Really Rich Arrabiatta Sauce plant-based recipe, it now adds to the Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen. 

ITALIAN COOKING

My love for my cultural family recipes, most of which are either French,  Italian, or Homestyle Nebraska cooking, prompted me to try yet another version of Arrabitta Sauce. I shared so many Italian recipes on my Bijouxs website, I have lost count. Some favorites you might like to try include my break the website Lemon Tiramisu and Garlicy Italian White Beans for starters.

BEAUTIFUL FOOD BY DESIGN

I share over 500 recipes on my website with ad-free access and a printable recipe card–I think my site is a winner. I designed the site over 10 years ago using a clean, black & white design. My food photgraphy has remained lush, but uses only real food from cooking the recipes. I do not employ any foood stylist tricks, what you see is what you get.My photography has been featured in many publications. Did I mention I also have 3 cookbooks, those are available digital or print right here. Yup, I designed those too. 

REALLY RICH ARRABIATA SAUCE 

This sauce is really rich, yet is remains a healthy vegan recipe. I enjoy cooking plant-based dishes for many of my meals. In Italy the focus is on simple and this sauce is a perfect example. The combination of fresh tomatoes PLUS a rich Italian tomato paste create a sauce dense with flavor. The addition of red chili pepper flakes and a little balsamic vinegar finish the sauce.I use a organic ancient grain spaghetti to keep the healthy thing going.

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Roasted Chicken Quatorze

Roasted Chicken Quatorze

This chicken recipe has been in the Bijouxs Little Jewels Collection since 1986 when first published in W Magazine, the  fashion & design mag of the day. Grab this NYC little jewel.

CHICKEN QUATORZE

This chicken is a classic bistro recipe lightly adapted from Quatorze French Bistro in NYC, still going strong since 1984! Although there has been a location change since this intimate French bistro opened, the love remains.

Roasted Chicken Quatorze

LOUIS THE 14TH

The name QUATORZE, which means 14, harkens to many references. In 1984 the restaurant was on 14th street, NYC. With an nod to the Sun King, aka Louis 14th, New Yorker cartoonist, Jack Ziegler created an iconic illustration which was used for the restaurant.

BISTRO FOOD

This recipe is a nod to Traditional Bistro cuisine, simple in style. After removing the back bone allowing the chicken to lay flat, I left the chicken untrussed, allowing it to roast with a true rustic style. The star of the recipe to me is the dense combination of fresh and dried herbs for the long marinade, adding so much flavor.

Classic New York cuisine, always a Little Jewel.

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