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About Bijouxs

About Bijouxs | Bijouxs Little Jewels

 

ABOUT BIJOUXS

Welcome to Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen. With many new readers, here’s a little bit about myself and the website. First about the name n.; pl. Bijoux. [F.; of uncertain origin.]  translates  to a  trinket; a jewel; — a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.I try hard to keep Bijouxs elegant and fine workmanship.

I started Bijouxs as a natural evolution of my backgrounds in food and design.  While working as a commercial designer for many years, I always continued my love of cooking and food. It all began when I worked coordinating food and wine aboard a private jet – it has been a non-stop journey with food – you never arrive. Later, I used those years with food as a private chef and also catered parties for my clients. I also  filmed a series of Internet cooking videos for Eat Drink or Die for the show “What’s for Dinner Tonight?”   The videos can be located here to view:

Bijouxs is a culmination of my training and talents from my kitchen to yours. Inspired by classic culinary arts, I strive to keep Bijouxs simple and honest, yet surprising. I know there are many websites devoted to food. My goal is to bring to you one Bijoux at a time which is simple and easy to access. 

LITTLE JEWELS FROM THE KITCHEN

Bijouxs blog is a personal expression of recipes, photographs, and stories from my kitchen. I don’t review or advertise products; I share things I love and am never paid.  I share links to other blogs, websites, etc. but do not exchange links.  I style and photograph all of the Bijouxs blog images and create all of my own cookbooks.  All of the content is subject to copyright, unless otherwise specified. 

THE COLLECTION MEMBERSHIP

I created the Collection Membership  to provide all Members with access to now 600+ curated recipes plus access to all new recipes added monthly. Ad-free and Pop-up free with Print-Friendly recipes. I like to think of it as a portable digital cookbook, no heavy cookbook to lug around and all the recipes are available digitally for you to access while you market or even lay by the pool. The price of $35 yearly is a great value, less than 3 a month for the year and all the recipes. Your membership supports me to keep this a beautiful and distraction free website to browse for recipes. Non of the pesky pop-up ads and tracking tricks.

The recipes have been collected from my travels all over the world with cuisines from Italy, France and of course, Classic Home Style Cooking. There are recipes  for everyone from gluten-free to grain-free to recipes from many different countries so world so you can cook the world.

THE CREATIVE HABIT

My creative routine begins early each morning with a dose of everyday beauty in the form of a visual image that fills my eyes with beauty to carry me through my day – my ‘belle du jour.’ It may be an image from my archive of reference files I have collected over the years working as a designer, an image I have captured myself, or just a beautiful image that catches my eye. Everything is relevant and everything is usable– and it’s also a nice way to start the day. One of my favorite books is The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. I mentioned it here, back when I first started Bijouxs. Twyla mentions the importance of establishing some rituals–automatic but decisive patterns of behavior at the beginning of a project “when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up or going the wrong way.” Oh yea!

Thank you for stopping by and check out all 600+ recipes with new recipes on the way. Cheers!

 

 

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Bijouxs Featured 805 Living May 2025

 

 

805 Living May Issue | Bijouxs Little Jewels
Merci! Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen again featured in 805 Living Magazine. Tis the season of strawberries along the coast. Time for Strawberry everything.

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805 Living Magazine | Bijouxs Little Jewels

A very special thank you to everyone at 805 Living Magazine for featuring Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen. Recipes included are my Everyday Strawberry Jam and  Simple Strawberry Tiramisu. 

Strawberry season is beginning here along the coast and these two recipes are my go to seasonal favorites. What’s better than a peanut butter and jam sandwich made with your own Everyday Strawberry Jam. Tiramisu gets a lighter look using fresh strawberries instead of coffee.

Savor the strawberry flavors of the season and make sure to check out the new digital issue of 805 Living. 

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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!

*Non-refundable