Wednesday 20 May 2009

Aebleskivers. Moroccan Carrot Soup. Caramelized onions.



Article & Recipes: All about aebleskivers


Aebleskivers are a type of pancake cooked in a special stove-top pan with half-spherical molds. The center is soft and fluffy, almost creamy.

Recipe: Mrs. Malmberg's ... Recipe: Grandmother's aebleskivers


Blog Post & Recipe: Florence Fabricant's Moroccan Carrot Soup with Mussels


The recipe comes from Florence Fabricant's Pairings column ... All you have to is whip up a simple soup (fry an onion and cumin in olive oil, add a bunch of peeled, chunked carrots, boil, puree, done). Then you purée that into a smooth soup, and add fresh lemon juice ...


Article & Recipe: Turning onions into pure gold


... just because there are no long lists of ingredients or complicated techniques does not mean caramelizing onions is without pitfalls. The main one -- and it's a dish-killer -- is that caramelizing can come awfully close to burning, and once you've scorched the onions there's no way to get rid of that bitter flavor but to dump them out, wipe the pan clean and start over.

To avoid this, cook the onions in the heaviest pot you have over the lowest heat possible for much of the time, stirring as often as you can. That should be at least every 15 to 20 minutes for most of the cooking, shortening to 5 to 10 minutes when you get down to the end stages.

Caramelized onions


N.b. I've divided the 'soup' tag into 'soup' and 'vegetable soup.' It was getting unwieldy.


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