Egg Fried Rice / Fig Tart with Caramelized Onions, Rosemary & Stilton / Pommes de Terre Boulangère

Recipe: Allegra McEvedy's weekly recipe: Egg fried rice with ginger-dressed broccoli

... it's such a simple, fragrant eat that in China, often a bowl of egg fried rice is served as the last dish of around 14. This is also a good way to use leftover rice (no more than a day old though). Let's face it, we're all guilty of cooking too much rice sometimes.

Blog Post & Recipe: fig tart with caramelized onions, rosemary and stilton

... a heap of fragrant, golden-brown [onions]. A bit of sharp cheese doesn’t hurt either and a few slivers of fresh figs accentuate the onions. Add some buttery puff pastry in the mix, bake it until flaky and golden. As a piece de resistance, drizzle a bit of your best honey ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Diner's Pommes de Terre Boulangère

What the chef does is make a panful of caramelized onions with thyme, and then he deglazes the pan with vinegar, lets it get all syrupy and wonderful. The onions turn silky-sweet, herbal and pungent ... in a different pan, you fry up a bunch of parboiled potatoes until they're brown and crispy and hot hot hot. Then you mix the vinegary, silky-sweet onions with the crispy, hot potatoes and sit down very, very quickly to eat them.

Coconut Dhal / Milk Soup / Expand your Repertoire

Blog Post & Recipe: SriLankan Coconut Dhal

Although the soup has some sugar in it, it's more of a "savoury" soup, served as a meal on its own, preferably with some ham sandwiches on the side.

Blog Post & Recipe: Estonian Milk Soup with Pasta Shapes

I must say here that I am not a great dal person and avoid it most of the times,but can vouch for the taste of this dal.Thanks, Maninas for the hearty recipe.

Article: How to expand your cooking repertoire

GET THE BASICS RIGHT ... TEST FOR RELIABILITY ... SEARCH FOR RECIPES ... TRAVEL THE GLOBE [read non-British cookbooks, she means] ... MAKE IT AN EVENT ... TROUBLESHOOTING ... EMBRACE CHANGE

Curried Butternut Soup / Turkey Chili / Prawn Phở

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Butternut Soup

Every October I make batches of this gorgeous and golden soul warming soup. The secret is- use ripe flavorful squash. Choose a squash with firm golden-tan skin. The squash should make a hollow ring when thumped.

Blog Post: Move on by, purists: Turkey chili satisfies

Purists would argue that using turkey in chili is heresy. They'd also rally against beans. Real chili is about beef, they say, and lots of it. But we want a packed-with-flavor meal that doesn't pack our arteries, thank you very much. If that means straying from tradition, so be it.

Blog Post: Bazille's Prawn Phở

Phở is a beef and rice noodle soup from North Vietnam. ... The soup is customised by the customer with a variety of garnishes and in Vietnam a species of peanut worm, sá sùng, is added to sweeten the broth as well as a pheromone extract from the giant water bug to lend a spicy note. Phonetically the word Phở is thought to have originated from the French word feu meaning fire.

Swede Tart / Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme / 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Blog Post & Recipe: Swedeaphobia Cure

Here is a delicious recipe for one of UK’s most unpopular vegetables.

The blogger doesn't name the recipe, but it looks like a savoury swede/rutabaga tart with a layer of crumbs on top

Blog Post & Recipe: Have you ever marinated your meat after cooking it?!

Nigella's Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme

Serve up the sliced steak with a bit of the marinade drizzled over the top. And your au naturale sweet potato...with just a slathering of moisturizer.

Blog Post & Recipe: Top 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Pumpkin Pie ... Pumpkin Puree ... Toasted Pumpkin Seeds ... Pumpkin Pie Milkshake ... Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream ... Pumpkin Caramel Cheesecake Turtle Bread ... Pumpkin Butter ... Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake ... Savoury Pumpkin Pie (Kolokithopita) ... Pumpkin and Black Bean Soup

Pumpkin & Carrot Roll / Daoud Basha / Vegetable Recipes

Recipe: on a roll

Pumpkin and carrot roll

Blog Post & Recipe: Daoud Basha

This is an irresistible meatball filled with spices and cooked in tomatoes. An amazing combination over rice. Daoud Basha is popular all over the Middle East.

Article & Recipes: Simon Hopkinson: vegetable recipes

[Hopkinson's] 1994 book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, was voted the most useful cookery book ever. The resulting publicity catapulted it into the bestseller charts where it briefly replaced that season’s Harry Potter in the top slot.

Petit pois à la française ... Cheese-crusted fried parsnip strips with romesco sauce ... Cauliflower cheese ... Parsley, radish and celery salad with capers ... Grilled aubergine 
with pesto

Scallion Tart / Pumpkin Cornbread / Gyoza

Blog Post & Recipe: Scallion tart: the everything dish

It’s easy, easy like making Playdoh cups. All you have to do is have the ingredients in the house and 35 or so minutes to cook in.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Cornbread

It might not surprise you that my favorite cornbread is a) healthy and b) involves pumpkin. It's very moist and slightly sweet, and goes well with just about any chili I can think of. A bit of cinnamon gives it a hint of earthy, sweet spice that makes a really nice compliment to a meaty, spicy chili.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gyoza Recipe (Japanese Pan-Fried Dumplings)

My most recent adjustment to the gyoza recipe is in the technique I use when mixing the filling. In Elizabeth Andoh’s cookbook, Washoku, she describes a method that helps tenderize the meat and helps hold the filling together. She explains that it’s “a bit like baseball practice” because you are gathering the filling into a ball and throwing it back into the bowl repeatedly.

Poached Eggs / Fish Ball & Lettuce Soup / Oxtail Pho

Blog Post: Poached eggsactly right

Cooking fans are experimenting to find the perfect way to poach eggs, reporting back online. But what works in your kitchen?

Blog Post & Recipe: Street Food of Hong Kong: Vegetable-n-Fish Soup

The authentic version adds with a lot of white pepper and sesame oil, but now I'd like to try another version that skips the two, but put into arugula to maintain a peppery taste in soup.

Recipe of White Fish Ball, Lettuce and Arugula Soup (for 2 persons)

Blog Post & Recipe: Phở Đuôi Bò (Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Oxtail). There's a follow-up post here.

Phở bò is a Vietnamese beef noodle soup; phở đuôi bò is one made with oxtail ... I like my phở broth silky with gelatin but not slick with grease, so I skim the fat pretty aggressively. To cut down on skimming efforts and to allow flavors to fully develop, I give myself a couple of days to build the broth.

Muffins / Asian Greens / Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

Blog Post & Recipe: Simple English Muffins

A English Muffin is a yeast leavened bread always dusted with cornmeal.

Blog Post: Know Your Asian Greens

As with most greens, these can be steamed, stir-fried, stewed, braised, chopped and cooked in dumplings, and cooked in soups. In this post, I'll demystify some of them for you.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sour cream chicken enchiladas

The sour cream enchiladas were stuffed with shredded chicken that had been spiced with generous amounts of salt and black pepper, a simple blend that still had flavor. The sauce itself was a creamy blend of sour cream and chicken broth. A few pickled jalapenos were added, yet they provided more color than fire, as all that cream mitigated any heat.

Baked Halloumi / Baked Feta / Cooking Pasta

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Halloumi

Baked Halloumi with Honey and Thyme

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Feta

A thick slice of feta is baked with some oil and herbs and vegetables and then eaten warm from the oven. We enjoyed this with a giant salad and slices of crusty baguette.

Article: How to cook pasta

Matthew Fort offers the benefit of his long experience of cooking pasta below

Plus, click here for our interactive guide to types of pasta and links to a dozen classic recipes from the Silver Spoon pasta book and let us know what you think over here on the food blog

Dijon Chicken Stew with Potatoes & Kale / Meatballs / Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Scratching the Itch

I made a chicken stew with Dijon mustard and kale a few years back [and today] I decided to tweak it and use up what I had in the kitchen already. That meant onions, boneless chicken breasts and baby spinach, with a squirt of whole grain mustard and a pinch of thyme for good measure.

Dijon Chicken Stew with Potatoes and Kale

Article & Recipes: Having a ball

To prevent meatballs from falling apart you will need some fat content or the addition of a binding ingredient such as egg, breadcrumbs, rolled oats or flour. Cold wet hands are an advantage when rolling the meatballs as this prevents the mixture from sticking to your hands.

Basic meatballs ... Lemon and parmesan chicken balls ... Fennel and pork meatballs ... Lamb meatballs ... Swedish meatballs

Blog Post & Recipe: Totally Tender Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

Here's our go-to recipe for tender, flavorful meatballs with garlic, rosemary, and onion — broiled until brown and crunchy on the outside

A Healthy Breakfast / Turkey Vegetable Dill Pie / Sweet Potato Gnocci

Blog Post: 7 secrets to a healthy breakfast

i. Make it yourself ... ii. Prepare in advance ... iii. Choose wholegrains ... iv. Add extra fibre ... v. Have an avo’ ... vi. Use fruit for natural sweetness ... vii. Yoghurt

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkey Vegetable Dill Pie with Chive Biscuit Crust

This is a great way to use up leftover turkey from Thanksgiving, and can easily be adapted for chicken. The flavours of the stew are comforting and traditional, while the biscuits are crisp on top and almost dumpling-like where they meet the stew.

Blog Post & Recipe: sweet potato gnocchi

Because these gnocchi are made with sweet and regular potatoes, and there are a few things I've learned that I'd like to share with you. First, is that it's very important to use the right potatoes - Russets have a high amount of starch and lower amount of water, compared to their other spud cousins - and that's exactly what you want - a nice, starchy potato. Sweet potatoes, however, are much more moisture-laden ...

Some Bread Sites

Blog: Wild Yeast

I am currently a student in the professional bread and pastry program at SFBI.

Blog: A Year in Bread

What could be more satisfying than the simple yet magical process of baking your own bread?

Website: The Fresh Loaf

Welcome to The Fresh Loaf, a community for amateur artisan bakers and bread enthusiasts. This site contains featured recipes, lessons, book reviews, a community forum and recipe exchange, and baker blogs.

Blog: Toxo Bread

Some of my favourite things about baking bread are being able to decide exactly what to put in it, and how I want it to turn out (or attempt to control the latter, anyway). These also happen to be my labmates’ favourite things about my baking too

Blog: The Knead for Bread

It’s amazing what you can put into a bread. If you think about it, what ever you put in a sandwich you can put into a loaf of bread. Well … Ok, maybe not meatloaf. That would not make a good bread.

Blog: King Arthur Flour: Baker's Banter

Bread is a wonderful thing to share. The following recipe came to me via a surgical nurse at our local hospital. As we chatted prior to my shoulder surgery, we discovered our mutual devotion to bread.

Blog: Ye Olde Bread Blogge

It has been common practice in German bakerys to soak the bread from the preceding day and mix it with the new bread dough. Not only a moneysaving decision: the soaked bread makes the crumb moister, and extends the loaf’s shelf life.

Blog: The Yumarama Bread Blog

Recently upgraded from a plain web page to a blog just so that some people who’ve wanted to follow along and/or make sourdough themselves could see what was up and also get to post comments and ask questions so that it’s not such a one-direction “class”.

Blog: Bao/Bread

The texture of the bread is tighter than using whole wheat. Also the taste of rye was not strong enough. Maybe I should use rye sourdough instead of white one if I have it? Or ferment the dough for longer time without the commercial yeast? Anyway the original version with whole wheat flour does taste very good, especially the roasted hazelnut and prune

I've added these to the bottom of the sidebar.

World Bread Day / Mexican Baked Eggs / Gravadlax

Blog Post: World Bread Day

Bake or buy a bread, take pictures (if possible) and blog about it on Friday, 16th October 2009. Just one entry per blog, please.

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Mexican Baked Eggs with Black Beans, Tomatoes, Green Chiles, and Cilantro

For sure it was the Tuscan Baked Eggs I made last summer that got me thinking of eggs baked in tomato sauce but I have no idea what inspired me to try simmering the tomatoes with black beans and spicy green chiles.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gravadlax and how to make it

'Gravad lax' is Swedish for 'cured salmon' and harks back to the time when fishermen would save part of their catch by burying it in the beach. Presumably the salt in the sand had a preservative effect and a degree of fermentation held off decomposition for a while. Today, things are a little better organised. Nobody's suggesting you should bury your salmon in the garden, but you can entomb it in a salty rub, some cling film and a fridge for a couple of days and produce something magical.

Beet & Coconut Curry / Brandade / Butter & Brioche

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Beet and Coconut Curry

I added a bit of raw beet to the curry along with the cooked beet for a bit more texture. I used my beet greens in a previous recipe, but if you have them, I highly recommend you include a small bunch near the end of the cooking time.

Blog Post & Recipe: Word of Mouth: Brandade

Originating from the south-central French regions of Languedoc and Provence, brandade is a simple, yet hearty spread made of salt cod, olive oil, and milk. Sometimes garlic or potatoes are added.

Blog Post & Recipe: A Butter Tip-Sheet + A Recipe for Brioche

The recipe is linked to the last paragraph.

The acid in butter is less talked about than the fat, but it's no less important in terms of taste and the way it works with dough. In fact, a butter rich in lactic acids will have a very different taste from 'regular' butter, a taste which comes from 'culturing' or fermenting the cream before it is churned into butter.

Turkey Shepherd's Pie / Kaiser Rolls / Roast Meat

Recipe: Turkey Shepherd's Pie With Mashed Sweet Potatoes

To prevent the filling from bubbling out of the pan and on to the bottom of your oven, set the shepherd's pie on a baking sheet before cooking.

Recipe: Parmesan Kaiser Rolls Recipe

These rolls, sometimes called Vienna rolls, are the go-to bread for a thick, juicy burger or a deli sandwich stuffed with all the fixings. This version incorporates a slightly easier shaping technique and a touch of Parmesan ...

Recipes: How to roast like the French

French chef Stéphane Reynaud has rustled up delicious roasts, from perfect roast beef to a spot-on rack of pork.

STUFFED LAMB SHOULDER ... FOUR MORE IDEAS FOR STUFFING LAMB SHOULDER ... ROAST RACKS OF LAMB WITH PISTACHIOS ... ROAST LAMB SHOULDER WITH CUMIN ... ROAST BEEF ON A BED OF ONIONS ... BORSCHT-STYLE ROAST BEEF ... FOUR SAUCES TO GO WITH BEEF ... RIB ROAST WITH COARSE SALT ... ROAST CHICKEN PLAIN AND SIMPLE ... ROAST PORK, PLAIN AND SIMPLE ... ROAST RACK OF PORK WITH FIGS ... ROAST PEPPERS STUFFED WITH ROAST PORK ... TOMATOES STUFFED WITH ROAST MEAT

Chicken Mug-Pies / Pot Roasted Chicken / Fennel & Olive Pasta on a Fried Egg

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Mug-Pies

I baked all of them at once, and refrigerated half for another night, covered in foil; they reheated nicely in the oven at 350F for 20-30 minutes, keeping the foil on to protect the crusts from over-browning.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pot Roasted Chicken for Rainy Autumn Days

I used to make it in a Crockpot when I was very busy and it would cook all day until we needed it. Nowadays I don’t have such a thing and I’ve reverted back to the way my grandmother would have cooked it, in a heavy covered Dutch oven.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel & Kalamata olive pasta on fried egg

Thick bucatini pasta coated in a sweet red sauce and topped with diced kalamata olives and sautéed fennel. Served on top of a perfectly fried egg! The yolk adds so much to the flavor of the red sauce.

So the trick to making sauce that tastes like it’s been simmering for hours is to cook it down to a thick pasty texture and then rehydrate it by adding a ladle or two of starchy pasta water to the pan. You should also use tongs ...

Sautéed Calf’s Liver / Garlic Soup / Five Cheesy Bread Recipes

Article & Recipe: Reunion With a Rich Old Friend

... I went with the traditional pan sauce of bacon and onions. Liver cooks speedily, so I started my onions and bacon first. I stirred in some shredded radicchio for color and as a way to put more vegetables into the meal.

Sautéed Calf’s Liver with Bacon and Radicchio

Blog Post & Recipe: Richard Olney's Garlic Soup Recipe

I've worked my way through a stack of garlic soup recipes over the years. Some clipped from magazines or torn from newspapers, others scribbled in shorthand on scraps of paper. It is a delicious realm of soups, and there have been plenty of notable bowls amongst them. To that extent, I thought I'd share the one I love most.

Blog Post & Recipes: Savory, Cheesy, Quick: Five Bread Recipes

Do you have any favorite quickbread recipes?
• 1 Cheese, Rosemary & Potato Loaf, from Jane Hornby/Good Food
• 2 Bacon-Cheddar Quick Bread with Dried Pears, from Dorie Greenspan/Bon Appétit
• 3 Basic Beer-Cheese Bread, from Cooking Light
• 4 Cheddar-Corn Spoon Bread, from Martha Stewart
• 5 Gruyère and Rosemary Cake, from Yotam Ottolenghi/The Guardian

Make Pulled Pork in the Oven / Chashu / Chickpea Soup

Blog Post: How to Make Pulled Pork in the Oven

Nothing with “2 liters of Coke” as an ingredient could possibly be classified as healthy. But since I doubt you’ll be eating this every day, I’m not that worried.

Blog Post & Recipe: Japanese Chashu

Chashu is a dish made of fattier cuts of pork that are braised over low heat for a very long time. The low, slow cooking, renders out the fat while turning the tough collagen in the meat into gelatin which keeps the meat moist while making it meltingly tender.

Blog Post & Recipe: chickpea soup

Essentially, the chickpeas, onions, and garlic get plunked in a pot, and covered with liquid. It could even be made in the slow cooker. Then heat, wait, and eventually, purée. The most time consuming part is getting the chickpeas puréed at the end to create a beautifully silky product.

Deep Fried Anchovies / Wine-Stewed Prunes / Vietnamese Lamb & Noodles

Blog Post & Recipe: Deep Fried Anchovies with Chilli & Preserved Lime Mayo

“You can cook them just like whitebait” the fishmonger advised. “Really?” I countered, “their heads look a bit big to eat.”

Vlog Post & Recipe: wine-stewed prunes & mascarpone

When at the end of a long day, I can sink into my couch holding a bowl of these prunes in my hands, I don't even think of shorter daylight hours ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Vietnamese Lamb and Noodles

The noodles were treated to the marinade the lamb had been sitting in [...] The marinade had created very succulent chops thanks to the lime, with the slight sweetness to it melding seemlessly, and beautifully, with the chilli and soy flavors bringing up the rear.

Ricotta tart / Homemade Ketchup / Dashi-Simmered Eel.

Blog Post & Recipe: The new vegetarian: Ricotta tart

Think of this as a savoury baked cheesecake, only not as rich. It is brilliantly light, in fact, and would make a wholesome lunch with a leafy salad.

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Ketchup and French Fries

I settled on a recipe by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He's the mastermind behind Britain's River Cottage, a series of TV shows and books. His enthusiasm for ketchup is infectious.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Dashi-Simmered Eel

In Shanghai, eel and pork are common combinations in a red-braised dish. I prefer to use dashi in place of water and sake in place of Chinese rice wine. Perhaps it's all the umami from the kelp in the stock, but a Chinese red braise never quite tastes as savory to me as that made with dashi.

Dashi-Simmered Eel and Pork

Chinese Pork Dumplings / Moo Tod / Nasi Goreng

Blog Post & Recipe: Chinese Boiled Pork Dumplings

Salting and squeezing the water out of the cabbage is essential. It prevents your dumplings from being too soggy!

Blog Post & Recipe: moo tod: fried pork

The dish is actually meant to accompany with other spicy dishes like spicy curry to balance the favours., especially the spiciness. That’s the main reason why it has never been a Star in Thai food. I guess another reason is because it’s too simple. At times, simplicity is the best.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nasi Goreng Recipe (Indonesian Fried Rice)

... this nasi goreng is the Javanese version of fried rice [...] a truly authentic nasi goreng Indonesia is plain and simple, consisting of leftover rice stir-fried with a flavoring paste. Ingredients such as shrimp, meat, and vegetables are rarely, if ever, added to it…

Parmesan Polenta with Mushroom Fricassee and Poached Eggs / Rosemary Oatcakes / Okra Curry

Blog Post & Recipe: Northern Comfort: Parmesan Polenta with Mushroom Fricassee and Poached Eggs

It’s about giving the finger to the hard angles of 21st century life and enjoying something unabashedly slow, calm, and soft.

Blog Post & Recipe: British Cheeses and Rosemary Oatcakes

I even made some mini oatcakes incredibly easy to make nutty but not too crumbly, not sure why it has never occured to me to make something like this before much quicker than bread, they are cooled and ready to eat in 10 minutes.

Rosemary Oatcakes

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Okra Curry

... okra needs to be treated with a little love. When cooked over moderate heat, it becomes tender and succulent. The Indian spices give it a nice kick, and the result is a simple, light dinner. While it's not the best Indian dish I've made recently, it's a tasty meal when paired with some rice.

Greek Cabbage Salad / Make Brown Sugar / Icelandic Fish Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Greek Cabbage Salad with Feta and Thyme

If you don't have fresh thyme, I think there are some other herbs that would work here, but I wouldn't use dried thyme.

Blog Post & Recipe: Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar

We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with one other ingredient ...

Recipe: Traditional Icelandic fish soup (halibut soup) - Fiskisúpa (lúðusúpa)

This soup is among the oldest recorded Icelandic recipes. It's sweet-sour taste is unusual for fish-based soups. Traditionally, the recipe is given for halibut, but you can also use salmon, trout, wolf-fish or lumpfish, or other fatty fish.

How to Use a Knife / Garlic and Parsley Bread / Rosemary-Onion Bread.

Article: How to use a knife properly

"Selecting a knife is kind of like selecting a golf club, you've got try it out first," Marchessault said.

Blog Post & Recipe: Serious Garlic Breath

These are something between garlic nan and herby focaccia: dimpled, doughy and headily pungent.

Garlic and Parsley Hearthbreads

Blog Post & Recipe: Rosemary-Onion Bread with Blue Cheese Topping

I love rosemary bread. I especially love rosemary bread with onions. I especially love rosemary bread with onions and a layer of blue cheese melted on top. But I’m a little rebellious that way.

Stewed Capsicum & Tomatoes & Onions. Fried Zucchini Blossoms. Using Up Zucchini.

Blog Post & Recipe: stewed peppers, tomatoes & onions

Just fresh peppers from a Chinatown market, a plain old yellow onion, a couple of eggs, and a can of tomatoes from the cupboard.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Fry Zucchini Blossoms

They should not be wilted or browned, but rather look like they were just picked, all vibrant with color. Buy a nice, firm mozzarella. This is not the time for bufala, which is too wet and milky.

Blog Post & Recipes: What Is Your Favourite Way To Use Up (A Lot Of) Zucchini?

There's zucchini bread and zucchini muffins, of course, but we like to just slap ours on the grill with olive oil and a little salt and pepper. Delicious!

Here are a some more favorite zucchini recipes and ideas:

• Zucchini and Asparagus Strata
• Zucchini Muffins from Simply Recipes
• Curried Zucchini Soup
• Zucchini Garlic Soup
• Zucchini "Tagliatelle" from Dorie Greenspan
• Stuffed 8-Ball Zucchini
• Zucchini-Potato Frittata
• Grilled Zucchini and Grape Tomato Salad
• Zucchini Rice Gratin
• Sauteed Zucchini and Squash with Thyme and Feta
• Zucchini Fries
• Lighter Zucchini Fritti

How do you use up that late-summer zucchini bounty ...