Soy Pickled Shiitakes / Cookery Books of The Year / 20 Time-Saving Tips

Blog Post & Recipe: Momofuku's Soy Pickled Shiitakes

Pack the pickled mushroom slices into a quart size container and add enough of the cooking liquid to cover. They'll keep in the fridge for a month or more, but they're ready to eat now, hooray!

Blog Post: Cookery books of the year

So we have Jekka McVicar's Herb Cookbook (there's an extract here) guiding us through growing and using every herb you can think of and a few more you may not have ... Tartine is beautifully shot and, more importantly, has an excellent sourdough method and a spectacular section on what to do with any bread surplus.

Blog Post: Dinner Quick: 20 Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts

• 1 Tip: A Faster, Easier Way to Chop Fresh Herbs
• 2 Top Ten Ways to Use Your Food Processor
• 3 Quick and Easy Shortcut: Mince Garlic with a Fork
• 4 Quick Tip: How to Quickly Trim a Big Pile of Beans
• 5 How to Core Apples or Pears Quickly and Easily
• 6 How to Quick-Roast Vegetables Under the Broiler
• 7 Easy Baking Tip: How to Quickly Warm Eggs
• 8 How to Quickly Chill Wines with Salt
• 9 Chill Soups Quickly: Cooling Ice Paddles
• 10 How to Roast Several Peppers at Once
• 11 Five (More) Ways to Doctor Up Tomato Sauce
• 12 Citrus Tips: Get the Most Juice From Limes and Lemons
• 13 The Fastest Way to Cool a Hot Beverage
• 14 Speedy Fresh Herb Trick: Skin the Leaves Off the Stems
• 15 Tip: Bake Pumpkins and Squash Before You Split Them Open
• 16 Absolutely Brilliant Idea: Roast Grocery Vegetable Platters
• 17 Quick Tip: Keep One Hand Meat-Free
• 18 Kitchen Shortcuts: Ways to Improve Store-Bought Broth
• 19 Quick Tip: Add Whole Stems of Thyme to Soups
• 20 Quick Tip: How to Wash a Big Load of Greens

Basic Granola / Baked Farro Pasta / Broiled Mussels

Blog Post & Recipe: Basic Granola Formula

... when it comes to oven-baked granola, I find that what one needs isn't really a recipe, but rather a formula.

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Farro Pasta Recipe

It's a cold weather crowd-pleaser made of alternating layers of broken farro pasta, sliced potatoes, two cheeses, and mustardy shredded cabbage. The sort of thing you can prep a day or two ahead of time, then bake when convenient.

Blog Post & Recipe: broiled mussels

And so when they suggested that I steam mussels open in wine, slather them with butter compounded with parsley, garlic, smoked paprika and salt and broil them until the butter is bubbly and serve at a party, I immediately wanted to do just that.

Boxing Day Turkey Sandwich / Baked Brie Topped with Caramelized Mushrooms / Roast Vegetables

Article & Recipe: Nigel Slater's Boxing Day turkey sandwich

There must, surely, be pickles.

BUBBLE-AND-SQUEAK SOUP ... THE BOXING DAY SANDWICH

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Brie Topped with Caramelized Mushrooms

The idea is pretty simple; you saute and caramelize some mushrooms and onions, toss them on some brie and bake it until the cheese melts.

Blog Post & Suggestions: Roasted vegetables - make them your salad for Winter

Three easy flavour additions for roasted vegetables ... The trick to successful vegetable roasting is similar to that for drama-free stir-frying.

Alsatian Baeckeoffe & Farmhouse Hash / Preserving a Nonstick Pan / A Christmas Feast

Article & Recipe: Meat & potatoes slow-cooked, then turned to hash

Start with Alsatian baeckeoffe ... End with Farmhouse hash with soft-cooked eggs

Article: How Not to Wreck a Nonstick Pan

I am going to share with you what I have learned in hopes of saving you from my mistakes. And as a treat, I’ll throw in a few other cleaning tips as well

Article & Recipes: Sydney's top chefs serve up a Christmas feast

Quay's white peach bellini ... Crostini with truffle butter and jamón de bellota ... Mud crab, heart of palm and pink grapefruit salad ... Italian buffalo mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes with nasturtium pistou ... Roast goose ... Tea eggs ... Roast Dutch cream potatoes ... Cucumber and daikon pickle ... Modern summer pudding dressed up for Christmas

Vietnamese Beans & Rice Pudding / Kabocha Squash / 20 Bread Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Che Dau Trang - Vietnamese Beans and Rice Pudding

It seems there are a few puddings (che) in Vietnamese cuisine which can be sered [sic] either warm or cold depending on the seasons.

Article & Recipe: Kabocha squash - a sweet epiphany

I've been a kabocha fan ever since - it lends itself to quick roasting, steaming, braising and pan-frying. Prepping it couldn't be easier because, unlike other winter squashes, you don't have to peel it. It has a very tasty deep green skin with celadon stripes that's better left on.

Linguine & Kabocha

Blog Post & Recipes: All Things Bread: 20 Recipes for Buns, Loaves, and Rolls

BREAD FOR BREAKFAST:
• 1 Homemade Bialys
• 2 Breakfast In Bed: IKEA-Inspired Cinnamon Rolls
• 3 Kugelhopf Breakfast Rolls
• 4 Sticky Lemon Rolls with Cream Cheese Glaze
• 5 Quick and Homey Oatmeal Raisin Muffins
• 6 No-Knead Pumpkin Rolls with Brown Sugar Glaze
• 7 Real Irish Scones
• 8 Flour Bakery’s Classic Current Scones
• 9 Zucchini and Olive Oil Breakfast Cake
• 10 Cheddar and Leek Muffins

BREAD FOR MIDDAY MEALS & SNACKING:
• 11 Mother’s Rolls from Paula Deen
• 12 Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf with Oats and Pecans
• 13 Bacon and Cheddar Cheese Biscuits
• 14 Plantain and Macadamia Nut Bread
• 15 No-Knead Multi-Grain Peasant Bread

BREAD FOR DINNER:
• 16 Lemon and Sea Salt Focaccia
• 17 Herbed Olive Oil Fantail Rolls
• 18 No-Knead Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls
• 19 Leek, Ricotta, and Lemon Zest Flatbread
• 20 15-Minute Cream Biscuits

Hot & Sour Mushroom Soup / Five Spice Blends / Icelandic Christmas Recipes

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's hot and sour mushroom soup recipe

A variation on Asian soups such as Thai tom yum or Vietnamese pho. The key is the stock, which must be rich and hearty, with many layers of flavour.

Blog Post & Recipes: Five Spice Blends to Give for a Homemade Christmas Gift

Rosemary and Garlic Herb Rub ... Montreal Steak Seasoning ... Moroccan Spice Mix ... Rosemary Salt ... Spicy Sweet Potato Fries Spice Mix.

More Ideas for Homemade Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen ...

Blog Post & Recipes: Icelandic Christmas recipes

Starters or desserts:

* Rice pudding
* Ris a la mande
* Vanilla ice cream


Main dishes:

* Hangikjöt (smoked lamb)
* Pork rib roast
* Roast lamb
* Rock ptarmigan

Side dishes and accompaniments:

* Leaf bread
* Christmas cocktail
* Pickled red cabbage
* Caramel potatoes


Cakes and cookies:

* Gingerbread sandwich cookies
* Sarah Bernhardt cookies
* Jewish cookies
* Half-moons
* Coconut wreaths
* Siggi's cookies
* Syrup cookies
* Air cookies
* Spice cake with buttercream
* Christmas cake

Stewed Red Cabbage with Prunes / Welsh Cakes / Endive Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Stewed red cabbage with prunes

The prunes add a sweetness, orange juice some freshness and a good balsamico a lovely tang.

Blog Post & Recipe: worth the wait: welsh cakes

I’ve updated the traditional recipe which calls for currents and candied peel for dried cranberries and fresh orange zest.

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Endives

Often cooked or simply tossed raw into a salad, it's high in vitamins A and K, and is a great source of fiber.

Endives, Apples, and Grapes ... Jambon-Wrapped Grilled Endive ... Endive and Chicory Salad with Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette ... Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Belgian Endive and Tomato Chile Jam ... Braised Endives with Haricots Verts ... Braised Shrimp and Creamy Endive ... Baked Belgian Endive with Pecorino and Walnuts ... Spinach and Endive Salad with Lemon-Ginger Dressing and Crisp Won Ton Strips ... Endive and Celery Salad with Fennel

Kai Pa-low / Lima Bean Stew / Braised Leg of Lamb With Olives & Celery Root Purée

Blog Post & Recipe: stewed chicken, pork belly, tofu & egg with 5 spices

Sprinkle with chopped fresh coriander leaves. Serve hot with a cup of steamed whole-grain rice.

Blog Post & Recipe: Christmas Lima Bean Stew Recipe

If you ignore everything else I write about today, pay attention to this. You can't skip out on the toppings. Please, just trust me on this one. The chopped black olives and fresh lemon wedges for squeezing are key.

Article & Recipe: Seven-Hour Lamb, in About Five

I chatted with a chef friend about what to make for Christmas Eve dinner. He suggested seven-hour leg of lamb ... He went on to explain that the recipe was originally devised for animals that were older, larger and tougher than today’s little lambs. With modern meat, he said, four to five hours is plenty.

Braised Leg of Lamb With Olives and Celery Root Purée

Roast Mushroom & Bread Salad / Grilled Tofu Sandwiches / Grow Unusual Vegetables

Blog Post & Recipe: 9 things you probably don’t know about mushrooms + roast mushroom salad [5 ingredients]

roast portabello mushrooms ... roast mushroom & bread salad

Blog Post & Recipe: GRILLED TOFU SANDWICHES WITH LEMON AIOLI

I always forget how much I like tofu as a sandwich filling. I think of it for stir-fries and curries but somehow sandwiches fall off my tofu radar.

Blog Post: New life on the veg patch

Don't devote your precious outdoor space to growing cheap, ubiquitous vegetables, says River Cottage head gardener Mark Diacono. There's a whole world of delicious, easy to grow exotica out there

Extracts from Mark's Taste of the Unexpected:
• How to grow and cook Chilean guava
• How to grow and cook yacon
• How to grow Szechuan pepper and make Chinese five spice

Oils for Frying / Heat for Meat / Skillet Carrots with Onions & Thyme

Article: Is It Time for an Oil Change in the Kitchen?

What's the best oil for everyday frying?

Article: The Kitchen Thinker: The science of meat stew

'Two hours at 200°C' just does not work for most cuts. Similarly, being told to 'simmer' a casserole on the hob is unhelpful because you will end up boiling the meat. The truth is that most stews need to be cooked for far longer and at much lower temperatures than many books tell us.

Blog Post & Recipe: She got out a skillet

Skillet Carrots with Onions and Thyme

You warm a nice amount of oil in a large skillet, and then you soften sliced onions in it. Then you add sliced garlic, and a few minutes later, you add a lot of sliced carrots and some sprigs of fresh thyme and maybe a little more oil, and then you cover the pan with a lid ...

Mock Turtle Soup / Chad's Country Loaf / 10 One-Pot Meals

Article & Recipe: Reveillon Dinner and Turtle Soup: A Creole Holiday Tradition

A typical early Reveillon menu had Daube Glace or veal grillades, egg dishes, breads, and puddings, and would often include turtle soup and oysters.

Mock Turtle Soup

Metafilter Post & Recipe: Tartine

Cool little video profile of Chad Robertson, co-owner, with his wife, Elisabeth Prueitt, of San Francisco's Tartine bakery. Chad is obsessed with bread.

Chad's country loaf ... panade ... "Kale Caesar" salad ... Brown Bread Ice Cream.

Blog Post & Recipes: 10 One Pot Wonders [via]

So here's 10 One Pot Wonders that result is great meals and easy cleanup!

Hearty Beef Stew ...Arroz con Pollo ... Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic ... Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon ... Chicken Canzanese ... Hungarian Goulash ... Chicken & Shrimp Jambalaya ... Vietnamese style Caramel Chicken ... Really Good Classic Pot Roast ... Tequila Lime Shrimp

Carrot & Fennel Soup / A Guide to Spanish Cured Meats / Stewed Pork Intestine

Blog Post & Recipe: Carrot and Fennel Soup Recipe

... it's easy to make a meal of this by serving it topped with a poached egg

Article & Pictures: A Guide to Spanish Cured Meats

The Spanish charcuterie board is a thing of porky magnificence: from the omnipresent chorizo, to the sweet and soft butifarra, to that king of hams, the rare and pricey jamón ibérico de bellota ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Stewed Pork Intestine

After an initial soak in water and vinegar, parboil them, then simmer them in water flavored with aromatics. You can take the pan-Asian route and add ginger, soy sauce, rice wine, and star anise to your pot, or stick to some version of aromatics and herbs like this recipe.

Sausage Rolls / Chicken with Pearl Barley Risotto / Creamed Onion with Bacon & Chives

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make perfect sausage rolls

Are sausage rolls the best party food ever, and what's the best meat to make them with; does anything rival the classic pork and herb?

Blog Post & recipe: Chicken with Pearl Barley Risotto

Using Italian farro risottos as an inspiration, in this dish the barley is not just an afterthought or bulking ingredient but the star in a savory vegetable porridge. I used chicken thighs but chunks of shoulder of lamb or beef work well.

Blog Post & Recipe: creamed onions with bacon and chives

Sure, it may sound like creamed onions = cream + onions but this is more. It’s smoky salty drippings and nutmeg and thickened cream and sherry and chives and bits of browned bacon and is worth every one of the minutes I spent peeling those onions.

8 Vegetarian Recipes / Palatschinken / Quarter a Turkey

Blog Post: What I've Been Cooking Recently

Broccoli pesto ... Kale and mashed potatoes ... Using kimchi ... Stuffed artichokes ... Quinoa with fennel ... Beetroot and haloumi ... Rice gratin ... Quinoa falafels

Blog Post & Recipe: Sunday Brunch: Palatschinken

These Austrian pancakes are closer to French crêpes than the thick North American pancake ... Instead of the folded French crêpes, palatschinken are filled and then rolled (jelly-roll style), and traditionally filled with apricot jam.

Article & Pictures: Quartering a turkey: How to cut up your own bird

For most of the job, Davis used a common boning knife, but she used a mallet and cleaver to cut the breast halves apart. A chef’s knife or even the boning knife could have done the job, she said, as long as you don’t try to cut down the very center of the breast bone, the strongest part.

Brandy Butternut Squash / Pan-Seared Cod with Bacon and Creamy Fennel Ragout / 3 Barley Recipes

Recipe: How to Make Brandy Butternut Squash

3. Mash the butternut squash. Add a splash of brandy.

Recipe: PAN-SEARED COD with BACON and CREAMY FENNEL RAGOUT

Stir mustard and bacon into fennel ragout and season with salt and pepper. Serve cod over fennel ragout.

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's barley recipes

[Barley] is a staple, of course, in old favourites such as Scotch broth and Irish stew, but it can also take a starring, beguiling role in more outré broths and soups, in nutty, flavoursome salads, or as an alternative to arborio rice in creamy, risotto-style concoctions.

Spiced lamb and pearl barley ... Barley pilaf with mushrooms and dill ... Barley, raisin and walnut biscuits ...

Pumpkin and Sausage Lasagna / Zest a Lemon / Chipotle Pumpkin Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Layers of Fall: Pumpkin and Sausage Lasagna

The sage, spicy sausage, and wine mingle nicely with the savory side of pumpkin, softened with milk and fresh ricotta. A bechamel version would be lovely, too

Blog Post: Cooking Basics: How to Zest a Lemon

Use a gentle rocking motion, taking off just the top layer of skin. Rotate the lemon between each stroke so you get new surface area every time until you’ve gone all the way around the lemon.

Blog Post: Chipotle Pumpkin Soup

While we already have several pumpkin soup recipes on the site, we were missing one with more of a Southwestern feel. I'm delighted with how this soup turned out. It's smokey and spicy from the chipotle chiles, cumin and oregano.

Korean Oxtail Soup / Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms / 7 Golden Rules of Freezing & Frozen Pea Salad with Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: Korean Oxtail Soup (Tom Gang)

This soup is usually served unseasoned, with the diner adding salt at the table. I simply added some green onions for some freshness and crunch.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms

There is an optional step to making this stew taken from classic French cooking (Antonin Careme) that transforms a good dish into a great one. Mash the rabbit or chicken’s liver, mix it with crème fraiche or sour cream, then push it through a fine sieve. The result is a pink slurry that will thicken and enrich your sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: 7 golden rules of freezing food
[5 ingredients | 10 minutes]

1. don’t refreeze raw food ... 2. it is OK to thaw food, cook it and then refreeze ... 3. cool your food before freezing ... 4. freeze things asap ... 5. choose appropriate packaging / containers ... 6. allow for expansion ... 7. freeze smaller portions ... things that love to be frozen ... things that don’t freeze so well

frozen pea salad with bacon

Butternut Squash Baked Risotto / 5 Hash Recipes / 6 Polenta Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Butternut Squash Baked Risotto

I was tempted enough by this recipe's technique to try it: rather than trying to slowly coax out the starch from the rice, the liquid is added all at once, then the pot is covered and slipped into a hot oven.

Article & Recipes: What makes a good hash

The gist is this: Simple, hash should be, sloppy, it should not. You can let your leftovers be your prompt

Curried pork and apple hash ... Diner-style roast beef hash ... Chicken, chorizo and green chile hash ... Autumn vegetable hash ... Smoked salmon hash

Article & Recipes: How to make perfect polenta

Polenta needs to be stirred. Stirring breaks down the bits of corn and develops starches. Once finished, polenta should be lightly textured, smooth, and rich at the same time.

Polenta ... Chicken with Herbed Polenta ... Soft Polenta With Roasted Delicata Squash Rings and Green Olive Tapenade ... Red Wine-Braised Lamb Ragout with Creamy Polenta and Salsa Verde ... Paprika Shrimp with Polenta and Red Pepper Sauce ... Borlotti Beans in Tomato Sauce with Creamy Polenta

Taquitos de Papa / 8 Vegetarian Recipes / How To Brine Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Taquitos de Papa

The combination of waxy potatoes and the complex chili sauce comes together quickly and with little effort ... The small amount of lard gives everything a hearty pork kick

Blog Post & Recipes: What I've Been Cooking Recently

Here’s a selection of what I’ve been cooking.

Broccoli pesto ... Kale and mashed potatoes ... Using kimchi ... Stuffed artichokes ... Quinoa with fennel ... Beetroot and haloumi ... Rice gratin ... Quinoa falafels

Blog Post & Recipe: How To Brine Chicken (Quick Brine Recipe)

If you want to brine more quickly, make a stronger brine. I double it to a 10% salt solution, 100 grams salt per 1000 grams/milliliters water (gosh I love metric). But there’s still a time issue: if you want to add aromatics and ensure you dissolve the salt, you’ve got to heat the brine (and water takes forever to cool; can’t wait that long).

3 Bitters Cocktails / Vegetable Recipes / Apple, Leek & Butternut Squash Gratin

Article & Recipes: Bitters 101

A small dash of bitters adds depth and complexity to a drink, enlivening an otherwise flat combination. They’re used to accent a cocktail, not to dominate it.

The Old Fashioned ... The Mexican Train ... The Peypal

Comment Thread & Recipes: time to eat the veggies!

Looking for vegetable recipes (besides salads) that don't need rice, pasta, bread or meat, and can be eaten as hearty meals by themselves. Legumes, beans, spices, oils and such flavorings are fine.

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Monday: Apple, Leek and Butternut Squash Gratin

This Apple, Leek and Butternut Squash Gratin is ridiculously simple: a layer of sliced butternut squash, a layer of leeks sautéed with sherry and sage, a layer of sliced apples and a layer of Parmesan.

Polenta Pie with Tomatoes / Onion Pandade / Coffee Granita

Blog Post & Recipe: Bottomless Polenta Pie with Tomatoes

Bake in a pre-heated 250 C oven for about 20-25 minutes, until the polenta is lovely golden on top and tomatoes are ever so slightly charred on edges.

Blog Post & Recipe: onion pandade: is this the ultimate comfort food? [5 ingredients]

We’re talking about a savoury bread pudding. Flavoured with golden brown onions and the fragrance of thyme. With the bread providing the perfect contrast of textures: a soft, stock-soaked, silky base teamed with a super crunchy cheesy topping.

Blog Post & Recipe: COFFEE GRANITA

The freezing part is the key to making a proper granita. Using a fork you want to break up the ice crystals about every 20 minutes. You simply want to mush and fluff the mixture so that in the end you are left with an airy mixture with uniform ice crystals

Warm Pumpkin Salad with Cherry Tomatoes & Spring Onions / Moroccan-style Couscous & Eggplant Salad / Lemon Delicious Puddings & 16 Facts About Flour

Recipe: Warm pumpkin salad with cherry tomatoes and spring onions

Toss gently to combine and scatter with chives and coriander. Serve with roast pork or chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: The stomach wants what the stomach wants: Moroccan-style couscous and eggplant salad

I’ve spent a good chunk of the summer coming up with new and exciting ways to play with eggplant, and what I have here is one of the best–and easiest. Eggplant, chickpeas, couscous, onion. That’s pretty much it.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemon delicious puddings + 16 facts about (wheat) flour [5 ingredients]

weighing flour is quicker and more accurate than using cups ... self raising flour = plain flour + baking powder ... gluten is the main protein in wheat ... bread is made from high protein wheat ... cakes and biscuits are (generally) made from lower protein wheat ... plain, or all purpose flour is a blend of high and low protein wheat ... etc

Iceberg Lettuce & Beansprout Stir-Fry / Lamb Meatballs / 22 Chicken Dinners

Blog Post & Recipe: Iceberg lettuce and beansprout stir-fry

Try this dish, which only takes minutes to cook ... to accompany fierce and rich flavours

Blog Post & Recipe: The best meat I've made in ages

The only bit requiring any sort of patience is the actual rolling of the meat mixture into balls, which is really not that big a deal at all if 1. you have help or 2. you decide to make big meatballs instead of my tiny inch-in-diameter ones.

Lamb meatballs

Recipes: 22 Chicken Dinners

Korean Grilled Chicken ... Honey-Mustard Baked Chicken ... Chicken Basquaise ... Sweet Chile Chicken Rice Bowl ... Poached Chicken and Pomegranate Orzo ... Argentine Grilled Chicken ... Pad Kee Mao (Spicy Ground Chicken and Rice Noodles) ... Brick Chicken with Rosé Wine and Bacon ... Five-Spice Roasted Chicken ... Pasta with Roasted Chicken, Raisins, Pine Nuts, and Parsley ... Basic Barbecued Chicken ... Pulled Jerk Chicken Sandwiches ... Chicken Pot Pie ... Rhubarb-Braised Chicken Thighs ... Hoisin Explosion Chicken ... Chicken with Goat Cheese and Figs ... Coq au Vin ... Oregano-Marinated Grilled Chicken with Charred Lemons ... Oven-Fried Buttermilk Chicken ... Braised Chicken and Chayote ... Easy Chicken and Chive-Dumpling Soup ... Chicken Stuffed with Spinach and Feta

Grape Focaccia with Rosemary / Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes & Plum Sauce / 3 Cold-Weather Meals

Blog Post & Recipe: grape focaccia with rosemary

(This is a tweaked version of a recipe I posted for the first time here.)

I couldn’t get enough of the sweet/salty/olive oil/grape/rosemary thing with the crisp edges

Recipe: Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes and Plum Sauce

Maltose syrup can be found in most Chinese supermarkets. If you can't find it, honey can be used in its place.

Article & Recipes: Cold weather comfort

I find that most wet meat dishes require the meat to be browned before adding the wet ingredients. I have sidestepped that process in today's dishes without compromising flavour.

Potato and chicken pie ... Beef casserole ... One pot beef and paprika casserole

Curried Eggplant, Lentil & Quinoa Burgers with Onion-Pepper Relish / Broccoli & Red Bell Pepper Soba / 4 Rosemary Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Eggplant, Lentil, and Quinoa Burgers with Onion-Pepper Relish

Like most veggie burgers, these will fall apart if you try to cook them on a barbecue grill, but once they’re baked, they hold together well

Recipe: Broccoli and Red Bell Pepper Soba

Variations.
Try replacing the broccoli with an equal quantity of cauliflower.
Replace the carrots and red bell pepper with mushrooms, zucchini, yellow bell pepper, or summer squash.

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's rosemary recipes

You want to use a light touch with this pungent herb – a little goes a long way.

Rosemary focaccia ... Rabbit with rosemary and lemon ... Roasted butternut squash with rosemary ... Herbes de Provence

Pumpkin & Ginger Soup / 4 Eggplant Recipes / Tomato Risotto

Recipe: Pumpkin and ginger soup

Ginger gives a real kick to the old staple of pumpkin soup.

Article & Recipes: Why The Priest Fainted: An Ode To Eggplant

Imam Bayildi ... Eggplant Frites With Caper Remoulade ... Sambal Eggplant ... Eggplant Caponata

Blog Post & Recipe: Tomato Risotto

There was just something beautifully simple about the risotto and the tomatoes cooked in olive oil that made me want to give it a go.

Sweetcorn Pancakes / 3 Risotto Recipes / Lamb Ragu

Blog Post & Recipe: sweet corn pancakes

As I mentioned above, I think these have great savory potential by skipping the sugar and increasing the salt, served with sour cream or salsa.

Recipes: Thoroughly absorbing

Let the risotto rest for five minutes before serving to allow the flavours to settle. The basic risotto is ideal with roast chicken.

BASIC RISOTTO ... RISOTTO WITH ROASTED BUTTERNUT PUMPKIN ... PRAWN AND ZUCCHINI RISOTTO

Recipe: Culinary SOS: Pizzeria Ortica's lamb ragu

Dear SOS: I have enjoyed the lamb ragu at Pizzeria Ortica in Costa Mesa on several occasions and would love to have the recipe ...
Sydney Springer

Dear Sydney: Pizzeria Ortica was happy to share its recipe for this rich and hearty dish

Pizza on the BBQ / Bubble Tea / 11 Eggplant Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Grill Pizza [in the U.S. sense of the word 'grill', ie, on a BBQ]

No, the pizza dough does not fall through the grill grates. Assuming you've properly heated the grill, your dough will form a lovely lightly charred crust.

Article & Recipe: DIY Bubble Tea

While many choose to liven up their bubble tea experience with flavors like coconut, lychee, red bean, or mango, the basic ingredients are quite simple. All you really need to make the drink is milk, tea (black or green), sugar, and tapioca pearls.

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Eggplant

Eggplant Caponata ... Eggplant Caviar ... Sichuan-Style Braised Eggplant ... Chicken And Eggplant in Black Bean Sauce ... Eggplant Baingan Kachri ... Chinese Eggplant with Garlic and Ginger Sauce ... Eggplant Lamb Lavash Wraps ... Eggplant in Spicy Tomato Sauce ... Broiled Eggplant Japonaise ... Steamed Spicy Eggplant ... Eggplant and Goat Cheese Spirals

Fennel Salad with Sardines, Capers & Mint / Salad Tips / How to Roast an Avocado

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel salad with sardines, capers and mint

While I love cooked fennel, one of my favourite uses is in a simple salad.

Blog Post: A Pep Talk for Wilted Salad Makers [via Limes and Lycopene]

So, here we go—my three-prong approach to keeping salads interesting. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to make a salad or two of your own.

Blog Post & Recipe: how to roast an avocado and what to do with it when you do [5 ingredients]

... the avocado was surprisingly delicious. Still rich, but more interesting with its crispy edges. The texture meaty and substantial, not the greasy softness I was imagining.

roast avocado & couscous salad

Buttermilk Farro Salad / 5 Recipes from 5 Cookbooks / 16 Japanese Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Buttermilk Farro Salad Recipe

The salad? Simple enough. Plump grains and seasonal vegetables tossed with an herb-flecked buttermilk dressing.

Recipes: 50 best cookbooks: Nigel Slater picks his favourite recipes

The Guardian writers have been choosing their 50 best cookbooks. This is one of the supplementary articles.

Lamb with rose and almonds ... Spiced pork crackling ... Southern Muslim chicken ... Pork chops with juniper ... Peaches in wine

Recipes: Soba to Sukiyaki: A Roundup of Authentic Japanese Dishes

Takoyaki ... Pork Gyozas ... Dashi ... Dobin Mushi ... Soba noodles ... Nabemono ... Sukiyaki ... Oden ... Buta no Kakuni ... Okonomiyaki ... Simmered Kabocha ... Yakikuri gohan ... Matsutake gohan ... Japanese pickled cucumber ... Dango ... Umeshu

Eggplant Parmesan / Sauerkraut / Chicken Tarragon & Eryngii Mushroom

Blog Post & Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan For Two

There are three techniques this recipe uses that we think are genius suggestions for rethinking eggplant Parmesan.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegetable Alchemy

I decided to go with my German roots for this week’s challenge and make a jar of sauerkraut, which I have honestly never liked despite my adoration of cabbage.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Tarragon And Eryngii Mushroom

For this hearty 'One Pot' European style recipe, I used deboned chicken thighs and breast meats with smoked bacon. It's easy to make and you can add on other side dishes to it like rice, potatoes, bread, salad, etc.

Adding Old Dough to New Pizza / Moisten Boneless Chicken Meat / Four Onion Recipes

Blog Post: How to Make a Quick Pizza with Slow-Rise Flavor

Trying to decide whether to simply dispose of some old, unused, naturally leavened pizza dough or to incorporate it into my starter, I chose option three: adding the old dough to a yeasted pizza crust.

Article & Recipes: For Moister Chicken, Tuck the Flavor Inside

EVEN the best white-meat chicken has two main drawbacks, both stemming from its low fat content: it’s not particularly flavorful, and it dries out as you cook it.

Grilled Chicken Breasts Stuffed With Herb Butter ... Olive-Stuffed Chicken Breasts ... Chicken Negimaki

Of course you could just not eat that boneless cardboardy shite in the first place, but people are eccentric.

Article & Recipes: Onions; lords of the rings

Rustic brown-skinned onions come on strong and this makes them, together with garlic, essential ingredients in literally hundreds of dishes. They should have a firm flesh, crisp, papery skins and no green sprouts.

SAVOURY SHALLOT SCONES ... TRADITIONAL FRENCH ONION SOUP ... RED ONION & ORANGE SALAD ... CHINESE EGG FLOWER SOUP

Fresh Tomato & Basil Soup / Grilled Fish with Tomato-Olive Relish / Guacamole

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Tomato and Basil Soup

I’ve discovered the joys of fresh tomato soup.

Recipe: Grilled Fish with Tomato-Olive Relish

The tangy relish — especially made with summer’s ripest, juiciest tomatoes — makes a nice complement to rich-tasting, meaty fish.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make perfect guacamole

Guacamole is one of those dishes which is happy to be played around with according to taste. The only golden rule is – use ripe avocados!

Perfect guacamole

Zucchini Meatballs / Pork Hock Ragu / Potatoes with Herbed Curd & Linseed Oil

Blog Post & Recipe: Zucchini Meatballs

These meatballs - or patties, rather - are super-moist because of the cream cheese and grated zucchini in the mixture.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pork Hock Ragu

... it's a two part process, the first being a slow braise until the meat falls off the bone. The second uses the braised meat and it's accompaniments to enrich a sauce base made with leeks, pancetta and tomato.

Blog Post & Recipe: Potatoes with herbed curd & linseed oil - An answer to all questions?

But what really sets this typical weekday dinner apart is the linseed oil. You are supposed to drown the hot, peeled potatoes – seasoned only with some flakes of Fleur de sel or Maldon sea salt – in this golden liquid and mash them until you just can’t help yourself and simply eat it all up.

Homemade Doughnuts / Spanish Omelette / Tacos de Carnitas with Salsa Verde

Article & Recipe: The Quest to Best Krispy Kremes

What all of these doughnut shops have in common is the light yeasty dough that defines their doughnuts as perfect doughnuts.

Recipe: Homemade Doughnuts

Blog Post & Recipe: The perfect Spanish omelette

On the face of it, this simple frittata-style recipe should present fewer issues than the classic French version: it's an altogether more rustic affair, which scorns the delicate jiggling and rolling practised across the border.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Food Lab: Make Crisp, Juicy Carnitas—Without a Bucket of Lard

So the key to great carnitas (and French confit, for that matter) is to heat the meat to a specific temperature, and try and keep it there long enough for the collagen to break down, while minimizing the amount of moisture lost.

No-Waste Tacos de Carnitas with Salsa Verde

Shuck an Oyster / Whipped Horseradish Cream / Salmorejo

Blog Post & Video: Knife Skills: How to Shuck an Oyster

The key is knowing how to select them, and how to open them. You'll definitely need an oyster knife, a special dull-pointed, thick-bladed knife that is used to pry the back hinge open and separate the body from the shell.

Blog Post & Recipe: Left Over

The book says that vinegar helps stabilize the volatile oil that gives horseradish its kick. I guess the cider vinegar here does two things, then: it keeps the horseradish pungent and it balances the honey’s sweetness.

Whipped Horseradish Cream

Blog Post & Recipe: Salmorejo

This is a simple creamy and cold raw tomato soup from Cordoba in Spain.The basic ingredients are tomato,bread,garlic,vinegar and olive oil which are blended together.This is not gazpacho as it differs in the amount of bread used it seems.

Meat Balls with Five Spice Powder & Sweet Chili Sauce / Sussex Pond Pudding / Tofu Burger

Blog Post & Recipe: Meat balls with five spice powder and sweet chili sauce

Ground pork perked up with five-spice powder, grated ginger and garlic, fried until golden-brown, served with homemade sweet chili sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pudhead Revisited

Cut into a Sussex Pond Pudding, and you are met by a whole lemon. This lemon has been steamed in a rich suet crust for hours on end along with some butter and sugar to create a heavenly zest packed sauce, or 'pond'.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tofu Burgers Recipe

They were impossibly easy to make, relying on the "throw everything in the food processor" technique, and called for a quirky mix of ingredients ranging from tofu, seeds, and nuts, to mustard, cumin, and mushrooms.

Quinoa Paella / Soggy-Bottomed Bread Loaves / Cantaloupe Pasta

Blog Post & Recipe: Build a vegan-friendly paella on foundation of quinoa

Recipe included with this story: Vegan Quinoa Paella With Roasted Chorizo and Kale, Saffron-Lemon Aioli, Fresh Oregano Chimichurri

Article: Food for Fort: Black pudding, misshapen loaves, heavy pans and ricotta substitutes

I've just started using a gas oven for the first time and I'm having a problem with bread-making. While the tops of my loaves bake nicely, the bottoms stay soggy and uncooked.

Blog Post & Recipe: A Mezzaluna and the Most Unusual Pasta Dish I've Had in a Long While

Add a jar of good anchovies – Carol’s preference is for anchovies in a jar rather than a tin – and cook until they melt. Peel, seed and cut a cantaloupe into large bite-size chunks – a cantaloupe for 4 people is what Carol said.

Summer Borscht / Malaysian Shaved Ice / Cooking With Stout

Blog Post & Recipe: Keeping My Cool

It's a cool and creamy combination of cooked fresh beets, cucumber and dill.

Summer Borscht

Blog Post & Recipe: Ice Kacang/ABC (Malaysian Shaved Ice)

Plus, everyone loves the sweet-tasting shaved ice, with numerous toppings such as red beans, creamy sweet corn, grass jelly, attap chee (palm nuts), etc. You can also add ice cream, fruits, peanuts, and/or raisins…

Article & Recipes: Pouring Stout Into the Pan Instead of the Glass

But when it comes to cooking, the best idea is to use whichever stout you most enjoy drinking — or whichever is easiest to find. The differences, apparent when you’re having a pint, are relatively subtle after being subjected to the heat of cooking.

Mushrooms with Herbs and Stout ... Grilled Thick Lamb Chops with Stout-Citrus Glaze

In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style / 8 Brazilian Recipes / Summer Squash Enchiladas

Blog Post & Recipe: The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style

Make your own In-N-Out burger!

Recipes: A Taste of Brazil: 8 Recipes for a Brazilian Dinner Party

Moqueca ... Bolinhos de Bacalhau ... Feijoada from Saveur ... Shrimp Bobo ... Pao de Queijo ... Brigadeiros ... Pudim De Laranja ... Classic Caipirinha

Blog Post & Recipe: Summer squash enchiladas

I wanted to keep the sauce light, so I used the not-too-fiery cascabel chile, which is a cute round chile that looks like an apple and makes a rattling sound when you shake it. And for the filling, I simply sautéed the squash with some onions, garlic and jalapeño chiles until they were warm and slightly tender but still with some bite.

One-Pan Egg & Vegetable Dish / Fattoush / A Guide to Cream

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's one-pot wonder recipe

This dish is straightforward, yet tastes complex and has a very grown-up kind of appeal.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fattoush – Toasted Pitta Bread Vegetable Salad

This is a Middle-Eastern salad made from mixed vegetables and toasted pitta ( or other flatbreads) ... Traditionally it includes some combination purslane, radishes, tomato, lettuce, cucumber, onion, mint, sumac, pitta, salt, olive oil lemon juice.

Blog Post: the [english speaking] world guide to cream & a 3 ingredient cake

Note: The best way to tell your creams apart is to look at the amount of butter fat, or just fat listed on the label. This should also help you navigate the treacherous waters of cream purchasing in non-english speaking countries.

3 ingredient cake with quick raspberry sauce & cream

Phyllo & puff pastry / Simple Sausage Supper / 15 Bread Recipes

Article: Phyllo and puff pastry, compared

What’s the difference between puff-pastry sheets and phyllo dough? Can they be used interchangeably?

Blog Post & Recipe: a simple sausage supper, in 3 easy steps [5 ingredients]

Best served in the middle of the table so everyone can pick at the delicious bits stuck to the pan. Keep it simple with a green salad or some wilted greens with garlic.

Blog Post & Recipes: No Croutons Required - Breads

The challenge for July was to come up with breads that go well with soups and salads ...

Coconut Roti ... Yogurt Scones with a Trio of Three Cheeses ... Whole Wheat Multi-Seeds Bread ... Dill and Cheddar Beer Bread ... Cheesy Potato and Rosemary Scones ... Sun Dried Tomato, Feta and Oregano Muffins ... Carrot Mango Pecan Bread ... Honey and Sunflower Ginger Scones ... Zucchini Loaf ... Apple Cheddar Scones ... Vegan Parsley Shortcakes ... Mini Focaccia ... Pane Toscano -Saltless Tuscan Bread ... Potato Bread ... Cloverleaf Rolls with Honey Lavender Shallot Butter Glaze

Cooking Bread / Zucchini Bread / Toast Dried Chiles

Video: How to cook: bread

Tim Hayward learns a new technique for handling dough in a bread-making masterclass with Richard Bertinet

Blog Post & Recipe: NCR Zucchini Bread

I made it after a purchase of fresh yeast necessitated some bread baking. The bread was soft with green flecks of zucchini and a golden chewy crust.

Blog Post: Why Toasting Dried Chiles Matters

The results were remarkable—just a few seconds of toasting resulted in a chile taste that was richer, deeper and more pronounced than its uncharred counterpart.

Lemon & Herb Risotto with Balsamic Roasted Asparagus / Cooking Dried Beans / A Whole-Grain Glossary

Blog Post & Recipe: Lemon and Herb Risotto with Balsamic Roasted Asparagus

I am inviting you to a leisurely, light summer meal of a wonderfully flavored lemon and herb risotto, served with roasted asparagus, which is then drizzled in some aged balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil.

Article: I agree with McGee

Buying and cooking dried beans ...

McGee recommends long, slow cooking. This, he says, breaks down beans’ carbohydrates into digestible sugars. I have cooked a lot of beans and I agree with McGee: It is essential to cook beans thoroughly.

Article: A whole-grain glossary

Twenty whole grains to cook and eat ...

Then there’s the confusion of defining or classifying grains, as some grains that we call grains are not. True grains belong to the cereal grass family; for this glossary, however, I include edible seeds that share the nutritional properties of whole grains (quinoa, buckwheat, wild rice).

Ginger Beer / Baked Eggs / Loukoumathes

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic ginger beer recipe

To make your beer even more refreshing, tuck in a handful of lemon verbena leaves or a few sticks of bashed lemongrass.

Article & Recipe: How to bake eggs

First she gathered her ingredients: two eggs and two castelvetrano olives per serving; salt and pepper; cream; and bread crumbs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Now That’s a Mouthful

Fried dough, by any name, would taste as good. Case in point: loukoumathes, those puffy little yeasted doughnuts—also spelled loukoumades—which, like most Greek desserts, are best served drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Loukoumathes

Buttermilk Squash Soup / Sourdough Muffins / Cold-Brewed Coffee

Blog Post & Recipe: Buttermilk Squash Soup Recipe

Now, here's where the magic comes in. I finish the soup with a cumin brown butter drizzle that punches right through the creaminess.

Blog Post & Recipe: English Muffins for Oscar

But the nice thing about the recipe I found at Chocolate and Zucchini is that not only is it adapted to sourdough use, the dough is just sturdy enough to hold its shape in the skillet.

Sourdough English Muffins

Article & Recipes: Secret to smoothest iced coffee: cold brewing

Cold-brewed coffee relies on time, rather than heat, for extraction. Coffee grounds are steeped in water for about 12 hours at room temperature, then strained. The result is a rich coffee concentrate that lasts for weeks in the refrigerator.

Rich Coffee Soft Serve ... Classic Cold-Brewed Iced Coffee ... Blue Bottle's New Orleans-Style Iced Coffee ... Vietnamese-Style Iced Coffee ... Blended Amaretto Iced Coffee ... Coffee Granita

Scallop-and-Plum Ceviche / Two Thyme Recipes / Folded Pancake with Red Beans & Coconut

Article & Recipe & Video: Ceviche, a No-Cook Meal

I love this unconventional seasoning combination of ripe plums and fresh tarragon.

Scallop-and-Plum Ceviche

Article & Recipes: Nigel Slater's roast tomatoes, thyme and goat's cheese, and thyme and lemon cake recipes

I have taken to crushing my leaves of thyme with salt and a heavy weight.

Roast tomatoes, thyme and goat's cheese ... Thyme and lemon cake

Blog Post & Recipe: folded pancake with red beans & coconut

There are several sweets that spring to mind but one in particular seem straight forward to make; folded pancakes stuffed with sweetened red bean paste and freshly grated coconut.

Indonesian Style Rich Roast Lamb / Crispy Roast Pork Belly / Barley, Tomato & Garlic Risotto

Blog Post & Recipe: Kambing Panggang Berempah // Indonesian style Rich roast lamb

Finally.... here I am with spicy Indonesian food that will make you droll :)

Blog Post & Recipe: Crispy roast pork belly

The only trick with siu yuk is getting the skin crispy enough–you want it really brittle and not the least bit chewy–while keeping the flesh tender and moist.

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's barley, tomato and garlic risotto recipe

Initially, I cooked up some barley with chopped tomatoes with the intention of using it to stuff some courgettes, but it tasted so good that I decided to serve it as it was.

Three Butternut Pumpkin Recipes / Roasted Tomato Hand Pies with Black Olives and Feta / Choosing Watermelons

Article & Recipes: Versatile pumpkins

The bulbous end contains the seed cavity, so I suggest you choose the longest-necked butternuts.

Butternut pumpkin and sweet corn soup ... Butternut pumpkin and red onion tart ... Pumpkin and bacon slices

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Monday: Roasted Tomato Hand Pies with Black Olives and Feta

I didn’t know anything about hand pies until I saw the sausage and fennel version in “Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook.” The photo shows these lovely golden pockets of pastry with the corners folded up and around the filling.

Blog Post & Links: Watermelons, watermelons, and more watermelons

How to choose a watermelon? Do you go by shape, colour, or spotting? Thump or not? Red or yellow? Seeded or seedless? Square? Grilled? Champion watermelons. App for your iPhone? Are you still confused, watch this instructional video?

Quinoa Falafels / Grilled Pimento-Cheese Sandwiches / Beer Can Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: QUINOA FALAFELS WITH TAHINI SAUCE

The falafels themselves are very low in fat, so the sauce, or any sauce of choice is necessary.

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Pimento-Cheese Sandwiches

The pimento cheese recipe we got from B. is simple and delicious. It actually relies on roasted red peppers instead of pimientos.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beer Can chicken

Yes the chicken looks rather ridiculous on its beer can perch, covered with an herb rub and half-ready to salute you. But hear me out. While the chicken is dry roasting on the outside, the inside is being bathed with steamy beer, keeping the chicken meat wonderfully moist.

Storing Lettuce / Roasted Cauliflower with Anchovy Mayonnaise / Seasoning

Blog Post: How to Store Lettuce in the Fridge

I love the concept: washing and drying all the lettuce at once, then putting it nicely in the bottom fridge drawer lined with towels.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower with Anchovy Mayonnaise

It just doesn't stand up on it's own. However, roasting the florets intensifies the flavour, making them nutty, crispy and especially delicious when given a good dunking.

Blog Post: the absolute beginners guide to the art of seasoning

There are two main times to think about seasoning – the beginning and the end. For slow cooked dishes it’s a good idea to get some salt in early so it can spread through the whole dish over time. For most other things seasoning at the end is the best way to go.

Death Star Cookie / Green Grape Pie / Rice Pudding

Blog Post & Recipe: Death Star Cookie [via Boing Boing]

A special Star Wars memory for me was when my grandma made me a Death Star cookie!

Recipe: Recipe: Green Grape Pie

The tart green grapes are so full and juicy; they are like sour cherries or enormous blueberries in their texture.

Recipe: Culinary SOS: Rice pudding from the Lazy Ox Canteen

What immediately sets this rice pudding apart is its amazingly light and delicate texture. Make the pudding ahead of time and chill thoroughly, then fold in whipped cream at the last minute to give it that fluffy texture.

Pan Fried Ginger Pork / Baked Spaghetti Royale / Spicy Mango-Pineapple Hot Dogs

Blog Post & Recipe: Pan Fried Ginger Pork

One of my favourite Japanese Pork recipe is the very accessible Pan Fried Ginger Pork. Extremely simple and quick to make, this dish goes beautifully with steaming hot white rice.

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Spaghetti Royale – How to Win Friends and Influence People

Made with chorizo, bell peppers, a secret herb and an ultra creamy bechamel sauce, it’s no wonder The Blog Monster’s words that night enticed so many to come to my birthday party.

Recipe: Spicy Mango-Pineapple Hot Dogs

I've never been to Hawaii but I am already making a list of Hawaiian hot dog joints to visit when I finally get there. A common theme on the menu are fruit topped hot dogs which intrigued me.

Chicken Burgers with Spicy Peanut Sauce / Mhemmer / Frying Daylilies

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Burgers with Spicy Peanut Sauce

And let's be honest: The burgers in this case are really just a vehicle for the peanut sauce. And believe us, the sauce is amazing!

Blog Post & Recipe: Mhemmer

Mhemmer is a spicy potato omelet from Morocco that has Spanish roots. The word mhemmer literally means cooked until red meaning the golden look you get from cooking things hence the way this omelet looks when it comes out of the oven.

Article & Recipe: Daylilies: Out of the Vase, Into the Frying Pan

Let me start by saying I am talking about the common daylily, hemerocallis fulva, as well as its various hemerocallis friends and relatives; there are thousands. What I am most definitely not talking about are bona fide lilies, like the Easter lily, which, if you are unfortunate enough to eat, you had better hope that the Resurrection is real ...

101 Fast Recipes for Grilling / Hummus / Bird Seed Bread

Article & Recipes: 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling

A vast majority take less time to prepare and grill than it takes to watch your coals turn white.

Article & Recipes: The perfect hummus debate

What's your idea of perfect hummus, and if you can make it at all, what's your secret?

Recipe: hummus with ful

Blog Post & Recipe: Bird Seed Bread

I figured that I could ramp up my own version of it and cram a ton of different seeds into and on top of the bread. I wanted to make bread out of bird seed basically.

Steamed Chicken Rice / Spinach with Garlic Chips / Ratatouille

Blog Post & Recipe: Steamed Chicken Rice (Nasi Tim Ayam)

Texturally, it’s not for everyone as the rice is halfway between steamed rice and porridge. But I love it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach with Garlic Chips

Also, instead of pouring spinach from a can straight into my mouth, I prefer to pan-fry it very quickly, then sprinkle it with golden garlic chips.

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic ratatouille recipe. Some time later the same paper ran a blog post called, How to make perfect ratatouille.

The ripe tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and peppers (all technically fruits), are cooked to a velvety texture on the edge of collapse. The flavour is heady with garlic and basil.

Kohlrabi Salad / What is a Wholegrain? / Cooking with Herbs, Tough Asparagus, a Porridge Pan

Blog Post & Recipes: Fearn Smith's Kohlrabi Salad

The fennel seed and the sesame oil combine to mysterious effect: as you crunch your way through the salad, you keep asking yourself, "what's in this thing?"

Blog Post: What is a Wholegrain?

Grains have several different layers and components ... All these components have nutritional benefits and all these components are present in wholegrain foods.

Recipe: Food for Fort: Cooking with herbs, tough asparagus and a pan for porridge

If you want whatever it is you're cooking – a stew, sauce, daube or stock – to taste of a specific herb, then always add it at the end, after you've taken the simmering liquid off the hob. Let it cool for a minute, then add the herbs.

Make a Crêpe / Parmesan Rosemary Flatbreads / Pulled Lamb Pitas & Pulled Lamb Fries

Video & Recipe: How to Make a Crêpe with Jodi Liano

Jodi Liano helps cooks avoid a crêpe’s worst fate: gloppy, lumpy batter poured thickly into a regular old frying pan. Liano’s crêpes are thin, light, and topped simply with butter, lemon, and sugar.

Blog Post & Recipe: Parmesan Rosemary Flatbreads

This delicious bread is sort of a cross between a cracker and a bread ... The dough is divided into small pieces and passed through pasta rollers to make a nice flat bread. If you don't have pasta rollers, just roll them out by hand

Blog Posts & Recipes: Greek Style Pulled Lamb Pitas, and the follow-up, Greek Style Pulled Lamb Fries

After making several of the Greek style pulled lamb pitas I was looking for a bit of a change and I had just the idea. I was thinking about Greek styled pulled lamb fries something along the veins of chili fries or carne asada fries.

Tofu & Eggplant Salad / Grilled Tofu & Soba Noodle / 6 Banana Blossom Recipes

Recipe: tofu & eggplant salad

This quick and easy salad is something I rustled up the other day for a vegetarian friend. Normally I would add a spoonful of pounded dried shrimps and season with fish sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Tofu and Soba Noodles

To assemble, toss the soba noodles with a good amount of the dressing, reserving enough to drizzle generously on top of the tofu. Place the tofu on top of the noodles, and drizzle with more dressing.

Blog Post & Recipes: Ingredient Spotlight: Banana Blossom

Found in Asian grocery stores in the US, banana blossoms can be eaten raw, and are also cooked in soups, stews, and curries. They can also be steamed and served with dips, and peeled apart like an artichoke ...

Recipes with banana blossoms: Banana Blossom Salad with Chicken and Asian Pears ... Banana Blossom Salad ... Shrimp and Banana Blossom Salad ... Banana Blossom Curry ... Banana Blossom and Prawn Curry ... Fried Banana Flower

Green Capsicum Chutney / Pallipalayam Chicken Fry / 16 Zucchini Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Whb #238 - Green Bellpepper Chutney

let rest for 15days before eating (but it is very tasty immediately :)

Blog Post & Recipe: Pallipalayam Chicken Fry

Pallipalayam Chicken is a spicy chicken fry variety, that has a fancy name, but is quite simple to prepare ... This dish is unique because it relies on dry red chillies(only) to spice the dish

Blog Post & Recipes: NCR - The Courgette/Zucchini Roundup

For this month's No Croutons Required I asked you to create a vegetarian soup or salad featuring the humble courgette or zucchini as it is sometimes known ...

Zucchini, Greens and Chickpea Salad with Blueberry Dressing ... Chilled Summer Salad ... Zucchini and Apple Salad with a Lemon Hazelnut Sauce (Taratorlu Kabak) ... Zucchini Pasta Salad ... Courgette, Brie & Cumin Soup ... Mediterranean Courgette Salad ... Chickpea and Lentil Salad with Zucchini and Sun-Dried Tomatoes ... Zucchini and Lentils Cold Soup ... Courgette, Carrot and Orzo Salad ... Zucchini Salad with Minty Yogurt Dressing ... Sage Marinated Zucchinis ... Courgette Vichyssoise with Parmesan crusted Courgette Croutons ... Grilled Vegetable Tortilla Soup ... Zucchini Carpaccio Salad ... Warm Potato and Zucchini Salad, Indian Style ... Courgette and French Bean Salad

Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing / Bread & Butter Pickles / 20 Curry Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing

While the grilled Caesar we love is brushed with oil and garlic prior to grilling, this salad is just sprinkled with salt and then laid onto the grill, cut side down, until the greens have a nice char.

Blog Post & Recipe: bread and butter pickles

... So very sweet! So sweet that I thought that the sugar level was a typo but sure enough, every other recipe I found listed sugar amounts in cups. Ayee. This one only called for one but I reduced my batch to 3/4 of a cup ...

Recipes: 20 of the best: curries

Chicken korma ... Avial mixed vegetable curry ... Lamb and cashew curry ... Massaman curry ... Burmese chicken curry ... Beef kofta ... Thai green curry with fish ... Butter chicken ... Prawn and green mango curry ... Sweet peanut chicken curry ... Eggplant and potato curry ... Malaysian fish curry ... Longrain's red beef curry ... Chicken and bean madras ... Turkey chilli ... Fish curry ... Thai red curry burger ... Chickpea curry with rice ... Prawn green curry ... Pumpkin, cauliflower & chickpea curry

Oysters with Champagne Mignonette Granita / Squash Ribbons / Anadama Rolls/

Article & Recipe & Video: OYSTERS WITH CHAMPAGNE MIGNONETTE GRANITA

I can't help but dot these ocean beauties in this sweet, tart, crisp and cold mignonette granita. Mignonette is a sauce of vinegar and shallots that is a classic pairing with oysters.

How to Shuck an Oyster (video)

Blog Post & Recipe: Summer Salad Recipe: Squash Ribbons

If you are accustomed to cooking summer squash, serving it raw is really a lovely change of pace. Sliced into thin ribbons, squashes like zucchini, yellow, and zephyr squash have a light, satisfying crunch and refreshing flavor.

Blog Post & Recipe: Anadama Rolls...earthy, comforting, traditional

Anadama bread is a type of corn bread, rooted in Native American tradition; it's sweetened with molasses, which is an unrefined sweetener. It's deep, complex...somewhat like a bitter caramel (not unlike the flavors I look for in my favorite beer).

Pea Shoot Pizza / Pasta With Peas, Prosciutto & Lettuce / Braising Tips

Blof Post & Recipe: Top This: How to Use Pea Shoots (Dou Miao) on Pizza

"Hey, the texture of these pea shoots reminds me of sautéed broccoli rabe," I told Girl Slice. And then my grease-addled brain instantly made the leap to ... pizza topping!

Blog Post & Recipe & Video: Using Meat Mainly for Flavor

In this recipe — pasta with spring vegetables — the meat is literally a garnish, but one with huge impact. hat meat is prosciutto, and it’s briefly cooked in a bit of oil, which accomplishes two things ...

Pasta With Peas, Prosciutto and Lettuce

Blog Post & Recipe: how to master the gentle art of braising – even for vegetarians

tips for successful braising ... lower temperatures for longer time are best ... aromatic veg make a difference ... get things simmering on the stove first ... regular checking & turning helps ... use a ‘cartouche’ ... be prepared to top up the liquid ... be prepared to reduce down the liquid ... braises improve with time

braised mushrooms

Cook with Fenugreek / Elderflower Fritters / Portuguese Seafood Stew

Article & Recipe: How to cook with fenugreek

Like cilantro, fenugreek is a plant whose leaves and seeds can be used in all sorts of ways ...

Roast Chicken Legs With Fenugreek, Cumin and Lemon

Blog Post & Recipe: Elderflower fritters

The flowers held themselves in a beautiful lacey shape when cooked and their aromatic flavour was intensified by the grappa. Just a little dusting of icing sugar made them into a perfect, delicate dessert.

Blog Post & Recipe: Shipboard Romance: Alain Morville and His Portuguese Seafood Stew

Alain Morville’s stew, known as Caldeirada da Marisco, is an example of a dish that lends itself to variation ... The chef used lots of seafood and added chunks of monkfish, too; he poured in a whole bottle of white wine (sauvignon blanc); and instead of water, he used shrimp stock, made with shrimp heads and shells, aromatic vegetables and a little more white wine.

Cabbage and Mince Stew / Tea Eggs / Steamed Pork Belly With Lily Buds

Blog Post & Recipe: Estonian Cabbage and Mince Stew

But somehow I always crave this dish in the early to mid-summer, when the cabbage tastes sweetest.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tea Eggs

Tea Eggs are a Chinese specialty that you can find it food stands across Asia. They are a very unique taste made with spices, tea and soy sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Steamed Pork Belly With Lily Buds

The lily buds lend a floral Chinese herbal note - the kind you get when you catch a whiff of Chinese herbal medicine shops - to the dish, with a subtle meaty aniseed flavour from the star anise.

Aromatic Soy Poached Chicken / 5 Fennel Recipes / Coffee in Melbourne

Blog Post & Recipe: Aromatic Soy Poached Chicken

successful poached chicken should possess ... smooth silky skin with tender flesh. Cooling the chicken a little before cutting will ensure the delicious jelly to form between the meat and skin too.

Blog Post & Recipes: Singing the Praises of Fennel

Fennel and Leek Gratin With Feta ... Couscous With Fennel, Chickpeas and Chard ... Farfalle With Stewed Fennel, Artichokes and Peas ... Fennel and Red Pepper Salad ... Oven-Roasted Fish With Fennel

Article: A battle to break new grounds

The world of Melbourne coffee is undergoing something of a quiet revolution, a shift from espresso to alternative brewing methods.

''It's called the Third Wave of coffee,'' Elfman explains of the alternative methods of brewing being taken on board by the city's more progressive and coffee-focused cafes.

Maintain Cast Iron Cookware / Poulet Sauté / Black Beluga Lentil Soup with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Blog Post: Equipment: How to Buy, Season, and Maintain Cast Iron Cookware

Initial Seasoning ... Maintenance ... Worst Case Scenarios ... Which Pan Should I Buy?

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic poulet sauté recipe

Poulet sauté is the classical French term for a chicken cooked almost entirely in butter and seasoned only with a few herbs.

Blog Post & Recipe: black beluga lentil soup with roasted cherry tomatoes

Roasted tomatoes are great in pasta salads, or as a rustic spaghetti sauce and they are perfect in this lentil soup. Using black beluga lentils not only gives this soup a dramatic colour, but the lentils are nice and firm

Cakes That Look like Meat / Mapo Doufu / Three Hungarian Recipes

Blog Post: Cakes that look like meat

The OC Weekly has scoured Flickr for proud bakers' photos of their convincingly meat-like cakes and confections, assembling the best in a gallery called "Food Disguised As Other Food."

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Fall in Love With Sichuan Food: Mapo Doufu

It's a mixture of tofu, ground meat, and chile bean paste suspended in a bright red and dangerously spicy sauce. The first bite knocks you over with heat, and then this strange numbing sensation takes over your brain and cools you down.

Blog Post & Recipes: Lunches with Kati: Learning to love Hungarian food

Practically every Hungarian kitchen has a walk-in pantry, and Hungarians are zealous canners during the summer, lining their pantry shelves with goodies to eat during the long winter months when root vegetables dominate the markets.

Featured recipes: Paprikás Csirke (Paprika Chicken) ... Galuska (Spaetzle) ... Uborkasalata (Cucumber Salad)

Vietnamese Rice Bowl / Wholemeal Bread / Quinoa

Blog Post & Recipe: Vietnamese Rice Bowl

I’ve always been intrigued by Vietnam as a country to visit but it was Anh of A Food Lover’s Journey who first got me interested in Vietnamese food.

Blog Post & Recipes: How to bake wholemeal bread

Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results – the classic worthy loaf beloved of those who also, according to some wits, enjoy knitting their own yoghurt. I need to find a loaf that's quick enough to bake twice a week, yet tasty ...

Blog Post & Recipe: 12 things you should know about quinoa

1. it’s delicious ... 2. it has a funny pronunciation ... 3. it’s high in protein ... 4. it’s gluten free ... 5. it needs washing before use ... 6. it comes in different colours ... 7. it comes in different forms ... 8. it looks like a grain but is actually a seed ... 9. it has an interesting texture ... 10. it’s better if you cook it ... 11. you can also eat the leaves ... 12. it’s becoming more readily available

warm salad of roast cauliflower & quinoa

Choosing the Right Flour / Moose Nose / Muffuletta Hot Dogs

Blog Post: A guide the using the right type of flour for cooking

The main thing to consider is this: Flours are categorized by their protein content ... the more protein in flour, the more gluten it can develop.

Article & Recipe: Moose Nose – Alaska State Land Mammal [via Metafilter]

A moose muffle is the nose and the pendulous, overhanging upper lip of the moose, eaten boiled, baked, or fried as a delicacy ...

Directions for preparing Moose Nose

Blog Post & Recipe: Muffuletta Hot Dogs

We love muffulettas, the traditional New Orleans sandwiches made with cured meats, provolone, olive paste, pickled onions and peppers. It's a fantastic mix of sharp, salty, briny flavors.

Feijoa Daquiri / Tofu Fried with Basil / Lancashire Hot Pot

Blog Post & Recipe: Feijoa Daquiri

The fabulous aromatic feijoa flavour was really captured in the drink.

Blog Posts & Recipes: How To Make Tofu, followed by Tofu Fried with Basil

... what really makes this dish is the combination of garlic, peppers and basil in a salty-sweet sauce. It works with chicken, pork, shrimp, or tofu.

Blog Post & Recipe: T&T #1 – Great British Food’s Lancashire Hot Pot

Put together by the guys behind the brilliant Canteen mini chain of restaurants, this Lancashire Hot Pot stays true to their ethos of cooking gutsy, tasty, good quality, British grub.

Stuffed Sheep's Hearts / Apfelschmalz / Fennel & Anchovy Tart

Recipe: Stuffed sheep's hearts - Fyllt hjörtu

Chop up the prunes and stuff the hearts with them. Sew closed.

Blog Post & Recipe: Apfelschmalz - a typical German bread spread

Apfelschmalz (if you like to translate it: apple lard) is one of those typical and rustic bread spreads you will have for what is called 'Brotzeit', which is a snack with a rustic bread and often beer.

Recipe: Dan Lepard's fennel and anchovy tart recipe

The Italian 00 flour gives a more tender crust than regular bread flour. Strong white flour can be used instead, but you'll need a dash more water and you won't have that same mellow texture when you bite into it.

Salted Chicken with Scarlet Risotto / 5 Pea Recipes / 10 BBQ Recipes

Blog Post & Recipes: Salted Chicken with Scarlet Risotto

Once the stock has absorbed and the rice is cooked beat in a wad of butter and watch it turn glossy like a tin of Dulux paint.

Blog Post & Recipes: Spring Green: 5 Snappy Recipes with Fresh Peas

Pea Salad with Radishes and Feta ... Smashed Peas with Mint Bruschetta ... Chilled Spring Pea Soup ... Plump Pea Dumplings ... Leek, Bacon, and Pea Risotto

Blog Post & Recipes: Ten Grilling Recipe Ideas for Memorial Day Weekend Grilling!

Very Greek Grilled Chicken ... Grilled Middle Eastern Turkey Burgers ... Grilled Salmon with Asian Dipping Sauce ... Kubideh or Grilled Ground Meat on Skewers with Middle Eastern Spices ... Grilled Portobello Mushrooms Stuffed with Sausage, Spinach, and Cheese ... Grilled Halibut with Southwestern Rub and Tomatillo Salsa ... Spicy Grilled Eggplant with Red Pepper, Parsley, and Mint ... Greek-Seasoned Pork Chops with Lemon and Oregano ... Grilled Chicken Sanpete Kabobs ... Grilled Salmon Packets with Tomatoes, Olives, Garlic, Thyme, and Saffron.

Calibrate a Meat Thermometer / Roasted Red Pepper & Squash Soup / Ginger Scallion Noodles

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Calibrate a Meat Thermometer

The goal is to get your thermometer to verify a temperature you can already recognize without even using it—namely, freezing point (32°F) or boiling point (212°F).

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Red Pepper and Squash Soup

This is a very simple soup, with only 4 ingredients, but the results are beyond simple. Freshly roasted peppers are combines with sweet squash (butternut, buttercup, etc) with a flavourful stock and an onion, and you have a powerful soup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Cooking for Others: My Noodle Obsession

The noodles themselves are silky and deeply tasty, though the individual flavors of scallion and of ginger sort of melt away into a greater whole. They take well to practically any vegetable, protein, or seasoning sprinkled on top ...

Ginger Scallion Noodles ... Grilled Eggplant ... Picked Radishes, Carrots, or Cucumbers ... Bok Choy ... Fried Egg