Baked Apples / Oven Fries / The Five Mother Sauces

Blog Post & Recipes: Microwave Baked Apples Two Ways

Raisin-Filled Baked Apple ... Blueberry-Filled Baked Apple

Recipe: Oven Fries

about 500 g potatoes
about 500 g combination of carrots, celery root, parsley root, beetroot (or only carrots)

Blog Post: What Are the Five Mother Sauces?

When it comes to classic French cooking, there are five basic sauces -- the so-called “mother” sauces -- that provide the foundation for most sauces we know today.

Bechamel ... Veloute ... Espagnole ... Hollandaise ... Tomato

Tomato Sauce with Onion & Butter / Sourdough Crumpets / Mushroom Paté

Blog Post & Recipe: tomato sauce with onion and butter

Butter and the juice of stewed onion is all it apparently takes to transform a two-pound can of tomatoes to something velvety and lush.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sourdough Crumpets

Better yet, the recipe is the kind that every natural starter enthusiast dreams of: one that offers to use up the excess starter that the natural feeding cycle leaves you with

Blog Post & Recipe: Pâté du Champignons (Mushroom Pâté)

I sautéed minced shallots and mushrooms in butter, then stirred in good quantities of chives and crème fraiche. I called this a mushroom pâté, but it turned out to also be a near-replica of duxelles, a fine mushroom mixture said to have been created by the great 17th century French chef, François Pierre La Varenne.

Roasted Fennel and Shallot Salad / Pizza Provençal / Melting Pears

Recipe: Roasted Fennel and Shallot Salad

Moist enough not to need a dressing but a mustardy one would be good if you felt the need.

Recipe: PIZZA PROVENÇAL

Cooking the ingredients separately before adding them to the pizza allows for a unique layering of flavors

Recipe: Melting Pears

Cut the top part of each pear (like lids) and carefully remove hard part with seeds. Fill the holes with Gorgonzola.

Butternut Squash Carbonara / Barley Risotto / Matching Pasta to Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Butternut Squash Carbonara

Since butternut squash is easiest to use in cube form I wanted to use a pasta that would go better with it and I thought that orecchiette would work well if I cut the squash small enough to be cupped by the little ear shaped pasta.

Blog Post & Recipe: irresistible barley risotto

Somehow, this combination of barley cooked with dry marsala and red wine somehow tastes like this incredibly meaty dish, and the closest thing is a few tablespoons of butter, and some chicken stock, easily replaceable by olive oil and vegetable stock.

Article: When Pasta Met Sauce: A guide to which sauces go best with which noodles

Certain pastas are best eaten with certain sauces. Others work well with a wide variety of sauces—the workhorse pastas, like farfalle. The general rule is that delicate noodles are for delicate sauces while heartier noodles are for heartier sauces, but similar to wine pairing, it’s not always that simple.

Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs / Chicken Wing Marinade / Australia Day Cuisine

Blog Post & Recipe & Video: Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs

I scrambled these eggs using my espresso machines steamwand.

Blog Post & Recipe: Something for the barbie: A killer chicken wing marinade

With nothing more than a stalk of lemongrass, a bulb of garlic, some fish sauce and sugar, this marinade punches and kicks the liveliness of Saigon in your mouth.

Recipes: Australia Day cuisine

Traditional pavlova ... Homemade meat pies ... Lamingtons ... Lamb burgers with beetroot salsa ... Barbecued marinated lamb leg ... Barramundi burgers with tartare sauce ... Passionfruit slice ... Damper ...

... and pages more.

Fried Rice with Egg / Biscuits & Gravy / Get More Vegetables Into Your Meals

Article & Recipe & Video: Fried Rice, Dressed Simply

The link to the recipe is on the left of the article.

I was never more impressed than when [Jean-Georges Vongerichten] created his version of fried rice, topped with crisp ginger and a fried egg.

Article & Recipe: Upscale Dallas restaurants embrace biscuits and sausage gravy

Indeed, it was a most delicate and refined biscuit, topped with a house-made sausage patty and a smooth, saucelike gravy. Pure elegance.

BISCUITS AND SAUSAGE GRAVY

Blog Post: How to get more vegetables into your meals (1)

I also know what it’s like to finish work, get home and want dinner right now. No fussing involved. And this is when I fall-back on my four favourite Easy Vegetables

* spinach
* fresh herbs
* tinned legumes
* tinned tomatoes.

Each of these is quick and easy to prepare

Judging a Beef Carcass / 10 BBQ Tips / 10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Blog Post: Reading the Carcass (via this post at The Paupered Chef).

This post marks the start of a new column by artisan butcher Tom Mylan, who will be writing regularly on all things flesh ... Here is a quick and dirty primer to what a side of beef can tell you without saying a single word.

Blog Post & Recipes: 10 essential tips for an australia day barbie

don’t cook cold meat ... preheat properly ... thin is in ... don’t poke & prod ... don’t fuel the fire with fat ... remember food hygiene ... rest ... clean your BBQ ... earn the right to be BBQ queen (or king) ... expand your BBQ repetoire

minimaist BBQ steak ... toasted breadcrumb salsa

Blog Post: 10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Drink More Water ... Create a Salad Bar in Your Fridge ... Remember, Color Equals Nutrition ... Keep a Food Journal ... Investigate Funky Grains ... Ask, “Would I Eat an Apple?” ... When in Doubt, Sauté with Garlic ... Eat Breakfast in Bed ... Bag Half to Go ... If It Has a Label, Don’t Eat It.

Squash and Fennel Soup / Duck Confit / Brewing Tea

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Squash and Fennel Soup with Candied Pumpkin Seeds

The result of this recipe is creamy without a drop of dairy (though a little crème fraîche or Greek yogurt can be dolloped in to finish it).

Article & Recipe: Duck Confit, and Hold the Fat

Look to the left of the article for the link to the recipe.

“Well, let’s change the recipe so the duck just renders in its own fat and you don’t need to add any more to the pan,” he suggested.

You can do that?

“Sure,” he said. “It’s not traditional but would work just fine for small batches at home.”

Article: Tips on brewing the perfect cup of tea

The average Canadian tea drinker ... steeps tea for less than 30 seconds. That leaves most of the flavour and antioxidants in your tea bag or pot. While low-grade black tea can get bitter if steeped longer than 30 seconds, a good black tea should be steeped for at least three minutes in water that has just boiled

Ham Stock / Lamb Braised in Milk with Fennel / What Freezes Well?

Blog Post & Recipes: How to Make Ham Stock and Recipe Ideas Using Ham Stock

Making stock starts with saving scraps. I have containers in my freezer where I save ham, chicken, turkey, or beef scraps and bones until I have enough to make stock.

Blog Post & Recipe: Lamb Braised in Milk with Fennel

Lamb braised in milk. Huh? Okay, yes, I know it sounds weird (at least it did to me at first) but hear me out. It's just a spin on a traditional Italian recipe of pork braised in milk, in which the milk reduces down to a rich and creamy white sauce.

Blog Post: What Sorts of Recipes and Meals Freeze Well?

A few foods that freeze well, and that would make great meals for a new parent, are most soups, stews, chili, curry, meaty braises, and lasagna. You can also make dumplings or ravioli and then freeze them. Also, you can make your own version of mix and match bagged meals. Also try this thread for some ideas ...

Soboro Donburi / Roasted Cauliflower / Five Savoury Pies

Blog Post & Recipe: Soboro Donburi: Seasoned Ground Meat over Rice

Soboro Donburi is essentially seasoned ground meat and egg (usually scrambled) over rice. It's an extremely simple dish and it makes for a fantastic and quick mid-week meal. You can use any type of ground meat for this recipe, but I consider ground chicken thigh to have the best flavor.

Blog Post & Recipe: Momofuku Ssam Bar Roasted Cauliflower

But this roast cauliflower from David Chang and Peter Meehan’s new cookbook is a little fresher, a little brighter and spicier. It has fragrant cilantro and mint and just enough heat. You could serve this with jasmine rice and a pork chop or a nice piece of arctic char—it’s a little intense to eat as a main course.

Blog Post & Recipe: The savory pie

Links to recipes are in the sidebar on the left.

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Recipe: Classic chicken, leek and fennel pot pie
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Recipe: Curried lamb pasties with spicy sweet potato and tamarind Recipe: Curried lamb pasties with spicy sweet potato and tamarind
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Recipe: Wild mushroom, spinach and ricotta pie Recipe: Wild mushroom, spinach and ricotta pie
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Recipe: Basic savory pie dough No. 2 (cream cheese)
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Recipe: Basic savory pie dough No. 1 Recipe: Basic savory pie dough No. 1

Watercress Pesto / Washing Mushrooms / Another Blogger's Favourite Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Watercress Pesto

Watercress is a perennial herb and part of the Nasturtium family and is known for its peppery flavours. As it ages though these flavours can turn bitter so it's best to use younger specimens.

Blog Post: Should you wash mushrooms?

(One of the responses comes from a poster who works in a mushroom farm -- scroll down to 'MatMatMat.')

In the red corner, we have the traditionalists – Delia, Gordon, Larousse Gastronomique – warning me to keep my precious cargo away from the sink at all costs.

Beckoning me from the blue are the hip young guns for whom rules are as old hat as Gordon himself – among them, the scientifically-minded food writer Harold McGee and his disciple Heston Blumenthal, who dismiss this ancient prohibition as 'nonsense'. Go on, they urge, give them a good old rinse.

Blog Post & Recipes: my favorite recipes from 2009

cinnamon oatmeal waffles ... millet vegetable bowl ... lemon, parmesan & chickpea cabbage salad ... strawberry rhubarb crumble ... the easiest pizza dough in the world ... bouchon's simple roast chicken ... tomato & corn biscuit pie ... stewed peppers, tomatoes & onions ... chicken thighs in riesling ... chocolate chip maple walnut cookies ... sweet potato, corn & jalapeno bisque ... better than from a bakery granola

Enoki Somen / 10 Easy Indian Recipes / Three Swede Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Enoki somen (aka Enoki mushrooms with somen noodles)

[Somen noodles] are typically eaten chilled during the summer months, but this dish, Enoki somen ... adapted from The Japanese Kitchen by Kimiko Barber, pairs both in a warm dashi broth. I wasn’t sure what leftovers would look or taste like, so I modified to recipe to serve 1 and it was very filling.

Recipes: Gordon Ramsay's 10 easy Indian recipes

Look to the sidebar on the left for links to nine of them

Tadka Dal

* Gordon Ramsay’s Indian butter chicken
* Gordon Ramsay’s chilli beef fry
* Gordon Ramsay’s spiced tomato and coconut soup
* Gordon Ramsay’s chapattis
* Gordon Ramsay’s aubergine bhajis
* Gordon Ramsay’s pilau rice with meatballs
* Gordon Ramsay’s tribal chicken casserole with tamarind
* Gordon Ramsay’s Punjabi masala chops
* Gordon Ramsay’s sweet potatoes with panch phoran

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Rutabaga

... rutabagas are often referred to as table turnips or swedes. These brassicas are members of the mustard family, and are one of the most commonly grown and widely adapted root crops. The rutabaga is very similar to the turnip except that it generally has yellowish flesh, a denser root and smooth, waxy leaves similar to cabbage.

* Potato and Rutabaga Gratin [One Pot]* Roasted Root Vegetable Sticks [Big Girls Small Kitchen]
* Rutabaga-Carrot Soup [Method]
* Rutabaga with Caramelized Onions and Apples [Eat Real]

Cleaning Sea Urchins / Jackfruit Custard / Parsley & Anchovy Dumplings

Blog Post & Video: Video: Cleaning Sea Urchins (The Horror!)

I took a deep breath, resisted all squeamishness and cleaned them all. The reward was a plateful of the freshest, most delectable Uni one can taste.

Blog Post & Recipe: Jackfruit – from garden to plate #5 (scroll to the bottom of the post for links to four more From Garden to Plate posts).

The flesh of this fruit was very soft, much riper than other versions I’ve tasted, and took on an almost bubble gum quality and flavour. It was quite delicious in a sickly-sweet kind of way, the variety and over-ripeness removing any Durian-like pungency ...

Jackfruit Custard

Blog Post & Recipe: Parsley & Anchovy Dumplings

Usually when I make a beef stew I dissolve a couple of anchovies in the oil before adding anything else. This gives the stew an deeper, richer flavour with none of the fishiness. Instead, the anchovies went into the dumplings with parsley for some grassy freshness. It worked beautifully, just as I'd hoped - the anchovies had melted into the dumplings well.

Coconut and Beetroot Soup / Mushroom, Leek and Lemon Risotto / Goat & Spinach Curry

Blog Post & Recipe: A Dashing Coconut and Beetroot Soup

The recipe is adapted from a great book, Entertaining Vegetarians by Celia Brooks-Brown, who says that the combination of coconut and beets is typical to Southern India.

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Monday!: Mushroom, Leek and Lemon Risotto. And resolutions!

Think of adding each ladleful of vegetable stock to the risotto the same way you would add juice to a toddler’s sippy-cup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Goat & Spinach Curry

The finished result looks a bit like sludge, but is rich, gamey, and full of flavour. The meat was tender and fell off the bone. I added some cubed lamb neck fillet to bulk it out, but this isn't necessary if you have particularly meaty goat pieces.

Food Porn Daily / Random Recipe Generator / Stuffed Cabbage

Website: FoodPornDaily (via Honest Fare)

click, drool, repeat

Website: Random Recipe Generator

Lettuces With Lettuces Mash ... Grilled Essence Of Vanilla ... Horseradish Sauce With Apple Sauce Crust

Insufficiently delicious? Reload the page for another.

Blog Post & Recipe: stuffed cabbage

In Russia, we called this dish “golubtsi”, and I’ve heard my Ukrainian friends refer to them as “holubki” ... But whatever you call them, they are amazing. In fact, they’re even better in the next few days as flavors develop more, and, if that weren’t bonus enough, they freeze beautifully too.

Welsh Rarebit Muffins / Substituting Agave for Sugar / Calf's Liver with Onions

Blog Post & Recipe: Nigella's Welsh Rarebit Muffins

Neither particularly healthy nor sweet, they are a great snack for on the road and would be delicious with breakfast eggs or a bowl of soup.

Blog Post: Tips for Substituting Agave in Baked Goods

Agave isn't a difficult ingredient to add to your pantry and won't crystallize (like honey), making it have a ridiculously long shelf life. Agave is easy enough to interchange in sauces, drinks or stir frying, but baking can be a bit more difficult.

Blog Post & Recipe: Calf's Liver with Onions

One of my favorite calf's liver recipes comes from The River Cottage Meatbook, in which the pan is deglazed with balsamic vinegar after the liver has been seared. A well-aged balsamic pairs nicely, but recently I've been using an aged fig vinegar, a sweeter and much fruitier alternative.

Smoked Duck / Three Salsify Recipes / Faux Fennel Pollen

Blog Post & Recipe: where there's smoke, there's duck ...

Smoked duck! Ah, of course, I said. Sichuan smoked duck. Of course. Erm, but I've never smoked anything in my life before. (Honest, Dad.) So, er, how?

Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's salsify recipes

Salsify and scorzonera are beautiful names for rather unprepossessing roots, but if they're unfamiliar to you, I urge you to get intimate with them.

Salsify fritters ... Salsify tempura with a spicy dipping sauce ... Salsify gratin

Blog Post & Recipe: Faux Fennel Pollen (via a link to the same blogger's recipe for Fennel and Orange Salad)

So I experimented, grinding some fennel seeds along with coriander, black peppercorns, sea salt and a dash of cayenne. I used an electric coffee grinder, pulverizing the mixture to a powder ... I rubbed the mixture on both sides of some boneless pork chops

Vegan Popcorn Chicken / Red Posole / Sheep's Head

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Popcorn Chicken (they use soy)

We have double coated the nuggets for a thicker and crunchier outside; do it once if you are lazy or do not need a thick and crunchy coat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Posole for New Year's Day

I’d never had red posole and was a little dubious that she was serving this instead of black-eyed peas. She assured me, however, that this is what her family ate in New Mexico, not to mention it was traditional New Year’s Day fare in Mexico as well.

Article & Recipe: Sheep's Head

Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, where his feast, known as Andermas, was observed in olden days by repasts of Sheep's Head.

DIRECTIONS

Soak a well-cleaned sheep's head in warm water for three hours ...

Risotto Balls / Supercook Website / One Blog's Favourite 2009 Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Risotto Balls (Arancini) (via Saveur)

Anyway, I froze the [leftover risotto] and finally found time to make them into one of my most favorite appetizers ever, risotto balls. Creamy and cheesy meets deep-fried and crunchy here folks.

Website: Supercook

Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with only the ingredients you have at home. To begin, simply start adding ingredients you have in the green box on the top left. The more ingredients you add, the better the results will be.

Blog Post: The Best of Pithy and Cleaver, 2009 Edition

Here’s a roundup of a few of this year’s kitchen highlights, recipes we’d definitely make again.

Roast Cherryaki Duck ... Tiramisu with Marsala and Kahlua ... Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies ... Chewy Ginger Cookies with Cardamom and Black Pepper ... Vegetarian Pa Jeon ... Easy Pizza Crust ... Honey-Mustard Salmon ... Salmon with Soy-Honey and Wasabi Sauces ... Grilled Smoked Mozzarella with Maple-Caramelized Bacon ... Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese ... Olive Oil Pumpkin, Carrot, and Zucchini Bread ... Lemon Ginger White Chocolate Scones ... Sunny Citrus Pound Cake ... Pumpkin Pie ...

And so on.

Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs / Chicken Stew / Top 10 2009 Posts on Serious Eats

Blog Post & Recipe: Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs

The risotto was delicious but the real revelation was the anchovy crumbs , very unami and I now want to eat them on everything , thinking baked potatoes, macaroni cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Stew

What makes this stew so heartwarming are the aromatic spices – fennel, clove, cinnamon and finally some rosemary, thyme, peppercorn and crushed pepper.

Blog Post: The Year That Was: Top 10 Posts on Serious Eats

1. The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs »
2. Recipe: Rice Krispies Sushi »
3. Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever »
4. Recipe: How to Make a Choco Taco »
5. One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk »
6. Adam's Top 8 Pizzas of 2009 »
7. The Food Lab: Turkey Brining Basics »
8. A List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter »
9. The Ultimate NYC Chocolate Chip Cookie Tour »
10. Animal-Style Fries at In-N-Out Burger »

Fennel-Pastrami Gratin / Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad / One Blogger's Most Popular Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel-Pastrami Gratin (this recipe is an entry in a mass fennel-recipe gathering).

Give a fennel some pastrami and they let go of their guards. So imagine what a fennel, fronds and toasted seeds included, would become if cooked in cream with layers of pastrami and yukon gold potatoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Greatest Form of Flattery: Blatantly Copying Fergus Henderson’s Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad

If you can’t find marrow bones (we used beef bones, but veal are very popular as well), talk with your butcher about ordering some. They freeze well and can be used to thicken soups ... and stocks if you prefer not to have them roasted.

Blog Post: Top Ten from 2009

I’ve figured out how to see which recipes received the most attention from readers. So here are the 10 most popular with readers according to the blog counter I use ...

Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake ... Chocolate Zucchini Cake ... Strawberry Tiramisu ... Grilled Shrimp and Bulgur Salad ... Candied Orange Peel ... Stuffed Zucchini ... Zucchini Cheese Scones ... How To Make Homemade Pasta ... Pumpkin Ravioli with Walnut Cream Sauce ... Side Dish Salads

Mulled Wine / Čomlek / Cardamom Pistachio Cookies

Blog Post & Recipe: All is Quiet

I love the combination of the sharp citrus with the sweetness of the sugar and vanilla.

Mulled Wine

Blog Post & Recipe: Čomlek

Čomlek is mostly made in Macedonia and Albania. It is probably a form of Turkish Çömlek kebabı (earthenware bowl kebab) - kebabs in a casserole dish

Blog Post & Recipe: Mary Ellen Rae's Cardamom Pistachio Cookies

... when I saw that this cookie eschewed cinnamon and nutmeg, was austere and plain save for a gentle sprinkling of ground cardamom and a few green shards of pistachio, it became the only thing I wanted to bake.