Sticky Lemon Rolls / Pašticada / Curry & Masala

Blog Post & Recipe: sticky lemon rolls with lemon cream cheese glaze

Other hemisphere, evidently.

Now I’m a fan of cinnamon rolls like no other, but when I saw this recipe for sticky lemon rolls it just felt like a giant sign that reads “Come on Spring!!”.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pašticada

Pašticada is a famous Croatian dish. A must try when you visit Dalmatia. The meat is incredibly tender and sweet dessert wine prošek gives it just the right seasoning.

Article & Recipes: Simon Hopkinson's Southeast Asian vegetarian recipes

If, like me, you enjoy the taste of an authentic Indian (in the broadest sense) flavour to a curry, dhal, mulligatawny or even a samosa filling, the making of a home-made masala paste will herald all the future excitement of actually using it in such things.

Crisp celery and apple salad in curry cream dressing ... Curry "essence" ... Marrow and tomato masala ... Masala paste

Polenta Chips / Romesco Potatoes / Converting Yeast-Based Recipes To Use A Sourdough Starter

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's smoked polenta chips recipe

When the polenta is set, turn it out of the tray and cut into 1.5cm thick and 6cm long chips.

Blog Post & Recipe: romesco potatoes

Chiles (which manage, astoundingly, not to be so much Tabasco-hot, but punchy and bright), a piece of fried bread, peeled tomatoes, garlic, thyme, almonds and hazelnuts are ground with olive oil and the result is, regretfully, like nothing I have ever had before. Busy, loud and hearty

Blog Post: Converting Yeast-Based Recipes To Use A Sourdough Starter

There is no single method ... My approach is based on my love affair with Flo's 1.2.3 formula, in which the bread dough is made by combining 1 measure of 100% starter ... 2 measures of water, and 3 measures of flour -- all measures understood in weight. This means that the bread dough ends up being made of 1⁄6 starter (and 2⁄6 water and 3⁄6 flour).

Garlic Soup / Stoves / Fish in Parchment Paper

Recipe: Garlic Soup for One [recommended by Limes & Lycopene]

It’s my go-to recipe if I feel a cold coming on, but I don’t reserve this comforting meal in a bowl just for medicinal uses.

Blog Post: The Kitchn On Stovetops and Ranges

What's better - gas or electric stove? ... Most beautiful cooking ranges ... How to reheat meat on the stovetop ... How to clean the stove naturally ... 5 tips for getting more out of your stove ... Do you have a range hood? (And if not, how do you cope?)

Blog Post & Recipe: Parchment Paper Fish

This is one of the easiest ways to make fish. It pretty much takes care of itself by poaching in its own flavorful juices and the seasonings & veggies you add. It’s hard to over cook when you prepare fish this way because it stays so moist in that envelope of parchment paper.

Hash Browns / Chickpea Flatbread with Pork Souvlaki / Womadelaide Recipes

Article & Recipes: The Cheat: The Upper (and Lower) Crust

There are two ways to flip hash browns.

Henrietta’s Hash Browns ... Scrambled Eggs With Trout Roe

Blog Post & Recipe: Chickpea “Flatbreads” with Pork Souvlaki

I really want to focus on the chickpea flatbread. The idea for this came from an old Jamie Oliver cooking show I was watching on t.v. one afternoon. The “trick”-if you want to call it that-was placing half a can of chickpeas into the flour mixture along with a number of spices.

Recipes: Taste the World

Taste the World has introduced hungry WOMADelaideans to mouth-watering and intriguing recipes from a kaleidoscopic array of countries and cultures ... Here are some of the recipes from Taste the World 2010

BABYLON CIRCUS 'Skate Wings with Camembert Gratin' ... KAMEL EL HARRACHI 'Algerian Chorba' ... MARIEM HASSAN 'Mefrisa' ... NICKODEMUS 'Basque Stew' ... NORTEC COLLECTIVE 'Fish Taco' ... OJOS DE BRUJO 'Tortilla de Patates' ... UNIFIED GECKO 'Saksuka' ... YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN 'Makizushi (Sushi Roll)' ... PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA 'Ghanaian style Corned Beef & Rice' ... POH LING YEOW 'Kuih Koci with Salty Coconut Custard' ... SIMON BRYANT 'Passionfruit Marshmallow' ... KIDS COOKING 'Pasta'

Has Your Baking Soda Expired? / Fried Chickpeas with Sausage & Spinich / Brodetto: Fish Stew

Blog Post: Baking Tricks: How to Tell if Baking Soda has Expired

If you don't see bubbles, then sadly, you'll need to take a trip to the store and buy a fresh box!

Blog Post & Recipe: Fried Chickpeas with Sausage and Spinach

I followed the method and the main ingredients of the recipe, but I did make one pretty big change. Instead of chorizo, I used spicy chicken sausage that I squeezed out of the casings and broke it into bits as it cooked.

Blog Post & Recipe: Alekasandar's Irresistible Brodetto

Brodetto is a fish stew found in many variations along the Adriatic coast. I got this recipe from my boyfriend's colleague who is from Herzegovina. He sent me his family recipe that is more traditional, along with this one, that uses canned tuna.

Herb Pie / Pumpkin, Goat Cheese & Bacon Pizza / Find the Best Fruit & Veg

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's herb pie recipe

You can use spinach instead of chard, but you'll need more because of its high water content. Serve with a tomato and red onion salad.

Article & Recipe: Rustic thin pizzas deliver taste, color, texture.

Look to the right hand side of the page and down for the recipe.

The dough for these special pies is rolled very thin, so when baked, it is crisp and golden. The toppings include ... caramelized onions and ... roasted cubes of butternut squash and sprinklings of creamy goat cheese and smoky bacon.

Rustic Pizzas With Butternut Squash, Goat Cheese and Bacon

Blog Post: How to find the best fruit and vegetables in your area.

1. Shop on delivery days ... 2. Buy the longer lasting vegetables ... 3. Make use of frozen and tinned ... 4. Get to know your supplier & be friendly, but a bit pushy ... 5. Grow what you can ... 6. Form a local co-op or go direct to the farmers ... 7. Eat whatever vegetables you can

Steve Jobs Cheese Head / Potato Pizza & Pizza Flour / Nine Burger Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Steve Jobs Cheese Head [via Boing Boing]

So what better way to show appreciation for my much-loved Apple products than to create a tasty sculputure in the form of Apple's venerable leader?

Blog Post & Recipe: Potato Pizza and the Correct Flour to Use for Pizza Dough

I get asked all the time about what is the right flour to use when making pizzas, but that's really the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is what kind of pizza do you like? Do you like thick, chewy pizza or do you like thin, crispy crust? The flour you choose makes a big difference in the crust.

Blog Post & Recipes: On Burgers... and the blogger's next post, Shepherds Pie Burgers.

I leave you with some of my past burger recipes.
Stuffed:
Huge Burger
Taco Burger
Red Curry Burger
Buffalo Turkey Burger
Tuna Burger

Unstuffed:
Cuban Burger
Caprese Burger
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UK Mexican Food / Three Salsa Recipes

Article & Recipes: Someone named Thomasina Miers in the UK has put together a book of Tex-Mex recipes and both the Guardian and the Times have agreed to promote it: Thomasina Miers' simple Mexican recipes and How to cook like a Mexican.

The first link:

Steak Burritos ... Black beans ... Coconut ceviche ... How to eat a taco ... Torta (the Mexican club sandwich) ... The great Mexican breakfast ... Tlayudas (Oaxacan pizzas)

The second link (you'll need to click around to find the recipes -- look in the box below the article):

The perfect guacamole ... Churros and chocolate ... Ham and cheese empanadas ... Chorizo, potato and thyme quesadillas ... Fresh tomato salsa

Meanwhile, at the New York Times ...

Article & Recipes: Rediscovering Salsa, the Soul of Mexico in a Bowl

Salsa is a cornerstone of the Mexican kitchen, a contrast for a repetitive diet of corn, squash and beans. Just as French cooks understand that béarnaise sauce suits some dishes, hollandaise others, Mexican cooks know salsas have different qualities and functions.

Related
Recipe: Salsa Ranchera
Recipe: Salsa Verde
Recipe: Salsa Roja

Mashed Potato / Glazed Poppy Seed Turnips / Trim an Artichoke

Blog Post: What's the best mashed potato method?

What are your secrets to mouthwatering mash – do you like it rich and decadent or plain and fluffy?

Recipe: Glazed Poppy Seed Turnips Recipe

And once the turnips are fork tender, we toss them with a poppy seed vinaigrette that makes the dish a versatile side for anything from corned beef to roasted lamb or pork.

Blog Post & Pictures: How to Trim an Artichoke

think of it as the hardy thistle that it is, and attack it ... This slideshow will explain two artichoke-trimming techniques: one for whole artichokes, the other for the hearts.

Honey & Mustard Butterbeans / Vegetarian Curry Laksa / Spiced & Nutty Milk

Recipe: Baked Honey and Mustard Butterbeans

Mix the honey, mustard, a glug of olive oil and seasoning in a bowl. Add the butterbeans and toss well.

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's curry laksa recipe

Make a special trip to an Asian grocer to get the ingredients for this heart- and limb-warming soup.

Recipe: Thandai-Spiced and Nutty Milk

It is made of milk, spices like cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns, fennel, melon seeds and also mixed nuts like almonds, pistachios and cashews. There are several versions and even alcoholic ones as well.

Martini / Three Recipes for Oily Fish / Twenty Salads

Video: How to make the perfect martini

Readers have posted comments under the video.

Great fan of Nick's artistry, and the fantastic variety of Martinis offered by Allesandro at Duke's, but restricting yourselves to the offerings of one manufacturer of gin, namely the multinational Pernod Ricard casts a long shadow of the assertion perfect.

Article & Recipes: Good oil's here on a grand scale

... oily fish - and that includes mackerel, salmon, sea trout and sardines - are sidelined in favour of nice, polite, white fish. Yet they outgun them on flavour, on richness and on those all-important omega-3 fatty acids every time.

Salmon and red pepper tartine ... Oven-roasted sardines with fennel and garlicky crumbs ... Mackerel curry with tomatoes and eggplant

Blog Post & Recipes: the top 20 stonesoup salads

This blogger has been running a series of salad guides: "leaves" "dressings" "shaved salads," and so on. Scroll to the bottom of her post for the links.

Now that (sadly) the end of Summer is on the horizon, it’s time to wrap up the definitive guide to salad with a highlights tour of the top 20 stonesoup salads.

chickpea & parmesan salad ... spinach, pearl barley & ricotta salad ... raw beet salad ... butter bean & tuna salad ... warm lentil salad with beets & ricotta ... BBQ chook & bread salad ... warm fig, prosciutto & buffalo mozzerella salad ... shaved cabbage salad with parmigiano reggiano & aged balsamic ... warm salad of roast pumpkin (squash) & chickpeas ... asparagus and double pea salad ... tuna chilli salad ... roast potato salad with smokey paprika ... shaved fennel salad with ricotta & peas ... crispy chilli squid salad ... roast baby onion & chickpea salad ... asparagus & buffalo mozerella salad with caper dressing ... rocket & radicchio salad ... char grilled veg with walnut & white bean puree ... celeriac salad ... catalan inspired bread & tomato salad.

Beetroot Hummus / Mince Garlic with a Fork / Pudding Diplomate, Crème Anglaise

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Hummus

Seriously, if you like beets, and you like hummus, you'll love this beet hummus. The ingredients are beets, tahini, garlic, lemon, cumin, and salt and pepper.

Blog Post: Quick and Easy Shortcut: Mince Garlic with a Fork

All we do is peel the garlic clove and then press it with the tines of a fork ...

Related: Great Garlic: How to Change the Garlic Intensity in Any Dish

Blog Post & Recipe: Pudding Diplomate, Crème Anglaise (Ladyfinger Pudding with Crème Anglaise)

What was originally a simple English Bread Pudding can now be found at almost every bakery in Paris. Le Cordon Bleu, however, takes Bread Pudding to a whole new level – using ladyfingers in place of bread and adding candied fruits and raisins

Cabbage & Quail Eggs Soup / Ginger Roasted Winter Vegetables / Two Horseradish Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Cabbage and quail eggs soup

Even the simplest and plainest-looking soup is perked up with the addition of quail eggs.

Blog Post: Ginger Roasted Winter Vegetables

Here's a super simple recipe when you want to do something a little different with your vegetables but don't want to expend too much effort or have to go to the grocery store. The vegetables are roasted in a mixture of maple syrup, olive oil, ginger, and salt.

Article & Recipes: Nigel Slater's recipes with horseradish

Horseradish, the crisp ivory root that grows like topsy in garden and grass verge alike, is invariably treated as a one‑trick pony, inevitably lumped with roast beef or smoked fish. It deserves more.

MEATBALLS WITH MUSTARD AND HORSERADISH ... ROASTED ROOTS WITH HORSERADISH