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