Easy Glazed Bananas / Baked Cabbage with Ground Meat / Roast Chicken

Recipe: Easy Glazed Bananas

Here is a quick and easy dessert that only needs three ingredients! It takes less than ten minutes to make

Recipe: Baked Cabbage with Ground Meat (Fırında Kıymalı Lahana)

Baked cabbage with ground meat can be described as either a kind of no-pasta lasagna, börek, or mousakka.

Blog Post & Recipe: The perfect roast chicken

Roast chicken might sound like an easy option, but actually it's a surprisingly difficult thing to get right, which is why it's often used by chefs as a test for potential new recruits. The issue is not so much one of flavour – you get what you pay for in that department – but texture.

The recipe: Felicity's roast chicken

Cook Meat in a Beer Cooler / Tofu with Tomato & Ginger Sauce / Rhubarb Pie

Blog Post: Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack

Once you realize that a beer cooler is just as good at keeping hot things hot as it is at keeping cold things cold, then the rest is easy

Blog Post & Recipe: Tofu with a moreish tomato and ginger sauce

This sauce is inspired by Bill Granger’s recipe for Braised Lamb Shanks in his book, Holiday ... How to keep the flavour without the lamb ... ?

Blog Post & Recipe: Darina Allen's Country Rhubarb Cake

Anyway, what this country cake is, basically, is a pie. A double-crusted fruit pie, except the pie dough is a little cakey. But the premise is the same: you make a crust, you try not to touch it too much, you divide it in half, roll each half out and line a pie plate with it

Bacon Pineapple Jalapeno Margaritas / Ladenia / Perfect Scones

Blog Post & Recipe: Bacon Pineapple Jalapeno Margaritas

This flavor combo was introduced to me by Rich and Kim as a pizza topping, and quickly became one of my favorite tastes. ... When Steph had the idea to make a drink out of it, I was excited, but still had to figure out how to put bacon in a drink.

Blog Post & Recipe: “Ladenia”-with Heirloom Tomatoes

”Ladenia” (pronounced la-the-nia) is best described as Greece’s answer to pizza. I hope that doesn’t offend anyone ... but it’s basically a pizza/foccacia dough made with Greek extra virgin olive oil and topped with tomatoes, sliced onions and Greek oregano.

Blog Post & Recipes: How to make the perfect scone

In every single case, the overworked dough produces a denser, less well-risen result, and the scones that started off flatter remain so. Those which have been freed from the tyranny of the rolling pin are perhaps slightly better risen in general, but have a wild, unruly look

Pad Thai / 25 Kitchen Organising Tips / Roasted Mushrooms with Herbs

Article & Recipe & Video: Pad Thai, an Easy Stir-Fry

The link to the recipe is in the box, below "Related;" and the video is below that.

It requires little more than chopping and stirring, and comes together in less than a half-hour.

Blog Post & Recipe: 26 Kitchen Organizing Tips from Real Cooks – Twitter Style

In the spirit of quick and straightforward communication, I asked my [twitter] followers to send me their BEST kitchen organizing tip.

Blog Post & Recipe: Quick Dinner Recipe: Roasted Mushrooms with Herbs

Roasted mushrooms are a lovely vegan main dish — strong and rich in flavor and umami. They can be dressed up with a little cream or garlic, or topped with a poached egg, like in this dish.

Radish Salsa / Considering Scotch Eggs / Mushroom Soup

Recipe: Radishes make tasty salsa

This is one salsa that's going to be my summer staple, no matter what's on fire.

Radish salsa

Blog Post: Consider the scotch egg [blog post contains links to recipes -- see the comments below the post for more]

Extraordinary things. In the past, they went from rich man's caprice to Victorian savoury. Now they inhabit a strange hinterland between pubby ubiquity and zhooshed-up gastro cliche.

Blog Post & Recipe: Mushroom Soup

I am into roux these days. It creates beautifully silky, shiny and flavourful soups and gravy. My guides are Bittman’s gumbo video and Alton Brown’s Gravy Confidential. I know… roux is basically flour suspended in fat but I’m not the kind who cares.

Mint & Cumin Lamb Chops / Eating Nettles / Beef Brisket with Merlot & Prunes

Recipe: Mint & cumin lamb chops

Heat a chargrill pan over a medium-high heat. Add the lamb and cook, for 3-4 minutes each side for medium.

Article: How Do You Eat Nettles Without Getting Stung?

You can make nettles into pesto, sauté them to top crostini, put them on pizza, incorporate them into pasta dough to make it a vibrant green, and do just about anything else with them that you would do with a mild green such as chard or spinach.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beef Brisket with Merlot and Prunes

You take a fatty slab of meat, brown it to lock in the flavor, brown the vegetables, and combine everything with something like wine, pomegranate molasses (with which I’ve been having a decade-long love affair!) and some dried fruit. In this case, the fruit of choice is prunes.

Candied Violets / Raw Food with Icelandic Musicians / Vinaigrette

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Candied Violets

It’s a bit tedious, but you can get a bunch of them finished in under an hour. All you need are violets, sugar, egg whites and a small paint brush.

Blog Post & Video: "It's just like creating anything. when you create food, it's just like creating music."

The Jónsi and Alex (Recipe) Show: join Jónsi Birgisson (frontman of Sigur Rós), Alex Somers and their very loud blender to make raw food recipes. They made three videos from their Good Heart recipe book, for Macadamia Monster Mash, Raw Strawberry Pie, and Nammi Nammi.

Blog Post & Recipes: How to make a vinaigrette, and everything you need to know about them

Now that you know the standard ratio is 1 part vinegar to 3 parts oil, now that you know your own preference for how to balance the oil and the acid, now that you know how to look for different vinegars, now that you know to soak the shallots and seasonings in the vinegar, now that you know you can make a vinaigrette out of pretty much any tart-tasting thing and any oil you like

Basic Red Wine Vinaigrette ... Basic Mustard Vinaigrette

Easy Roast Chicken / Pork Crackling / Fifteen Vegetarian Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Thomas Keller's Easy Roast Chicken

Thomas Keller doesn’t believe in basting because it produces steam and steam is not what you want with this quick roasting method. I used roughly 1 tablespoon of salt on the outside and 1 teaspoon inside.

Article & Recipes: How to make perfect pork crackling

First of all, the scoring. There's no debate on this: everyone tells you to score the rind ... in vertical lines about a finger's width apart. This is to allow the heat to penetrate the fat, and, as it bubbles up through the cuts, to baste the top during cooking.

Recipes: Yotam Ottolenghi: Exclusive recipes from his brilliant new book

Shakshuka ... Very full tart ... Chickpea, tomato and bread soup ... Crunchy pappardelle ... Green pancakes with lime butter ... Stuffed onions ... Multi-vegetable paella ... Caramelised garlic tart ... Black pepper tofu ... Tamara's ratatouille ... Lemon and goat's cheese ravioli ... Bittersweet salad ... Mee goreng ... Hot yoghurt and broad bean soup ... Puy lentil galettes

Literary Food Porn Website / Grilled Cheese Sandwich / Sourdough Bread

Website: Literary Food Porn

Delicious descriptions of food from literature.

Blog Post & Recipe: The grilled cheese sandwich

You know what I like on my grilled cheese? A bit of cayenne pepper over the cheese, or a layer of mustard under it.

Article & Recipe: Make your own sourdough

Play your cards right, and your starter could outlive you. In San Francisco, the world capital of sourdough, there are starters that are more than 150 years old.

Salting Meat / Roast Onion Soup / Cold-Grilled Ribeye Steaks

Blog Post & Recipe: Salting meat - Saltkjöt

Meat may be dry salted or brined. Dry salting is best for lean meat and brining for fatty meat.

Blog Post & Recipes: Roast onion soup

Autumn is pottering, puttering weather ... A simple soup then, as Nigel Slater says, to invigorate.

Roast onion soup ... A basic – very – vegetable stock

Blog Post & Recipe: "Cold-Grilled" Ribeye Steaks with Gremolata

Lynne's advice on the steak (in addition to olive oil, salt and pepper) is to leave it in the fridge until the very last moment before you put it on the grill. That way, you can get a great char on the outside of the meat, while allowing the inside to cook more slowly.

Spelt Bread / Lamb Stew / Chalupas

Article & Recipes: Nigel Slater's spelt bread recipe

Bread dough will often resist our attempts at complete control, and will rise or fall as it wishes, take its time or surprise us with its spontaneity.

SPELT ROLLS ... A STEW OF MUSHROOMS WITH ONION AND FENNEL SEEDS

Blog Post & Recipe: Spring Lamb Stew

This spring lamb stew takes advantage of the young green garlic you can find at farmers markets, peas, and new potatoes. What takes it over the top is the flavoring that comes from adding a couple of heads of roasted garlic to the stock.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chalupas [Taco Bell style] and Puebla-style Chalupas

Let me start by saying that I’ve never actually had a Taco Bell Chalupa ... That means I based my chalupa version off of what I could see in their photos which was some sort of chewy shell, seasoned ground beef, and various toppings.

An Easy Cake / Deep-Fried Bacon & Eggs / Twelve Breakfast Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Bake a Cake

Very Basic All Equal Cake recipe.

This is a no fail recipe which calls for equal amounts of everything.

Blog Post & Recipe: Deep-Fried Bacon and Eggs with Lemon-Egg Vinaigrette

Between the dozens of utensils, plates and pans it requires -- not to mention the hour and a half of prep time -- it's about as far from a lazy Sunday morning as you can get.

Blog Post & Recipes: This Week's Recipes: Breakfast Burrito and Scramble

We were talking breakfast on The Kitchn this week so here's a look back at the recipes we posted ...

Bloody Mary ... Big Pancake ... Breakfast Burritos ... Popovers ... Crunchy Granola Bars ... Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf with Oats and Pecans ... Ricotta Pancakes ... Breakfast Pizza ... Paula Deen's Rolls ... Chinese Chicken Soup ... Baked Chicken with Artichokes ... Polvo à Lagareiro

Trail Mix / Cure a Ham / Build a Mud Oven

Forum Post & Recipe: Perfect Trail Mix

The perfect trail mix requires:
* a good balance between crunchy (nuts, cereal or grain-based ingredients) and chewy (chocolate, yogurt, dried fruit) ingredients.
* A good balance between salty and sweet.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Cure a Ham

Making the brine was simple, though I changed the basic recipe by adding some cloves and molasses and substituting turbinado sugar for the brown. I stuck my ham into the liquid, sealed the container, stuck it in the fridge and then waited.

Blog Post: Build Your Own $20 Outdoor Cob Oven for Great Bread and Pizza (via metafilter).

Compared to masonry ovens, which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars and usually require cement in their construction ... a cob oven can be made from very simple, locally available materials. (Although it must be said that masonry ovens undoubtedly have a longer lifetime!)

Three Recipes with Herbs / Maple Salmon / Tomato & Feta Baked Eggs

Article & Recipes: Simon Hopkinson's recipes using fresh herbs

THYME, ONION AND GRUYèRE TART ... BUTTER BEANS WITH SAGE, OLIVE OIL AND DRIED CHILLI ... PARSLEY, RADISH AND CELERY SALAD WITH CAPERS

Blog Post & Recipe: Maple Salmon

Adapted from Closet Cooking ... this is a very easy salmon dish that is similar to salmon teriyaki but doesn’t require as many Japanese ingredients. It is sweet and salty and the marinade bakes on top of the fish, coating it so it remains light and moist.

Blog Post & recipe: Tomato and Feta Baked Eggs

The tomato and feta baked eggs came out with the whites set and the yolks still mostly runny and they made for a really nice weekend breakfast treat! The tomato and feta sauce was nice and tasty and the fresh herbs added that something special that just hinted at spring.

Greens with Tahini / Rack of Lamb / Onion Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Greens with Tahini

I make this with large handfuls of greenery – whatever I have in the fridge. I wash them, cut the most obvious bits of stalk off and then give them a quick chop, about 3 – 4 cuts with a knife.

Blog Post & Recipe: Classic Rack of Lamb

My version ... uses a simple rub with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh chopped rosemary and thyme. The trick is to not go overboard with the herbs. The lamb tastes so good on its own, the seasoning should complement the lamb, not dominate it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Onion Soup

Caramelize some onions and puree them with some chicken stock. Perfection. The recipe below is actually a little fussier than that, but I think the take-away is the soup itself.

Onion Soup with Sage, Croutons and Grated Lemon Peel

Forest Gardening / Seared Scallops with Lime & Miso Dressing on Avocado Purée / Milk Mayonnaise

Article: Gardens: Forest gumption

Forest gardening is not about size, he says; it's a style of growing. "The point is to grow useful plants, particularly edibles." And the key to doing that is planting upwards, in vertical layers.

Blog Post & Recipe: Seared scallops with lime & miso dressing on avocado purée

We enjoyed this with sourdough baguette, but I was really craving another accompaniment which would have been perfect: I had it a little while ago at Zuma, where they serve an absolutely amazing tuna & salmon tartare with lotus chips and that addictive sheet of a prawn cracker with seaweed

Blog Post & Recipes: The Secrets and Science Behind Milk Mayonnaise

When these culinary opposites—milk and oil—are thrown together, they act a lot like warring spouses, which makes their participation in the creation of Portuguese maionese de leite (may-o-NEZ duh late), or milk mayonnaise, all the more amazing.

Milk Mayonnaise ... Variations: Cilantro and Ginger Mayonnaise, Anchovy Mayonnaise, Curry Mayonnaise, Tomato Mayonnaise

Scrambled Eggs / Ramps / Twelve Grilled Cheese Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: the secret ingredient – how to scramble eggs like tetsuya

And the first thing Australia’s most famous chef demonstrated was the humble scrambled egg ... the most surprising revelation of the evening was the creamed corn.

Article & Recipes: Ravenous for Ramps

Ramps (Allium trioccum) are a member of the lily family, which includes garlic, leeks, and onions ... They occupy a middle ground of flavor, with the sweetness of leeks and the bite of garlic.

Ramp Grits Soufflé ... Ramp Soup ... Ramp Tart ... Roasted Chicken, Ramps, and Potatoes ... Spaghetti with Ramps

Blog Post & Recipes: The Month of Grilled Cheese

But if you want to try a month of grilled cheese madness–or if you just want a few delicious and unusual sandwiches, check out the recipes below.

Cornbread Grilled Cheese with Poblano and Avocado ... Grilled Cheddar and Applie Sandwich with Raspberry Coulis ... Grilled Smoked Mozzarella with Maple-Caramelized Bacon ... Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese (the soup is in the sandwich) ... Grilled Sweet Five-Spice Sandwich ... Grilled Goat’s Cheese with Proscuitto and Eucalyptus Honey ... Grilled Fontina with Proscuitto-wrapped Melon ... Grilled Caprese Sandwich ... Greek-ish Grilled Feta Sandwich with Green Garlic ... Smoky Grilled Cheese with Sopressata and Sage ... Grilled Manchego with Fig Jam and Olives ... Brie and Nutella Grilled Cheese

Roasted Rhubarb / Peeps Sushi / Edible Flowers

Blog Post & Recipe: A lot of rhubarb

I am pleased to announce that this spring, my allegiance lies in a pot of roasted rhubarb with white wine and vanilla bean. Eaten cold, ideally.

Roasted Rhubarb

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Peepshi = Peeps Sushi

5. Take a Peep head and tuck it into the top of the hollow Rice Krispies treat cylinder. Use a toothpick or tip of the a knife to help get it snug.

Article: Edible flowers? Blooming delicious!

"I love a baked potato with butter, scattered with marigold petals. The flower has a little bit of heat, but it has a very gentle, subtle flavour – I love it mainly for the colour. All roses are edible, but the useful ones are the scented ones, because it's the scent that translates into taste."