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

Baked Chili and Egg / Shaved Asparagus Pizza / Perfect Omelette

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Chili and Egg

This is a variation you can try if you find yourself with some leftover chili and are looking for another way to serve it.

Blog Post & Recipe: shaved asparagus pizza

I had a shaved raw asparagus salad last month for the first time and was fascinated by it ... I decided immediately that I had to make a pizza out of it

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make the perfect omelette

As well as tasting good, the butter serves another purpose. The great Auguste Escoffier described the omelette as "scrambled eggs held together in a coagulated skin". Consider that the pan must be hot enough to set this skin in a matter of seconds ...

Yanghsuo River Snails / Workday Lunches / Arranging Refigerators

Recipe: Yanghsuo River Snails

Transfer snails to a bowl with a slotted spoon, discarding pork and large spices, then discard braising liquid and wipe wok dry.

Article & Suggestions: Workday lunches - do you buy or DIY?

Roast some salad ... A batch of vegetables can cook themselves in the oven at the weekend (spritz with oil, add herbs if you want and roast on high for around 30 mins while you do something else) ... Good combinations include: ...

Article: Refrigeration Reformation

What should stay cold, colder, and coldest in your fridge

DON’T FREEZE OUT FLAVOR ... COUNTER MEASURES ... BIOLOGICAL WARFARE (Keep these ethylene producers ... Away from these ethylene-sensitive foods) ...
Keep humidity-loving vegetables in the bins ... Some main-cabin rules of thumb ... What not to put in the door ... SPECIALIZED SECTIONS ... vacuum the condenser

45 Uses for Sage / Moroccan Carrot Salad / Ginger Pork

Blog Post: 45 Things To Do With Fresh Sage

Sage pairings ... Sage uses ... Recipe ideas ... Other uses

Blog Post & Recipe: Salade aux carottes a la marocaine (Moroccan carrot salad)

Try to use the best carrots—fresh, sweet, not woody—for this dish. If you only have ground cumin and coriander, this salad is still worth making. Just ensure that the spices are recently bought and well amalgamated into the dressing.

Article & Recipe: Ginger root adds zip to pork tenderloin

When selecting fresh ginger root, look for hard, knobby specimens that are beige, fat and clumpish. Avoid any with wrinkles, mold or a spongy texture. Ginger root can be stored, wrapped in plastic, in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Ginger Pork

Herby Summer Udon / Braised Artichokes / Four Testicle Recipes & Fried Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Brighten that dish with a dash of fresh herbs

Fresh herbs add the layered flavor of herbaceousness

Herby Summer Udon

Article & Recipe & Video: Artichokes Take a Dip in a Pool of Stock

As each half was ready, I put it, cut side down, in a large skillet filmed with butter. Oil is fine if you pick one that tastes good. When they were all in, and browned, I added stock ...

Braised Artichokes

Article & Recipes: Testicle... It's What's for Dinner and Aching Thighs (Onstad's Fried Chicken). [via Metafilter]

Onstad says. "When I write these Achewood cookbooks I try to be, you know, meticulous. Making sure you have as much help as possible, because if you look at any recipe, there's a lot of gray area."

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