Polenta Pie with Tomatoes / Onion Pandade / Coffee Granita

Blog Post & Recipe: Bottomless Polenta Pie with Tomatoes

Bake in a pre-heated 250 C oven for about 20-25 minutes, until the polenta is lovely golden on top and tomatoes are ever so slightly charred on edges.

Blog Post & Recipe: onion pandade: is this the ultimate comfort food? [5 ingredients]

We’re talking about a savoury bread pudding. Flavoured with golden brown onions and the fragrance of thyme. With the bread providing the perfect contrast of textures: a soft, stock-soaked, silky base teamed with a super crunchy cheesy topping.

Blog Post & Recipe: COFFEE GRANITA

The freezing part is the key to making a proper granita. Using a fork you want to break up the ice crystals about every 20 minutes. You simply want to mush and fluff the mixture so that in the end you are left with an airy mixture with uniform ice crystals

Warm Pumpkin Salad with Cherry Tomatoes & Spring Onions / Moroccan-style Couscous & Eggplant Salad / Lemon Delicious Puddings & 16 Facts About Flour

Recipe: Warm pumpkin salad with cherry tomatoes and spring onions

Toss gently to combine and scatter with chives and coriander. Serve with roast pork or chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: The stomach wants what the stomach wants: Moroccan-style couscous and eggplant salad

I’ve spent a good chunk of the summer coming up with new and exciting ways to play with eggplant, and what I have here is one of the best–and easiest. Eggplant, chickpeas, couscous, onion. That’s pretty much it.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemon delicious puddings + 16 facts about (wheat) flour [5 ingredients]

weighing flour is quicker and more accurate than using cups ... self raising flour = plain flour + baking powder ... gluten is the main protein in wheat ... bread is made from high protein wheat ... cakes and biscuits are (generally) made from lower protein wheat ... plain, or all purpose flour is a blend of high and low protein wheat ... etc

Iceberg Lettuce & Beansprout Stir-Fry / Lamb Meatballs / 22 Chicken Dinners

Blog Post & Recipe: Iceberg lettuce and beansprout stir-fry

Try this dish, which only takes minutes to cook ... to accompany fierce and rich flavours

Blog Post & Recipe: The best meat I've made in ages

The only bit requiring any sort of patience is the actual rolling of the meat mixture into balls, which is really not that big a deal at all if 1. you have help or 2. you decide to make big meatballs instead of my tiny inch-in-diameter ones.

Lamb meatballs

Recipes: 22 Chicken Dinners

Korean Grilled Chicken ... Honey-Mustard Baked Chicken ... Chicken Basquaise ... Sweet Chile Chicken Rice Bowl ... Poached Chicken and Pomegranate Orzo ... Argentine Grilled Chicken ... Pad Kee Mao (Spicy Ground Chicken and Rice Noodles) ... Brick Chicken with Rosé Wine and Bacon ... Five-Spice Roasted Chicken ... Pasta with Roasted Chicken, Raisins, Pine Nuts, and Parsley ... Basic Barbecued Chicken ... Pulled Jerk Chicken Sandwiches ... Chicken Pot Pie ... Rhubarb-Braised Chicken Thighs ... Hoisin Explosion Chicken ... Chicken with Goat Cheese and Figs ... Coq au Vin ... Oregano-Marinated Grilled Chicken with Charred Lemons ... Oven-Fried Buttermilk Chicken ... Braised Chicken and Chayote ... Easy Chicken and Chive-Dumpling Soup ... Chicken Stuffed with Spinach and Feta

Grape Focaccia with Rosemary / Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes & Plum Sauce / 3 Cold-Weather Meals

Blog Post & Recipe: grape focaccia with rosemary

(This is a tweaked version of a recipe I posted for the first time here.)

I couldn’t get enough of the sweet/salty/olive oil/grape/rosemary thing with the crisp edges

Recipe: Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes and Plum Sauce

Maltose syrup can be found in most Chinese supermarkets. If you can't find it, honey can be used in its place.

Article & Recipes: Cold weather comfort

I find that most wet meat dishes require the meat to be browned before adding the wet ingredients. I have sidestepped that process in today's dishes without compromising flavour.

Potato and chicken pie ... Beef casserole ... One pot beef and paprika casserole

Curried Eggplant, Lentil & Quinoa Burgers with Onion-Pepper Relish / Broccoli & Red Bell Pepper Soba / 4 Rosemary Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Eggplant, Lentil, and Quinoa Burgers with Onion-Pepper Relish

Like most veggie burgers, these will fall apart if you try to cook them on a barbecue grill, but once they’re baked, they hold together well

Recipe: Broccoli and Red Bell Pepper Soba

Variations.
Try replacing the broccoli with an equal quantity of cauliflower.
Replace the carrots and red bell pepper with mushrooms, zucchini, yellow bell pepper, or summer squash.

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's rosemary recipes

You want to use a light touch with this pungent herb – a little goes a long way.

Rosemary focaccia ... Rabbit with rosemary and lemon ... Roasted butternut squash with rosemary ... Herbes de Provence

Pumpkin & Ginger Soup / 4 Eggplant Recipes / Tomato Risotto

Recipe: Pumpkin and ginger soup

Ginger gives a real kick to the old staple of pumpkin soup.

Article & Recipes: Why The Priest Fainted: An Ode To Eggplant

Imam Bayildi ... Eggplant Frites With Caper Remoulade ... Sambal Eggplant ... Eggplant Caponata

Blog Post & Recipe: Tomato Risotto

There was just something beautifully simple about the risotto and the tomatoes cooked in olive oil that made me want to give it a go.

Sweetcorn Pancakes / 3 Risotto Recipes / Lamb Ragu

Blog Post & Recipe: sweet corn pancakes

As I mentioned above, I think these have great savory potential by skipping the sugar and increasing the salt, served with sour cream or salsa.

Recipes: Thoroughly absorbing

Let the risotto rest for five minutes before serving to allow the flavours to settle. The basic risotto is ideal with roast chicken.

BASIC RISOTTO ... RISOTTO WITH ROASTED BUTTERNUT PUMPKIN ... PRAWN AND ZUCCHINI RISOTTO

Recipe: Culinary SOS: Pizzeria Ortica's lamb ragu

Dear SOS: I have enjoyed the lamb ragu at Pizzeria Ortica in Costa Mesa on several occasions and would love to have the recipe ...
Sydney Springer

Dear Sydney: Pizzeria Ortica was happy to share its recipe for this rich and hearty dish