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

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

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!)

Zucchini Slice. Using a Microwave

Recipe: Zucchini Slice



Article: It's never going to roast a potato ... but here's what a microwave can do

It's easy to be a microwave snob but there is a genuine place for it in the kitchen and a lot of life beyond defrosting and reheating. The trouble is that it is often seen as a lazy, stand-alone piece of kit: the tendency is to think that if a dish can't go in just as it is, then what's the point. You will get better results if you take the time to cut vegetables to the right size, or use the microwave in tandem with the food processor. And get to know its limitations: it's never going to roast a potato and it's a pasty's number one sworn enemy.