Split Pea Soup with Vegetables / How to Use Chinese Vegetables / Grilling Tips + Flattened Chicken with Parsley Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Split Pea Soup Loaded With Vegetables - Perfect for Brrrrr Weather

With weather this cold decided to make split pea soup with vegetables from farmers market.

Article & Recipe: How to use Chinese vegetables

Victoria's Chinatown does indeed offer a diverse selection of vegetables for sale. I can't write about them all, but here are some useful facts and suggestions for using six intriguing looking veggies.

Gai Lan ... Bitter Melon ... King Oyster Mushrooms ... Long Beans ... Taro Root ... Lotus Root

RECIPE: Hot and Sour Soup with Gai Lan and King Oyster Mushrooms

Blog Post & Recipes: 7 fires: lessons from the argentine grill master

The good news is you don’t need to have a BBQ to create any of these. An old frying pan in the kitchen will work just as well.

7 lessons from the Argentine grill master himself: 1. The power of the taste of burnt ... 2. You must respect the first contact between food and the cooking surface ... 3. The ‘chapa’ is best for quick cooking ... 4. ‘Rescoldo’ is a great way to cook veg ... 5. Flame should never directly touch your food ... 6. Cast iron is the best cooking material ... 7. The secret to a perfect steak

flattened chicken with parsley sauce

5 Meatless Burgers / 5 Fish Recipes / Zucchini and Spinach Gratin

Blog Post & Recipes: 5 Meatless Burgers to Grill This Weekend

Here are 5 meatless burgers to grill this weekend:

Classic Bean Burger ... Chickpea Burger ... Quinoa Burger ... Baked Eggplant Burger ... Bean Burger

Recipes: Recipes to Help You Conquer Your Fish-Grilling Fears

They all use types of fish that are on the sturdy side—nothing delicate that you'll have to worry about mangling here—and they all include tips to help you achieve seafood success.

Maple-Mustard Grilled Salmon ... Corn-Husk-Wrapped Grilled Halibut with Charred Corn Salsa ... Grilled Blackened Catfish with Creole Mustard Butter ... Grilled Tuna with Cucumber Salad ... Grilled Mackerel with Tomato, Fennel, and Capers

Blog Post & Recipe: Zucchini and Spinach Gratin

To take a break from our usual (almost daily in the summer) way to cook up the zucchini (see mom's summer squash), we prepared a classic French gratin, with grated zucchini, spinach, onions sautéed with bacon, a persillade of parsley and garlic, all bound together with a few eggs, tossed with Parmesan, and baked until golden brown.

Squash Blossom Pesto / Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt / 6 Vegetarian Recipes for the Barbeque

Blog Post & Recipe: Squash Blossom Pesto [ via ]

I simple converted my standard pesto recipe, with the addition of saffron from the abandoned sauce recipe, and magic! A vivid orange sauce, nutty with parmesan and pine nuts with this mysterious undernote. Squash blossoms.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt [ via ]

The best success I had came at the end of my experimental process. I found that a screaming hot oven, a preheated, well-oiled baking sheet and straight or crinkle-cut sweet potatoes turned 3 or 4 times in the oven yielded the best results.

Blog Post & Recipes: Throw Another Melon on the Barbie

The grill, as everyone knows, is the best place to cook a steak, but that doesn’t mean you have to cook a steak every time you fire up the grill.

Vietnamese-Style Portobello Mushrooms ... Watermelon Burgers With Cheese ... Curry-Rubbed Sweet-Potato Planks ... Teriyaki Cabbage Steaks ... Chili-Rubbed Jicama Steaks With Queso Fresco ... Miso-Glazed Eggplant Slices

Hasselback Beetroot / Roast Sweet Potato Panini / Cook Pizza on the Barbecue

Blog Post & Recipe: Hasselback Beets - Nature's Sweet Side Dish [via]

I always see gorgeous pictures of hasselback potatoes on foodgawker. However, since I didn't have potatoes, I used my picture-perfect beets ...

3 whole beets
olive oil
salt
pepper

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato Panini | Inspired by the West

Both Paul and I love avocado, so I just had to test it paired with the sweet potato. I’ve never tried this pairing before, but we love sweet potatoes and we love avocados. Plus, the avocado is in such a lovely color, don’t you think?

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Pizza ['grilled' in the American sense]

HOW TO GRILL PIZZA: SIX VERY IMPORTANT RULES:
Oil Everything ... If you have an extra set of hands, avail yourself of them ... Don’t roll your crust too thin ... Use a Cookie Sheet ... Pre-cook Your Toppings ... Three words: slow and low

Grilled Pizza Two Ways
Half Fried Green Tomatoes and Sweet Onions/Half Basic Marinara

4 Spanish Recipes / Sunshine Barbecue Chicken / Eggplant Manicotti & 2 Other Recipes

Blog Post & Recipes: My Recipes published at DELICOOKS, and 4 delicious recipes for you to celebrate 3 Years of Blogging!

My Personal Spanish Menu (desserts not included)

Snail and mint Tapa ... Zucchini puree with Iberian Acorn ham ... Potatoes stuffed with Butifarra and grated with Allioli ... Toasted noodles with Palamós fresh shrimps

Blog Post & Recipe: Sunshine Barbecue Chicken

[This bbq sauce is] pretty undutch but at the same time it’s also a lot like our Dutch piccalilli, only in a sweeter jacket and with different vegetables. Very unlike anything I’ve ever tasted in combination with bbq chicken.

Blog Post & Recipes: Deliciously Upsided Down Dinners

I have an awesome new cookbook that I'll be raving about very soon and this Eggplant Manicotti caught my eye. The funny thing is... there is no real manicotti. The "pasta" is actually slices of eggplant with a very tasty filling.

Eggplant Manicotti ... Seared Lamb Chops with Sage, Anchovies & Capers ... Herb & Garlic Orzo

nb. M., I'm introducing your 'concept' tag.
Concept: eggplant in place of manicotti, or canneloni, pasta.

Roasted Ruby Fruits / Savoy Cabbage Rolls with Golden Chanterelle & Brown Rice Filling & Cranberry Sauce / Meat-Free Barbecue Ideas

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Ruby Fruits (this blog has a weirdly huge header. Scroll down)

Like a lot of our [Australian] native fruits the Rosella is under utilised despite it's deliciousness ...

A bunch of lovely red rhubarb- I know there are green varieties, but I think the red is prettier
A punnet or two of strawberries
A handful of raspberries
A cup of Rosella petals

Blog Post & Recipe: Savoy cabbage rolls with golden chanterelle and brown rice filling and cranberry sauce

Together with brown rice I've used dried golden chanterelles, those beautiful mushrooms you would see at every market stall in Finland around August ... I've flavoured the filling with some of those beautiful herbs I got from the garden - thyme, rosemary and oregano, but you could use any dry or fresh herbs you have available.

Blog Post & Recipes: Meat-free barbecues

A meat-free barbecue will seem a gloomy prospect to many. After all, it is hard to muster much enthusiasm for the average veggie burger – so grey and miserable that it resembles nothing more than a slice of Wednesday ... The essential point is not to try to replicate meaty barbecue favourites such as burgers and sausages ... and instead attempt a different way of cooking altogether.

Roasted Butternut Squash with Burnt Aubergine and Pomegranate Molasses ... tamarind seitan kebabs ... smoky miso tofu ... roasted parsnips with caper vinaigrette ... miniature napoleons with aubergine creme

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

101 Fast Recipes for Grilling / Hummus / Bird Seed Bread

Article & Recipes: 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling

A vast majority take less time to prepare and grill than it takes to watch your coals turn white.

Article & Recipes: The perfect hummus debate

What's your idea of perfect hummus, and if you can make it at all, what's your secret?

Recipe: hummus with ful

Blog Post & Recipe: Bird Seed Bread

I figured that I could ramp up my own version of it and cram a ton of different seeds into and on top of the bread. I wanted to make bread out of bird seed basically.

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.

No-Rice Risotto with Chard / Filipino Fried Noodles / Five Halloumi Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: No-Rice Risotto with Chard

We used canned cannellini beans! It turned out to be the quickest risotto we had ever made. And it tasted really good too. You could do a lot more with this recipe: not using canned beans, adding white wine and maybe some more greens ...

Recipe: Recipe of the Day: Filipino Fried Noodles (Pancit)

In the Filipino vernacular, pancit simply refers to noodles. This version (pancit bam-i) uses both rice vermicelli (bihon) and Chinese wheat noodles (pancit canton), but you can make the dish with either type of noodle, or flat egg noodles (pancit miki) and cellophane noodles (sotanghon).

Blog Post & Recipes: Vegetarian Cookout? Try Halloumi!

Here are some recipes we're eager to try this season:

1 Halloumi Wrapped in Red Pepper with Lemon & Chilli ... 2 Grilled Haloumi Cheese and Lemon ... 3 Basil Halloumi and Roasted Veg BBQ Skewers ... 4 Halloumi Skewers with Parsley & Lemon Salsa ... 5 Grilled Cheese and Tomato Stacks

Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs / Chicken Wing Marinade / Australia Day Cuisine

Blog Post & Recipe & Video: Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs

I scrambled these eggs using my espresso machines steamwand.

Blog Post & Recipe: Something for the barbie: A killer chicken wing marinade

With nothing more than a stalk of lemongrass, a bulb of garlic, some fish sauce and sugar, this marinade punches and kicks the liveliness of Saigon in your mouth.

Recipes: Australia Day cuisine

Traditional pavlova ... Homemade meat pies ... Lamingtons ... Lamb burgers with beetroot salsa ... Barbecued marinated lamb leg ... Barramundi burgers with tartare sauce ... Passionfruit slice ... Damper ...

... and pages more.

Judging a Beef Carcass / 10 BBQ Tips / 10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Blog Post: Reading the Carcass (via this post at The Paupered Chef).

This post marks the start of a new column by artisan butcher Tom Mylan, who will be writing regularly on all things flesh ... Here is a quick and dirty primer to what a side of beef can tell you without saying a single word.

Blog Post & Recipes: 10 essential tips for an australia day barbie

don’t cook cold meat ... preheat properly ... thin is in ... don’t poke & prod ... don’t fuel the fire with fat ... remember food hygiene ... rest ... clean your BBQ ... earn the right to be BBQ queen (or king) ... expand your BBQ repetoire

minimaist BBQ steak ... toasted breadcrumb salsa

Blog Post: 10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Drink More Water ... Create a Salad Bar in Your Fridge ... Remember, Color Equals Nutrition ... Keep a Food Journal ... Investigate Funky Grains ... Ask, “Would I Eat an Apple?” ... When in Doubt, Sauté with Garlic ... Eat Breakfast in Bed ... Bag Half to Go ... If It Has a Label, Don’t Eat It.