Seared Carpaccio of Beef with Remoulade & Pickled Cherries / 4 Vegetable Chips + 3 Condiments / Roasted Chickpea Fajitas

Article & Recipe: Succulent beef with a cherry twist

The beef is served delicately raw on the inside, with a seared crust.

SEARED CARPACCIO OF BEEF WITH REMOULADE AND PICKLED CHERRIES

Recipes: Make Your Own Veggie Chips

Veggie chips are very easily made in your very own oven. Peel, slice, and bake. Dip and eat. Done.

Carrot Chips ... Taro Chips ... Sweet Potato Crisps ... Kale Chips ... Basic Ranch Dressing ... White Bean and Edamame Hummus ... Jalapeño-Cilantro Yogurt Spread

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Chickpea Fajitas

Onion, peppers, and mushrooms are sautéed and served with spicy roasted chickpeas to create these healthy and delicious vegetarian fajitas. Garnish with diced tomatoes, avocado slices, and a dollop of Greek yogurt, if desired.

Chicken, White Bean, and Poblano Stew / Peppermint Ice Blended Mocha / Vinegar-Glazed Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken, White Bean, and Poblano Stew

There’s nothing fancy to this stew but it’s pretty easy to throw together, is really filling, and a big hit in our family.

Blog Post & Recipe: Peppermint Ice Blended Mocha

I think I had about half a gallon of hot chocolate leftover, so for an extremely nutritious (and diabetic friendly) breakfast, I infused it with some candy canes and then blended it with ice cream, coffee powder and garnished it with an unhealthy dollop of whipped cream.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vinegar-Glazed Chicken

Unlike white rice vinegar, Chinese black vinegar from northern China is an aged vinegar made from black glutinous rice, wheat, millet, or sorghum.. (The Gold Plum version from the city of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province, made with glutinous rice, is considered the premier brand.) The flavor resembles that of balsamic vinegar. It’s slightly sweet with a barely detectable smokiness [...] I frequently recommend in my recipes a good-quality balsamic vinegar as a substitute if you can’t find Chinese black vinegar. But the same could be said opposite, that if you run out of balsamic vinegar you can use Chinese black vinegar.

Fasoulia Nashfe: Lamb & White Bean Stew / Cool Rhubarb Glögg / Duck in Port

Blog Post & Recipe: Fasoulia Nashfe: Lamb and White Bean Stew

This fasoulia nashfe is one of my favorite family recipes, and one that has traveled with me to four continents: tender lamb, soft cannellini beans and a rich tomato sauce seasoned in the signature Arab way, with plenty of cinnamon, garlic and baharat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Finnish Christmas with a Twist: Cool rhubarb glögg

I adore rhubarb, I'm sure you've realised that by now, and this drink is for all you die-hard rhubarb lovers out there. It's completely sugar-free, so prepare yourself for some real rhubarb flavour pared with warming spices and a drizzle of lemon juice to freshen it all up.

Blog Post & Recipe: Duck in Port

I also recommend using all the parts that come with. The liver can be chopped up and sautéd with shallots, coriander and cumin. Seasoned with lime and cilantro and you have a perfect appetizer. The neck (head and feet) and rest of the giblets make a great base for a stock (see below).

Baigan Bharta (Punjabi Eggplant Curry) / White Bean & Red Curry Soup in Coconut Milk / Roasted Lemon Chutney

Blog Post & Recipe: Baigan Bharta (Punjabi Eggplant Curry): Virtue Out of Necessity

The recipe below – baigan bhartha – makes use of eggplant’s previously unappreciated attribute of being able to bind a sauce. Like its nightshade cousin the tomato, eggplant seems as comfortable in this role as any other we’ve tried with it. The smoky flavor gained through roasting is quite startling

Blog Post & Recipe: White Bean and Red Curry Soup in Coconut Milk - An MLLA Guest Post from Courtney of Coco Cooks

To achieve the creaminess I adore in chowders and bisques, I knew there would be coconut milk as a base. I then got to thinking of my beloved Thai soups and decided red curry would add the heat. The richness and fullness would come from white cannellini beans pureed to give structure. And the finish, influenced by the Thai culture again, would be squirt of lime and cilantro finished with drops of red chili oil.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Lemon Chutney Recipe

I slathered the chutney on thick slabs of toasted bread with a good amount of whipped goat cheese - that's what you see in the photos. But really, there are so many other things you can do with it. A couple ideas: a dollop stirred into brown rice, chopped sauteed spinach, topped with a fried/poached egg and a touch of soy sauce. Or incorporated into a hot pasta bowl. Or, inside a savory crepe. Or, tossed with hot roasted potatoes, or baked potatoes. You get the idea.

Fava Bean Puree / Greek-Style Lamb Burgers / Chorizo & White Bean Soup with Queso Fresco

Blog Post & Recipe: Fava Bean Puree, Pat and "The Chew"

No, this isn't hummus. It's what you might call the Italian equivalent though - fava bean puree, made with dried fava beans.

Blog Post & Recipe: Greek-Style Lamb Burgers

If you like Greek food, you'll love these warm toasted pitas stuffed with flavorful ground lamb patties, tzatziki, feta and fresh vegetables

Blog Post & Recipe: Chorizo & White Bean Soup with Queso Fresco

The chorizo flavored the broth with its spicy smoky flavor and made me really happy. I made a big pot and froze it in serving-size containers, so each time I made it I experimented with toppings. I tried grated mozzarella with a sprinkle of minced Italian parsley, which was good. But the dollops of salty, crumbly Queso Fresco cheese with minced cilantro and basil sprinkled over the top was the best.

Vegetarian Mushroom & Cannellini Bean Ragout / Pumpkin Chili with Cornbread Smudges / Fried Green Tomatoes

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegetarian Mushroom & Cannellini Bean Ragout Recipe

The ragout can be made up to 2 days in advance. Store, covered, in the refrigerator. Reheat before serving.

Recipe: pumpkin chili with cornbread smudges

The corn "smudges", as I've dubbed them, were an attempt to make cornbread flavored crackers... they tasted great with the chili, but be warned, they aren't crispy crackers.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes

Tip: They key to fried green tomatoes it to make sure that the tomato slices are not too thick to ensure that they get cooked all the way through. ... Tangy green tomatoes dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal and then fried until golden brown and crispy on the outside.

Making Tortillas / Grilled Vegetables with Balsamic Vinaigrette / White Beans, Sweet Potato & Spinach Tacos

Blog Post & Recipes: Making Tortillas

It is important to note that you will save yourself a lot, a lot, a lot of heartbreak and broken tortillas by lining the top and bottom of your press or pin with plastic wrap, parchment paper or baggies. Especially when working with the stickier dough for flour tortillas, any time saved by skipping this step is just not worth it.

Blog Popst & Recipe: Meatless Monday: Grilled Vegetables with Balsamic Vinaigrette

I’ve started grilling mass quantities of vegetables every few days and keeping them in the fridge, so they’re always ready to go. Making an omelet? Why not throw in some grilled onions, peppers and mushrooms. Need a quick lunch? How about some grilled vegetables and tzatziki in a pita? Add them to fajitas or pasta. Or, warm up the vegetables, and add some crumbled goat cheese for a big grilled vegetable salad.

Blog Post & Recipe: White Beans, Sweet Potato, and Spinach Tacos - A Guest Post by Joanne Bruno of Eats Well with Others

You see, you cook this pound of beans. And then you have dinner halfway prepared for every night of the week! You can throw the beans in salads or pasta or soup! Or my new favorite, which is to grab whatever greens I got in my CSA this week (and we all know that we're all getting greens aplenty in our CSA's. Don't even try to pretend otherwise.), wilt them down and saute them. Mix in my bean-of-choice for the week along with a roasted root vegetable. Season with smoked paprika and chipotle chile powder. Throw into a tortilla shell. Call it a taco or burrito or tostada or whatever Mexican dish pops into your head at that moment. And voila.

Concept: Grilled vegetables kept in the fridge. Line "the top and bottom of your press or pin with plastic wrap, parchment paper or baggies" when making tortillas.

White Bean Hummus & Cooking Navy Beans / Cook Perfect Beans / Sweet Chilli Seafood Ramen

Blog Post & Recipe: white bean hummus

Last week I had a hummus craving, but was fresh out of chickpeas. I looked at the silky white beans in the fridge, with a thick slick of olive oil on top and thought "why not".

A Not So Simple Pot of Beans

Blog Post & Recipe: The Best Way: Perfect Beans, Every Time

My trusted method is actually a mash-up of two, the Baking Soda Soak and the Oven Method. Both have their proponents and their sceptics, but I think together they make the perfect bean; the baking soda scrapes time off the simmering process, and the oven mimics the slow, pressure-cooked texture of canned beans.

Blog Post & Recipe: On the slurping noises – Sweet chilli seafood ramen {8}

Add a handful of scallops and prawns. While they caramelise, chop a chilli pepper and a couple of spring onions. Throw them along with the seafood. Grate a fat piece of ginger, the zest of one lime and a few garlic cloves over the pan and give it a good shake. Deglaze with half a litre of water and bring to the boil.

Cod & White Bean Stew / Chicken Stock / Duck Charcuterie 5 Ways

Blog Post & Recipe: stew & snow

and it's versatile - throw in whatever combinations of vegetables, beans, grains and fish you have on hand.

Cod & White Bean Stew

Blog Post & Recipe: homemade chicken stock

Sometimes I do it with odds and ends from a chicken: wings, neck, gizzards, other random bits. But most often, and by far my favorite way to make stock – is to use 2 carcasses of roasted chickens

Article & Recipes & Video: Duck Charcuterie 5 Ways (and Recipes).

The tender "center cuts" (breast, tenderloin, etc.) are not the only parts worth eating; in fact they are often not even the best. In the case of duck, it's a great gateway cooking experience to full on nose-to-tail: all of the parts are delicious and easy to prepare, it just takes a little time. Watch this video to see ducks turned into sausage, pate, rillette, stock, prosciutto, and confit and check out the Ruhlman/Henderson/Keller influenced recipes.

Making Herbed Lemon Cheese / Making Lunch at Work / Good King Henry

Blog Post & Recipe: Making Cheese

This cheese has a mild, milky flavor and a spreadable consistency.

Herbed Lemon Cheese

Blog Post & Recipes: 3 uber-simple lunches you can make at work in less time than it takes to go out and buy something

tips for ‘cooking’ lunch at work. 1. stock your work ‘pantry’ ... 2. stock up with the tools you’ll need ... 3. figure out the best storage options ... 4. allocate the time you need

mixed sprout & avocado salad ... white bean & tomato soup ... tomato, almond & pesto salad

Article: Alys Fowler: The renaissance of Good King Henry

The young spring shoots (that appear from April [in the UK]) can be eaten much like asparagus. Cut the first 20cm growth, remove any leaves and steam it as you would asparagus. As the seasons progress eat the leaves and the unopened flower buds as a broccoli substitute. These will merrily self-seed if left alone.

Water for Dough & Peasant Bread / Baked Apples / Chard & White Bean Stew

Article & Recipe: 52 Loaves

It’s true; I’d just read that bread must be made with spring water, for chlorine and other impurities found in municipal water inhibit yeast activity.

Building a Levain ... Peasant Bread (Pain de Campagne)

Recipe: Baked apples recipe

You could also add chopped pieces of your favourite dried fruits to the stuffing, from apricots to prunes, making this the tastiest way to use up all the bits and bobs at the back of the kitchen cupboard.

Blog Post & Recipe: chard and white bean stew

I know that unless you are a tomato and white bean junkie, as I am, the prospect of a bowl of sloshy stew built on their foundation doesn’t sound very appealing. But what transforms it, I’d argue, is the presentation. I like to place a thick slice of well-toasted, garlic-rubbed bread underneath, ladle the stew over it and finish it with a softly poached egg.

Chana Masala / Tabbouleh / Two Portuguese Dishes

Blog Post & Recipe: Spice up your life: Chana Masala

Ok, I know: chana masala does not necessarily require an entire day of stewing and futzing; unlike many curries, it is possible to build an acceptable depth of flavor in less than an hour. I, however, wanted to see what happened when it received the full treatment.

Blog Post & Recipe: Floyd’s Tabbouleh

Looking through [Keith] Floyd’s books there were lots of things I hadn’t tried and was intrigued by and more that I had made and enjoyed. Plenty of options then. In the end I settled on a simple tabbouleh not only because there are still plenty of good tomatoes around but also as it was the first Floyd recipe I ever made.

Article & Recipes: The New Portuguese Table: Exciting Flavors from Europe’s Western Coast

It was while sitting around the dinner table of my friend José Vilela, eating falling-off-the-bone partridge escabeche with a spice profile that unmoored the dish from its traditions, that I felt an internal crowbar-pop that finally freed me.

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Freezing Meat. Roasting Spuds. 30 Tomato Recipes.

Blog Post: Wrap meat for freezing as airtight as you can

Food with freezer burn is still safe to eat, but the quality is often so poor you might not want to go to the trouble of cooking it. To keep this from happening, you need to limit the food's exposure to air to encourage the water molecules to stay where they belong.

Blog Post & Recipe: the perfect spud: how to roast potatoes

i. Potato variety ... ii. To peel or not to peel? ... iii. Simmer first ... iv. Choice of oil or fat ... v. Roasting pan choice ... vi. Preheating the pan and oil ... vii. Oven temperature ... viii. Choice of flavourings ... ix. To crush or not?

crisp crushed roast potatoes

Article & Recipes: 30 days of ripe tomatoes

See the sidebar for links to more recipes.

1 Pa' amb tomaquet ... 2 Pasta with fresh tomatoes ... 3 Pasta with quickly cooked tomatoes ... 4 Pasta with tomato sauce ... 5 Tomato butter ... 6 Tomato and white bean salad ... 7 True gazpacho ... 8 Crostini with goat cheese and tomatoes ... 9 Tomato salad with pickled shallots and goat cheese croutons ... 10 Tomato summer pudding ... 11 Tomato confit I ... 12 Tomato confit II ... 13 Sautéed cherry tomatoes ... 14 Spaghetti with tuna and spicy tomatoes ... 15 Individual lasagna with slow-roasted tomatoes and pesto ... 16 Stuffed tomatoes with garlicky bread crumbs ...

... and then fourteen more recipes on the next page

Lard. Four beetroot recipes. Spinach and white bean pizza.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach, White Bean, and Taleggio Pizza

Taleggio is a nice, melty cheese that works well on pizza but adds a more pungent flavor, which we liked, since the pizza was meatless and sauceless.

Recipes: Four recipes using beets: a shooter, a salad, a soup and a burger

The names of the recipes are in the same font as the rest of the article, with no extra spacing to give them emphasis, so it's a little difficult to pick them out. But they're there.

Beet, Pear and Spinach Shooter ... Beet, Orange, Red Onion and Arugula Salad ... Hearty Beet Soup with Blue Cheese Crumble ... Beef and Beet Burgers on Pita

Article: Lard

Taken from Slate magazine's food issue.

I'm convinced that the redemption of lard is finally at hand because we live in a world where trendiness is next to godliness. And lard hits all the right notes, especially if you euphemize it as rendered pork fat—bacon butter ... The best lard is leaf lard, from the fat around the kidneys of a hog, preferably a heritage hog.

Snails. White beans & tomatoes. Tofu Cacciatore.

Article: Edible common snails

It’s very wrong to toss snails over the garden wall into your neighbours’ nasturtiums. Far better to eat them: they don’t come back from that.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tofu & Vegetable Cacciatore with Microwave Polenta

Cacciatore means hunter in Italian."Alla cacciatora" refers to a 'hunter style' meal with onion,tomatoes,bell peppers,herbs and mushroom.It is normally or popularly made with braised chicken or rabbit ...

Recipe: Baked white beans with tomatoes

These are not the traditional Boston baked beans, but rather white beans cooked with tomatoes and lots of herbs. Begin with dried Navy beans or French flageolet, which are pale green, and soak them overnight (the quick-soak method is also given here).

Broccoli soup

Recipe: The Easiest Broccoli Soup in the World!!!

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Recipe: Broccoli soup

Use the whole broccoli head, including the stalks, to make the most of those valuable anti-oxidants.

Recipe: True Blue Broccoli Soup

Serving size: Serves 4
Cuisine type: Modern Australian
Cooking time: Less than 60 minutes

Blog Post & Recipe:White bean & broccoli soup

... it’s definitely a soup for garlic lovers.

I wanted to include more vegetable in my soup, hence the addition of broccoli. While the original recipe contained risoni pasta, I had some leftover rice and used that instead.

Blog Post & Recipe: Broccoli Soup

The recipe is in the last paragraph of the post.

I started out by steaming two heads of broccoli and boiling several small potatoes until tender. The onions and leeks were cooked until softened, then 2 tablespoons of flour were added and cooked for a few minutes. The onion/leek mix, broccoli and potatoes were added ...

PB & J Shortbread Sandwiches. Soup.

Recipe: PB & J shortbread sandwiches



Recipes: 12 sensational soup recipes

Beetroot and apple bortsch ... Cauliflower and parmesan soup ... Celeriac soup with cobnuts ... Cream of fennel soup ... Jerusalem artichoke soup ... Parsnip soup with chestnuts and mixed herb pesto ... Pea and ham soup ... Pumpkin soup with chermoula ... Savoy cabbage and white bean soup ... Spiced carrot and butternut squash soup.

Spinach artichoke dip. Three soups. Tamales.

Recipe: Off-the-hook spinach artichoke dip.

The recipe comes from a Florida restaurant called Off The Hook Grill.

Article/Recipe: Pots of Gold.

Three different soups: lamb, barley and winter vegetable; white bean and garlic with grilled ciabatta; and New England clam chowder.

Blog Post/Recipe: Vegetarian banana leaf tamales.

Most tamales that we have the occasion to eat here in the US are wrapped in corn husks, the method typical of central and Northern Mexico. In the more tropical areas of Mexico and Central America, you'll commonly find tamales wrapped in banana leaves or plantain leaves, which have their own unique and subtle flavor.

Soy Milk. Bean and Cabbage Soup. Lamb Chops. Oatmeal Biscuits.

Recipe: Blue Cheese and Oatmeal Biscuits.

Recipe: Lamb Loin Chops with Madeira and Cherries.

Recipe: How to make soy milk.

Another soy milk recipe.

Blog Post/Recipe: What's in a name?

Includes a recipe for "white bean & black cabbage soup."

Inspired by Jamie Oliver’s favourite Ribollita published in Jamie’s Italy.