Mrs Beeton’s Spiced Beef / Cook Perfect Yorkshire Puddings / Sweetbreads Sauté

Blog Post & Recipe: Mrs Beeton’s Spiced Beef

The outside cures becoming firm but leaving the inside very soft perfect for cold cuts and canapes.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect yorkshire puddings

The single most important thing to remember about yorkshire puddings is that the fat must be smoking hot before you begin cooking – you need a good sizzle as batter hits dripping.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Sweetbreads

Sweetbreads, to clarify, are a culinary term that refers to two very different organs—the thymus glands and the pancreas, the latter which is often called the "stomach sweetbread," though of course, the stomach and the pancreas are different. [...] You can sauté or pan-fry the sweetbreads with whatever flavors you like. This time, I used mustard seed and turmeric, sautéed with plenty of onions and chili peppers, for a vaguely Indian preparation that tasted nice with fragrant basmati on the side.

Sweetbreads Sauté

Bok Choy with Garlic & Ginger / Savoury Bread Pudding with Morels & Beetroot Greens / Beef, Butternut Pumpkin, Barley, Beer & Olive Stew

Blog Post & Recipe: all good

They require almost no cooking (indeed, demand it), and take to all sorts of flavor arrangements. They're lovely with mushrooms, and unctuous with oyster sauce, and downright addictive with garlic and ginger.

Bok Choy with Garlic + Ginger

Blog Post & Recipe: Savory Bread Pudding with Morels and Beet Greens – Recipe

Really there isn’t much difference between a savory bread pudding and stuffing, except that bread pudding is bound with eggs. The tricky bit is to add the richness of the custard without crushing the lightness of bread. A few simple moves help: tear the bread instead of cutting it in too uniform cubes to create more airspace.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beef, Butternut Squash, Barley, Beer and Olive Stew

Somewhere between a stew and a risotto this was going to be your standard beef stew til I realised we didn’t have many vegetables , you could use less pearl barley for a sloppier stew. The beer gives a lovely malty taste to the chewy barley, salty olives, tender meat and sweet butternut squash [...] Alternatively is you are using a slow cooker 6 hours on low with the barley added for the last hour.

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.

Cook Perfect Beef Wellington / Albóndigas Soup / 8 Braises

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect beef wellington

Simon and Lindsey observe in the preface to their beef wellington recipe that "the whole point of cooking meat in pastry is to keep in the juices ... but if the pastry is good and thin, buttery and rich, nothing is nicer than a meat-soaked crust".

Blog Post & Recipe: i just flipped that

Loaded with vegetables and a good amount of spice, I couldn’t wait for it to finish cooking. The meatballs are made with beef and pork, but the book says there are some variations depending on region. You could use chicken instead of beef, and some meatballs are wrapped around a pitted green olive.

Recipe: albóndigas soup

Blog Post & Recipes: Fork-Tender Dinners: 8 Braises to Fill Your Belly

Give it some low heat and an afternoon to baste in its own juices, and food takes on never before seen levels of flavor and tenderness.

Star Anise and Ginger Braised Chicken ... Dijon-Braised Brussels Sprouts ... Braised Lebanese Eggplant with Chickpeas ... Spice-Braised Lamb Shanks with Lentils ... Short Ribs Braised in Coffee Ancho Chile Sauce ... Braised Celery with Crunchy Bread Crumb Topping ... Apple Cider Braised Brisket ... Lamb Tagine with Chickpeas and Apricots .

Related: Food Science: Why Tougher Meats Make Good Braises

Pot Roasted Lamb & Turnip Curry / Sour Chicken Stew with Fresh Herbs & Yellow Split Peas / Beef Tongue

Blog Post & Recipe: Pot roasted lamb and turnip curry

I wanted to experiment with the combination of robust curry spicing and the technique of browning off a choice hunk of flesh before leaving to languidly blip away in the oven for hours with a bit of stock and some vegetables, then maybe stirring in a touch of dairy to enrich matters.

Blog Post & Recipe: Morgh-e Torsh - Sour Chicken Stew with Fresh Herbs and Yellow Split Peas

This is a relatively easy dish to make but the taste is just superb and every bite is so full of flavor. Food from shomal (northern Iran) has its own distinct flavor ... I changed a couple of minor things here and there in the recipe. Maryam's recipe calls for one whole chicken, I used four pieces of boneless and skinless chicken breasts which I cut into small pieces (about two pounds) and the second change is adding turmeric to the recipe.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tongue Tied

It certainly felt weird at the time but after simmering in a stock pot for a few hours with carrots, leeks, onion, celery and a bouquet garni and then leaving to cool before slicing thinly and serving with a celeriac remoulade, those initial vapours and fears soon disappeared. Instead, all that remained were wonderous salt beef flavours, reminscent of the corned kind but much more delicate and satisfying, light yet encompassing, fluid and sensuous, just the kind of thing you'd expect from a tongue.

Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich + Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches / Seafood Curry Laksa / Beef Stew with Gremolata

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Since I have picked up a few tricks along the way, I thought that it was about time that I shared them with you.

Blog Post & Recipe: Seafood Curry Laksa [via]

Laksa can be categorized into two types which is Curry and Asam, they are both soup based dishes but the difference is that the Curry is made out of coconut milk while the Asam comes from the extract of some sour fruit like tamarind.

Blog Post & Recipe: beef stew with gremolata

Now don’t get all uppity about gremolata because it’s simply a fancy word for some freshly chopped herbs, lemon zest, sea salt and a small drizzle of olive oil. It seems humble enough, but when scattered over top the hot bowl of stew, it releases some seriously delicious scents and flavours.

Key Lime Pie / Nyonya Style Pumpkin & Prawn Curry / Barbacoa Beef Cheek Tacos

Blog Post & Recipe: Key Lime Pie

I like this recipe because of the lime zest in the graham cracker crust. The filling is sweet and the zest gives some bitterness to the crust and creates a very nice flavour.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nyonya Style Pumpkin and Shrimp Curry

Now, let us get back to today’s recipe. This curry turned out relatively mild as the red chilies found here are not that spicy and the sweet pumpkin did neutralize the heat a little.

Blog Post & Recipe: Cook the Book: Barbacoa Beef Cheek Tacos

For those who are unaccustomed to cheek meat, braising it for tacos does wonders to accessibility because, after all, there's really nothing all that scary about a taco (right?). But odd cuts aside, these beef cheek tacos are pretty incredible. They're marinated in a mole-esque blend of spices, chiles, coffee, and peanut butter with a deep yet mellow spiciness that permeates the cheeks beautifully.

Concept: braise beef cheeks

3 Mushroom Recipes / Creamy Spinach Soup / Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce

Blog Post & Recipes: What’s for Dinner? – Mushroom Masters Dinner Duel

We’ve arrived at the mid-way point of our Mushroom Masters 2011: A Tournament of Taste!

Mushroom Wellington ... Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Tacos ... Marsala Mushroom Cream Sauce over Beer Braised Beef

Blog Post & Recipe: Desperation Dinners: Salad Soup (i.e., Creamy Spinach Soup)

A quick perusal of my refrigerator and pantry saved the evening, producing a couple of bags of spinach, some pearl onions, a block of cream cheese, fresh garlic, chicken stock, and an assortment of dried herbs and spices. While I brought the chicken stock to a simmer, I gave the spinach a quick chop ... then dropped it into the stock, along with the pearl onions, garlic, and herbs. After a quick cook, I added the cream cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce

I am a fan of cilantro, so for today's post, I thought I would serve up something cool and refreshing, that highlights vibrant herbs and vegetables. Perfect for these hot summers, you will find these Vietnamese-style Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce satisfying with the crunch of carrots and cucumber, the coolness of slippery bean threads (rice vermicelli), succulent seafood, and peppy herbs such as mint, cilantro and basil.

Beetroot, Peach & Radicchio Salad + Artichoke & Silverbeet Risotto / Panang Curry with Beef / China Chilo

Blog Post & Recipe: Passionate by design

Red salad (beetroot, peach and radicchio) ... Artichoke and silverbeet risotto

Blog Post & Recipe: Panang Curry with Beef | แกงพะแนงเนื้อ

I followed the general protocol for most Thai curries - heat the thicker part of the coconut milk over medium heat until it just starts to bubble and separate, add the curry paste, cook the meat, add more coconut milk and/or water, and adjust the seasonings.

Blog Post & Recipe: China Chilo

In The Spirit of Cookery: A Popular Treatise on the History, Science, Practical, Ethical and Medical Import of Culinary Art, (1895) by J.L.W. Thudicum, this was described as “a ragout of green peas and mutton, stewed with some onions, lettuce, butter and spices, to be served with rice boiled in broth and moistened with butter. This is a most excellent dish, and is most conveniently eaten with a dessertspoon.’

Green Mango & Papaya Salad / Braised Beef & Burdock / Fesenjān With Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Green Mango and Papaya Salad | ยำมะม่วงมะละกอ

I don't think this Thai-inspired salad is that far off from what you might expect to find in Thailand. I simply mixed the shredded mango and papaya with basil and mint, added some freshly roasted cashews, and then drizzled the typical Thai salad dressing of fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, and chilis over top.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised Beef and Burdock

In this braise, the iron rich burdock not only provides a texture contrast, it also adds an earthy flavor that goes well with the miso. The tomatoes and wine contribute sweetness and a fruity aroma and that balances out the earth-tones. Lastly, the collagen rich shank produces meltingly tender morsels of meat that adds richness and body to the stew.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fesenjān With Chicken

Fesenjān is one of those many great Iranian dishes that becoming so popular among my family. The deliciousness, nutty, fruity, sweet and slightly tangy flavor is tantalizing. One might think that this dish require times to prepare. It just the oposite, and though it sounds exotic, ingredient such as pomegranate molases, or pomegranate syrup are readily available in most grocery store. You can use any poultry for this dish, I suppose any meat will be delicious as well.

Ginger Switchel / Prepare and Cook Beef Heart / Saffron Pistachio Kulfi

Blog Post & Recipe: Drink Recipe: Ginger Switchel

Dating back to the early American colonies and possibly the Caribbean before that, this vinegar and ginger drink became known as haymaker's punch in the 19th century, when it was served to quench farmers' thirst during the hay harvest.

Blog Post & Video: How To Prepare and Cook Beef Heart

To prepare the beef heart for cooking, cut away all the fat, any obviously squishy tissue, connective tissue, valves, papillary muscles and tendineae attached to the valve flaps; it should be obvious by sight what’s good to eat and what’s not. You want clean dense muscle only; you’ll have a lot of trim—don’t make yourself too crazy trying to get every last bit.

Grilled Beef Heart with Herbed Vinaigrette

Blog Post & Recipe: Saffron Pistachio Kulfi - An Indian Ice Cream

Kulfi is an Indian answer to ice cream. Unlike the western ice cream kulfi is a milk based ice cream which is not churned but is more creamy than usual fare. Traditionally the milk is reduced to half by heating the milk over a long period of time which gives it a nutty and distinct flavor. The traditional flavors are of saffron, pistachio and almonds but these days you will find fruit kulfi's as well.

4 Mexican-Armenian Recipes / Unagi Kabayaki / Roasted Capsicum with Capers & Mozzarella

Article & Recipes: Marrying Mexican and Armenian cuisine

Armenians, just like Mexicans, love the comingling of sweet and sour and spicy and mild; they love strong flavors like lamb and garlic.

Stuffed grape leaves ... Pilaf with topping ... Carne asada ... Jocoque dip

Blog Post & Recipe: Unagi Kabayaki [via]

If you like Japanese food, and have had unagi kobayaki--broiled eel--at Japanese restaurants, you will be surprised at how easy it is to make at home. When I was making this dish, I thought of my nephew Tyler. He really likes unagi. I thought, 'How can Ty make this at his house in Oregon?' Simple. Just like my grandfather did--in a pan on top of the stove.

Blog Post & Recipe: roasted peppers with capers and mozzarella

I will turn on the oven for one thing, and that is to roast my peppers for the better part of an hour. I prefer this over blistering them on the stove, which makes them easy to peel but not supple and sweetly cooked as they get in the oven. After peeling their skin and cutting them into strips, I let them sit overnight in some salt, pepper, garlic and red wine vinegar which punched up their flavor a bit.

Thai Green Curry Paste & Tilapia Baked in Thai Green Curry / Korma Chicken Curry / Collared Beef

Blog Post & Recipe: Thai Green Curry Paste (The blogger goes on to post a recipe for Tilapia Baked in Thai Green Curry)

Thai curry pastes freeze well so I like to divide the curry paste into several 2 tablespoon portions and freeze them and that way whenever I fell like a Thai curry I can just pull one out of the freezer and be ready to go.

Blog Post & Recipe: Korma Chicken Curry Recipe {via]

Instead of coconut milk, you can also use natural yoghurt as the cream in this curry - the recipe I adapted this dish from suggests the addition of some fresh lime juice to thick coconut milk which results in your very own coconut yoghurt which was extremely delicious I must say.

Blog Post & Recipe: Old English Beef

Simply put, it is a thin piece of flank steak, tightly rolled up, wrapped in cheesecloth, tied tightly, and simmered for hours in a broth of water infused with fragrant spices. After this, the meat, encased in its cheesecloth shroud, is removed from its bath and transferred to the refrigerator, where it is pressed with a heavy weight until it compresses and chills

COLLARED BEEF

Ricotta Cheesecake / Potato Croquettes / Kebab-E-Dayg: Kebab Curry

Recipe: Ricotta Cheesecake

Note: This cheesecake needs some form of starch to absorb the liquid in ricotta. Matzo Meal works best.

Blog Post & Recipe: Frying again

Now in possession of modest croquette experience, in the knowledge of both croquette success and croquette failure, may I offer you the following advice. You want to make a nice firm mash: floury potatoes mashed with butter and seasoned generously. Allow the mash to cool for at least 30 minutes.

Potato croquettes

Blog Post & Recipe: Kebab-E-Dayg: Kebab Curry in the Pakistani Manner

And some days I yearn for kebab-e-dayg, a kebab dish prepared in a large pot; a dayg. A rich tomato sauce is prepared with a fragrant base of caramelised onions and garlic to which kebabs are added and simmered till the sauce has seeped into each tender piece. Mopped up with a light-as-air chapati or drenched over mounds of basmati rice, it is the taste of winters at home in my maternal grandmother, Nani Ami’s home.

Sopa de Carne / Roasted Mango & Habanero Salsa / 7 Chinese & Filipino Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Sopa de Carne

While the beef and olives impart rich and bold flavors, the soup is broth-y and unexpectedly light. It doesn’t look or feel greasy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Mango and Habanero Salsa

Of course, there was a little thinking required about what to actually do with this salsa. (As if eating this intensely sweet concoction balanced with just the right amount of fire with a spoon out of the food processor wasn’t good enough.)

Blog Post & Recipes: Chinese New Year Menu (2011)

Sichuan "Crossed Hands" Wonton Dumplings, Two Ways ... Mao's Hunan Red-Braised Pork (毛氏紅燒肉) ... Pancit Canton (Philippine Braised Egg Noodles) ... Whole Chicken ... Baked Tahong (Mussels) ... Braised Napa Cabbage with Abalone ... Whole Fish

Herbed Beef Skewers with Horseradish Cream / Lobster Bisque with Lobster Ice Cream / Slow Roast Paper-Wrapped Leg of Lamb

Slideshow & Recipe: Herbed Beef Skewers with Horseradish Cream

His marinated sirloin roll-ups are tender and succulent, and the rosemary skewers make for a pretty sensational presentation. The horseradish cream is tangy and lush, with a dual zip from both pink peppercorns and the prepared horseradish.

Blog Post & Recipe: lobster bisque with lobster ice cream

This lobster double feature is something that appealed to us for many reasons: the cold/hot thing, the sweet/ savoury thing, and naturally the whole weird idea of lobster ice cream. (See our bourbon and cigar ice cream, inspired by last year’s escape to Cuba.)

Blog Post & Recipe: It's a wrap

A great way of cooking it is to seal it in paper before roasting slowly. The paper seals in all of the juices meaning that flavour is high and you lose none of that essential gravy making stuff. It's also fuss free, something that you can prepare in advance and then leave to cook

Slow roast paper wrapped leg of lamb

Fennel with Meat (Etli Rezene) / Horchata / Filmjölk

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel with Meat (Etli Rezene)

The Aegean cuisine in Turkey is known for its greens. It is truly unbelievable how many different green plants/weeds and in how many different ways the Aegeans can cook.

Blog Post & Recipe: Going Nuts for Horchata

The drink owes its creamy consistency to the combination of almonds, rice, and barley (and sometimes even sesame or melon seeds) that make up the recipe. Horchata is prepared by blanching and soaking almonds, pulverizing rice and barley, combining all of the ingredients in a blender and straining the mixture with cheesecloth.

Blog Post: Let’s Get Cultured! Filmjölk!

I have been making my own yogurt for about two years now and so far filmjölk, a Swedish countertop cultured yogurt is my favorite. There are several reasons why, the first is the absolute breeze it is to make. You don’t need any special equipment. To make your first batch all you need is the bacteria culture, some milk and cream and a clean mason jar.

Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa / Bravas Potatoes & Romesco Sauce / 3 Iranian Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa

Chiles, garlic, lime and oil. Apply heat and then a blender. They are transformed into one of the best salsas I have ever eaten. The garlic allows this to emulsify into a surprisingly creamy sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Brava

I did a spin on patatas bravas, a popular Spanish tapas item that often calls for frying the potatoes and serving them with a romesco-like sauce ... Easily the best roasted potatoes I have ever made

Speedy Romesco Sauce

Article & Recipes: Middle Eastern food: Persian pleasures on a plate

In its fragrant yet robust cuisine, Iran could almost be a Mediterranean country. Dishes use handfuls of fresh herbs, as well as more exotic ingredients such as nuts, flower waters and dried limes.

Persian rice pudding recipe ... Duck fesunjun recipe ... Ash-e sak spinach soup with spicy beef koofteh recipe

Mock Turtle Soup / Chad's Country Loaf / 10 One-Pot Meals

Article & Recipe: Reveillon Dinner and Turtle Soup: A Creole Holiday Tradition

A typical early Reveillon menu had Daube Glace or veal grillades, egg dishes, breads, and puddings, and would often include turtle soup and oysters.

Mock Turtle Soup

Metafilter Post & Recipe: Tartine

Cool little video profile of Chad Robertson, co-owner, with his wife, Elisabeth Prueitt, of San Francisco's Tartine bakery. Chad is obsessed with bread.

Chad's country loaf ... panade ... "Kale Caesar" salad ... Brown Bread Ice Cream.

Blog Post & Recipes: 10 One Pot Wonders [via]

So here's 10 One Pot Wonders that result is great meals and easy cleanup!

Hearty Beef Stew ...Arroz con Pollo ... Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic ... Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon ... Chicken Canzanese ... Hungarian Goulash ... Chicken & Shrimp Jambalaya ... Vietnamese style Caramel Chicken ... Really Good Classic Pot Roast ... Tequila Lime Shrimp

Butternut Squash Baked Risotto / 5 Hash Recipes / 6 Polenta Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Butternut Squash Baked Risotto

I was tempted enough by this recipe's technique to try it: rather than trying to slowly coax out the starch from the rice, the liquid is added all at once, then the pot is covered and slipped into a hot oven.

Article & Recipes: What makes a good hash

The gist is this: Simple, hash should be, sloppy, it should not. You can let your leftovers be your prompt

Curried pork and apple hash ... Diner-style roast beef hash ... Chicken, chorizo and green chile hash ... Autumn vegetable hash ... Smoked salmon hash

Article & Recipes: How to make perfect polenta

Polenta needs to be stirred. Stirring breaks down the bits of corn and develops starches. Once finished, polenta should be lightly textured, smooth, and rich at the same time.

Polenta ... Chicken with Herbed Polenta ... Soft Polenta With Roasted Delicata Squash Rings and Green Olive Tapenade ... Red Wine-Braised Lamb Ragout with Creamy Polenta and Salsa Verde ... Paprika Shrimp with Polenta and Red Pepper Sauce ... Borlotti Beans in Tomato Sauce with Creamy Polenta