Soy & Star Anise Oxtail / Horchata / Beetroot Salad with Crispy Leeks & Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: Soy & Star Anise Oxtail

The oxtail needs cooking slow and low to ensure the is meat that can be sucked off the bone perfect with the spicy sticky sauce but definitely have some napkins handy .

Blog Post & Recipe: Bringing Mexico Home: Horchata

Variations include almonds, lime zest, or even pecans and popcorn. Momofuku Milk Bar serves a Horchata Soft Serve Ice Cream with Cinnamon. And adding a dash of Tequila can improve its already soothing qualities.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Salad with Crispy Leeks and Bacon

I decided to take a different route when recreating this dish at home. Instead of chicken skin, I used bacon, and instead of frying it stovetop, I used it to help make the leeks extra crispy in the oven. After a few minutes roasting together, the leeks begin to caramelize in the bacon fat, and the result is a rather rich smoky dressing for your beets.

Braised Pork Belly with Caramel-Miso Glaze / Peanut Skins / Osso Busso with Quinoa

Blog Post & Recipe: Pork Belly

This is how I cook and this is how I think about cooking. Recipes are the tip of the iceberg—it’s what’s below surface of the recipes that makes cooking so exciting.

Braised Pork Belly with Caramel-Miso Glaze

Blog Post: What's Up with Peanut Skins?

But there seem to be benefits from eating peanut skins as well. Not only are they high in fiber, but they contain reservatrol, the same antioxidant that red wine is famous for, which is also an antimicrobial, and which in lab tests has been shown to lower blood sugar and may be an important weapon in the fight against cancer.

A more recent study in 2009 showed that roasting peanuts with their skin on actually increased the amount of antioxidants in peanuts.

Blog Post & Recipe: Crock Pot Osso Busso with Quinoa

You’ll want to use a larger Crock Pot for this dish, so that your shanks aren’t piled one on top of the other; while some overlap isn’t a problem, but ideally you’ll have them sitting side by side, flat on the bottom of the crock. If you don’t want to use a slow cooker, feel free to braise your shanks in a Dutch oven or other deep, heavy dish, in the oven at 200 degrees for 3 or 4 hours.

Port-Braised Oxtail Cakes on Yellow Corn Polenta / Stir Fried Anchovies (Myulchi Bokkeum) / An A to Z of offal + 3 Offal Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Port-Braised Oxtail Cakes on Yellow Corn Polenta- It’s the Little Things

I turned a soggy pile of oxtail mush into a panko-fried cake and I put it on a round of polenta. Then I topped my savory “sundae,” but not with a cherry. Instead I used a port-poached plum.

Blog Post & Recipe: Stir Fried Anchovies (Myulchi Bokkeum)

This dish is a staple in most Koreans' refrigerator. It is easy to make, lasts for a while and can be eaten as a side dish with any meal. Also it is perfect for lunchboxes. Once you get over the weirdness of eating so many tiny fish in one bite it's really delicious.

Article & Recipes: An A to Z of offal (links to the recipes are over to the right)

Jump to: Blood | Brains | Caul | Cocks' combs | Ears | Eyes | Feet | Giblets | Heads | Hearts | Intestines | Kidneys | Liver | Lungs | Marrow | Palates | Spleen | Sweetbreads | Tail | Testicles (Fries) | Tongues | Tripe | Udder

Pig's trotters in milk recipe ... Steak and kidney pudding recipe ... Curried tripe recipe

Caldo Verde / Baking with Dark-Coloured Pans / Indonesian Oxtail Soup

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic caldo verde recipe

In its purest form, this heart-warming Portuguese broth contains nothing more than potatoes, garlic, couve gallego (a type of kale) and water.

Blog Post: Lower the heat when baking with dark-colored pans

The thing about black absorbing heat is also true for baking pans. Dark-colored pans make cakes, cupcakes or cookies bake faster so it is a good practice to lower the oven temperature by 25F.

Blog Posts and Recipes: Indonesian Oxtail Soup (Sop Buntut) Part I and Indonesian Oxtail Soup (Sop Buntut) Part II

Cooking oxtail requires a rather aggressive simmer - although not a rolling boil - to melt away all the connective tissues leaving the tender meat on the bone. This method doesn’t work in normal cuts which will simply turn tough and dry due to the lack of the protective layer.

Korean Oxtail Soup / Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms / 7 Golden Rules of Freezing & Frozen Pea Salad with Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: Korean Oxtail Soup (Tom Gang)

This soup is usually served unseasoned, with the diner adding salt at the table. I simply added some green onions for some freshness and crunch.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms

There is an optional step to making this stew taken from classic French cooking (Antonin Careme) that transforms a good dish into a great one. Mash the rabbit or chicken’s liver, mix it with crème fraiche or sour cream, then push it through a fine sieve. The result is a pink slurry that will thicken and enrich your sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: 7 golden rules of freezing food
[5 ingredients | 10 minutes]

1. don’t refreeze raw food ... 2. it is OK to thaw food, cook it and then refreeze ... 3. cool your food before freezing ... 4. freeze things asap ... 5. choose appropriate packaging / containers ... 6. allow for expansion ... 7. freeze smaller portions ... things that love to be frozen ... things that don’t freeze so well

frozen pea salad with bacon

Three Slow Cooking Recipes / Grilled Cheese & Apple Sandwich / Vegetarian Phở

Article & Recipes: Yotam Ottolenghi's slow cooking recipes

Ingredients that can withstand an age in the oven transform into the most moist, ­aromatic food imaginable.

Pear tatin ... Oxtail with everything ... Pork shoulder with citrus, maple and pomegranate sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: grilled cheese + apple sandwich

There’s nothing to it, simply slice some good, sharp cheddar cheese, a nice juicy, apple (I like Fuji), butter some tasty wheat bread and you’re on your way to old-fashioned goodness.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegetarian Phở (Vietnamese Noodle Soup)

In the interest of making vegetarian phở at home, I consulted my mother, who recalled her experience living in a Vietnamese Buddhist community that made meat-free phở broth with a medley of spices, ginger, and lots of carrots. This recipe is my interpretation.

Poached Eggs / Fish Ball & Lettuce Soup / Oxtail Pho

Blog Post: Poached eggsactly right

Cooking fans are experimenting to find the perfect way to poach eggs, reporting back online. But what works in your kitchen?

Blog Post & Recipe: Street Food of Hong Kong: Vegetable-n-Fish Soup

The authentic version adds with a lot of white pepper and sesame oil, but now I'd like to try another version that skips the two, but put into arugula to maintain a peppery taste in soup.

Recipe of White Fish Ball, Lettuce and Arugula Soup (for 2 persons)

Blog Post & Recipe: Phở Đuôi Bò (Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Oxtail). There's a follow-up post here.

Phở bò is a Vietnamese beef noodle soup; phở đuôi bò is one made with oxtail ... I like my phở broth silky with gelatin but not slick with grease, so I skim the fat pretty aggressively. To cut down on skimming efforts and to allow flavors to fully develop, I give myself a couple of days to build the broth.

Provencal Swiss Chard Tart. Roasted Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup. Oxtail Adobo.

Blog Post & Recipe: a Provencal dessert MADE FROM CHARD

So here you have it - one healthy tart for dessert. Make it and amaze your friends and mother-in-law. I was given the recipe from the cat-sitter

Provencal swiss chard tart

Blog Post & Recipe: An end to Elimination?

... the sweet potatoes are roasted whole in their skins. That way, only the skins darken and the flesh stays bright and pure. (Also, if you don’t have time to roast the sweet potatoes, I think you could get a pretty good result by just chopping up the uncooked potatotes and adding them with the stock. )

Roasted sweet potato and red lentil soup with goats cheese

Blog Post & Recipe: Oxtail Adobo

Adobo is an indigenous Filipino method of simmering in vinegar, akin to pickling. Food spoils rather quickly in oppressive tropical heat so this is our way of dealing with that little dilemma. [...] The following recipe makes a light broth meant to be served like a soup, in contrast to versions enriched with coconut milk. Before serving, grill or broil the oxtails to crisp up the fatty bits.

Oxtail Adobo Recipe (Adobong Buntot ng Baka)

Celery Fritters. 50 Best Recipes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Twenty-one Years Later ...

Celery Fritters

8 celery stalks
1 cup of flour
2 beaten eggs ...

A series of three articles from the Guardian --

Article & Recipes: 50 best simple recipes: Mighty bites

Nobu's black cod ... Le Caprice's steak tartare ... Home-style chicken curry ... Marcella Hazan's risotto with globe artichokes ... The Ivy's salmon fishcakes with sorrel sauce ... Roast potatoes ... Scott's razor clams with chorizo and broad beans ... Claridge's Yorkshire pudding ... Grandma Jeanne's roast chicken ... Caroline Conran's devilled kidney's [sic] ... My grandmother's chocolate chip and walnut cookies ... Nigel Slater's crabcakes with pea purée ... Thai prawns with salt ... Smoked haddock chowder ... Joël Robuchon's mashed potato ... My nana's onion gravy ... Jean-Georges Vongerichten's ribbons of tuna, avocado, spicy radish and ginger marinade ... My grandmother's macaroni cheese ... Fergus Henderson's roast bone marrow and parsley salad ... Nigel Slater's roast chicken wings with lemon, maple syrup and cracked pepper ... Constance Spry's boiled ginger cake ... Welsh rarebit. Not finding these challenging enough? Test your culinary expertise with recipes 22-41, for medium-skilled cooks

Article & Recipes: 50 best easy to medium recipes: Go on, you know you want to ...

Chocolate mousse ... Elizabeth David's chocolate and almond cake ... J Sheekey's fish pie ... Richard Corrigan's Irish soda bread ... Potato pie with smoked bacon and cre ème fraîche ... Jellied eels ... Caroline Conran's fish and chips at home ... My father's Turkish delight ... Gennaro Contaldo's linguine with olives, capers and tomatoes ... Meatballs ... Anna del Conte's lemon risotto ... Claudia Roden's baba ghanoush ... Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume's coronation chicken ... Apple tatin ... Moro's broad bean and dill pilav ... Simon Hopkinson's southern-style fried chicken thighs ... Michel Roux's soufflé Suisesse ... Nigel Slater's grilled chicken with fresh herb sauce ... Pork with black bean sauce ... Nigel Slater's trifle. Feeling confident? Graduate to recipes 42-50, for masterchefs

Article & Recipes: Best difficult recipes: Trotters, truffles and faggots

Piere Koffman's stuffed pigs' trotters with morels ... Gordon Ramsay's Cappuccino of white beans with grated truffles ... Raymond Blanc's coq au vin ... August Escoffier's oxtail soup ... Jason Atherton's salt and pepper squid ... Dan Lepard's carrot cake ... Angela Hartnett's chocolate and vanilla semifreddo ... Giorgo Locatelli's white truffle risotto ... Larousse Gastronomique's Bresse chicken-liver terrine

Mashed peas, mashed potatoes. Cooking with Beer. Cooking with Wine.

Blog Post/Recipe: Crushed peas and smashed roast new potatoes with garlic and rosemary.

Two vegetarian recipes from the Guardian blog.

Article: Cooking with Wine.

I AM often asked how much one should spend on wine to use for cooking.

There are a few points to consider. Firstly, I never cook with a wine I would not drink.

Recipe: Grin and Beer It, and More Beer & Beyond recipes.

Pale ale and pearl barley soup

Vintage braised oxtail ragout with white polenta
Stout and rye sourdough ice cream
Rabbit and stout casserole and Coopers damper

Anchovies, pho, soup, dessert, scallops

Article/Recipe: Easy Does it.

The culinary colossus Joël Robuchon was voted chef of the 20th century by his peers. He believes simplicity is the key to good food – and, to prove it, he introduces recipes from his Michelin-starred London restaurant, L’Atelier, that are straightforward enough to do at home

LENTIL SOUP WITH NUT OIL AND SMOKED LARDONS ... SCALLOPS WITH WATERCRESS SAUCE ... CHOCOLATE, CARAMEL AND PEANUT TART

Article/Recipe: Small fish, big flavour.

"The gutsy anchovy is one of the most versatile fish in the kitchen."
Includes recipe for Lamb leg steaks with anchovy butter.

Recipe: Braised oxtail and spring vegetable salad.

Blog post: Searching for the best pho in Melbourne