Beetroot & Goat Cheese Quiche / Christmas Mead / Faux Pho

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet and goat cheese quiche

There were several delicious ingredients contained within this meal, including the beets, red onion and leek

Blog Post & recipes: Christmas Mead for Wassailing

I bottled it on the early side (eight days) so it’s retained its honey sweetness, with distinct cinnamon and orange notes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Faux Pho

With its strong cinnamon and ginger flavors lending complexity to the beef broth, and the ability to add as much spicy heat from the raw serrano peppers as you’d like, it makes for an excellent Winter warmer, when you just can’t face another bowl of corn chowder from the freezer.

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.

Turkey Meatballs with Guava Sauce / Vanilla Beetroot Cake / Perfect Roast Beef

Recipe: Turkey Meatballs with Guava Sauce (Albóndigas de Pavo con Salsa de Guayaba)

I served them with guava sauce on the side and absolutely loved the combination of the sweet guava sauce with the turkey.

Blog Post & Recipe: Emma’s Vanilla Beet Cake (Gluten-Free)

It is a wonderfully moist cake that I think would lend itself beautifully to a nice cream cheese frosting. You don’t taste the beets in it, if anything; the beets add an extra wonderful earthy sweetness.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Perfect Roast Beef

One of the best parts of the roast beef is the slightly caramelized outside and to get that we want to keep moisture away and prevent steaming the meat. Roasting at the higher temperature at first will help with the channelization and starting with a dry piece of meat is important.

Toad-in-the-Hole / Korean Kimchi Stew / Mushroom & Beetroot Frittata

Blog Post & Recipe: Classic English Toad-in-the-Hole

I first posted a recipe for Toad in the Hole back in 2003. I wasn't quite satisfied with that recipe, and based on feedback from readers and a bit more experimentation, recently updated the recipe.

Blog Post & Recipe: Korean Kimchi Stew

I first came across Soondoobu Jiggae (or, soft tofu stew to me and you) at Koba, on Charlotte Place. A bubbling stew in a hot stone pot, it as packed with little clams, silky soft tofu and the punchy heat of kimchi. Further exploration with my chopsticks revealed a perfectly poached egg in the broth.

Blog Post & Recipe: Mushroom and beetroot frittata

Frittatas are easy-peasy, weeknight food. Something you can make in one pan, cram full of vegetables and top with whatever is in the fridge. Nutritionally this particular frittata combines antioxidant rich beetroot, with B vitamin and antioxidant containing mushrooms, plus protein packed eggs. I topped the frittata with a dairy free kind of pesto, made from coriander, miso, garlic and walnuts.

Pickled Cabbage Rolls with Mushroom & Brown Rice Stuffing / Beetroot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting / Chicken Katsu Don

Blog Post & Recipe: Pickled Cabbage Rolls with Mushroom and Brown Rice Stuffing

This is the vegan version of the Romanian traditional dish "sarmale" which usually contains ground pork/beef meat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot cake with cream cheese frosting

The recipe is based on Joanne Chang’s classic carrot cake recipe from Flour. If you don’t like beetroot, make it with carrot, and be sure to make it in your favourite baking pan.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Katsu Don

My mom always make Chicken Katsu with chicken tenders so that’s how I make it, but you can use chicken breasts or thighs. If you use chicken breasts, make sure to cut each piece thin so it will cook faster ... Even though you don’t like deep frying, shallow deep frying is less scary and the easiest way to deep fry.

Lamb & Pine Nut Sausage Rolls / Beetroot, Citrus & Ginger Juice / Curried Prawns with Cucumbers

Blog Post & Recipe: lamb and pine nut sausage rolls

prep time: 25 minutes
cook time: 40mins + cooling time (10-15mins)
makes 40 sausage rolls

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot, Citrus & Ginger Juice

It's hard to describe perfection, but imagine an earthy-sweet jewel coloured drink redolent with the mild flavour of beetroot as base with a few citrus-y top notes and a hit of sinus-clearing ginger to round it off.

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Shrimp with Cucumbers

The shrimp and cucumber, which is cooked just beyond the tender-crisp stage, keeps things nice and light to balance out the rich coconut sauce. And you've got two options for the sauce. You can use a whole can of coconut to get a nice and soupy curry, which would saturate and flavor the bed of rice, or cut back to make things a less saucy.

Beetroot with Shallots & Herb Butter / Slow Roast Whole Celeriac with Salt Crust / Guavas Poached in Vanilla Syrup with Star Anise

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetrooted bliss

Here the fragrant creaminess of herb butter and the savoury moreish-ness of melting charred onion acts as a delicious smokescreen for discovering the real star of the show.

Beetroot with shallots and herb butter

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe: Trina Hahnemann’s Slow Roast Whole Celeriac with Salt Crust

Preperation time for this is 5 minutes, tops. Clean your celeriac and cut off only the most grizzly bits. Leave the skin on, it’s delicious, nutritious and gives the crust great texture.

Blog Post & Recipe: guavas poached in vanilla syrup with star anise

I made a sugar syrup with 2 cups water and 3/4 of a cup of sugar and brought this to the boil adding a split and scraped vanilla pod and 3 star anise pods. I didn’t bother peeling the fruit, just sliced off the ends, and added this to the syrup allowing it to gently simmer for about 10 – 15 minutes.

20 Sandwiches / Veggie Summer Rolls with Shiso & Thai Basil / Buckwheat-Filled Mushrooms

Recipes: 20 Fun Sandwiches for Your Sack Lunch

Steak Sandwich with Cucumber, Ginger Salad, and Black Chile Mayonnaise »
Grilled Portobello and Peach Sandwich »
Roasted Tomato and Lentils in a Pita »
Salame ala Diavolo »
Avocado and Sprout Club Sandwich »
Curried Egg Salad »
Roasted Beet, Goat Cheese, and Avocado Sandwiches »
Roast Beef Sandwich with Boursin »
The TMT: Tomato, Mayo, And Toast »
Tomato Mozzarella Sandwich »
Whatta Tuna Sandwich »
Bacon, Pear, and Cheese Sandwich »
Turkey and Coleslaw Sandwich »
Asparagus and Bacon on Buttered Toast »
Grandmother's Egg Salad (Sandwich) »
Deconstructed Club Sandwich Salad »
Deviled Ham Salad Sandwich »
Crunchy Chicken Salad Sandwiches with Bacon »
Broccoli Rabe, Roasted Red Pepper, Mozzarella, and Arugula Sandwich »
Flounder Sandwich Marinated in Fish Sauce, with Sriracha Mayo »

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Veggie Summer Rolls with Shiso and Thai Basil

In order to make summer rolls, though, you must have at least two essential ingredients: rice wrappers, and mung bean starch noodles ... You basically make like a burrito.

Blog Post & Recipe: Buckwheat filled mushrooms

I love the crunchy buckwheat and I rather under-cook it just a little than let it go all mushy and porridge-like. Pared with rosemary (a little garlic and lemon zest too , if you wish) and tiny bit of cheese they are such a simple thing to enjoy.

Roast Eggplant with Tomatoes & Mint / 2 Beetroot Soups / Quick Preserved Lemons /

Blog Post & Recipe: roasted eggplant with tomatoes and mint

This is like eggplant bruschetta, except the eggplant is the bruschetta, topped with a Mediterranean summer salsa of a salad.

Blog Post & Recipes: Rich Beet Soup

The winner? The beauty alone of these soups make them worth a try. However, the wonderful earthiness of the Roman recipe can’t quite beat out the overall winning qualities of the modern dish.

Roman-style Beet Soup Recipe ... Modern Beet Soup Recipe

Blog Post & Recipe: Quick Preserved Lemons

So I was pretty thrilled to find out that it's possible to cheat and do a quick preserve. You just chop up some lemons, let them sit in salt and sugar for a couple hours and voilà... they're good to go.

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.’

4 Recipes from Sri Lanka / Veal Brains alla Milanese / Corn and Tomato Pie

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipes from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a culinary paradise, showing off the delights of delicate spicing – and lashings of fresh coconut milk

Cardamom and yogurt cake recipe ... Quick Sri Lankan greens recipe ... Beetroot badum recipe ... Lobster curry recipe

Blog Post & Recipe: Using Your Grey Matter: Veal Brains alla Milanese

Thus, the dish you see before you is a play on the combination of eggplant parmigiana and veal or chicken milanese: a roasted eggplant-wrapped package of red sauce and mozzarella seats a pair of breaded and deep-fried brains in cross-section.

Blog Post & Recipe: Corn and Tomato Pie

With field tomatoes being at their peak right now it was difficult to pass up on a pie that used them along with the corn that I had started the search for. Add to that the use of mayonnaise, cheddar cheese and fresh summery basil and you had a winner that was impossible to resist! I tweaked the recipe a bit replacing the chives with green onions and adding some applewood smoked bacon for even more flavour.

Beetroot Cake / Braised Duck with Mashed Potatoes & Gravy / 10 Ideas for Eggplant

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot Cake Recipe

I was a little concerned about the extra baking powder combined with self raising flour. However the cake is quite dense and needs the extra raising agent.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised duck with mashed potatoes and gravy

After the very fruity duck breast fillet with pineapple, orange and ginger sauce, this second dish is French inspired as it uses the trifecta of vegetables that many French dishes start with — onion, celery and carrot. The duck is seared in a pan but finishes braising inside the oven. The pan juices are used to make the gravy.

Recipes: In Season Now: 10 Ideas for Eggplant

Braised Eggplant and Tomatoes ... Ratatouille ... Rigatoni with Eggplant and Pine Nut Crunch ... Roasted Eggplant Caviar ... Eggplant Gratin ... Eggplant Wraps with Goat Cheese ... Stuffed Baby Eggplants with Lamb ... Ajvar: This roasted pepper and eggplant spread works spread on sandwiches or as dip ... Baba Ghanoush ... Grilled Eggplant with Lebneh

Related: Learning to Love Eggplant: How to Pick 'Em, Cook 'Em, and Eat 'Em

Carrot-Beetroot Salad / Garlic Scape Pesto / 13 Sauces (Pesto, Dressing, Salsa, Etc)

Blog Post & Recipe: carrot-beet salad

One of my favourite ways to change up boredom from green salads is to make a salad of grated vegetables. Coleslaw is all fine and good, but why leave it at that?

Blog Post & Recipe: The great garlic (e)scape

When I said "garlic scape", a friend thought I meant a painting depicting a crop of the infamously stinking rose. I would have assumed the same thing had I not been formally introduced to this tasty garlic flower stem (scape) that, according to Wikipedia, comes from the hardneck and elephant types of garlic.

Garlic Scape Pesto

Blog Post & Recipes: Some of my Favorite Sauces

So, here are some of my favorite sauces. All pretty easy.

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa ... Roasted Tomato Salsa ... Red Chile Sauce ... Sweet and soy dressing ... Honey-Lime dressing ... Orange-Shallot ... Thai Peanut Sauce ... Traditional Pesto ... Chimichurri ... Balsamic Strawberry Fruit Butter with Chiles ... Stone Fruit and Fig Chutney ... Cranberry Sauce with Tart Oregon Cherries and Red Onions ... Honeyed cinnamon applesauce ... Salted Caramel Sauce.

Beetroot Tzatziki / Caramelised Cauliflower with Oranges, Olives & Saffroned Cous Cous / Catalan Tomato Bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Tzatziki

4 small beets roasted until tender, 2ish cups of greek yogurt, one clove of garlic grated, juice of a lemon, salt and pepper, blend until delicious.

Blog Post & Recipe: Caramelized Cauliflower with Oranges, Olives and Saffroned Cous Cous

Last time cauliflower made an appearance on the blog, I cooked it like a steak for a bunch of vegans. Well the leftover cauliflower florets from that dinner were sitting in a bowl in my fridge last week and inspiration struck again. Here's what I did.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pan con tomate – Catalan tomato bread

Grill the slices of bread until golden, and rub each slice with the garlic pieces, which will wear down to nubbins as you go. Cut a tomato in half and rub it on a garlicky slice of bread, pushing as you go to make sure the juices and seeds are pressed into the piece of bread. Discard the pulp. Pour a generous slug of olive oil over each slice of tomato bread, and sprinkle with a little salt.

Cantaloupe & Beetroot Juice / Summer Squash & Basil Frittata / Eggplant with Buttermilk Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Cantaloupe & Beet Juice

If you think you hate beets, I would definitely encourage you to try this because the sweetness of the melon complements the beet perfectly and gets rid of that "earthy" taste that tends to go along with beets.

Blog Post & Recipe: Summer squash & basil frittata

Grating summer squash renders it simple to incorporate into a variety of recipes, and I often stir sautéed squash into risottos and pasta sauces. The yellow squash in this frittata lends some nutty heft to one of my favorite easy meals, and goat cheese and basil dress it up for brunch or dinner.

Blog Post & Recipe: Aubergines with Buttermilk Sauce

The recipe is rather easy and straightforward, essentially requiring you to roast the aubergines for about 40 minutes until they are soft and bronzed in colour. The aubergines are then left to cool, during which time you can make the buttermilk sauce and extract the seeds from the pomegranate.

Chicken, Leek & Fennel Pie with Cream Cheese Pastry / Roast Beetroot & Chickpea Salad / Pandan Lamingtons

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken, Leek and Fennel Pie with Cream Cheese Pastry

Recipe adapted from Maggi Beer’s Chicken, Grape and Champagne Pie (from the cookbook Maggi’s Kitchen and online).

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Beet & Chickpea Salad

This is an easy salad and was delicious at room temperature or cold from the fridge. The fresh mint goes really nicely with the earthy flavor of the sweet beets.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pandan Lamingtons

I adapted a recipe for plain lamingtons by adding some pandan essence paste to the sponge cake. It was quite convenient that the recipe used a chocolate ganache rather than a cocoa icing for the coating, as I was able to switch it to white chocolate ganache which was a much better match for that lovely soft & fluffy green pandan cake.

Melanzane Sott’Olio (Pickled Eggplant) / Cold Borscht / Chicken & Sweet Potato Hotpot

Blog Post & Recipe: Marie’s Melanzane Sott’Olio (Pickled Eggplant) [ via ]

One of the antipasti served at the start of this dinner was a traditional Sicilian pickled eggplant – melanzane sott’olio.

Blog Post & Recipe: cold borscht – chilled beet soup

That tang of the sour cream, the floral cool of the cucumber, the slight bitterness of dill – that’s the stuff you remember years later

Blog Post & Recipe: Angela Hartnett's chicken and sweet potato hotpot recipe

Hotpot is a traditional Lancashire dish made from mutton and topped with sliced potato ... This is my summer version – it has the same characteristics as a solid one-pot wonder, but with lighter ingredients.

Harissa / Beet-Stuffed Beetroot / Jellyfish

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Harissa

The ingredients are dried adobo chilis, sundried tomatoes, olive oil garlic, coriander, and caraway ... There are as many ways to use harissa as there are ways to use hot sauce. I tried it out with toasted pita bread, butter, and hard boiled eggs first.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Stuffed Beets

I almost like the greens more than the beets themselves! As soon as I get a bunch of beets i chop off the greens and thoroughly wash them to remove all the dirt. They are awesome in salads. But I wanted to do something more with them. I figured it would be fun to stuff a beet… with beet greens.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Jellyfish

Dress the jellyfish in chili oil and a bit of soy sauce, Sichuan peppercorns, and a lot of oil made fragrant with browned garlic and scallions. The mixture tastes good with tripe, jellyfish, or even cold-dressed noodles, for that matter. The oil enriches the jellyfish, which has fairly bland flavor for all its textural excitement.

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

Vietnamese Daikon & Carrot Pickles / Oregano Roasted Beets with Garlic Scapes / Turmeric Ginger Beer

Blog Post & Recipe: Vietnamese Daikon and Carrot Pickles

They're a little like bread and butter pickles, though crispier, not as sweet, and with a slight radish taste from the daikon.

Blog Post & Recipe: Oregano Roasted Beets with Garlic Scapes

Since beets are so sweet all on their own, they need little sprucing up. (Fun fact: Beet sugar makes up about 40% of the world’s sugar.) Here, I simply doctored them up with some garlic scapes and a few sprigs of fresh oregano.

Blog Post & Recipe: Turmeric Ginger Beer

But even when I got the carbonation just right in these recipes (which does take a little precision), brewed ginger beers did not have that fresh spicy kick that I love. In the end, I got the best results from the simplest method. Make a ginger-infused syrup and top with soda water and fresh lemon juice.