Raw Kale Salad with Walnuts, Pecorino & Lemon / Pane co' Santi (Saint's Bread) / Roasted Figs

Blog Post & Recipe: Raw Kale Salad with Walnuts, Pecorino and Lemon

Kale is such a resilient leaf it can hold up to the onslaught of olive oil, lemon juice and cheese. In other words: it’s easily corruptible. And that’s what makes a raw kale salad great.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pane co' Santi {Saint's Bread}

The dough itself is a cinch to work with...it's totally the fruit and nuts that make it. Bright bursts of sweetness from the yellow raisins and a triple-nutty punch that comes not just from the pecans and walnuts, but also seems to emanate from the olive oil that they were sautéed in.

Blog Post & Recipe: roasted figs

The heat of roasting brings the dried figs back to life. Some of them will puff up to form almost perfect globes. The honey and oil mixture gives them a thick, shiny gloss that hardens slightly as the figs cool. They come out of the oven looking like something you want to put on a Christmas tree.

Black-Eyed Pea & Bacon Eggs Benedict / Eggplant with Tomato, Garlic & Mint / 14 Christmas Breads

Blog Post & Recipe: Good Luck Benedicts

As it happens, black-eyed peas and bacon make for a really good eggs benedict.

Blog Post & Recipe: Eggplant with Tomato, Garlic and Mint

A lot of fresh mint muddled with garlic, pepper and coriander… a handsome eggplant, (try to get one with less seeds)… and a few minutes in the pan, results in a delectable side dish or to have in a wrap or sandwich or even on pasta.

Blog Post & Recipes: Bread Baking Day # 45 Round up - la raccolta

I have been hosting the last edition of 2011 Bread Baking Day, a special Christmas Edition with Special Baking Presents as theme of the month.

Recipes in English: A Tale of Two Stollen ... Blueberry Sourdough Focaccia ... Char Siu Bao ... Salted Caramel Apple Sourdough Challah ... Bolo Rainha ... Garlic Herb Braid ... Candy Cane Bread Sticks ... Irish Good Luck Bread ... Chrismassy almond cloud ... Saffron Stars ... Marzipan Stollen ... Pandoro ... Pandolce genovese ... Nadalin

Cook Bread in Cabbage Leaves / Steamed Chicken with Dried Mushrooms & Red Dates / Rose Turkish Delight

Blog Post: Cabbage Bread

These fanciful looking critters are in fact standard, easily-baked-at-home rolls encased in cabbage leaves, resulting in this cool effect ...

Recipe: Steamed Chicken with Dried Mushrooms and Red Dates

Directions: Mix together all ingredients in a steaming bowl. Cover and leave to marinate for at least 1 hr. Steam on medium low heat for about 20-25 mins or until done.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rose Turkish Delight

This is my first attempt at Turkish Delight even though it is one of my favourite sweets I have never made it before. When looking for a recipe I found there are two kinds, one you just boil the ingredients like you would jam and the other adds gelatin. I decided to make the one with gelatin ...

Strawberry Focaccia with Basil & Onions / Chicken Pie / Tender Jackfruit in Rice with Garlic & Black Pepper

Recipe: Strawberry Focaccia with Basil & Onions (also: strawberry and goat cheese focacia)

Lightly press strawberry slices into the top of the dough, then scatter onions and basil evenly across the top. Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the top and sprinkle with sea salt to taste. Bake until the focaccia is golden

Blog Post & Recipe: The Fabulous Chicken Pie (inspired by Maggie Beer)

I’ll be upfront – this dish takes a lot of effort, the pie crust, roasting the chicken, making the filling, baking… but I have never ever tasted a better pie ... Toasted walnuts, fresh herbs folded through a creamy chicken and mushroom filling lifted by hints of orange is unforgettable!

Blog Post & Recipe: Tender Jackfruit in Rice with Garlic & Black Pepper

One of my favorite is small tender jackfruit! It tastes very different from the ripe fruit. The texture is very similar to meat, especially pork. It tastes sweet, fibrous and soft. Peel the skin, cut it into chunks and boil it and it’s ready for cooking. If you don’t have access to fresh jackfruit you can also use canned.

Corned Beef, Cabbage & Kimchi Burrito / Chicken in a Bread Crust / 3 Braising Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Corned Beef, Cabbage and Kimchi Burrito

In addition to the corned beef, this burrito includes cabbage sauteed with bacon, kimchi, which is a spicy fermented cabbage, onion and cilantro relish, melted cheese and some avocado salsa verde (because it's green and it's St. Patrick's Day).

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken in a Bread Crust

I was going to cook a bread-crusted chicken of my own, using a sourdough crust ... The skin of the chicken was less golden than with the salt crust, which I suspect is more porous, but plenty of juices had collected inside, and the chicken was just as moist and flavorful.

Article & Recipes: Slowly does it: delicious braise recipes

So what are the key things to watch? For most braises the meat is browned before the liquid is added. The caramelisation and 'toasting' produced by frying in fat are essential to the end flavour. But meat won't brown if it is wet or if you crowd the pan, so dry your meat then cook it in batches. Don't use too much fat or you'll end up with an oily dish. If anything burns – garlic or onion or the fat itself – throw it out before adding liquid.

Soy-braised chicken thighs with star anise recipe ... Braised pork with apricots, ginger and lemon thyme recipe ... Braised lamb with squash, lemon and mint recipe

Good Morning Bread / Sectioning a Citrus / Breakfast Greens

Recipe: Good Morning Bread

12 g oat bran
100 g flax seeds
145 g sunflower seeds
55 g dessicated coconut
125 g almonds

Blog Post: Sectioning a citrus

There are two reasons to section1 a citrus. The first is for presentation, an elegant way to use lemons, oranges and grapefruit pieces in all kinds of recipes, from salads to cakes. The second is to remove the tough, often bitter, pith and inner membrane so that the flavor of the fruit can shine.

Recipe: Kale continues awesome

If you prefer milder food, you can add a little sriracha sauce at the beginning of cooking, or just leave it out entirely. If you leave it out, I recommend adding a squeeze of lemon juice to the finished product instead. If you like spicy food, however, you should add your sriracha after you've taken the finished greens off the heat; this keeps the hot oils from evaporating, and makes the greens much more spicy.

Breakfast greens

Spicy Lamb Pie / 5 Recipes for St. David's Day / No-Knead Bread: a Convert's Story

Blog Post & Recipe: Spicy Lamb Pie.

I reckon this pie, if fennel substituted for carrots and fish for lamb, would work wonderfully as a dish to serve to my pescetarian friends. I’d have to cook the sauce first and then add the fish just before baking – what do you think?

Blog Post & Recipes: St David's Day: recipes for a feast.

It's St David's Day, and to help celebrate we've a quintet of delicious recipes from Welsh chef Bryn Williams

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb ... Mutton and swede pie ... Pan-fried salmon with curried mussels ... Sole in a bag with courgettes and black olives ... Nain's bara brith

Blog Post & Recipe: No-Knead Bread: A Convert’s Story

I’ve revised it a little and put the flour into weights rather than volume. Steingarten uses spelt flour on the cutting board in the proofing basket, which I recommend for flavor and appearance; Lahey uses bran and no proofing basket. This is up to you.

Michael Ruhlman’s Version of Jeffrey Steingarten’s Version of Jim Lahey’s (According to Steingarten) “Miracle Bread

Roasted Cauliflower with Parmesan / Soups Without Stock / Brioche

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Roasted Cauliflower with Parmesan

I often toss my roasted vegetables with Parmesan cheese after they're cooked, but this recipe was a happy experiment where I added the cheese before I roasted the cauliflower, and it was crispy and delicious!

Blog Post & Tips & Recipe: introducing soupstones +7 tips for full flavoured soups without using stock [5 ingredients | 10 minutes]

1.use aromatic vegetables ... 2. season with soy sauce ... 3. use a full flavoured accompaniment ... 4. don’t overdo the water ... 5. season seriously ... 6. use a little acid ... 7. spice it up

broccoli & parmesan soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Gluten-Free Bread Recipe: Brioche

This gluten-free bread recipe tastes best the day it’s baked, so I recommend making the dough and storing it in the refrigerator for up to five days, baking small amounts as you need it. That’s the beauty of this recipe — the dough lasts quite a while, so you can have freshly baked gluten-free brioche every day with minimal effort.

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.

Vietnamese Beans & Rice Pudding / Kabocha Squash / 20 Bread Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Che Dau Trang - Vietnamese Beans and Rice Pudding

It seems there are a few puddings (che) in Vietnamese cuisine which can be sered [sic] either warm or cold depending on the seasons.

Article & Recipe: Kabocha squash - a sweet epiphany

I've been a kabocha fan ever since - it lends itself to quick roasting, steaming, braising and pan-frying. Prepping it couldn't be easier because, unlike other winter squashes, you don't have to peel it. It has a very tasty deep green skin with celadon stripes that's better left on.

Linguine & Kabocha

Blog Post & Recipes: All Things Bread: 20 Recipes for Buns, Loaves, and Rolls

BREAD FOR BREAKFAST:
• 1 Homemade Bialys
• 2 Breakfast In Bed: IKEA-Inspired Cinnamon Rolls
• 3 Kugelhopf Breakfast Rolls
• 4 Sticky Lemon Rolls with Cream Cheese Glaze
• 5 Quick and Homey Oatmeal Raisin Muffins
• 6 No-Knead Pumpkin Rolls with Brown Sugar Glaze
• 7 Real Irish Scones
• 8 Flour Bakery’s Classic Current Scones
• 9 Zucchini and Olive Oil Breakfast Cake
• 10 Cheddar and Leek Muffins

BREAD FOR MIDDAY MEALS & SNACKING:
• 11 Mother’s Rolls from Paula Deen
• 12 Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf with Oats and Pecans
• 13 Bacon and Cheddar Cheese Biscuits
• 14 Plantain and Macadamia Nut Bread
• 15 No-Knead Multi-Grain Peasant Bread

BREAD FOR DINNER:
• 16 Lemon and Sea Salt Focaccia
• 17 Herbed Olive Oil Fantail Rolls
• 18 No-Knead Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls
• 19 Leek, Ricotta, and Lemon Zest Flatbread
• 20 15-Minute Cream Biscuits

Hot & Sour Mushroom Soup / Five Spice Blends / Icelandic Christmas Recipes

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's hot and sour mushroom soup recipe

A variation on Asian soups such as Thai tom yum or Vietnamese pho. The key is the stock, which must be rich and hearty, with many layers of flavour.

Blog Post & Recipes: Five Spice Blends to Give for a Homemade Christmas Gift

Rosemary and Garlic Herb Rub ... Montreal Steak Seasoning ... Moroccan Spice Mix ... Rosemary Salt ... Spicy Sweet Potato Fries Spice Mix.

More Ideas for Homemade Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen ...

Blog Post & Recipes: Icelandic Christmas recipes

Starters or desserts:

* Rice pudding
* Ris a la mande
* Vanilla ice cream


Main dishes:

* Hangikjöt (smoked lamb)
* Pork rib roast
* Roast lamb
* Rock ptarmigan

Side dishes and accompaniments:

* Leaf bread
* Christmas cocktail
* Pickled red cabbage
* Caramel potatoes


Cakes and cookies:

* Gingerbread sandwich cookies
* Sarah Bernhardt cookies
* Jewish cookies
* Half-moons
* Coconut wreaths
* Siggi's cookies
* Syrup cookies
* Air cookies
* Spice cake with buttercream
* Christmas cake

Adding Old Dough to New Pizza / Moisten Boneless Chicken Meat / Four Onion Recipes

Blog Post: How to Make a Quick Pizza with Slow-Rise Flavor

Trying to decide whether to simply dispose of some old, unused, naturally leavened pizza dough or to incorporate it into my starter, I chose option three: adding the old dough to a yeasted pizza crust.

Article & Recipes: For Moister Chicken, Tuck the Flavor Inside

EVEN the best white-meat chicken has two main drawbacks, both stemming from its low fat content: it’s not particularly flavorful, and it dries out as you cook it.

Grilled Chicken Breasts Stuffed With Herb Butter ... Olive-Stuffed Chicken Breasts ... Chicken Negimaki

Of course you could just not eat that boneless cardboardy shite in the first place, but people are eccentric.

Article & Recipes: Onions; lords of the rings

Rustic brown-skinned onions come on strong and this makes them, together with garlic, essential ingredients in literally hundreds of dishes. They should have a firm flesh, crisp, papery skins and no green sprouts.

SAVOURY SHALLOT SCONES ... TRADITIONAL FRENCH ONION SOUP ... RED ONION & ORANGE SALAD ... CHINESE EGG FLOWER SOUP

Quinoa Paella / Soggy-Bottomed Bread Loaves / Cantaloupe Pasta

Blog Post & Recipe: Build a vegan-friendly paella on foundation of quinoa

Recipe included with this story: Vegan Quinoa Paella With Roasted Chorizo and Kale, Saffron-Lemon Aioli, Fresh Oregano Chimichurri

Article: Food for Fort: Black pudding, misshapen loaves, heavy pans and ricotta substitutes

I've just started using a gas oven for the first time and I'm having a problem with bread-making. While the tops of my loaves bake nicely, the bottoms stay soggy and uncooked.

Blog Post & Recipe: A Mezzaluna and the Most Unusual Pasta Dish I've Had in a Long While

Add a jar of good anchovies – Carol’s preference is for anchovies in a jar rather than a tin – and cook until they melt. Peel, seed and cut a cantaloupe into large bite-size chunks – a cantaloupe for 4 people is what Carol said.

Phyllo & puff pastry / Simple Sausage Supper / 15 Bread Recipes

Article: Phyllo and puff pastry, compared

What’s the difference between puff-pastry sheets and phyllo dough? Can they be used interchangeably?

Blog Post & Recipe: a simple sausage supper, in 3 easy steps [5 ingredients]

Best served in the middle of the table so everyone can pick at the delicious bits stuck to the pan. Keep it simple with a green salad or some wilted greens with garlic.

Blog Post & Recipes: No Croutons Required - Breads

The challenge for July was to come up with breads that go well with soups and salads ...

Coconut Roti ... Yogurt Scones with a Trio of Three Cheeses ... Whole Wheat Multi-Seeds Bread ... Dill and Cheddar Beer Bread ... Cheesy Potato and Rosemary Scones ... Sun Dried Tomato, Feta and Oregano Muffins ... Carrot Mango Pecan Bread ... Honey and Sunflower Ginger Scones ... Zucchini Loaf ... Apple Cheddar Scones ... Vegan Parsley Shortcakes ... Mini Focaccia ... Pane Toscano -Saltless Tuscan Bread ... Potato Bread ... Cloverleaf Rolls with Honey Lavender Shallot Butter Glaze

Cooking Bread / Zucchini Bread / Toast Dried Chiles

Video: How to cook: bread

Tim Hayward learns a new technique for handling dough in a bread-making masterclass with Richard Bertinet

Blog Post & Recipe: NCR Zucchini Bread

I made it after a purchase of fresh yeast necessitated some bread baking. The bread was soft with green flecks of zucchini and a golden chewy crust.

Blog Post: Why Toasting Dried Chiles Matters

The results were remarkable—just a few seconds of toasting resulted in a chile taste that was richer, deeper and more pronounced than its uncharred counterpart.

Watercress Pesto / Washing Mushrooms / Another Blogger's Favourite Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Watercress Pesto

Watercress is a perennial herb and part of the Nasturtium family and is known for its peppery flavours. As it ages though these flavours can turn bitter so it's best to use younger specimens.

Blog Post: Should you wash mushrooms?

(One of the responses comes from a poster who works in a mushroom farm -- scroll down to 'MatMatMat.')

In the red corner, we have the traditionalists – Delia, Gordon, Larousse Gastronomique – warning me to keep my precious cargo away from the sink at all costs.

Beckoning me from the blue are the hip young guns for whom rules are as old hat as Gordon himself – among them, the scientifically-minded food writer Harold McGee and his disciple Heston Blumenthal, who dismiss this ancient prohibition as 'nonsense'. Go on, they urge, give them a good old rinse.

Blog Post & Recipes: my favorite recipes from 2009

cinnamon oatmeal waffles ... millet vegetable bowl ... lemon, parmesan & chickpea cabbage salad ... strawberry rhubarb crumble ... the easiest pizza dough in the world ... bouchon's simple roast chicken ... tomato & corn biscuit pie ... stewed peppers, tomatoes & onions ... chicken thighs in riesling ... chocolate chip maple walnut cookies ... sweet potato, corn & jalapeno bisque ... better than from a bakery granola

Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs / Chicken Stew / Top 10 2009 Posts on Serious Eats

Blog Post & Recipe: Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs

The risotto was delicious but the real revelation was the anchovy crumbs , very unami and I now want to eat them on everything , thinking baked potatoes, macaroni cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Stew

What makes this stew so heartwarming are the aromatic spices – fennel, clove, cinnamon and finally some rosemary, thyme, peppercorn and crushed pepper.

Blog Post: The Year That Was: Top 10 Posts on Serious Eats

1. The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs »
2. Recipe: Rice Krispies Sushi »
3. Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever »
4. Recipe: How to Make a Choco Taco »
5. One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk »
6. Adam's Top 8 Pizzas of 2009 »
7. The Food Lab: Turkey Brining Basics »
8. A List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter »
9. The Ultimate NYC Chocolate Chip Cookie Tour »
10. Animal-Style Fries at In-N-Out Burger »

Fennel-Pastrami Gratin / Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad / One Blogger's Most Popular Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel-Pastrami Gratin (this recipe is an entry in a mass fennel-recipe gathering).

Give a fennel some pastrami and they let go of their guards. So imagine what a fennel, fronds and toasted seeds included, would become if cooked in cream with layers of pastrami and yukon gold potatoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Greatest Form of Flattery: Blatantly Copying Fergus Henderson’s Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad

If you can’t find marrow bones (we used beef bones, but veal are very popular as well), talk with your butcher about ordering some. They freeze well and can be used to thicken soups ... and stocks if you prefer not to have them roasted.

Blog Post: Top Ten from 2009

I’ve figured out how to see which recipes received the most attention from readers. So here are the 10 most popular with readers according to the blog counter I use ...

Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake ... Chocolate Zucchini Cake ... Strawberry Tiramisu ... Grilled Shrimp and Bulgur Salad ... Candied Orange Peel ... Stuffed Zucchini ... Zucchini Cheese Scones ... How To Make Homemade Pasta ... Pumpkin Ravioli with Walnut Cream Sauce ... Side Dish Salads

Some Bread Sites

Blog: Wild Yeast

I am currently a student in the professional bread and pastry program at SFBI.

Blog: A Year in Bread

What could be more satisfying than the simple yet magical process of baking your own bread?

Website: The Fresh Loaf

Welcome to The Fresh Loaf, a community for amateur artisan bakers and bread enthusiasts. This site contains featured recipes, lessons, book reviews, a community forum and recipe exchange, and baker blogs.

Blog: Toxo Bread

Some of my favourite things about baking bread are being able to decide exactly what to put in it, and how I want it to turn out (or attempt to control the latter, anyway). These also happen to be my labmates’ favourite things about my baking too

Blog: The Knead for Bread

It’s amazing what you can put into a bread. If you think about it, what ever you put in a sandwich you can put into a loaf of bread. Well … Ok, maybe not meatloaf. That would not make a good bread.

Blog: King Arthur Flour: Baker's Banter

Bread is a wonderful thing to share. The following recipe came to me via a surgical nurse at our local hospital. As we chatted prior to my shoulder surgery, we discovered our mutual devotion to bread.

Blog: Ye Olde Bread Blogge

It has been common practice in German bakerys to soak the bread from the preceding day and mix it with the new bread dough. Not only a moneysaving decision: the soaked bread makes the crumb moister, and extends the loaf’s shelf life.

Blog: The Yumarama Bread Blog

Recently upgraded from a plain web page to a blog just so that some people who’ve wanted to follow along and/or make sourdough themselves could see what was up and also get to post comments and ask questions so that it’s not such a one-direction “class”.

Blog: Bao/Bread

The texture of the bread is tighter than using whole wheat. Also the taste of rye was not strong enough. Maybe I should use rye sourdough instead of white one if I have it? Or ferment the dough for longer time without the commercial yeast? Anyway the original version with whole wheat flour does taste very good, especially the roasted hazelnut and prune

I've added these to the bottom of the sidebar.

World Bread Day / Mexican Baked Eggs / Gravadlax

Blog Post: World Bread Day

Bake or buy a bread, take pictures (if possible) and blog about it on Friday, 16th October 2009. Just one entry per blog, please.

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Mexican Baked Eggs with Black Beans, Tomatoes, Green Chiles, and Cilantro

For sure it was the Tuscan Baked Eggs I made last summer that got me thinking of eggs baked in tomato sauce but I have no idea what inspired me to try simmering the tomatoes with black beans and spicy green chiles.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gravadlax and how to make it

'Gravad lax' is Swedish for 'cured salmon' and harks back to the time when fishermen would save part of their catch by burying it in the beach. Presumably the salt in the sand had a preservative effect and a degree of fermentation held off decomposition for a while. Today, things are a little better organised. Nobody's suggesting you should bury your salmon in the garden, but you can entomb it in a salty rub, some cling film and a fridge for a couple of days and produce something magical.