Brioche / Stuffed Marrowbone / Beetroot Green & Bulgur Soup with Poached Eggs

Blog Post & Recipe: Brioche

If you're patient, in a few hours you can make brioche. You just need a teaspoon of yeast, a half dozen eggs and almost half a pound of butter along with the usual breadlike suspects.

Blog Post & Recipe: Stuffed marrowbone

Keep the bones you have so pain-stakingly cleaned for the next time - you can even put them in the dishwasher, leave them to dry thoroughly and store in a dry place - just like scallop shells

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Green and Bulgur Soup with Poached Eggs

It's the egg, though, that really makes this soup. Poached in this satiny broth, the egg becomes extraordinarily creamy. When you break the yolk with your spoon, and the egg infuses the broth with its golden yellow goodness, it's an absolute revelation.

Fig & Pear Semi-Freddo / Stuffed Chard with Bulgur & Cheese / Rhubarb & Quinoa Breakfast Bowl

Blog Post & Recipe: homemade fig and pear semi-freddo

Semi-freddo is a lovely way to get the idea of ice-cream without all the bother, fluster and equipment needed to produce it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Stuffed Chard with Bulgur and Cheese / Lorlu Pazı Sarma

The recipe is from Sahrap Soysal, a popular Turkish chef, food connoisseur and writer, whose book Bir Yemek Masalı won several Gourmand Awards in 2004 in Spain, including "Best Local Cookery Book in the World."

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy rhubarb and quinoa breakfast bowl

Give the rhubarb a quick wash and cut off any leaves, plus an inch or so of stem from either end. Chop the rhubarb into inch long segments and place in a ceramic bowl. Add a splash of water or a squeeze of orange juice and a scant tablespoon of honey ...

Mutton or Lamb Tangine / Split Pea Tom Yum Soup / Recipes For Couscous, Bulgar & Quinoa

Blog Post & Recipe: Mutton Tagine

Mutton ( or Lamb) Tagine , is one of the most recent dishes a long-standing favourite of mine , however I have usually cook it in a Le Cruset in the oven but wanted to see how this dish would work in a slow cooker.

Article & Recipe: How to take soup for lunch: Abandon the Can

She laughed and said, “It’s my new lunch soup. Lentils and vegetables, cooked with some light coconut milk and a bit of tom yum paste."

Related recipe: Split Pea Tom Yum Soup

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's couscous, bulgur and quinoa recipes

They may be seemingly insignificant granular particles, but their punch can be mighty, as they're perfectly formed for delivering hefty whacks of flavour, which they steal greedily from herbs, garlic and spices in salads, stir-fries and soups.

Turkish bulgur and red lentil soup ... Quinoa stir-fry with kale chilli and nuts ... Couscous with squash, sultanas and pumpkin seeds

Tchicha bel Khoubiz. Mapo tofu. Hummus.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tchicha bel Khoubiz

If there is anything that keeps me from preparing North African inspired cuisine regularly, it’s the time consuming aspect. ... It was a sort of jackpot then that I discovered Tchicha bel Khoubiz , or Bulghur with Greens.

Article & Recipe: Mapo tofu as it was meant to be

Look to the sidebar on the left for the link to the recipe.

Fermented broad-bean sauce, chili-sesame oil, and Sichuan peppercorns are available in most Asian markets [in the US at least]. For the peppercorns, look for bags that contain mostly reddish-brown outer husks with only a few shiny black interior pods and stems. It is important to use silken tofu in block form.

Blog Post & Recipe: Classic Hummus

I’ve tried to buy prepared Hummus in the grocery store ... but they all have a decidedly acidic taste, the result of the citric acid added to ensure that it remains preserved. And it always, always falls short.

Making hummus at home is the only way to go, and it’s surprisingly easy as long as you can find tahini, a specialty sesame paste sold in jars.