Braised Red Cabbage with Malaga Raisins & Apple / Turkey Tips + Recipes for Stuffing, Glazes, Etc / Pong Tauhu -- Tofu with Meatball Soup

Recipe: Christmas lunch: braised red cabbage with Malaga raisins and apple

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Put all the ingredients in a casserole and mix well. Place in the oven and bake for 1½ hours until the cabbage is tender.

Article & Recipes: Getting the best from your bird

1. Read your turkey labels ... 2. Brine your turkey ... 3. Consider adding a "stuffing" that will add moisture to the bird ... 4. Invest in a meat thermometer ... 5. Let the cooked turkey rest for 30 minutes before carving ... 6. Great gravy

Recipes: Turkey Brine ... Seasoned Oil Mixture for Turkey ... Maple Mustard Turkey Glaze ... Turkey Gravy ... Turkey Stuffing

Blog Post & Recipe: Pong Tauhu--Tofu with Meatball Soup

BTW, this soup, pong tauhu, should not be confused with the Indonesian tahu pong. Although they are probably derived from the same root, tahu pong are fried tofu puffs. Those in this recipe are denser dumplings of tofu that are not fried.

Laksa With Ground Bison / Sauerkraut Rye Sandwich Bread / Baking Bread with Different Flours

Blog Post & Recipe: Laksa With Ground Bison

It was one of those day that I wanted to cook a meal that won't required a long time to cook it. You could use regular beef chuck or beef shoulder for this laksa, or you can also use poultry such as chicken, or duck.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sauerkraut Rye Sandwich 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. But, Sauerkraut is perfect. It gives the bread a sourdough flavor, without a strong sauerkraut flavor.

Blog Post & Recipe: All Flours Are Not Equal

What would happen if you ran out of bread flour but still wanted to make bread? Or the store had an awesome sale on cake flour which you were tempted to use instead? Flour is basically just flour, after all, no? There’s not much difference between Pastry and All Purpose, besides a bit more protein, right?

10 Reasons I Love My Freezer / Stuffed Cabbage Casserole / Phyllo Kourou

Blog Post: Cold comfort - 10 reasons I love my freezer

1. Going nuts ... 2. Flavour bombs ... 3. Scrooge satisfaction ... 4. Stocking up ... 5. Anything with a pulse ... 6. Rice on ice ... 7. The Florence factor ... 8. Pesto power ... 9. Take-away at home ... 10. Craving curb

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Deconstructed Stuffed Cabbage Casserole

Being forced to plan ahead for meals meant I always made diet-friendly casseroles or soups on the weekend to make sure my freezer was well-stocked to get me through the week. That's a habit I'm going to work on cultivating again, so over the weekend I made this amazing Deconstructed Stuffed Cabbage Casserole and I have six servings of it in the freezer waiting for me at home

Blog Post & Recipe: Rolo me Phyllo Kourou and my e-book has finally been published

The classic recipe, Rolo me Patates is made with ground meat in which we add hard boiled eggs. In Cyprus we wrap the roulade in caul fat, which melts as it is being baked in the oven and gives a wonderful flavour to the ground meat. Instead of caulfat I wrapped it in kourou phyllo and added ham and halloumi. A very simple recipe but yet so delicious. Instead of Kourou phyllo you can just wrap it in parchment paper or in puff pastry.

Braised Venison Tongue with Mixed Greens / Carrots and Cabbage with Eggs (Orak Arik Wortel) / Homemade Cavatelli

Blog Post & Recipe: A Little Tongue

While the tongues are still warm, transfer them to a cutting surface and peel it with your fingers or a paring knife. The skin is really the only icky thing about tongue: underneath it is pure meat.

braised venison tongue with mixed greens

Blog Post & Recipe: Orak Arik Wortel--Carrots and Cabbage with Eggs

Orak arik are simple scrambles of vegetables and eggs. While a lot of Indonesian food is generously spiced, orak arik dishes tend to be rather tame. The ingredients and the spicing indicate a Dutch influence.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pleasures of Pasta Dough

Homemade cavatelli, by the way, is the current favorite pasta around here. I adore it because it's so much fun to make and each individual piece of pasta scoops up just the right amount of sauce. My husband prefers it for its resilient, satisfying chew.

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.

Squash Blossom Pesto / Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt / 6 Vegetarian Recipes for the Barbeque

Blog Post & Recipe: Squash Blossom Pesto [ via ]

I simple converted my standard pesto recipe, with the addition of saffron from the abandoned sauce recipe, and magic! A vivid orange sauce, nutty with parmesan and pine nuts with this mysterious undernote. Squash blossoms.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt [ via ]

The best success I had came at the end of my experimental process. I found that a screaming hot oven, a preheated, well-oiled baking sheet and straight or crinkle-cut sweet potatoes turned 3 or 4 times in the oven yielded the best results.

Blog Post & Recipes: Throw Another Melon on the Barbie

The grill, as everyone knows, is the best place to cook a steak, but that doesn’t mean you have to cook a steak every time you fire up the grill.

Vietnamese-Style Portobello Mushrooms ... Watermelon Burgers With Cheese ... Curry-Rubbed Sweet-Potato Planks ... Teriyaki Cabbage Steaks ... Chili-Rubbed Jicama Steaks With Queso Fresco ... Miso-Glazed Eggplant Slices

Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce / Easy Indian Cabbage / Homemade Soybean Milk

Recipe: Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce. The recipe comes attached to this interview with Gabrielle Hamilton — "the winner of this year’s James Beard Award for Best New York Chef."

Agrodolce
3 cups cider vinegar
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. chile flakes
3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
1 cup mint leaves

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy Indian Cabbage recipe

Cabbage and cumin seeds are known to help digestion, making this recipe perfect for your stomach!

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Soybean Milk ~ 自制豆奶

You will just need soybeans, water, muslin or cheesecloth and of course a blender. Another good thing about making this at home is that you can adjust the amount of sugar you use in the milk or even add some other flavourings like pandan (screwpine) leaves for added fragrance. The important thing to note is that you can't shirk from the straining of the soybean milk as there are lots of remnants of the soybeans left behind. Apart from that, it is very straightforward and extremely easy to make.

Cabbage Rolls / Eggs Benedict with BBQ Hollandaise / Leek Toasts with Blue Cheese

Blog Post & Recipe: Cabbage rolls [via]

Delicious cabbage rolls using leftover rice and that cabbage that has been in the fridge for a while.

Blog Post & Recipe: Eggs Benedict with BBQ Hollandaise [via]

For those of you skilled with making hollandaise, go ahead with your traditional method on the stovetop and just add in the BBQ flavorings listed

Blog Post & Recipe: leek toasts with blue cheese

I was all set to slow-caramelize the leeks as I would onions when I came upon Molly Wizenberg’s recipe for Leek Confit in Bon Appetit and decided it sounded much more straightforward. I’ve tweaked it a bit — less butter, some swapped for oil, as I didn’t need the full richness of a confit, I leave the leeks wet rather than adding water, etc. — but the basic cooking technique is the same, and it’s a cinch. This would also make a wonderful filling for a crepe or omelet, or with a poached egg on top

Roasted Ruby Fruits / Savoy Cabbage Rolls with Golden Chanterelle & Brown Rice Filling & Cranberry Sauce / Meat-Free Barbecue Ideas

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Ruby Fruits (this blog has a weirdly huge header. Scroll down)

Like a lot of our [Australian] native fruits the Rosella is under utilised despite it's deliciousness ...

A bunch of lovely red rhubarb- I know there are green varieties, but I think the red is prettier
A punnet or two of strawberries
A handful of raspberries
A cup of Rosella petals

Blog Post & Recipe: Savoy cabbage rolls with golden chanterelle and brown rice filling and cranberry sauce

Together with brown rice I've used dried golden chanterelles, those beautiful mushrooms you would see at every market stall in Finland around August ... I've flavoured the filling with some of those beautiful herbs I got from the garden - thyme, rosemary and oregano, but you could use any dry or fresh herbs you have available.

Blog Post & Recipes: Meat-free barbecues

A meat-free barbecue will seem a gloomy prospect to many. After all, it is hard to muster much enthusiasm for the average veggie burger – so grey and miserable that it resembles nothing more than a slice of Wednesday ... The essential point is not to try to replicate meaty barbecue favourites such as burgers and sausages ... and instead attempt a different way of cooking altogether.

Roasted Butternut Squash with Burnt Aubergine and Pomegranate Molasses ... tamarind seitan kebabs ... smoky miso tofu ... roasted parsnips with caper vinaigrette ... miniature napoleons with aubergine creme

Suquet de Peix / How to Clean a Gizzard & Corned Gizzards & Cabbage / Vegetable Tamarind Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: SUQUET DE PEIX, a Mediterranean flavours Ode

Check all the ingredients of the recipe and see how healthy this dish is! We've got Olive oil, ripe tomatoes, fresh rock fish, some fresh seafood, garlic and onion, nuts ...

Blog Post & Video: How to Clean a Gizzard and Corned Gizzards and Cabbage

One of the more unloved giblets, gizzards are dense nuggets of deep burgundy meat. That’s right, I said meat. Even though a gizzard is an internal organ, it is made of muscle, just like the breast or thigh meat

Blog Post & Recipe: vegetable tamarind soup, sayur asam

I think almost all South East Asian countries have their own version of tamarind-based soup, slightly spicy with loads of soft vegetables. Malaysians with their laksa soup, Filipinos with sinigang, Thais with tom yam. Sourish tamarind deserves much more credits than it already has. It is one of the ingredients that made our cuisine as exotic as it now is.

Our tamarind soup uses sliced tamarind (asam potong) and salam leaves with vegetables that can nicely soak up all the beautiful flavors from tamarind, bay leaves, lemongrass, palm sugar (gula merah) and chilies.

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

Tahini Beets / Cabbage Stir-Fry / Vegetable Soup Basics

Blog Post & Recipe: Tahini Beets

Consisting of beets, tahini, lemon juice, and garlic, it's earthy, sweet, tangy, and very easy to make (just allow enough time to roast the beets).

Recipe: A Simple Cabbage Stir-Fry

Tadka is the basic Indian method for transferring the flavor of spices to food. First the spices are added to a very hot oil, then the sizzling infusion — tadka — is used to flavor the dish.

Article & Recipes: Creamy, Brothy, Earthy, Hearty

I’m not anti-recipe (obviously), but some things just don’t need them — and most vegetable soups fall into that category. Here are easy-to-follow instructions for making vegetable (vegetarian and, for the most part, vegan) soups with common ingredients, a variety of choices and terrific flavor. Print the following page, stick it on your refrigerator and work your way through it. By the time you’re done — 12 days or 12 weeks later — you’ll never again need a recipe for vegetable soup. Promise.

I’ve created four essential categories: creamy (vegetables puréed with dairy); brothy (a strained vegetable stock, with quick-cooking ingredients added); earthy (with beans); and hearty (the vegetables sautéed first, to deepen their flavor).

Oatmeal Popovers / Beef Rendang / Napa Cabbage Soba with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Oatmeal Popovers

Sure enough, the oatmeal in these popovers prevented them from rising quite so impressively, and most of them only had small pockets. They were, however, light and homey, and we ate them up with cups of tea

Blog Post & Recipe: Beef Rendang

It's rich, spicy, flavourful, and very Southeast Asian ... the essential ingredients besides the meat are the spices (onion, curry leaves, curry powder, turmeric, and chili pepper) and the coconut milk. All the other ingredients are fair game to the diversity of adaptations.

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for vegan Napa cabbage soba with spicy peanut sauce

Put this spicy peanut sauce on anything -- a piece of shoe leather, marshmallows, or even the cauliflower I dislike so much -- and I will eat it. Put it on something I do like, and I will lick my plate clean. Peanuts and Japanese buckwheat noodles (soba) have a natural affinity, but this dish will be just as good with spaghetti, or whole wheat penne, or just about any type of noodle or pasta. One tip: don't stir-fry the vegetables for more than a minute.

3 Cabbage Recipes / 3 Rye Bread Recipes / Thin Crust Pizza Dough

Article & Recipes: Cabbage’s Sweet Side

They embrace its sweetness. They delight in its crunch in raw slaws and its melting smoothness in cold-weather braises.

Braised Cabbage ... Warm Cabbage and Green Beans ... Bess Feigenbaum’s Cabbage Soup

Article & Recipes: Old World breads boast layers of taste

The exception to this loose rule is sourdough rye bread, which is what most bakers who fall in love with rye bread usually end up baking, and which, of course, is a whole other story. By using sourdough, the acidity of which creates a small chemistry experiment in your bread bowl and oven, you can make loaves using all rye flour

Black Russian rye bread ... Real Jewish rye bread ... Five-grain bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Thin Crust Pizza Dough

One thing to keep in mind is that this recipe requires you to let the dough sit for 24 hours so you need to plan on that when on making a pizza. This dough has a really low water to flour ratio which means that you pretty much need to mix the dough in a food processor and even then, the dough is going to be very dry. In fact the dough will be more like crumbs but as long as you can form it into a ball then everything is ok.

3 Celery Recipes / Stewing Hen Ragu / Savoy Cabbage, Nutmeg & Chestnut Saute

Article & Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's celery recipes

Celery's special qualities come to the fore when it is teamed up with the right companions ...

Celery, orange and mackerel salad ... Waldorf soup ... Celery gratin

Article & Recipe: The stewing hen: A culinary bonus

I braised the hen with tomato, white wine, chile flakes, and herbs for about three hours, until it began to fall off the bone. I let the bird rest overnight in its stewing sauce to relax the meat.

Stewing Hen Ragu

Blog Post & Recipe: Savoy cabbage, nutmeg and chestnut saute

Savoy cabbage, sweet chestnuts and the subtle lemony warmth of nutmeg are decidedly comfort food territory. The chickpeas (garbanzo) might not be the obvious pairing with chestnuts and cabbage but add substance, nutrients and texture to your meal without competing overpowering the other flavours. We like this saute topped with a poached or fried egg to turn it into a more substantial meal

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

Stewed Red Cabbage with Prunes / Welsh Cakes / Endive Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Stewed red cabbage with prunes

The prunes add a sweetness, orange juice some freshness and a good balsamico a lovely tang.

Blog Post & Recipe: worth the wait: welsh cakes

I’ve updated the traditional recipe which calls for currents and candied peel for dried cranberries and fresh orange zest.

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Endives

Often cooked or simply tossed raw into a salad, it's high in vitamins A and K, and is a great source of fiber.

Endives, Apples, and Grapes ... Jambon-Wrapped Grilled Endive ... Endive and Chicory Salad with Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette ... Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Belgian Endive and Tomato Chile Jam ... Braised Endives with Haricots Verts ... Braised Shrimp and Creamy Endive ... Baked Belgian Endive with Pecorino and Walnuts ... Spinach and Endive Salad with Lemon-Ginger Dressing and Crisp Won Ton Strips ... Endive and Celery Salad with Fennel

Eggplant Parmesan / Sauerkraut / Chicken Tarragon & Eryngii Mushroom

Blog Post & Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan For Two

There are three techniques this recipe uses that we think are genius suggestions for rethinking eggplant Parmesan.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegetable Alchemy

I decided to go with my German roots for this week’s challenge and make a jar of sauerkraut, which I have honestly never liked despite my adoration of cabbage.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Tarragon And Eryngii Mushroom

For this hearty 'One Pot' European style recipe, I used deboned chicken thighs and breast meats with smoked bacon. It's easy to make and you can add on other side dishes to it like rice, potatoes, bread, salad, etc.

Easy Glazed Bananas / Baked Cabbage with Ground Meat / Roast Chicken

Recipe: Easy Glazed Bananas

Here is a quick and easy dessert that only needs three ingredients! It takes less than ten minutes to make

Recipe: Baked Cabbage with Ground Meat (Fırında Kıymalı Lahana)

Baked cabbage with ground meat can be described as either a kind of no-pasta lasagna, börek, or mousakka.

Blog Post & Recipe: The perfect roast chicken

Roast chicken might sound like an easy option, but actually it's a surprisingly difficult thing to get right, which is why it's often used by chefs as a test for potential new recruits. The issue is not so much one of flavour – you get what you pay for in that department – but texture.

The recipe: Felicity's roast chicken

Martini / Three Recipes for Oily Fish / Twenty Salads

Video: How to make the perfect martini

Readers have posted comments under the video.

Great fan of Nick's artistry, and the fantastic variety of Martinis offered by Allesandro at Duke's, but restricting yourselves to the offerings of one manufacturer of gin, namely the multinational Pernod Ricard casts a long shadow of the assertion perfect.

Article & Recipes: Good oil's here on a grand scale

... oily fish - and that includes mackerel, salmon, sea trout and sardines - are sidelined in favour of nice, polite, white fish. Yet they outgun them on flavour, on richness and on those all-important omega-3 fatty acids every time.

Salmon and red pepper tartine ... Oven-roasted sardines with fennel and garlicky crumbs ... Mackerel curry with tomatoes and eggplant

Blog Post & Recipes: the top 20 stonesoup salads

This blogger has been running a series of salad guides: "leaves" "dressings" "shaved salads," and so on. Scroll to the bottom of her post for the links.

Now that (sadly) the end of Summer is on the horizon, it’s time to wrap up the definitive guide to salad with a highlights tour of the top 20 stonesoup salads.

chickpea & parmesan salad ... spinach, pearl barley & ricotta salad ... raw beet salad ... butter bean & tuna salad ... warm lentil salad with beets & ricotta ... BBQ chook & bread salad ... warm fig, prosciutto & buffalo mozzerella salad ... shaved cabbage salad with parmigiano reggiano & aged balsamic ... warm salad of roast pumpkin (squash) & chickpeas ... asparagus and double pea salad ... tuna chilli salad ... roast potato salad with smokey paprika ... shaved fennel salad with ricotta & peas ... crispy chilli squid salad ... roast baby onion & chickpea salad ... asparagus & buffalo mozerella salad with caper dressing ... rocket & radicchio salad ... char grilled veg with walnut & white bean puree ... celeriac salad ... catalan inspired bread & tomato salad.