Roast Shoulder of Lamb + Apple & Toffee Cake / Roast Chicken & Butternut Squash Fusilli / Fried Winter Squash with Gorgonzola Butter

Article & Recipes: Put a shoulder into it

A slowly roasted lamb falling off the bone by the forkful, followed by some sweet appley goodness makes for two courses of pure pleasure.

Roast shoulder of lamb with onions and potatoes ... Apple and toffee cake

Blog Post & Recipes: The Best Reason to Roast Hot Hot Hot

A while back I watched a Jamie Oliver Meals in Minutes show and he was making a roasted chicken dinner in under 30 minutes. Impossible you say... not when you cut out the spine, flatten it and blast it at 500°F/260°C...

Roasted Herb & Garlic Spatchcock Chicken ... roasted butternut ... Roasted Chicken & Butternut Squash Fusilli

Article & Recipe: Discovering a new squash: The Rugosa butternut

There are many good things about Rugosa, but I especially like that the seed cavity is quite small and the squash is quite large, which means you have a great deal of solid flesh at your disposal for gratins or other dishes with large intact pieces. Another plus is that the flesh is smooth and creamy, like a butternut, but not quite as sweet — rich, but with more chestnut in its bite.

Fried Winter Squash with Gorgonzola Butter

Concept: roast very hot

Cook Perfect Christmas Cake / Pennsylvania Dutch Baked Corn Pudding / Turmeric Pickle

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect Christmas cake

A Christmas cake should be rich and spicy; bursting with boozy fruit but never, ever heavy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pennsylvania Dutch Baked Corn Pudding

Baked corn pudding is generally made with eggs and milk and baked like a custard. My family always added a little cinnamon and vanilla, but still maintained a savory taste using salt and pepper.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Turmeric Pickle

One way we eat it in my family is by simply marinating it in lime juice and salt like you see here. Clean, peel, slice, add some salt to taste & lime juice enough to coat all the slices, jar and refrigerate. If you let it sit for 2-3 days, it gets better from the juices. It is best eaten within a week as a relish.

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.

Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson / Acorn Spaetzle / 3 Chickpea Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: A Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson: Reclusive Poet, Passionate Baker

This week, the Poet's House in New York City put on exhibit an original manuscript of a Dickinson cake recipe that contained coconut.

Blog Post & Recipe: Acorn Spaetzle

This is a pretty standard recipe for spaetzle, only I add some acorn flour to the mix to make them earthier, nuttier and generally more rustic; I think they go better with wild game that way. While there are a few online sources for acorn flour, you pretty much have to make it yourself — here are instructions on how to make acorn flour.

Blog Post & Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's chickpea recipes

When you're cooking your own, soak them overnight in a generous amount of cold water. Next day, drain and put them in a large pan with fresh water (don't add salt at this stage, as it makes the skins tough) and bring to a simmer, skimming off any scum that rises to the top. Cook for about two hours, until they're very soft, then leave to cool in the cooking water

Chickpea stew with lamb meatballs ... Chickpea and pumpkin salad ... Herby chickpea pancakes

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.

Gaji Bokkeum (Stir-fried Eggplants) / Battered Fish / Parsnip & Cocoa Nib Cake

Recipe: Gaji Bokkeum (Stir-fried Eggplants)

Here, the eggplants are stir fried with simple seasonings, and the gochujang (Korean red pepper paste) adds a nice kick to the tender eggplants.

Article & Recipe: How to cook perfect battered fish

I rapidly graduated to the haddock, when it dawned on me that, with fish and chips, the fish, if fresh and well-cooked, is largely irrelevant, a mere supporting actor to the star of the show, its crispy coating.

Blog Post & Recipe: Parsnip and cocoa nib cake

To further feed the cliche, creating cake of a parsnip inclination turns out to be as simple as taking your favourite banana bread or cake recipe and substituting an equal amount of mashed parsnip for the banana component.

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

Ricotta Cheesecake / Potato Croquettes / Kebab-E-Dayg: Kebab Curry

Recipe: Ricotta Cheesecake

Note: This cheesecake needs some form of starch to absorb the liquid in ricotta. Matzo Meal works best.

Blog Post & Recipe: Frying again

Now in possession of modest croquette experience, in the knowledge of both croquette success and croquette failure, may I offer you the following advice. You want to make a nice firm mash: floury potatoes mashed with butter and seasoned generously. Allow the mash to cool for at least 30 minutes.

Potato croquettes

Blog Post & Recipe: Kebab-E-Dayg: Kebab Curry in the Pakistani Manner

And some days I yearn for kebab-e-dayg, a kebab dish prepared in a large pot; a dayg. A rich tomato sauce is prepared with a fragrant base of caramelised onions and garlic to which kebabs are added and simmered till the sauce has seeped into each tender piece. Mopped up with a light-as-air chapati or drenched over mounds of basmati rice, it is the taste of winters at home in my maternal grandmother, Nani Ami’s home.

Egg Sandwiches Without Mayonnaise / 4 Purple Recipes / Estonian Soda Bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Creamy egg sandwiches without the mayo

I don’t like mayonnaise, but have been fancying egg sandwiches recently. So I made up this mayonnaise-free creamy egg sandwich idea.

Article & Recipes: Purple haze

OVER the past couple of weeks I have been presented with purple carrots and purple potatoes, as well as some less vivid pink potatoes.

Purple Gem potato crisps ... Purple carrot and apple salad ... Purple carrot cake ... Trio of coloured potato mash

Blog Post & Recipe: Estonian Soda Bread Recipe

If you think you've already seen a recipe for Estonian soda bread here @ Nami-Nami, then you're not mistaken - I indeed blogged about it some three years ago. However, that recipe was with ricotta/curd cheese, and this one uses kefir or cultured buttermilk.

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

Curry Chicken Rundown / Parmesan-Roasted Broccoli with Pine Nuts / Other Uses for Sourdough

Recipe: Curry chicken rundown

Rundown is a classic Caribbean stew, where the base (coconut milk) is simmered down. ... I decided to try this with roasted chicken instead of crab meat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Parmesan-Roasted Broccoli with Pine Nuts. Finally, broccoli worth craving!

This broccoli is roasted with garlic and olive oil until it’s crisp-tender and starting to brown, and then it’s tossed with lemon zest, lemon juice, Parmesan, basil and toasted pine nuts.

Blog Post & Recipes: Beyond Bread: The Many Uses of Sourdough [via The Paupered Chef]

A wonderful all-purpose leavening agent for quick breads and muffins, sourdough starter also adds moisture to batters and shines—more traditionally—in pancakes and waffles, less traditionally (at least in the West) in flatbreads and cakes, and, as I recently found out, even holds up remarkably well in microwave chocolate cake.

Recipe: Whole-Grain Cinnamon Raisin Muffins
Recipe: Buttery Rhubarb Coffee Cake

Six Skills for Cooks / Fish with Sage Crumbs / Risotto

Article: The six skills every cook really needs

Gravy ... Soufflé ... Basmati rice ... Meringues ... Pastry ... White sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Fish with Sage Crumbs

When I know we won't finish a loaf of bread before it goes stale or if all that's left is the last two inches of a baguette, I rip it into crumbs and stash it in a freezer bag.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make the perfect risotto

There are five key steps to a perfect risotto, we hear, as the chopped onions are softening. Firstly the right rice: ... Then the tostatura ... Next there's the stock ...

Felicity's perfect risotto recipe

An Easy Cake / Deep-Fried Bacon & Eggs / Twelve Breakfast Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Bake a Cake

Very Basic All Equal Cake recipe.

This is a no fail recipe which calls for equal amounts of everything.

Blog Post & Recipe: Deep-Fried Bacon and Eggs with Lemon-Egg Vinaigrette

Between the dozens of utensils, plates and pans it requires -- not to mention the hour and a half of prep time -- it's about as far from a lazy Sunday morning as you can get.

Blog Post & Recipes: This Week's Recipes: Breakfast Burrito and Scramble

We were talking breakfast on The Kitchn this week so here's a look back at the recipes we posted ...

Bloody Mary ... Big Pancake ... Breakfast Burritos ... Popovers ... Crunchy Granola Bars ... Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf with Oats and Pecans ... Ricotta Pancakes ... Breakfast Pizza ... Paula Deen's Rolls ... Chinese Chicken Soup ... Baked Chicken with Artichokes ... Polvo à Lagareiro

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

Parmesan Polenta with Mushroom Fricassee and Poached Eggs / Rosemary Oatcakes / Okra Curry

Blog Post & Recipe: Northern Comfort: Parmesan Polenta with Mushroom Fricassee and Poached Eggs

It’s about giving the finger to the hard angles of 21st century life and enjoying something unabashedly slow, calm, and soft.

Blog Post & Recipe: British Cheeses and Rosemary Oatcakes

I even made some mini oatcakes incredibly easy to make nutty but not too crumbly, not sure why it has never occured to me to make something like this before much quicker than bread, they are cooled and ready to eat in 10 minutes.

Rosemary Oatcakes

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Okra Curry

... okra needs to be treated with a little love. When cooked over moderate heat, it becomes tender and succulent. The Indian spices give it a nice kick, and the result is a simple, light dinner. While it's not the best Indian dish I've made recently, it's a tasty meal when paired with some rice.

Threadcakes. Cut Your Food Bill. One Blogger's Ten Favourite Recipes.

Webpage: Threadcakes Gallery

An online cake competition by Chris Cardinal & Threadless.com

Article & Recipes: 7 tips to cut food bill but not flavor

1. Cook at home ... 2. Buy on sale ... 3. Buy what's in season ... 4. Shop smart ... 5. Use less protein ... 6. Throw nothing away ... 7. Use what you have

Olive dip ... Bean dip ... Everything but the kitchen sink meatloaf

Blog Post & Recipe: woohoo!

Well, I’m not sure how this happened, but my 500th post just crept up on me. I’ve dug through the archives and pulled out my favorite 10 food recipes to share with you one more time ...

blood orange + cherry cream scones ... fresh cherry + raspberry muffins ... ricotta, green onion & green garlic gnocchi ... garlicky baked fries ... port-braised cipollini onions ... carmelized cauliflower with salsa verde ... rosemary + pinenut shortbread cookies ... rhubarb johnny ... ginger cookies ... occidental fudge

Carrot salad. Lettuce Cake. Brown rice in the Oven.

Recipe: Carrot salad with chilli, mint and coriander

The carrots are really just a vehicle for the dressing, aromatic herbs and punchy chilli. These are the flavours your wine needs to worry about.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spiced Lettuce Cake Bars

The cake bars are pretty good, and you wouldn’t know that they have lettuce in them unless someone directly told you or you didn’t get a great “shred” and a few big pieces slipped into the batter. They’re moist and soft, with a good balance of chewiness and tenderness.

Article: Brown rice often cooks better in oven

Q . What method can I use to prepare brown rice so that it will be tender and fluffy? When I cook it, it always comes out very sticky.

A . Tender and fluffy might be asking a little too much of brown rice. Each and every rice kernel in your pot is encased in a straitjacket of rice bran. There's simply not much room for expansion in there.

It's not fair to ask brown rice to be white rice. Let brown rice be itself -- a chewy, nutty, highly nutritious whole grain with a personality of its own -- and save yourself the disappointment.

That doesn't mean you need to settle for the sticky, glutinous rice you've been turning out. There is a relatively foolproof way of dealing with this recalcitrant grain ...

Tomato Soup Cake. Peatini cocktail. Gallo Pinto.

Article & Recipe: How to make a peatini cocktail

To make a pea shoot puree, blend, in a liquidiser, the pea shoots with just enough water to make a puree.

Blog Post & Recipe: Warhol's Tomato Soup Cake

First published in a recipe booklet by Campbell's, the cake was featured in the 1942 book, How to Cook a Wolf, by M.F.K. Fisher. In her book she writes "This is a pleasant cake, which keeps well and puzzles people while you are cooking other things, which is always sensible and makes you feel rather noble, in itself a small but valuable pleasure." ... In the 1960's the recipe was revitalized and become more of an assembled concoction of water, a spice mix, and a can of soup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Gallo Pinto

Ingredients

1 tablespoon canola oil
1 onion, chopped
1 red pepper, stemmed, seeded, and chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 cup cooked rice
1 cup of canned beans, with liquid
4 tablespoons Salsa Lizano (or Worcestershire sauce)
Salt and black pepper
Handful of cilantro, chopped

Cherry beet cake

Recipe: How to bake: Cherry beet cake

A ruddy, beet-tinted crumb dotted with sour cherries under a streusel top