Triple Celery Soup / Thai Chicken Stew / Rosemary Squash Bisque

Article & Recipe: A celery-soup celebration

It’s a soup based on both the familiar green stalk celery (high on the list of underappreciated vegetables, in my view) and the knobbly white celeriac, or celery root.

Triple Celery Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Thai Chicken Stew

Combine the carrots, onions, chiles, ginger, and vegetable oil in a medium bowl and microwave for approximately 10 minutes until the vegetables soften. Transfer the vegetable mixture to your slow cooker.

Blog Post & Recipe: The World is Not Ready for Bacon Squash Caviar

Now, I do precisely one thing with winter squash. Well, technically two things. I cube it, salt it, oil it, roast it. At this point, I either turn it into a soup, or I don’t. If I chose the former, it becomes Rosemary Squash Bisque, with a supporting cast of pork products, vegetable broth, rosemary, cream, and the tender ministrations of my Cuisinart.

Rosemary Squash Bisque

Fried Carrots / Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions / Oven-Braised Apple Cider Brisket

Blog Post & Recipe: Fried Carrots; the update

It caramelizes the sugars and turns them golden and sweet!

Fried Carrots

Blog Post & Recipe: Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions

Peel and thinly slice the celeriac and potatoes ... and pop them straight into a bowl of cold water. Pat dry on a clean tea towel and then layer into a deep casserole dish, seasoning with salt and pepper and adding the garlic as you go.

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for oven-braised apple cider brisket

A few weeks ago, while driving home from the local apple orchard, I had a brisket epiphany. Why not, I thought, combine wine and cider in the braise? When I got home, the (wine) cupboard was bare, so I moved on to Plan B, a cider-and-herb combination with onion and garlic.

Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions / Salt Crusted Burgers with Mashy Peas / Turkey Stock For Gravy

Blog Post & Recipe: Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions

Serve the gratin with a spoonful of caramelised onions and a crisp green salad lightly dressed with sherry vinegar and cold pressed rapeseed oil.

Blog Post & Recipe: could you feed yourself for $5 a day?

The secret is using the salt layer to cook the burgers. So as the juices drip out, the salt helps them congeal and form an instant crust which makes for a moist, full flavoured burger. I actually find that more fatty (and cheaper) beef makes for a more moist and tasty burger.

salt crusted burgers with mashy peas

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkey Stock For Gravy: Start Soon

I don’t know where we got the idea that a roasting turkey results enough juices to make gravy. It doesn’t ... Donna picked up two full turkey wings and four turkey necks, about 4.5 pounds/2 kilos. I roasted them in a hot hot oven till they were good enough to eat (Donna and I made a meal of the meaty parts that night, with brown-butter-sage pasta). I also cut up two big onions ...

Concept: salt-crusted hamburger patties: "as the juices drip out, the salt helps them congeal and form an instant crust which makes for a moist, full flavoured burger." Worth trying, M.?

3 Juniper Recipes / Ultra-Crispy Roast Potatoes / Pan-Fried Mackerel + Smoked Mackerel Cakes & Tomato Salad

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

Crush a juniper berry between your fingers and its clean, resinous smell perks up a dull brain as effectively as a two-shot espresso. And, of course, its piny sweetness has the clean, bright aroma of gin

Chicken with rosemary and juniper ... Potato and celeriac gratin with juniper ... Rabbit and bacon with juniper and chestnuts

Blog Post & Recipe: The Food Lab Thanksgiving Special: Ultra-Crispy Roast Potatoes

The problem is that with simple roasting, they'll crisp up all right, but the layer of crispness will be very very thin. Within moments, steam from the interior of the spud will cause the crisp bits to soften. So what is it that makes a potato crisp?

Blog Post & Recipe: Pan-Fried Mackerel; Smoked Mackerel Cakes and Tomato Salad

Mackerel is delicious and versatile and can be served hot or cold, smoked, raw or cooked. Due to the rich oily flesh mackerel works best with strong acid flavours such as saffron, lemons, limes, tomatoes, orange, fennel, chilli, ginger and wasabi. The skin of mackerel is thin and therefore crisps up easily and tastes equally delicious. My philosophy about mackerel is to keep it simple; it’s a humble fish

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.

Chard and Onion Panade / 6 Nigel Slater Recipes / 5 Celeriac Recipes

Article & Recipes: Zuni Cafe's Chard and Onion Panade

If you haven't yet had the pleasure of knowing panade, it's a cross between a gratin and a bread pudding, but only sort of. You cook a whole mess of onions until meltingly soft and amber-hued. You cube stale peasant bread and toss it with salt and olive oil and a little bit of chicken stock. You sauté Swiss chard until barely limp and still vibrantly green.

Article & Recipes: Nigel Slater's winter recipes and Nigel Slater's baked pork with cardamom, ginger and yogurt; rice and lentil, and lychee sorbet recipes

I thoroughly enjoy seeking out those ingredients that are not on every supermarket shelf – the lesser-known fruits, vegetables and store-cupboard seasonings that have yet to become mainstream.

CAVOLO NERO WITH SHEEP'S MILK CHEESE AND LEMON ... ROAST PORK BELLY WITH POMEGRANATE MOLASSES ... QUINCE AND APPLE TART ... ROASTED ROOTS WITH VINCOTTO ... CELERIAC AND BACON SOUP

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Celeriac

In France, celeriac is used to make remoulade. Sliced raw, it's crunchy and refreshing. Cooked and pureed, celeriac becomes a nourishing side dish.

Apple Celeriac Remoulade With Crab ... Spaghetti with Thyme-Chile Celeriac Puree ... Celeriac Puree ... Celeriac Potato Pancakes With Apple Creme Fraiche ... Perla Meyers' Celeriac Soup

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.

Green Chilli Risotto. Pumpkin Celeriac Soup. 100 Easiest, Fastest Recipes.

Blog Post & recipe: Green Chilli Risotto

This is another rather unorthodox recipe from Sue Style

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Celeriac Soup

One of my favourite blogs, Cook Almost Anything, recently showed a wonderful recipe for Jap Pumpkin Soup with Curried Onions. I really can only begin to tell you what a clever idea I thought it was to have a fairly plain pumpkin soup (no offence Haalo!) punctuated with a wonderful relish of curried onions : the very onions and curry seasonings that would usually be blended with the pumpkin soup, kept separate to highlight all the elements ...

Pumpkin and Celeriac Soup with Curried Onions

Article & recipes: 100 easiest, fastest recipes. Ever

To celebrate [the Observer Food Monthly's] 100th issue, we asked top chefs, foodies and cookery writers for their all-time quickest and simplest summer dishes.

Peach, tomato and basil salad ... Slow-roasted tomatoes ... Spicy crab with avocado ... Cipollotto di tropea salad ... A simple ceviche ... Asparagus, feta and smoked salmon salad ... Watermelon and feta salad ... Baked fennel with harissa ... Mimolette, red onion and watercress salad ... Asparagus and fried egg on toast ... Creamy spiced mussel soup ... Cod with tarator and pine nuts ... The best garlic bread ... Roasted corn on the cob with chipotle chilli butter ... Green salad with fresh herbs ... Grilled lamb with lemon grass ... Courgette and corn quesadilla ... Fresh guacamole ... Basquian lemon shrimp ... Broad bean bruschetta with oozy burrata ...

The first twenty. There are eighty more after that.

PB & J Shortbread Sandwiches. Soup.

Recipe: PB & J shortbread sandwiches



Recipes: 12 sensational soup recipes

Beetroot and apple bortsch ... Cauliflower and parmesan soup ... Celeriac soup with cobnuts ... Cream of fennel soup ... Jerusalem artichoke soup ... Parsnip soup with chestnuts and mixed herb pesto ... Pea and ham soup ... Pumpkin soup with chermoula ... Savoy cabbage and white bean soup ... Spiced carrot and butternut squash soup.