Pork & Banana Habanero Poppers / Grilled Asparagus with Grilled Haloumi / Raw Veggie Spring Rolls

Blog Post & Recipe: Pork and Banana Habanero Poppers

I stuffed these guys with pulled pork, queso blanco, and banana, the ultimate habanero flavor complement.

Blog PosT & Recipe: Grilled asparagus with grilled halloumi

But now on to the dish I am sharing with you today; a beautiful little salad with asparagus and grilled haloumi. It’s brilliant in flavor and the mustard dressing fits perfectly

Blog Post & Recipe: Raw veggie spring rolls

Place several spinach leaves down as the base, then place a large fingerful amount of vegetable salad on top. Fold the top and bottom edges over the salad, then pull one of the remaining sides over the filling, then roll into a cigar shaped log.

Various General Kitchen Tips / Bacon & Halloumi Sandwich / Marc Bittman's 25 Favourite Recipes

Article & Tips: Kitchen confidential: what every cook should know

Soften butter with a warmed glass, keep potatoes away from onions and other insider tips

Blog Post & Recipes: Bacon & Halloumi Sandwich

You might think the sandwich is a complete salt-fest, but the lemon and lettuce balance and freshen it all up.

Blog Posts & Recipes: Marc Bittman ends his food column at the New York Times and chooses twenty-five of his favourites. The Times has combined all of its food blogs into one "free-range superblog," Diners Journal.

Picking 25 favorites out of more than 1,000 recipes from The Minimalist ... is an awesome task.

RED PEPPER PURÉE ... CHICKEN UNDER A BRICK ... PEAR, GORGONZOLA AND MESCLUN SALAD ... SPAGHETTI WITH FRIED EGGS ... BRAISED SQUID WITH ARTICHOKES ... PASTA ALLA GRICIA ... PUMPKIN PANNA COTTA ... WATERMELON AND TOMATO SALAD ... 45-MINUTE ROAST TURKEY ... CRISP-BRAISED DUCK LEGS WITH AROMATIC VEGETABLES ... SICHUAN CHICKEN WITH CHILIES ... BLACK COD BROILED WITH MISO ... STIR-FRIED CHICKEN WITH KETCHUP ... CORN SALAD WITH SOY AND TOMATO ... PARSLEY-HERB SALAD ... SOCCA (FARINATA) ... STIR-FRIED LAMB WITH CHILI, CUMIN AND GARLIC ... NO-KNEAD BREAD ... SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH SHRIMP ... PERNIL ... SOUTH INDIAN EGGPLANT CURRY ... FENNEL AND CELERY SALAD ... MEXICAN CHOCOLATE TOFU PUDDING ... MORE-VEGETABLE-LESS-EGG FRITTATA

8 Vegetarian Recipes / Palatschinken / Quarter a Turkey

Blog Post: What I've Been Cooking Recently

Broccoli pesto ... Kale and mashed potatoes ... Using kimchi ... Stuffed artichokes ... Quinoa with fennel ... Beetroot and haloumi ... Rice gratin ... Quinoa falafels

Blog Post & Recipe: Sunday Brunch: Palatschinken

These Austrian pancakes are closer to French crêpes than the thick North American pancake ... Instead of the folded French crêpes, palatschinken are filled and then rolled (jelly-roll style), and traditionally filled with apricot jam.

Article & Pictures: Quartering a turkey: How to cut up your own bird

For most of the job, Davis used a common boning knife, but she used a mallet and cleaver to cut the breast halves apart. A chef’s knife or even the boning knife could have done the job, she said, as long as you don’t try to cut down the very center of the breast bone, the strongest part.

No-Rice Risotto with Chard / Filipino Fried Noodles / Five Halloumi Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: No-Rice Risotto with Chard

We used canned cannellini beans! It turned out to be the quickest risotto we had ever made. And it tasted really good too. You could do a lot more with this recipe: not using canned beans, adding white wine and maybe some more greens ...

Recipe: Recipe of the Day: Filipino Fried Noodles (Pancit)

In the Filipino vernacular, pancit simply refers to noodles. This version (pancit bam-i) uses both rice vermicelli (bihon) and Chinese wheat noodles (pancit canton), but you can make the dish with either type of noodle, or flat egg noodles (pancit miki) and cellophane noodles (sotanghon).

Blog Post & Recipes: Vegetarian Cookout? Try Halloumi!

Here are some recipes we're eager to try this season:

1 Halloumi Wrapped in Red Pepper with Lemon & Chilli ... 2 Grilled Haloumi Cheese and Lemon ... 3 Basil Halloumi and Roasted Veg BBQ Skewers ... 4 Halloumi Skewers with Parsley & Lemon Salsa ... 5 Grilled Cheese and Tomato Stacks

Baked Halloumi / Baked Feta / Cooking Pasta

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Halloumi

Baked Halloumi with Honey and Thyme

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Feta

A thick slice of feta is baked with some oil and herbs and vegetables and then eaten warm from the oven. We enjoyed this with a giant salad and slices of crusty baguette.

Article: How to cook pasta

Matthew Fort offers the benefit of his long experience of cooking pasta below

Plus, click here for our interactive guide to types of pasta and links to a dozen classic recipes from the Silver Spoon pasta book and let us know what you think over here on the food blog

Freezing things & melting cheese

Article & recipes: Melted cheese: Alone or in a dish, it's delish

Melted, grilled or baked cheese is a terrific dish in its own right, justly celebrated in many cuisines, where crispy discs of melted Parmigiano-Reggiano or Monterey Jack or caramelized slabs of haloumi (a Cypriot sheep's milk cheese) are served, gasp, right out in the open, even given center stage.

Frico with fennel-apple slaw ... Fried haloumi with pears and spiced dates

Article: The basics of freezing

Nothing ever rots. That's the good and bad of the freezer.

Good because its preservative powers let you stock up on bargain meat, save perishable ingredients, revisit your summer garden in February. Bad because, without the motivation of stink, it can become a bleak tundra of mysterious packages, their contents iced and freezer-burned beyond redemption.

To bring your freezer back from the dark side, some tips and inspiration ...

Beet salad. Tuna Melt. Haloumi.

Recipe: Beet Salad.

Blog Post/Recipe: Tarragon Tuna Melt.

Recipe: Haloumi with lentil salad.

The Indiscriminate Mass Post of Cheese.

Website/Recipe: The Book of Cheese, by Bob Brown.

And, true to the American way, we've organized cheese-eating. There's an annual cheese week, and a cheese month (October). We even boast a mail-order Cheese-of-the-Month Club.

Website/Recipe: Cheese.com: Recipes.

# Main Meal
# Salads and Vegetable Dishes
# Starters and Snacks

Website/Recipe: ilovecheese.com: Recipes.

Apple Cheddar Pizza / Cumin-Crusted Chicken and Cheddar Quesadillas with Basil Sour Cream / Stewed Okra and Tomatoes

Website/Recipe: Southern U.S.Food: Cheese recipes -- Cheese Dips, Macaroni and Cheese, and More.

Webpage/Recipe: Cheese Recipes @ iChef.

Article/Recipe: What to do with Halloumi Cheese.

Website/Recipe: Simply Recipes Search Results: Cheese.

Usually cheese tacos just have cheese in them. Add some salsa and you're done. My cheese tacos tend to be a little more elaborate. I stand by my rule that you can put almost anything in a tortilla and call it a taco.