Seared Carpaccio of Beef with Remoulade & Pickled Cherries / 4 Vegetable Chips + 3 Condiments / Roasted Chickpea Fajitas

Article & Recipe: Succulent beef with a cherry twist

The beef is served delicately raw on the inside, with a seared crust.

SEARED CARPACCIO OF BEEF WITH REMOULADE AND PICKLED CHERRIES

Recipes: Make Your Own Veggie Chips

Veggie chips are very easily made in your very own oven. Peel, slice, and bake. Dip and eat. Done.

Carrot Chips ... Taro Chips ... Sweet Potato Crisps ... Kale Chips ... Basic Ranch Dressing ... White Bean and Edamame Hummus ... Jalapeño-Cilantro Yogurt Spread

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Chickpea Fajitas

Onion, peppers, and mushrooms are sautéed and served with spicy roasted chickpeas to create these healthy and delicious vegetarian fajitas. Garnish with diced tomatoes, avocado slices, and a dollop of Greek yogurt, if desired.

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

Beetroot Tzatziki / Caramelised Cauliflower with Oranges, Olives & Saffroned Cous Cous / Catalan Tomato Bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Tzatziki

4 small beets roasted until tender, 2ish cups of greek yogurt, one clove of garlic grated, juice of a lemon, salt and pepper, blend until delicious.

Blog Post & Recipe: Caramelized Cauliflower with Oranges, Olives and Saffroned Cous Cous

Last time cauliflower made an appearance on the blog, I cooked it like a steak for a bunch of vegans. Well the leftover cauliflower florets from that dinner were sitting in a bowl in my fridge last week and inspiration struck again. Here's what I did.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pan con tomate – Catalan tomato bread

Grill the slices of bread until golden, and rub each slice with the garlic pieces, which will wear down to nubbins as you go. Cut a tomato in half and rub it on a garlicky slice of bread, pushing as you go to make sure the juices and seeds are pressed into the piece of bread. Discard the pulp. Pour a generous slug of olive oil over each slice of tomato bread, and sprinkle with a little salt.

Spicy Rice Cake (Dukbokki) / Roast Eggplant & Red Capsicum Dip / Green Capsicum in Vinegar & Garlic Sauce (Sirkeli Biber)

Recipe: Spicy rice cake (Dukbokki)

Dukbokki is one of the most popular street foods in Korea. It's very easy to make and a great quick dish for a meal, snack, or girl's night.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Eggplant and Red Pepper Dip

You slice up the veggies... Give them a good coating of high quality extra virgin olive oil... Toss the vegetables together with salt, pepper, and lots of garlic... Roast the veggies at 400 degrees for 45 minutes... And then puree the roasted vegetables with tomato paste... and then you are done!

Blog Post & Recipe: Green Peppers in Vinegar and Garlic Sauce (Sirkeli Biber)

Inspired by the exuberance of fresh peppers I am giving a simple recipe for a very popular and delicious salad/appetizer/meze, you name it. The ingredients for the sauce are garlic, olive oil, and vinegar, and how much you will add of each depends completely on your preference. If you cannot handle garlic or vinegar well, you can go light on them. I like this salad medium garlicy, yet very vinegary, whereas my cousin's version is quite garlicy and to so much vinegary. The point is you have to decide on the amount of garlic and vinegar.

4 Mexican-Armenian Recipes / Unagi Kabayaki / Roasted Capsicum with Capers & Mozzarella

Article & Recipes: Marrying Mexican and Armenian cuisine

Armenians, just like Mexicans, love the comingling of sweet and sour and spicy and mild; they love strong flavors like lamb and garlic.

Stuffed grape leaves ... Pilaf with topping ... Carne asada ... Jocoque dip

Blog Post & Recipe: Unagi Kabayaki [via]

If you like Japanese food, and have had unagi kobayaki--broiled eel--at Japanese restaurants, you will be surprised at how easy it is to make at home. When I was making this dish, I thought of my nephew Tyler. He really likes unagi. I thought, 'How can Ty make this at his house in Oregon?' Simple. Just like my grandfather did--in a pan on top of the stove.

Blog Post & Recipe: roasted peppers with capers and mozzarella

I will turn on the oven for one thing, and that is to roast my peppers for the better part of an hour. I prefer this over blistering them on the stove, which makes them easy to peel but not supple and sweetly cooked as they get in the oven. After peeling their skin and cutting them into strips, I let them sit overnight in some salt, pepper, garlic and red wine vinegar which punched up their flavor a bit.

7 Easy Omelettes / Falafels & Dips / Socca Bread

Recipes: 7 Easy Omelets

Basic Omelet ... Basic Egg White Omelet ... Mushroom and Fontina Omelet ... Goat Cheese and Fresh Herb Omelet ... Almost Egg White Omelet ... Bacon, Apple and Blue Cheese Omelet ... Crab Salad Omelet

Article & Recipes: Falafel: Bay Area fills void for filling street food

It's a fairly basic recipe - made predominately from chickpeas, parsley, garlic, onion, jalapeno peppers and sesame seeds - but a quick lesson on falafel-making revealed that it's more about the technique.

Amba's Hummus ... Chickpea Falafel ... Tameyia (Egyptian Falafel) ... Yogurt Raita ... Olive-Orange Relish with Thyme

Blog Post & Recipe: Socca to me!

The recipes are all basically chickpea flour and water, with a little olive oil and salt thrown in for good measure. As is so often the case, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and it can be made at home ... Traditionally socca is cooked in a giant cast iron skillet over a hot fire. At home, your oven will work just fine. You make a simple batter, let it rest, and add it to smoking hot pans to cook for less than 10 minutes. After removing from the oven you give it a very generous sprinkling of black pepper and then tear into it.

Ramen Hacks / Bagna Cauda Dip with Assorted Vegetables / 3 Nori Recipes

Blog Post & Recipes & Slideshow: Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles

Of course, there's no reason to stay in Asia here. Ramen takes well to Western flavors as well. How about some cheesy chili ramen or a poutine-like dish of toasted raw ramen with gravy and mozzarella?

Simple Add-ins ... Vegetation ... Eggs ... Simple Simmered Meat

Blog Post & Recipe: Bagna Cauda Dip with Assorted Vegetables

This Bagna Cauda, which hails from Italy's Piedmont region and translates as "hot bath," is the perfect accompaniment for spring vegetables -- and a marvelous alternative to heavy, creamy veggie dips.

The recipe is beautifully simple: 24 cloves of garlic, a couple of diced anchovies, and olive oil. Add a little salt and pepper, and that's it!

Blog Post & Recipes: Nori glory

“When we teach our sushi classes, we tell people, ‘Don’t buy the most expensive, and don’t buy the really el-cheapo one,’” she says. “Buy the middle-of-the-road. It will be slightly thicker, it will taste better, and it will be fresh, because everybody buys the middle one.”

Grilled Chicken Nori Wraps ... Thin-Roll Sushi ... Pan-Seared Rosemary Duck Breasts/Tofu

10 Whole Grains / Edamame Dip / New Year Noodle Soup

Article & Recipes: Whole Grains 101

Grains are tasty, protein-rich, and easy to cook. Here’s a primer on 10 of our favorites, along with an assortment of recipes

Blog Post & Recipes: Edamame Dip

It's great on its own with veggies or pita crisps (or potato chips, if you're so inclined), or on a sandwich with a slice of cured ham.

Blog Post & Recipe: New Year Noodle Soup Recipe

At its core it is a bean and noodle soup featuring thin egg noodles swimming in a fragrant broth spiced with turmeric, cumin, chiles, and black pepper. You use a medley of lentils, chickpeas, and borlotti beans, making the soup hearty and filling without being heavy. You add spinach, dill, and cilantro. You add lime juice for a bit of sour at the end. And then you've got a number of toppings to add when you serve the soup

Fresh Tomato & Basil Soup / Grilled Fish with Tomato-Olive Relish / Guacamole

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Tomato and Basil Soup

I’ve discovered the joys of fresh tomato soup.

Recipe: Grilled Fish with Tomato-Olive Relish

The tangy relish — especially made with summer’s ripest, juiciest tomatoes — makes a nice complement to rich-tasting, meaty fish.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make perfect guacamole

Guacamole is one of those dishes which is happy to be played around with according to taste. The only golden rule is – use ripe avocados!

Perfect guacamole

101 Fast Recipes for Grilling / Hummus / Bird Seed Bread

Article & Recipes: 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling

A vast majority take less time to prepare and grill than it takes to watch your coals turn white.

Article & Recipes: The perfect hummus debate

What's your idea of perfect hummus, and if you can make it at all, what's your secret?

Recipe: hummus with ful

Blog Post & Recipe: Bird Seed Bread

I figured that I could ramp up my own version of it and cram a ton of different seeds into and on top of the bread. I wanted to make bread out of bird seed basically.

Beetroot Hummus / Mince Garlic with a Fork / Pudding Diplomate, Crème Anglaise

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Hummus

Seriously, if you like beets, and you like hummus, you'll love this beet hummus. The ingredients are beets, tahini, garlic, lemon, cumin, and salt and pepper.

Blog Post: Quick and Easy Shortcut: Mince Garlic with a Fork

All we do is peel the garlic clove and then press it with the tines of a fork ...

Related: Great Garlic: How to Change the Garlic Intensity in Any Dish

Blog Post & Recipe: Pudding Diplomate, Crème Anglaise (Ladyfinger Pudding with Crème Anglaise)

What was originally a simple English Bread Pudding can now be found at almost every bakery in Paris. Le Cordon Bleu, however, takes Bread Pudding to a whole new level – using ladyfingers in place of bread and adding candied fruits and raisins

Three Potluck Recipes / Collard Greens with Red Onion and Bacon / The Kitchn's Editor's Favourite Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipes: Potluck Recipes

Cauliflower Gratin ... Mushroom Pate ... Cranberry Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Collard Greens with Red Onion and Bacon

To kettle add broth, vinegar, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, and about half of bacon, stirring until sugar is dissolved.

Blog Post: Editor's Choice: Dana's Favorite Posts of 2009

One of the Kitchn editors picks her favourite posts of the year (and another editor picks hers, and another editor picks hers, and another editor picks hers, and here are the site's most popular posts of the year).

Ina Garten's Lemon Cake ... A Profile of Washed Rind Cheeses ... Whiskey Old-Fashioneds (With Really Good Fruit) ... Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk Recipe ... Tarragon-Strawberry Jam ... How to Make Pasta: Tips From My Italian Mother-in-Law ... Victoria Sponge Cake and What's the Difference? Clotted Cream, Devonshire Cream, Double Cream ... Our Food Lover's Guide [to some North American cities] series ... Acts of Kindness: Send Groceries Instead of Flowers ... Baking Soda and Baking Powder: Why Use Both? ... My Edible Escape: A Baguette Sandwich in Bayonne.

Beet & Coconut Curry / Brandade / Butter & Brioche

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Beet and Coconut Curry

I added a bit of raw beet to the curry along with the cooked beet for a bit more texture. I used my beet greens in a previous recipe, but if you have them, I highly recommend you include a small bunch near the end of the cooking time.

Blog Post & Recipe: Word of Mouth: Brandade

Originating from the south-central French regions of Languedoc and Provence, brandade is a simple, yet hearty spread made of salt cod, olive oil, and milk. Sometimes garlic or potatoes are added.

Blog Post & Recipe: A Butter Tip-Sheet + A Recipe for Brioche

The recipe is linked to the last paragraph.

The acid in butter is less talked about than the fat, but it's no less important in terms of taste and the way it works with dough. In fact, a butter rich in lactic acids will have a very different taste from 'regular' butter, a taste which comes from 'culturing' or fermenting the cream before it is churned into butter.

Dip from Leftover Soup. Tattie Scones. Recipes from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

Blog Post: Tip: Turn Leftover Soup into a Dip

This wouldn't work for every soup in the book, but there are certain ones that could be easily thickened up and recycled, in a way, as a dip.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Tattie Scones

These are simple yet delicious breakfast scones made from mashed potatoes and are popular /staple breakfast dish in Scotland.These can be panfried unlike the other scones which are always baked. [...] The recipe is very simple and involves mixing of flour,butter and boiled,mashed potatoes with salt ,pepper and optional herbs and forming a dough,rolling it out and panfrying it.

Webpage: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Recipes

Being a page of links to all of the recipes mentioned in Barbara and Camille Kingsolver's 2007 locovore book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. 'Local' in this case meant the US state of Virginia.

They are arranged seasonally, beginning with spring greens season. [...] To help with seasonal eating, we also include some of our season-specific meal plans, listed at the end of the recipes.

EGGS IN A NEST ... SPINACH LASAGNA ... ASPARAGUS AND MOREL BREAD PUDDING ... CHICKEN RECUERDOS DE TUCSON ... ASIAN VEGETABLE ROLLS ... STRAWBERRY RHUBARB CRISP ... 30-MINUTE MOZZARELLA ... SUMMERTIME SALAD ... EGGPLANT PAPOUTZAKIA ... FRIDAY NIGHT PIZZA ... BASIL-BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE ... MELON SALSA ... CUCUMBER YOGURT SOUP ...

... and nineteen more.

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

Bean and Zucchini Hummus. Spinach Soup. Spaghetti All'arrabbiata.

Blog Post & recipe: Pinto Bean and Zucchini Hummus

Zucchini lends a western Mediterranean flair to this spicy but rich and earthy hummus made from pinto beans instead of chickpeas, with yogurt along to add a ... tang.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach Soup with Potato & Fried Garlic

... a simple spinach soup, with all in a bowl & one dominant flavor of fried garlic ... Unlike the popular pureed & creamy spinach soup, this one has the leaves just wilted. The color of the soup will depend on the amount of tomato you use & also the turmeric. More tomato also adds a slight tang, so if you want yours slightly sharp, feel free to use more tomato in it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spaghetti All'arrabbiata

All'arrabbiata means "angry style", and that's all you really need to know about this recipe. It's a tomato sauce with a kick. Usually that comes from crushed red pepper flakes, but I found this recipe from FX Cuisine that trades the flakes for ... one fiercely hot chile ... something happens to the chile during the cooking process. Since only a little bit is used, the shocking spiciness fades away into a glorious lingering glow ...

Broccomole. Pancetta vs. Bacon. Curry Powder.

Blog Post & Recipe: Holy Broccomole

But the one vegetable that I have not seen in dips is broccoli ... I recommend your [sic] try broccomole for something quick and different but it not a comestible to linger in your fridge too long. It is excellent on good bread or a corn thin and no doubt would benefit from a slice of tomato on top.

Article: Pancetta vs. bacon: Each brings its unique character to a recipe

Dear Lynne: Could you tell me if I can substitute bacon for pancetta in a recipe? Isn't pancetta just the Italian name for bacon?

Lindsey

Dear Lindsey: The short answer is yes.

In a pinch, you can substitute bacon for pancetta as long as you understand what that change is going to do to your dish. Both pancetta and bacon are cured pork made from the same cut -- the pork belly ... That said, they taste different ...

Blog Post: Good Question: How Do I Cook With Curry Powder?

Dear Kitchn, Do you have any suggestions on cooking with curry? I bought three different kinds of curry powered from Penzey's. I'm really into the warm spice flavors and would like to incorporate them into some easy weeknight meals.

I tried this Curried-Squash and Red-Lentil Soup recipe yesterday. I was expecting layers of flavors: rich squash, earthy beans and curry warmth. Instead, the soup just had this one flat spice note. Not very appealing. Can you give me more advice on cooking with curry?

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.

Save Bacon Fat. Roasted Tomatoes. Guacamole

Blog Post: Tip: Save Your Bacon Fat

See a theme? Essentially, use a spoonful of bacon fat anywhere you'd use a pat of butter or a glug of olive oil.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Tomatoes

It’s a slow roasting process at 200-225° for about 8 hours. Yeah, I said 8 hours, but DON’T FREAK OUT. You don’t have to babysit them or anything.

Blog Post & Recipe: Perfect Guacamole

The name is derived from two Aztec Nahuatl words - ahuacatl (avocado) and molli (sauce). The trick to perfect guacamole is using good, ripe avocados. Check for ripeness by gently pressing the outside of the avocado. If there is no give, the avocado is not ripe yet and will not taste good. If there is a little give, the avocado is ripe. If there is a lot of give, the avocado may be past ripe and not good.

Caramelized Onions. Köfte Meatballs. Argentine Empanadas.

Blog Post & recipe: Dinner Tonight: Köfte Meatballs with Haydari

It's a simplified version of this recipe.

This recipe comes from the Australian food magazine Gourmet Traveler, as part of a larger Turkish mezze-style spread. I nabbed the köfte and haydari recipes, which is a sauce similar to Greek tzatziki but with the intriguing addition of walnuts. The resulting meatballs—a mix of beef and lamb redolent of cumin, coriander, and garlic—were quick and wonderful.

Blog Post & Recipe: Argentine Empanadas

The recipe is pretty straightforward and simple. I omitted raisins in the filling because I never really liked them and most of the best empanadas I had didn’t have them either (although it is indeed, authentic). I also omitted the bell pepper because I didn’t have one.

Blog Post: Top Five Ways to Use Caramelized Onions

We've talked about how we make big batches, use them in everything, and then freeze the extra. Well, just what do we mean by "everything"? Read on for our favorite uses for caramelized onions and tell us yours!

1. Salads ...

2. Sandwiches ...

3. Pizza or Savory Tart Topping ...

4. Pasta Dishes ...

5. Appetizers ...

Related: How to Caramelize Onions

N.b. 'Middle east' tag introduced.