Store Certain Herbs / Braised Radishes / Homemade Ginger Beer & Dark 'n' Stormy Cocktail

Blog Post & Tip: How to Store Cilantro (and Other Herbs)

Some herbs take to freezing well (such as basil, mint, chives, and obviously cilantro), and then they are quite easy to use later (or much later!) in soups, stews, and other cooked dishes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised Radishes {recipe} – When a Side Dish Not a Side Dish

Then we realized that we could braise them in the same way that we’ve braised their much larger Asian cousins, the daikon radish, but with different seasonings and flavors. Lemon. Thyme. Butter.

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Ginger Beer and the Dark 'n' Stormy

Besides all the cool ideas and wavelengths that must bounce around in that shop, they apparently have delicious ginger beer. And they offer an informal recipe in the spread: take ginger, cut it up, add some lemon juice and sugar, toss in hot water and yeast, and give it 24 hours.

Concept: braise radishes (remember, we were wondering about this last night?)

Sour Cream Cornbread with Aleppo / How to Rinse a Cocktail Glass / Lamb & Chickpea Balls with Watercress & Radish Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: sour cream cornbread with aleppo

Aleppo is a Turkish bright red pepper flake with a mild-to-moderate kick and a bit of tartness. I bought mine from Penzey’s in Grand Central.

Blog Post: Cocktail 101: How to Rinse a Glass

The purpose of the rinse is to impart the taste of a strongly flavored ingredient to a cocktail, without that ingredient overpowering the rest of the drink.

Blog Post & Recipe: Lamb and Chickpea Balls with Watercress and Radish Salad

I really like bitter salad leaves ( most strangely watercress in cheese and marmite sandwiches) . I wanted to make some leafy salads but I thought I better get some protein into the dish hybrid falafel-meatballs (chickpea and lamb) seasoned with plenty of onion, garlic , ground coriander and cumin

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

3 Bitters Cocktails / Vegetable Recipes / Apple, Leek & Butternut Squash Gratin

Article & Recipes: Bitters 101

A small dash of bitters adds depth and complexity to a drink, enlivening an otherwise flat combination. They’re used to accent a cocktail, not to dominate it.

The Old Fashioned ... The Mexican Train ... The Peypal

Comment Thread & Recipes: time to eat the veggies!

Looking for vegetable recipes (besides salads) that don't need rice, pasta, bread or meat, and can be eaten as hearty meals by themselves. Legumes, beans, spices, oils and such flavorings are fine.

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Monday: Apple, Leek and Butternut Squash Gratin

This Apple, Leek and Butternut Squash Gratin is ridiculously simple: a layer of sliced butternut squash, a layer of leeks sautéed with sherry and sage, a layer of sliced apples and a layer of Parmesan.

Feijoa Daquiri / Tofu Fried with Basil / Lancashire Hot Pot

Blog Post & Recipe: Feijoa Daquiri

The fabulous aromatic feijoa flavour was really captured in the drink.

Blog Posts & Recipes: How To Make Tofu, followed by Tofu Fried with Basil

... what really makes this dish is the combination of garlic, peppers and basil in a salty-sweet sauce. It works with chicken, pork, shrimp, or tofu.

Blog Post & Recipe: T&T #1 – Great British Food’s Lancashire Hot Pot

Put together by the guys behind the brilliant Canteen mini chain of restaurants, this Lancashire Hot Pot stays true to their ethos of cooking gutsy, tasty, good quality, British grub.

Bacon Pineapple Jalapeno Margaritas / Ladenia / Perfect Scones

Blog Post & Recipe: Bacon Pineapple Jalapeno Margaritas

This flavor combo was introduced to me by Rich and Kim as a pizza topping, and quickly became one of my favorite tastes. ... When Steph had the idea to make a drink out of it, I was excited, but still had to figure out how to put bacon in a drink.

Blog Post & Recipe: “Ladenia”-with Heirloom Tomatoes

”Ladenia” (pronounced la-the-nia) is best described as Greece’s answer to pizza. I hope that doesn’t offend anyone ... but it’s basically a pizza/foccacia dough made with Greek extra virgin olive oil and topped with tomatoes, sliced onions and Greek oregano.

Blog Post & Recipes: How to make the perfect scone

In every single case, the overworked dough produces a denser, less well-risen result, and the scones that started off flatter remain so. Those which have been freed from the tyranny of the rolling pin are perhaps slightly better risen in general, but have a wild, unruly look

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

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.

3 Margaritas / Cocoa Powder FAQ / Mee Rebus

Recipes: It's National Margarita Day: 3 recipes to try

The links are under the photographs.

Guava margarita ... Blood orange margarita ... Grapefruit margarita

Blog Post & Recipe: Cocoa Powder FAQ: Dutch-process & natural cocoa powder

Here's some of the frequently asked questions people have about cocoa powder, and its use in recipes ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Mee Rebus

Mee rebus is one of the many noodles dishes popular in Malaysia. It is yellow noodles served with a thick spicy potato-based gravy and garnished with a hard-boiled egg, spring onions, bean sprouts, fried shallots, tau kwa (dried/ fried beancurd) and lime juice.

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

Cinco de Mayo

Recipe: Cinco de Mayo Recipe: Mango Michelada

A michelada is a beer cocktail with hot sauce, lime, and salt — a beer margarita, if you will. Without the liquor, so this is the perfect midweek drink.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pineapple, tequila are perfect companions for Cinco de Mayo

And since I'm eating healthier these days, this tequila-baked pineapple makes the perfect side dish for some grilled salmon or chicken and is sensational when served over pound cake or vanilla ice cream ...

Tequila and Lime Baked Pineapple

Blog Post & Recipe: Chipotle Chicken Fajitas (Grilled Indoors!) with Creamy Black Bean Spread

We should have posted this recipe a few weeks ago in honor of Cinco de Mayo, but better late than never...

Fajitas really taste best when the meat and veggies come off of a grill, but we're willing to compromise with a grill pan rather than give them up entirely.

Recipes: Cinco de Mayo, a.k.a. National Margarita Day

'National' here meaning 'in the USA.'

Cinco de Mayo isn’t celebrated very widely in Mexico (it’s often erroneously thought of as Mexican Independence Day, which is September 16), but it’s become so popular in the States that many people consider it the kickoff of summer ... Here’s an assortment of Mexican-influenced, but by no means traditional, cocktails that use beer, tequila, and rum.

* Spiked Pineapple Agua Fresca
* Mexican 75
* Paloma
* Red Chile–Guava Margarita
* Luchador
* Tamarindo Borracho
* Squirrel Horchata

Blog Posts & Recipes:

The Homesick Texan blogger's "Menu for Cinco de Mayo":

Tinga
Carnitas
Chorizo
Corn Tortillas
Mexican Rice
Nachos
Papalo salsa verde
Pico de Gallo
Chile con Queso
Sopapillas

I'll add more recipes to this if I find any. See also this post and this one.

Wasabi Bloody Marys. American Steak

Recipe: Wasabi Bloody Marys.

Article and Recipes: A view to a grill.

A short article about the superiority of the American steak, with some steak recipes at the end.

I discovered that one of the secrets of American steak cookery lay in the cooking process. To achieve that deliciously tasty and coveted "crust", the steak must first be cooked over coals on a grill, before being finished at super-hot temperatures, as high as 1,200F, in a large mechanism called a broiler.