Chicken, White Bean, and Poblano Stew / Peppermint Ice Blended Mocha / Vinegar-Glazed Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken, White Bean, and Poblano Stew

There’s nothing fancy to this stew but it’s pretty easy to throw together, is really filling, and a big hit in our family.

Blog Post & Recipe: Peppermint Ice Blended Mocha

I think I had about half a gallon of hot chocolate leftover, so for an extremely nutritious (and diabetic friendly) breakfast, I infused it with some candy canes and then blended it with ice cream, coffee powder and garnished it with an unhealthy dollop of whipped cream.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vinegar-Glazed Chicken

Unlike white rice vinegar, Chinese black vinegar from northern China is an aged vinegar made from black glutinous rice, wheat, millet, or sorghum.. (The Gold Plum version from the city of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province, made with glutinous rice, is considered the premier brand.) The flavor resembles that of balsamic vinegar. It’s slightly sweet with a barely detectable smokiness [...] I frequently recommend in my recipes a good-quality balsamic vinegar as a substitute if you can’t find Chinese black vinegar. But the same could be said opposite, that if you run out of balsamic vinegar you can use Chinese black vinegar.

Fasoulia Nashfe: Lamb & White Bean Stew / Cool Rhubarb Glögg / Duck in Port

Blog Post & Recipe: Fasoulia Nashfe: Lamb and White Bean Stew

This fasoulia nashfe is one of my favorite family recipes, and one that has traveled with me to four continents: tender lamb, soft cannellini beans and a rich tomato sauce seasoned in the signature Arab way, with plenty of cinnamon, garlic and baharat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Finnish Christmas with a Twist: Cool rhubarb glögg

I adore rhubarb, I'm sure you've realised that by now, and this drink is for all you die-hard rhubarb lovers out there. It's completely sugar-free, so prepare yourself for some real rhubarb flavour pared with warming spices and a drizzle of lemon juice to freshen it all up.

Blog Post & Recipe: Duck in Port

I also recommend using all the parts that come with. The liver can be chopped up and sautéd with shallots, coriander and cumin. Seasoned with lime and cilantro and you have a perfect appetizer. The neck (head and feet) and rest of the giblets make a great base for a stock (see below).

Cheese & Bacon Scones with Homemade Piccalilli / Thai Soba Noodle Bowl / Fresh Mint Hot Chocolate

Blog Post & Recipe: Cheese & Bacon Scones with Homemade Piccalilli

Of course the piccalilli was made several weeks in advance to allow the flavours to mature but the scones were enjoyed fresh from the oven.

Blog Post & Recipe: THAI SOBA NOODLE BOWL

I know heat is subjective, so I am giving amounts for a medium spicy soup. I would start there and add accordingly. It’s tougher to neutralize the spice in a soup like this, so start moderate.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Mint Hot Chocolate

What I love about this version is the mint is from fresh mint. It tastes clean and unlike the candy mint – which I also love – fresh mint gives a clean earthy punch that really suits the chocolate well.

Soy & Star Anise Oxtail / Horchata / Beetroot Salad with Crispy Leeks & Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: Soy & Star Anise Oxtail

The oxtail needs cooking slow and low to ensure the is meat that can be sucked off the bone perfect with the spicy sticky sauce but definitely have some napkins handy .

Blog Post & Recipe: Bringing Mexico Home: Horchata

Variations include almonds, lime zest, or even pecans and popcorn. Momofuku Milk Bar serves a Horchata Soft Serve Ice Cream with Cinnamon. And adding a dash of Tequila can improve its already soothing qualities.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Salad with Crispy Leeks and Bacon

I decided to take a different route when recreating this dish at home. Instead of chicken skin, I used bacon, and instead of frying it stovetop, I used it to help make the leeks extra crispy in the oven. After a few minutes roasting together, the leeks begin to caramelize in the bacon fat, and the result is a rather rich smoky dressing for your beets.

Lamb & Pine Nut Sausage Rolls / Beetroot, Citrus & Ginger Juice / Curried Prawns with Cucumbers

Blog Post & Recipe: lamb and pine nut sausage rolls

prep time: 25 minutes
cook time: 40mins + cooling time (10-15mins)
makes 40 sausage rolls

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot, Citrus & Ginger Juice

It's hard to describe perfection, but imagine an earthy-sweet jewel coloured drink redolent with the mild flavour of beetroot as base with a few citrus-y top notes and a hit of sinus-clearing ginger to round it off.

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Shrimp with Cucumbers

The shrimp and cucumber, which is cooked just beyond the tender-crisp stage, keeps things nice and light to balance out the rich coconut sauce. And you've got two options for the sauce. You can use a whole can of coconut to get a nice and soupy curry, which would saturate and flavor the bed of rice, or cut back to make things a less saucy.

Iced Coffee Pops / Apple Tarragon Granita / Smoothie Bag

Blog Post & Recipe: Iced Coffee Pops

Mix the coffee with the sweetened condensed milk. Add tablespoon of cocoa powder and adjust to taste

Blog Post & Recipe: Apple Tarragon Granita

In an 8 inch square dish, combine all ingredients until sugar is dissolved. Freeze 1-2 hours and stir with a fork. Freeze 2-3 hours longer, stirring with a fork occasionally. (Once it is mostly frozen it's more like fluffing with a fork than stirring.) Stir with a fork before serving.

Blog Post: {The Basics} Smoothie Bag

Then when it comes to buying fresh fruit...there are plenty of times when it doesn't get eaten fast enough and it's a waste not to use it. That's where the smoothie bag came into play. Any fruit that reaches the still good, but too bruised or soft stage, it gets cut up to freeze. I lay the frozen pieces out on a plastic wrap lined sheet pan and freeze them until hard.

Ginger Switchel / Prepare and Cook Beef Heart / Saffron Pistachio Kulfi

Blog Post & Recipe: Drink Recipe: Ginger Switchel

Dating back to the early American colonies and possibly the Caribbean before that, this vinegar and ginger drink became known as haymaker's punch in the 19th century, when it was served to quench farmers' thirst during the hay harvest.

Blog Post & Video: How To Prepare and Cook Beef Heart

To prepare the beef heart for cooking, cut away all the fat, any obviously squishy tissue, connective tissue, valves, papillary muscles and tendineae attached to the valve flaps; it should be obvious by sight what’s good to eat and what’s not. You want clean dense muscle only; you’ll have a lot of trim—don’t make yourself too crazy trying to get every last bit.

Grilled Beef Heart with Herbed Vinaigrette

Blog Post & Recipe: Saffron Pistachio Kulfi - An Indian Ice Cream

Kulfi is an Indian answer to ice cream. Unlike the western ice cream kulfi is a milk based ice cream which is not churned but is more creamy than usual fare. Traditionally the milk is reduced to half by heating the milk over a long period of time which gives it a nutty and distinct flavor. The traditional flavors are of saffron, pistachio and almonds but these days you will find fruit kulfi's as well.

Cantaloupe & Beetroot Juice / Summer Squash & Basil Frittata / Eggplant with Buttermilk Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Cantaloupe & Beet Juice

If you think you hate beets, I would definitely encourage you to try this because the sweetness of the melon complements the beet perfectly and gets rid of that "earthy" taste that tends to go along with beets.

Blog Post & Recipe: Summer squash & basil frittata

Grating summer squash renders it simple to incorporate into a variety of recipes, and I often stir sautéed squash into risottos and pasta sauces. The yellow squash in this frittata lends some nutty heft to one of my favorite easy meals, and goat cheese and basil dress it up for brunch or dinner.

Blog Post & Recipe: Aubergines with Buttermilk Sauce

The recipe is rather easy and straightforward, essentially requiring you to roast the aubergines for about 40 minutes until they are soft and bronzed in colour. The aubergines are then left to cool, during which time you can make the buttermilk sauce and extract the seeds from the pomegranate.

Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce / Easy Indian Cabbage / Homemade Soybean Milk

Recipe: Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce. The recipe comes attached to this interview with Gabrielle Hamilton — "the winner of this year’s James Beard Award for Best New York Chef."

Agrodolce
3 cups cider vinegar
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. chile flakes
3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
1 cup mint leaves

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy Indian Cabbage recipe

Cabbage and cumin seeds are known to help digestion, making this recipe perfect for your stomach!

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Soybean Milk ~ 自制豆奶

You will just need soybeans, water, muslin or cheesecloth and of course a blender. Another good thing about making this at home is that you can adjust the amount of sugar you use in the milk or even add some other flavourings like pandan (screwpine) leaves for added fragrance. The important thing to note is that you can't shirk from the straining of the soybean milk as there are lots of remnants of the soybeans left behind. Apart from that, it is very straightforward and extremely easy to make.

Pickled Red Onions & Pickled Small White Onions / Black Raspberry Shrub / Barbecue Ribs

Blog Post & Recipe: Torshi Piaz - Pickled Red Onions and Pickled Small White Onions

Torshi is mostly made with vinegar and the taste is rather "torsh" (sour), hence the name.

Blog Post & Recipe: Drink Week, Day Four: Black Raspberry Shrub

Today’s topic is the fruit shrub. These are a concentrated fruit syrup, spiked with vinegar, to give it an appealing sweet/tart flavor profile. They definitely need dilution, so top them with a bit of sparkling water

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect barbecue ribs

Ribs are one of the great pleasures of carnivorousness, and simplicity itself to prepare, as long as you cook them slow enough to melt the hard-working meat that makes them so tasty, and don't try to get too fancy with the marinade: this is a cut that really doesn't need it.

Vietnamese Daikon & Carrot Pickles / Oregano Roasted Beets with Garlic Scapes / Turmeric Ginger Beer

Blog Post & Recipe: Vietnamese Daikon and Carrot Pickles

They're a little like bread and butter pickles, though crispier, not as sweet, and with a slight radish taste from the daikon.

Blog Post & Recipe: Oregano Roasted Beets with Garlic Scapes

Since beets are so sweet all on their own, they need little sprucing up. (Fun fact: Beet sugar makes up about 40% of the world’s sugar.) Here, I simply doctored them up with some garlic scapes and a few sprigs of fresh oregano.

Blog Post & Recipe: Turmeric Ginger Beer

But even when I got the carbonation just right in these recipes (which does take a little precision), brewed ginger beers did not have that fresh spicy kick that I love. In the end, I got the best results from the simplest method. Make a ginger-infused syrup and top with soda water and fresh lemon juice.

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?)

Ma Po Tofu with Mushrooms & Clams / Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls / Homemade Oat Milk

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Ma Po Tofu (actually not meatless. It has clams).

But, yesterday, not wanting to waste the silken tofu that was nearing expiration but without having thawed any meat to go with it, I decided to take the plunge — ma po tofu with mushrooms and clams and with no meat at all.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls

Pour 1/2 cup warm water into large bowl of stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment; stir in yeast and sugar. Let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. Add sweet potato mixture into the yeast mixture; mix on low speed until well blended, 2 minutes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Oat Milk

You can start from rolled oats, from oat flour, or from oat groats, i.e. the dehulled grain of the plant. I like to use the latter (available from natural food stores) as they are the least processed of the three, and give the best results flavor- and texture-wise.

5 Drinks / Egg & Grilled Tomato Sandwich With Fresh Herbs / Ricotta Millet Pudding

Article & Recipes: Make your own drinks!

Click on the pictures above for Susy's delicious recipes for cherryade, cucumber gin, lavender lemonade, star anise voda and masala chai

Blog Post & Recipe: So many things: P2P, life and an Egg and Grilled Tomato Sandwich With Fresh Herbs

Now assemble the sandwich: first you put the tomato slices on the bread, if there are any juices, drizzle these on the bread before putting the tomato on it. Salt it. Then you put the egg on that and finish with adding a little salt and drizzling the herb oil over it all.

Blog Post & Recipe: Ricotta Millet Pudding

This deliciously creamy dessert references familiar dishes like rice pudding and coeur a la creme but manages to also maintain a unique identity. It is fresh, creamy, lemony, and perfect for spring. The warm raspberry sauce poured over the cold pudding is absolutely delightful.

Ricotta Millet Pudding with Warm Raspberry Compote

Fennel with Meat (Etli Rezene) / Horchata / Filmjölk

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel with Meat (Etli Rezene)

The Aegean cuisine in Turkey is known for its greens. It is truly unbelievable how many different green plants/weeds and in how many different ways the Aegeans can cook.

Blog Post & Recipe: Going Nuts for Horchata

The drink owes its creamy consistency to the combination of almonds, rice, and barley (and sometimes even sesame or melon seeds) that make up the recipe. Horchata is prepared by blanching and soaking almonds, pulverizing rice and barley, combining all of the ingredients in a blender and straining the mixture with cheesecloth.

Blog Post: Let’s Get Cultured! Filmjölk!

I have been making my own yogurt for about two years now and so far filmjölk, a Swedish countertop cultured yogurt is my favorite. There are several reasons why, the first is the absolute breeze it is to make. You don’t need any special equipment. To make your first batch all you need is the bacteria culture, some milk and cream and a clean mason jar.

Sichuan Chilli Oil / Making Stock / Mexican Hot Chocolate

Blog Post & Recipe: Sichuan Chilli Oil

Heat the peanut oil in a small saucepan until shimmering, then CAREFULLY add the peppercorns. They will spit a lot - wear long sleeves.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make stock the right way, the wrong way, and when it matters [via]

So here, I'll show you the classicist's way of making stock, but then I'll let you in on all the ways you can cheat.

Classic meat stock

Blog Post & Recipe: Mexican Hot Chocolate

I have to admit that I like my hot chocolate a little stronger than that, and less sweet. But there’s something endearing about that crumbly Mexican chocolate that crinkles with sugar when you snap pieces off. So I upped the proportion of Mexican chocolate and added some unsweetened cocoa powder, which brought up the chocolate flavor and richness to where I like it.

Potato-Sunchoke Soup with Chile Oil / Hot Chocolate / Spaghetti with Braised Kale

Blog Post & Recipe: potato-sunchoke soup with homemade chile oil

These are sunchokes. You might know them as Jerusalem artichokes instead. They’re not flashy vegetables — look at those knotty tubers!

Blog Post & Recipe: As our own

You're going to boil the chocolate. Well, the chocolate and cream and all the rest of it. Just for a minute or two, the bubbles shouldn't be furious. And stir conscientiously as it's happening please

Our hot chocolate

Blog Post & Recipe: a delicious comfort

Have I lost you already, with the mere mention of whole wheat spaghetti? If not, has kale scared you away? I sure hope not, because I really think you’ll like this one. It’s quick and deeply satisfying—hearty and earthy and lemony and garlic-y and spicy—especially on a winter weeknight.

Spaghetti with Braised Kale

CC Hal's Stirfry Sauce / 10 Healthy Drinks / 2 Vegetarian Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: CC Hal's Stirfry Sauce

The sauce seemed exotic as a new vegetarian but now it is a bit less exciting. However the flavours meld beautifully into a tasty, easy sauce. I cooked it with lot of vegetables.

Recipes: Quick and healthy recipes + Henry Dimbleby's quick and healthy drinks

Carrot, orange and ginger juice recipe ... Real hot chocolate recipe ... Ginger and mint steeper recipe ... Super-healthy almond smoothie recipe ... Cloudy apple and mint juice recipe ... Pearl barley milk recipe ... Green smoothie recipe ... Kiwi breakfast smoothie recipe ... Cucumber cooler recipe ... Raspberry breakfast power smoothie recipe

Article & Recipes: Gateway vegetable dishes for the meat lover

For his resolution to have a real shot, we'd need a couple of gateway dishes - meatless ones that masqueraded as meaty ones. They'd also have to be fast and easy to make. We settled on two: Mushroom bourguignon, a riff on the traditional beef dish made with pearl onions, carrots, wine and beef stock; and barley risotto ... We'd also use vegetable purees - onion to thicken the bourguignon sauce, and carrot to bind together the risotto.

Ginger Beer / Baked Eggs / Loukoumathes

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic ginger beer recipe

To make your beer even more refreshing, tuck in a handful of lemon verbena leaves or a few sticks of bashed lemongrass.

Article & Recipe: How to bake eggs

First she gathered her ingredients: two eggs and two castelvetrano olives per serving; salt and pepper; cream; and bread crumbs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Now That’s a Mouthful

Fried dough, by any name, would taste as good. Case in point: loukoumathes, those puffy little yeasted doughnuts—also spelled loukoumades—which, like most Greek desserts, are best served drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Loukoumathes

Cochinita Pibil / Ginger Beer / Curried Cauliflower Couscous

Blog Post & Recipe: A Twist on Pulled Pork! Cochinita Pibil from Simply Recipes

When this recipe for cochinita pibil come up on Simply Recipes, we were immediately captivated by its description of pork shoulder braised in orange juice and Mexican spices.

Blog Post & Recipes: Ginger Beer

I was interested in a non-alcoholic version that I could use as a mixer with soda or something a little stronger and decided to give making my own ginger beer a go. You’ll need a lot of ginger. Two and a half pounds of it, to be precise.

Blog Post & Recipe: Curried Cauliflower Couscous

That something is cauliflower couscous, so named because the finished product roughly resembles couscous ... When I think of regular couscous, I immediately think of that golden colour and in this cauliflower version, the combination of curry powder and butter tint the cauliflower.