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).

Fish Cake Soup (Odeng Tang) / Cock Ale / Chinese Ginger Duck

Blog Post & Recipe: Fish Cake Soup (Odeng Tang)

If you have the ingredients it won't take you more than 15 minutes to make this.

Blog Post & Recipe: And now for something a little more löwenbräu

So that’s cock ale. The name sounds so dirty. As does another beer brewed with meat: oyster porter. Another relic of the 19th century. Yes, this is English porter brewed with oyster meat, or sometimes ground up oyster shells.

Cock Ale

Blog Post & Recipe: Chinese Ginger Duck Recipe - 姜麻鴨

Anyway, this recipe is so simple in line with his simplistic attitude to food and life in general - the duck is simply cooked with copious amounts of ginger and some soy sauces for seasoning, add a dash of Chinese Shaoxing wine for added fragrance and that's about it. If you like ginger, I'm quite sure you will love this but if not, then this dish may not be your cup of tea to be honest.

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

Stuffed Leg of Lamb / Great South Bay Duck Ragù / Roasted Mushrooms with Garlic, Chile & Rosemary

Article & Recipe: The California Cook: Stuffed leg of lamb — it's worth the effort

I'm proposing a boned leg of lamb, stuffed with greens, feta and pine nuts. It may be a bit complicated to put together, but the payoff is immense.

Article & Recipe: Duck, Duck, Anchovy

Anchovies provide a hint of ocean air, and juniper berries a marshy hum. Red wine adds heft, and red-wine vinegar cuts the richness

Great South Bay Duck Ragù

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Mushrooms with Garlic, Chile and Rosemary

Sauteeing is great — it releases the viscous, gray juices of mushrooms and hopefully bleeds into something else in the pan. But roasted, they become almost chewy, almost crispy on the surface with a golden-brown crust on the tops. If you roast them for a short enough time at a high enough temperature, the mushroom will be still bursting with juice inside, but concentrated in taste and browned on the outside. It’s interesting.

Hot Cross Buns / Apple & Fennel Salad / 4 Recipes from the New York Times

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect hot cross buns

Hot cross buns are a festive food, rather than a common or garden breadstuff, and they deserve to be treated as such. A rich, golden dough, heavy with spice and sweet with dried fruits and sugar

Blog Post & Recipe: apple and fennel salad

The fennel is so crunchy and refreshing (I can’t believe I ever gagged eating this stuff – I was crazy, I tell you!) and the slightly tart apples shaved paper thin feel like they’ve meat to be paired with the fennel slices. Also the dill: I know being Russian, I’m a little dill-crazy, but I really think dill and fennel were meant to be together

Blog Post & Recipes: Classic American recipes come to life

Amanda Hesser, a food editor at the New York Times, spent six years compiling a book that would bring together the best recipes in the paper's history, from the 1850s to the present day. Here she picks her personal favourites.

Purée of peas and watercress recipe ... Ginger duck recipe ... Spaghetti with fried eggs and roasted peppers recipe ... Winter borscht recipe

Cod & White Bean Stew / Chicken Stock / Duck Charcuterie 5 Ways

Blog Post & Recipe: stew & snow

and it's versatile - throw in whatever combinations of vegetables, beans, grains and fish you have on hand.

Cod & White Bean Stew

Blog Post & Recipe: homemade chicken stock

Sometimes I do it with odds and ends from a chicken: wings, neck, gizzards, other random bits. But most often, and by far my favorite way to make stock – is to use 2 carcasses of roasted chickens

Article & Recipes & Video: Duck Charcuterie 5 Ways (and Recipes).

The tender "center cuts" (breast, tenderloin, etc.) are not the only parts worth eating; in fact they are often not even the best. In the case of duck, it's a great gateway cooking experience to full on nose-to-tail: all of the parts are delicious and easy to prepare, it just takes a little time. Watch this video to see ducks turned into sausage, pate, rillette, stock, prosciutto, and confit and check out the Ruhlman/Henderson/Keller influenced recipes.

Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa / Bravas Potatoes & Romesco Sauce / 3 Iranian Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa

Chiles, garlic, lime and oil. Apply heat and then a blender. They are transformed into one of the best salsas I have ever eaten. The garlic allows this to emulsify into a surprisingly creamy sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Brava

I did a spin on patatas bravas, a popular Spanish tapas item that often calls for frying the potatoes and serving them with a romesco-like sauce ... Easily the best roasted potatoes I have ever made

Speedy Romesco Sauce

Article & Recipes: Middle Eastern food: Persian pleasures on a plate

In its fragrant yet robust cuisine, Iran could almost be a Mediterranean country. Dishes use handfuls of fresh herbs, as well as more exotic ingredients such as nuts, flower waters and dried limes.

Persian rice pudding recipe ... Duck fesunjun recipe ... Ash-e sak spinach soup with spicy beef koofteh recipe

Grape Focaccia with Rosemary / Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes & Plum Sauce / 3 Cold-Weather Meals

Blog Post & Recipe: grape focaccia with rosemary

(This is a tweaked version of a recipe I posted for the first time here.)

I couldn’t get enough of the sweet/salty/olive oil/grape/rosemary thing with the crisp edges

Recipe: Peking Duck with Mandarin Pancakes and Plum Sauce

Maltose syrup can be found in most Chinese supermarkets. If you can't find it, honey can be used in its place.

Article & Recipes: Cold weather comfort

I find that most wet meat dishes require the meat to be browned before adding the wet ingredients. I have sidestepped that process in today's dishes without compromising flavour.

Potato and chicken pie ... Beef casserole ... One pot beef and paprika casserole

Caramelized Onion & Spinach Olive Oil Quick Bread / Braised Fennel Pizza / Fourteen Autumn Roasts

Blog Post & Recipe: Caramelized Onion & Spinach Olive Oil Quick Bread

After caramelizing onions to a sweet, golden brown and wilting the spinach with minced garlic, the vegetables are mixed into a savory quick bread batter. The only fat in this easy bread is extra-virgin olive oil, which lends a slightly fruity taste

Blog Post & Recipe: Top This: Braised Fennel Pizza (à la Paulie Gee's 'Anise and Anephew' Pie)

"I got just the pie," replied the man behind Brooklyn's Paulie Gee's. "It cannot be topped. My 'Anise and Anephew' has fior di latte, braised fennel, guanciale, and a post-oven drizzle of anisette cream with a garnish of fresh fennel fronds."

Slideshow & Recipes: Delicious autumn roasts

Herbed rack of lamb with potato smash ... Beef pot roast ... Portuguese-style chicken ... Mexican slow-roasted lamb shanks ... Char siu pork ribs ... Greek roast lamb with skordalia and potatoes ... Slow-roasted duck marylands ... Roast beef with Yorkshire puddings ... Lamb with quince and honey ... Lemon and thyme baked chicken ... Roast lamb ... Chicken pot roast with mustard cream sauce ... Pork leg roast with sage potatoes ... Beef rib roast with spiced salt

Squash and Fennel Soup / Duck Confit / Brewing Tea

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Squash and Fennel Soup with Candied Pumpkin Seeds

The result of this recipe is creamy without a drop of dairy (though a little crème fraîche or Greek yogurt can be dolloped in to finish it).

Article & Recipe: Duck Confit, and Hold the Fat

Look to the left of the article for the link to the recipe.

“Well, let’s change the recipe so the duck just renders in its own fat and you don’t need to add any more to the pan,” he suggested.

You can do that?

“Sure,” he said. “It’s not traditional but would work just fine for small batches at home.”

Article: Tips on brewing the perfect cup of tea

The average Canadian tea drinker ... steeps tea for less than 30 seconds. That leaves most of the flavour and antioxidants in your tea bag or pot. While low-grade black tea can get bitter if steeped longer than 30 seconds, a good black tea should be steeped for at least three minutes in water that has just boiled

Smoked Duck / Three Salsify Recipes / Faux Fennel Pollen

Blog Post & Recipe: where there's smoke, there's duck ...

Smoked duck! Ah, of course, I said. Sichuan smoked duck. Of course. Erm, but I've never smoked anything in my life before. (Honest, Dad.) So, er, how?

Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's salsify recipes

Salsify and scorzonera are beautiful names for rather unprepossessing roots, but if they're unfamiliar to you, I urge you to get intimate with them.

Salsify fritters ... Salsify tempura with a spicy dipping sauce ... Salsify gratin

Blog Post & Recipe: Faux Fennel Pollen (via a link to the same blogger's recipe for Fennel and Orange Salad)

So I experimented, grinding some fennel seeds along with coriander, black peppercorns, sea salt and a dash of cayenne. I used an electric coffee grinder, pulverizing the mixture to a powder ... I rubbed the mixture on both sides of some boneless pork chops

Valentine's Day Food

Recipes: Valentine's Recipes from the Heart Foundation.

Romantic picnic for two

A heart healthy romantic evening meal

Full day menu of romantic meals

Article & Recipes: Top 10 recipes for Valentine's Day

Here’s what the million visitors to Taste every month have picked as their most loved Valentine’s Day recipes:

1. Chocolate strawberries
2. Hazelnut praline truffles
3. Love heart cupcakes
4. Pappardelle with mushrooms
5. Strawberry love heart sponge cakes
6. Pikelets with strawberry sweetheart butter
7. Broken heart chocolate puddings with mocha sauce
8. Chocolate souffle
9. Oysters with Champagne sauce
10. Roast duck with red wine poached pears