10 Reasons I Love My Freezer / Stuffed Cabbage Casserole / Phyllo Kourou

Blog Post: Cold comfort - 10 reasons I love my freezer

1. Going nuts ... 2. Flavour bombs ... 3. Scrooge satisfaction ... 4. Stocking up ... 5. Anything with a pulse ... 6. Rice on ice ... 7. The Florence factor ... 8. Pesto power ... 9. Take-away at home ... 10. Craving curb

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Deconstructed Stuffed Cabbage Casserole

Being forced to plan ahead for meals meant I always made diet-friendly casseroles or soups on the weekend to make sure my freezer was well-stocked to get me through the week. That's a habit I'm going to work on cultivating again, so over the weekend I made this amazing Deconstructed Stuffed Cabbage Casserole and I have six servings of it in the freezer waiting for me at home

Blog Post & Recipe: Rolo me Phyllo Kourou and my e-book has finally been published

The classic recipe, Rolo me Patates is made with ground meat in which we add hard boiled eggs. In Cyprus we wrap the roulade in caul fat, which melts as it is being baked in the oven and gives a wonderful flavour to the ground meat. Instead of caulfat I wrapped it in kourou phyllo and added ham and halloumi. A very simple recipe but yet so delicious. Instead of Kourou phyllo you can just wrap it in parchment paper or in puff pastry.

Sweet Potato Whole Grain Waffles / Crispy Fried Garlic / Sabih

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Whole Grain Waffles

Cook in a waffle iron at medium for about 5-7 minutes. These take longer to cook than other waffles we have made.

Blog Post & Recipe: Back to basics - crispy fried garlic 炸蒜米

Crispy fried garlic like crispy fried shallot is very common in S E Asia. Chopped garlic is deep fried till golden it is not bitter but has slightly sweet, caramelised and strong garlicy flavour and deliciously crunchy. Only two ingredients are needed, plenty of garlic and cooking oil.

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's sabih recipe

Iraqi immigrants to Israel in the early 1950s brought with them the fascinating combination of fried aubergine and hard-boiled egg stuffed into fresh pitta (along with plenty of other big-flavoured ingredients). It sounds weird, but it's one of the most exciting street foods you could wish to come across.

4 Asparagus Recipes / Potato & Bacon Frittata / Cooking White Fish

Article & Recipes: Top tips: Mark Hix cooks with asparagus

Deep-fried turkey egg with asparagus ... Strozzapreti with cuttlefish and asparagus ... Cured pork loin with sweet and sour shaved raw asparagus ... Chicken and asparagus broth

Article & Recipe: The eggs have it

Frittatas are easy to make, delicious and nutritious, so they tick all the boxes for the beginner cook ... Once you know how to make them you can vary the fillings to suit your budget and tastebuds; they are a great way to use up leftovers and make a not-so-cheap ingredient go further.

Potato and Bacon Frittata

Article & recipes: Broiled, Sautéed, Roasted, Poached

The chart on the following page provides ideas for cooking 1½ pounds of white fillet, whether whole or cut into individual portions. None of these recipes take more than half an hour from start to finish; thicker pieces of fish will cook in 15 minutes or less, thinner pieces in under 10. You can tell that any fillet is done when it’s opaque and a thin-bladed knife meets little resistance when you use it to poke the thickest part of the fish.

Egg Sandwiches Without Mayonnaise / 4 Purple Recipes / Estonian Soda Bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Creamy egg sandwiches without the mayo

I don’t like mayonnaise, but have been fancying egg sandwiches recently. So I made up this mayonnaise-free creamy egg sandwich idea.

Article & Recipes: Purple haze

OVER the past couple of weeks I have been presented with purple carrots and purple potatoes, as well as some less vivid pink potatoes.

Purple Gem potato crisps ... Purple carrot and apple salad ... Purple carrot cake ... Trio of coloured potato mash

Blog Post & Recipe: Estonian Soda Bread Recipe

If you think you've already seen a recipe for Estonian soda bread here @ Nami-Nami, then you're not mistaken - I indeed blogged about it some three years ago. However, that recipe was with ricotta/curd cheese, and this one uses kefir or cultured buttermilk.

Braised Leeks with Goat's Curd / Chinese Braised Soy Sauce Eggs / Foccaccia / 13 US Bread Puddings

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's braised leeks with goat's curd recipe

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chinese Braised Soy Sauce Eggs

I promised you my Chinese braised soy sauce eggs recipe (滷蛋) in the Taiwanese scallion oil noodles (葱油拌面) post, so here you go. This is a super easy recipe, and the best thing is that you can save the braising soy sauce stock (滷水汁) in the fridge and re-use it again to make the eggs or even tofu

Article & Recipes & Photo Gallery: California Cook: Focaccia as it was meant to be

I had a blob of already-made dough sitting in the freezer. After defrosting, I just stretched it into a well-oiled jellyroll pan (a generous hand with the olive oil gives a crisper crust), then scattered a half pound of crumbled Gorgonzola on top and baked it. That was all there was to it.

Photos: Step-by-step guide to making focaccia at home ... Recipe: Gorgonzola focaccia ... Recipe: Focaccia recipe from Genoa

The same newspaper has also published thirteen recipes for bread pudding.

4 Rice Recipes / 3 Ramen Recipes / 1 Scotch Egg

Recipes: Variations on Rice Recipes

Rice is a versatile grain, and takes flavors well.

Herbed Rice ... Lavender Rice ... Lemon grass Rice ... Cilantro Lime Rice

Article & Recipes: Ramen's rising stock: Leave the packet behind

"The broth, definitely," Nakano says. "Noodles are important, but if the broth sucks, it doesn't matter."

Roasted Duck Ramen ... Celery Root-Miso Ramen ... Tonkotsu Ramen

Article & Recipe: Scotch Eggs With Much Less Mess

Most Scotch egg recipes call for breakfast-sausage meat. I wanted a punchier flavor, so I picked up some spicy Italian sausages and added more bite with garlic and horseradish. Before patting the sausage meat onto the eggs, I coated them with a little flour. This helps the sausage adhere to the slippery egg white while cooking.

Crunchy Scotch Eggs With Horseradish and Pickles

Cabbage and Mince Stew / Tea Eggs / Steamed Pork Belly With Lily Buds

Blog Post & Recipe: Estonian Cabbage and Mince Stew

But somehow I always crave this dish in the early to mid-summer, when the cabbage tastes sweetest.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tea Eggs

Tea Eggs are a Chinese specialty that you can find it food stands across Asia. They are a very unique taste made with spices, tea and soy sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Steamed Pork Belly With Lily Buds

The lily buds lend a floral Chinese herbal note - the kind you get when you catch a whiff of Chinese herbal medicine shops - to the dish, with a subtle meaty aniseed flavour from the star anise.

Radish Salsa / Considering Scotch Eggs / Mushroom Soup

Recipe: Radishes make tasty salsa

This is one salsa that's going to be my summer staple, no matter what's on fire.

Radish salsa

Blog Post: Consider the scotch egg [blog post contains links to recipes -- see the comments below the post for more]

Extraordinary things. In the past, they went from rich man's caprice to Victorian savoury. Now they inhabit a strange hinterland between pubby ubiquity and zhooshed-up gastro cliche.

Blog Post & Recipe: Mushroom Soup

I am into roux these days. It creates beautifully silky, shiny and flavourful soups and gravy. My guides are Bittman’s gumbo video and Alton Brown’s Gravy Confidential. I know… roux is basically flour suspended in fat but I’m not the kind who cares.

Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs / Chicken Stew / Top 10 2009 Posts on Serious Eats

Blog Post & Recipe: Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs

The risotto was delicious but the real revelation was the anchovy crumbs , very unami and I now want to eat them on everything , thinking baked potatoes, macaroni cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Stew

What makes this stew so heartwarming are the aromatic spices – fennel, clove, cinnamon and finally some rosemary, thyme, peppercorn and crushed pepper.

Blog Post: The Year That Was: Top 10 Posts on Serious Eats

1. The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs »
2. Recipe: Rice Krispies Sushi »
3. Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever »
4. Recipe: How to Make a Choco Taco »
5. One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk »
6. Adam's Top 8 Pizzas of 2009 »
7. The Food Lab: Turkey Brining Basics »
8. A List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter »
9. The Ultimate NYC Chocolate Chip Cookie Tour »
10. Animal-Style Fries at In-N-Out Burger »

Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Apple Chutney / Friend Hardboiled Eggs / Balsamic and Lentil Bread

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Apple Chutney

I really like the way that sweet, tangy, hot and spicy chutneys work with the melted cheese in grilled cheese sandwiches and I enjoy them fairly frequently.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fried Hardboiled Eggs with Tomato Sambal (Telur Balado)

Fried hard-boiled eggs? How weird, right? But it’s quite a popular dish from Padang from West Sumatra. I quite like it with steamed rice which enhances the eggs’ special texture.

Blog Post & Recipe: Back to Basics ... with Man-Bread

Sure this fig, nut, and lentil bread sounds exotic and sophisticated first upon the ear, but a slight scratch below the surface reveals a substance possibly representative of the entire category of Food- at its most base requirement. Mortar like and gnarly in batter form, it bakes into a stout brick ...

Balsamic and Lentil Bread

Baked Eggs. Hard-Boiled Eggs. Chiles Rellenos

Recipe: El Cholo's chiles rellenos

The trick with that extra-fluffy coating lies in El Cholo's method: A little of the whipped egg batter is fried on its own until set, then a stuffed chile is gently laid over; more batter is spooned over the chile, then it is flipped and fried ...

Blog Post: How to Cook the Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg

This Flash application from the University of Oslo figures out the optimal time to cook a hard-boiled egg based on four factors ... The website is in Norwegian, but for a scientific explanation of cooking hard-boiled eggs in English go to khymos.org.

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Eggs in Tomato-Parmesan Sauce

Both of the times we've cooked this, we wished for runnier eggs. The second time, we actually only cooked it in the oven for 20 minutes -- much shorter than the recipe's recommended 24-28 minutes. Even still, we'd probably suggest a shorter cook time, maybe 16-18 minutes. It all depends on how firm you want your eggs