Britta’s Glogg / Claypot Cari with Sweet Potato, Tofu & Winter Greens / Renkon no Sunomono (Marinated Lotus Root)

Blog Post & Recipe: Britta’s Glogg

Britta’s glogg couldn’t be simpler. Her family served it garnished with toasted almonds and raisins

Recipe: The new vegetarian: claypot cari with sweet potato, tofu and winter greens recipe

This Saigonese curry relies on a sweet, mild Indian curry powder; the most authentic is found in Vietnamese shops, labelled 'Indian curry powder'.

Blog Post & Recipe: Renkon no Sunomono (Marinated Lotus Root)

This is a simple dish to prepare. All you have to do is peel a piece of lotus root and slice it into thin slices. Then blanch the slices briefly in boiling water and toss them in a simple marinade made of rice wine vinegar, sugar, and salt.

Hot Cappuccino Punch / Mulled Wine / Sweet Potato and Lentil Dahl

Blog Post & Recipe: Hot Cappuccino Punch

Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat until mixture begins to boil. Remove from heat and serve immediately.

Blog Post & Recipe: Mulled Wine - How to Make the Best Recipe Ever

After searching many recipes, Jean-Christophe Novelli's was the one. Lovely vanilla, star anise, cinnamon, lemon grass, cardamom pods, bay leaves and cloves, what's not to like?

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato and Lentil Dahl

Dahl is something we have every couple of weeks , I find it a strangely soothing dish. Here the addition of some sweet potato makes it a filling meal with some pitta bread or chappati. I leave the seeds whole since I like the crunch but you could definitely grind the coriander.

Eggnog / Poached Pears with Warm Chocolate Sauce / Brussels Sprouts & Grapes

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Eggnog

Every season I try to find an excuse to make a version of my grandmother’s simple eggnog recipe. This weekend, we had a small gathering to let kids run amuck and I treated myself and the other parents to the following variation

Blog Post & Recipe: To poach a pear

As poached pear recipes go, this one could be called plain: just pears, water, brown sugar (or golden caster sugar, if you have it), a vanilla bean, and lemon juice. But what I like about it is that you wind up with a poached pear that tastes intensely of pear. The end.

Blog Post & Recipe: Brussels Sprouts and Grapes: A Counterintuitive Holiday Recipe

Brussels sprouts and grapes? the host repeated, incredulous.

Yes, I said. It’s sweet and savory; the grapes release their delicious sugars as they cook, which in turn caramelize the sprouts. You can eat it hot, cold, or at room temperature. You can add anything to it, within reason: toasted walnuts, pine nuts, spicy pepitas, lardons, whole garlic cloves, fresh thyme or rosemary, sea salt. Or nothing at all, which is generally how I like it.

Braised Red Cabbage with Malaga Raisins & Apple / Turkey Tips + Recipes for Stuffing, Glazes, Etc / Pong Tauhu -- Tofu with Meatball Soup

Recipe: Christmas lunch: braised red cabbage with Malaga raisins and apple

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Put all the ingredients in a casserole and mix well. Place in the oven and bake for 1½ hours until the cabbage is tender.

Article & Recipes: Getting the best from your bird

1. Read your turkey labels ... 2. Brine your turkey ... 3. Consider adding a "stuffing" that will add moisture to the bird ... 4. Invest in a meat thermometer ... 5. Let the cooked turkey rest for 30 minutes before carving ... 6. Great gravy

Recipes: Turkey Brine ... Seasoned Oil Mixture for Turkey ... Maple Mustard Turkey Glaze ... Turkey Gravy ... Turkey Stuffing

Blog Post & Recipe: Pong Tauhu--Tofu with Meatball Soup

BTW, this soup, pong tauhu, should not be confused with the Indonesian tahu pong. Although they are probably derived from the same root, tahu pong are fried tofu puffs. Those in this recipe are denser dumplings of tofu that are not fried.

Apple Pork Ribs Soup / Mulled Cider / Nabeyaki Udon + Three Mushroom Vegetarian Nabeyaki Udon

Blog Post & Recipe: Apple Pork Ribs Soup 苹果猪骨汤

The flavour of this soup really depends on what type or how big the apples are. The original recipe calls for 4 apples but I used 3 instead as the apples I used were quite large and I was afraid that the soup would be too sweet. So remember to adjust accordingly to your taste.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make mulled cider

The basic idea of making any mulled drink is to warm the liquor gently with spices. Which spices to use is up to you – nutmeg, star anise and vanilla can be used, though we're going to stick with tradition and use just cloves and cinnamon. Sugar or honey can be added to taste but because of the unusual addition of the very sweet sloe gin in this recipe, you probably won't need it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nabeyaki Udon and Three Mushroom Vegetarian Nabeyaki Udon

So find some loved ones and get yourself into the kitchen to make some nabeyaki udon. This udon has the thick chewy udon noodles and vegetables of the regular nabeyaki udon, but is made with a mushroom stock base. Plus it sports three varieties of mushrooms—shiitake, king trumpet, and enoki mushrooms and cubes of sauteed tofu. If you can’t find some of the mushrooms, substitute your favorites!

Spicy Shoyu Ramen / Sausage Rolls with Apricots & Whisky-Caramelised Onions / Moroccan Slow-Roasted Shoulder of Lamb + Bramley & Mincemeat Pasties

Blog Post & Recipe: Spicy Shoyu Ramen

If you prefer no spicy taste at all for yourself or young children, you can use regular chili bean paste (doubanjiang) and not spicy chili bean paste (la doubanjiang).

Blog Post & Recipe: Sausage rolls with apricots and whisky-caramelised onions

Anyway, [whisky-caramelised onions are] incredible in these sausage rolls too, together with re-plumped dried apricots and a good pinch of chipotle chilli flakes to play off that smoky thing going on with the whisky. At first I was worried the rolls might be a little on the sweet side with the onions and fruit but god damn if they weren’t just plain sexy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nigel Slater's mincemeat pasties and lamb recipes

Chunks of meat are all well and good, but few things beat a whole joint, slowly roasted on the bone until the meat slides away at the slightest prod. Lamb shoulder is arguably the king of such joints. It's tough as old boots, but so perfectly fatty that when sympathetically cooked the fat melts through the meat

Moroccan slow-roasted shoulder of lamb ... Bramley and mincemeat pasties

Cochinita Pibil Tacos / Slow-Cooked Goose in Brandy, Aromatics & Tomato / Five Spice Pork Belly with Pickled Vegetable Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: Cochinita Pibil (Puerco Pibil) and then Cochinita Pibil Tacos

A tasty slow roasted pork marinated in sour oranges and red annatto seeds.

Recipe: Slow-cooked goose in brandy, aromatics and tomato recipe

This goose has a wonderful, assertive taste from the brandy, which cuts through the fatty meat. It is cooked long enough for the legs to get wonderfully soft.

Article & Recipes: Five Spice Pork Belly with Pickled Vegetable Salad

Belly Pork is fatty and I think best served with something to cut through, I love these spicy pickled salads, they wake you up, if don’t fancy the thai taste, cabbage , carrot and apple works well too dressed with lemon juice and black pepper.

Cook Perfect Christmas Cake / Pennsylvania Dutch Baked Corn Pudding / Turmeric Pickle

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect Christmas cake

A Christmas cake should be rich and spicy; bursting with boozy fruit but never, ever heavy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pennsylvania Dutch Baked Corn Pudding

Baked corn pudding is generally made with eggs and milk and baked like a custard. My family always added a little cinnamon and vanilla, but still maintained a savory taste using salt and pepper.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Turmeric Pickle

One way we eat it in my family is by simply marinating it in lime juice and salt like you see here. Clean, peel, slice, add some salt to taste & lime juice enough to coat all the slices, jar and refrigerate. If you let it sit for 2-3 days, it gets better from the juices. It is best eaten within a week as a relish.

Ricotta Polenta with Fennel Pollen / Brined Turkey / Greek-Style Lamb

Recipe: Ricotta Polenta with Fennel Pollen

It seems simple but the ricotta adds a ton of flavor and texture to the polenta.

Recipe: Chronicle Classic: Best Way Brined Turkey

Several years ago, we roasted nearly 40 turkeys in our test kitchen and found a brined turkey to be the best. Every year since, we've retested the recipe. It's still our favorite.

Recipe: Simply delicious Greek-style lamb

This dish is delicious and incredibly, almost embarrassingly, simple - a great combination. We originally wrote it as a slow cooker recipe, but it also works very well (and not surprisingly, in a shorter time) on the stovetop.

Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions / Salt Crusted Burgers with Mashy Peas / Turkey Stock For Gravy

Blog Post & Recipe: Celeriac Gratin with Caramelised Onions

Serve the gratin with a spoonful of caramelised onions and a crisp green salad lightly dressed with sherry vinegar and cold pressed rapeseed oil.

Blog Post & Recipe: could you feed yourself for $5 a day?

The secret is using the salt layer to cook the burgers. So as the juices drip out, the salt helps them congeal and form an instant crust which makes for a moist, full flavoured burger. I actually find that more fatty (and cheaper) beef makes for a more moist and tasty burger.

salt crusted burgers with mashy peas

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkey Stock For Gravy: Start Soon

I don’t know where we got the idea that a roasting turkey results enough juices to make gravy. It doesn’t ... Donna picked up two full turkey wings and four turkey necks, about 4.5 pounds/2 kilos. I roasted them in a hot hot oven till they were good enough to eat (Donna and I made a meal of the meaty parts that night, with brown-butter-sage pasta). I also cut up two big onions ...

Concept: salt-crusted hamburger patties: "as the juices drip out, the salt helps them congeal and form an instant crust which makes for a moist, full flavoured burger." Worth trying, M.?

What makes it easier to eat well? / Use Citrus with US Thanksgiving Food / Roasted Chickpeas

Blog Post: Guest posts: what makes it easier to eat well?

While I have many, many thoughts and opinions on ways to eat healthy food, I’m aware that one perspective can be limited. So I started this series to find out what other people were doing.

Article & Recipes: Use citrus to lighten Thanksgiving meal, not its impact

Whether it comes from orange, lemon or lime, the acid in citrus fruits balances fat, the way vinegar balances oil in a dressing. It invites salt and awakens the palate. Citrus zest offers bite with its intensely fragrant oils. Used together -- as in the lemon-lime sweet potatoes here -- the juice and zest create levels of sweet-sour-bitter

Citrus-Soy Sauce Turkey with Gravy ... Orange Pecan Stuffing ... Sweet Potatoes with Lemon-Lime Vinaigrette ... Citrus Mincemeat Crumb Pie ... Citrus Thanksgiving Side Dish Trio

Recipe: Roasted Chickpeas

Roasting cooked chickpeas in a little oil — first briefly on the stove and later in the oven — leaves their insides tender while adding crunch to their exterior; they make both a great side dish and a perfect snack. After you take them out of the oven, try dusting with a little chile powder, curry powder, or other spice mixture, or drizzle with a little extra-virgin olive oil, some lemon juice, and a lot of black pepper.

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

Spicy Lamb Pie / 5 Recipes for St. David's Day / No-Knead Bread: a Convert's Story

Blog Post & Recipe: Spicy Lamb Pie.

I reckon this pie, if fennel substituted for carrots and fish for lamb, would work wonderfully as a dish to serve to my pescetarian friends. I’d have to cook the sauce first and then add the fish just before baking – what do you think?

Blog Post & Recipes: St David's Day: recipes for a feast.

It's St David's Day, and to help celebrate we've a quintet of delicious recipes from Welsh chef Bryn Williams

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb ... Mutton and swede pie ... Pan-fried salmon with curried mussels ... Sole in a bag with courgettes and black olives ... Nain's bara brith

Blog Post & Recipe: No-Knead Bread: A Convert’s Story

I’ve revised it a little and put the flour into weights rather than volume. Steingarten uses spelt flour on the cutting board in the proofing basket, which I recommend for flavor and appearance; Lahey uses bran and no proofing basket. This is up to you.

Michael Ruhlman’s Version of Jeffrey Steingarten’s Version of Jim Lahey’s (According to Steingarten) “Miracle Bread

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

Boxing Day Turkey Sandwich / Baked Brie Topped with Caramelized Mushrooms / Roast Vegetables

Article & Recipe: Nigel Slater's Boxing Day turkey sandwich

There must, surely, be pickles.

BUBBLE-AND-SQUEAK SOUP ... THE BOXING DAY SANDWICH

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Brie Topped with Caramelized Mushrooms

The idea is pretty simple; you saute and caramelize some mushrooms and onions, toss them on some brie and bake it until the cheese melts.

Blog Post & Suggestions: Roasted vegetables - make them your salad for Winter

Three easy flavour additions for roasted vegetables ... The trick to successful vegetable roasting is similar to that for drama-free stir-frying.

Alsatian Baeckeoffe & Farmhouse Hash / Preserving a Nonstick Pan / A Christmas Feast

Article & Recipe: Meat & potatoes slow-cooked, then turned to hash

Start with Alsatian baeckeoffe ... End with Farmhouse hash with soft-cooked eggs

Article: How Not to Wreck a Nonstick Pan

I am going to share with you what I have learned in hopes of saving you from my mistakes. And as a treat, I’ll throw in a few other cleaning tips as well

Article & Recipes: Sydney's top chefs serve up a Christmas feast

Quay's white peach bellini ... Crostini with truffle butter and jamón de bellota ... Mud crab, heart of palm and pink grapefruit salad ... Italian buffalo mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes with nasturtium pistou ... Roast goose ... Tea eggs ... Roast Dutch cream potatoes ... Cucumber and daikon pickle ... Modern summer pudding dressed up for Christmas

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

Cauliflower with Tomatoes / Raspberry Lenten Buns / Nigel Slater Roasts Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Gobi Tamatar/Cauliflower with Tomatoes

As ill famed as this flower might be, I don’t think it stinks; I think it is one fantastic thing that absorbs a lot of flavors.

Blog Post & Recipe: Decadent Lenten Buns

It's Shrove Tuesday here in Estonia today, which means that people eat copious amounts of vastlakuklid aka Lenten buns aka semlor today ... this year I decided to be a bit more adventurous, so I flirted with chocolate Lenten buns and marzipan-raspberry buns.

Article & Recipe: Nigel Slater's roast chicken recipes

Sometimes I roast a chicken without the usual anointment of butter or olive oil. Just a generous scattering of sea salt and black pepper over its skin and a handful of aromatics up its bum. [he gives instructions]

A warm chicken and orange salad for winter ... Apple and rhubarb purée with almond brittle

Vegan Popcorn Chicken / Red Posole / Sheep's Head

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Popcorn Chicken (they use soy)

We have double coated the nuggets for a thicker and crunchier outside; do it once if you are lazy or do not need a thick and crunchy coat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Posole for New Year's Day

I’d never had red posole and was a little dubious that she was serving this instead of black-eyed peas. She assured me, however, that this is what her family ate in New Mexico, not to mention it was traditional New Year’s Day fare in Mexico as well.

Article & Recipe: Sheep's Head

Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, where his feast, known as Andermas, was observed in olden days by repasts of Sheep's Head.

DIRECTIONS

Soak a well-cleaned sheep's head in warm water for three hours ...

Roast Potatoes / Asian Style Bean Burger / Roast Goose

Blog Post & Recipes: Whose is the best roast potato recipe?

Vicky Frost tests three varieties of spud with four sworn-by recipes from celebrity chefs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Asian Style Bean Burgers

Red Kidney burgers infused with Asian flavors. With the temperatures in the mid 20s, a warm meal with familiar flavors was just perfect.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Roast a Goose (and another Roast Goose recipe from Gordon Ramsay at the Times).

But remember that a goose is not a turkey, just as a duck is not a chicken. You don’t cook them the same way. And both ducks and geese are red meat birds – meaning the breasts of both need to be served medium-rare. That’s pink, or 140-150°F for those of you with thermometers.