Laksa With Ground Bison / Sauerkraut Rye Sandwich Bread / Baking Bread with Different Flours

Blog Post & Recipe: Laksa With Ground Bison

It was one of those day that I wanted to cook a meal that won't required a long time to cook it. You could use regular beef chuck or beef shoulder for this laksa, or you can also use poultry such as chicken, or duck.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sauerkraut Rye Sandwich Bread

If you think about it, what ever you put in a sandwich you can put into a loaf of bread. Well … Ok, maybe not meatloaf. That would not make a good bread. But, Sauerkraut is perfect. It gives the bread a sourdough flavor, without a strong sauerkraut flavor.

Blog Post & Recipe: All Flours Are Not Equal

What would happen if you ran out of bread flour but still wanted to make bread? Or the store had an awesome sale on cake flour which you were tempted to use instead? Flour is basically just flour, after all, no? There’s not much difference between Pastry and All Purpose, besides a bit more protein, right?

Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson / Acorn Spaetzle / 3 Chickpea Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: A Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson: Reclusive Poet, Passionate Baker

This week, the Poet's House in New York City put on exhibit an original manuscript of a Dickinson cake recipe that contained coconut.

Blog Post & Recipe: Acorn Spaetzle

This is a pretty standard recipe for spaetzle, only I add some acorn flour to the mix to make them earthier, nuttier and generally more rustic; I think they go better with wild game that way. While there are a few online sources for acorn flour, you pretty much have to make it yourself — here are instructions on how to make acorn flour.

Blog Post & Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's chickpea recipes

When you're cooking your own, soak them overnight in a generous amount of cold water. Next day, drain and put them in a large pan with fresh water (don't add salt at this stage, as it makes the skins tough) and bring to a simmer, skimming off any scum that rises to the top. Cook for about two hours, until they're very soft, then leave to cool in the cooking water

Chickpea stew with lamb meatballs ... Chickpea and pumpkin salad ... Herby chickpea pancakes

Warm Pumpkin Salad with Cherry Tomatoes & Spring Onions / Moroccan-style Couscous & Eggplant Salad / Lemon Delicious Puddings & 16 Facts About Flour

Recipe: Warm pumpkin salad with cherry tomatoes and spring onions

Toss gently to combine and scatter with chives and coriander. Serve with roast pork or chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: The stomach wants what the stomach wants: Moroccan-style couscous and eggplant salad

I’ve spent a good chunk of the summer coming up with new and exciting ways to play with eggplant, and what I have here is one of the best–and easiest. Eggplant, chickpeas, couscous, onion. That’s pretty much it.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemon delicious puddings + 16 facts about (wheat) flour [5 ingredients]

weighing flour is quicker and more accurate than using cups ... self raising flour = plain flour + baking powder ... gluten is the main protein in wheat ... bread is made from high protein wheat ... cakes and biscuits are (generally) made from lower protein wheat ... plain, or all purpose flour is a blend of high and low protein wheat ... etc

Choosing the Right Flour / Moose Nose / Muffuletta Hot Dogs

Blog Post: A guide the using the right type of flour for cooking

The main thing to consider is this: Flours are categorized by their protein content ... the more protein in flour, the more gluten it can develop.

Article & Recipe: Moose Nose – Alaska State Land Mammal [via Metafilter]

A moose muffle is the nose and the pendulous, overhanging upper lip of the moose, eaten boiled, baked, or fried as a delicacy ...

Directions for preparing Moose Nose

Blog Post & Recipe: Muffuletta Hot Dogs

We love muffulettas, the traditional New Orleans sandwiches made with cured meats, provolone, olive paste, pickled onions and peppers. It's a fantastic mix of sharp, salty, briny flavors.

Steve Jobs Cheese Head / Potato Pizza & Pizza Flour / Nine Burger Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Steve Jobs Cheese Head [via Boing Boing]

So what better way to show appreciation for my much-loved Apple products than to create a tasty sculputure in the form of Apple's venerable leader?

Blog Post & Recipe: Potato Pizza and the Correct Flour to Use for Pizza Dough

I get asked all the time about what is the right flour to use when making pizzas, but that's really the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is what kind of pizza do you like? Do you like thick, chewy pizza or do you like thin, crispy crust? The flour you choose makes a big difference in the crust.

Blog Post & Recipes: On Burgers... and the blogger's next post, Shepherds Pie Burgers.

I leave you with some of my past burger recipes.
Stuffed:
Huge Burger
Taco Burger
Red Curry Burger
Buffalo Turkey Burger
Tuna Burger

Unstuffed:
Cuban Burger
Caprese Burger
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Wild Mushroom and Goat Cheese Quesadillas w. Cranberry-Pecan Salsa / Chickpea Flour Pizza / Empanada Gallega de Atun

Blog Post & Recipe: Wild Mushroom and Goat Cheese Quesadillas with Cranberry-Pecan Salsa

Cranberry salsa! It’s a tiny revelation, like tasting strawberries with balsamic vinegar for the first time.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chickpea Flour Pizza – South Beach Diet Friendly

I am not sure whether to call this a pizza or a flat bread or a pancake with toppings. But I am going to go with pizza as that sounds the best. Feel free to call it whatever you like.

Blog Post & Recipe: Empanada Gallega de Atun

Basically, it's a yeast pastry (tinged slightly red with the help of the very special and wonderful smoked Spanish paprika powder, Pimentón de la Vera) that's encasing a moist and flavoursome tuna, egg and tomato filling.

Buying Corn. Socca Flatbread. Cook with Fire and Steam.

Article: Medieval stews are back on the menu

I found the recipe in Dorothy Hartley's Food In England [...] which has a riveting section on ''combined operations'' cookery. Combined operations basically means using two heat sources, fire and steam.

Article: How to buy and prepare fresh corn

Follow these tips on buying summer's favorite finger vegetable ...

More on this topic

• Corn is just as good off the cob as on

• Southwestern Corn Pudding
• Toasted Corn, Pineapple and Avocado Relish
• Toasted Corn and Tepary-Bean Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Socca (Garbanzo or Chickpea Flatbread Pancake from France)

Chickpea flour is used all over the world to make thin flatbread crepes, pancakes, or crackers. Depending on where they're made, they can be called Pappadum (India), Farinata (Italy) or Socca (France). Farinata and Socca may or may not be the same, depending on which expert you ask, but they're definitely similar.

Socca

Ricotta Gnocci. Four Iraqi dishes. Substituting Flour.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gnocci for Beginners. And Braggarts.

Ricotta gnocchi, where have you been all my life?

Blog Post: Good Question: Substituting White Whole Wheat Flour?

Here's a question from Kitchen reader Cara about working with whole wheat white flour in her baking:

At what ratio should white whole wheat flour be substituted for regular whole wheat? What about white whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour? Is the best way to substitute by weight 1 for 1?

Blog Post & Recipes: How about cooking Iraqi?

Recipes for four dishes are here for you to try:

1. Kubbat Mousel ...

2. Fasangoon ...

3. Sheikh Mahshi is one of the most loved stew dishes in Iraq and usually served with white rice fortified with roasted almonds and raisins ...

4. Timman Jazar ...

Key Lime Pie. Oatcakes. Can Flour Explode?

Recipe: Key Lime Pie.

Recipe: Joe's Key Lime Pie.

Recipe: Staffordshire Oatcakes.

Makes 10-12

900ml (1½ pints) Warm Milk and Water, mixed
225g (8oz) Fine Oatmeal

Article: Can Flour Explode?

Flour and many other carbohydrates become explosive when they are hanging in the air as dust. It only takes 1 or 2 grams of dust per cubic foot of air (50 or so grams per cubic meter) for the mixture to be ignitable.