Za’atar / Steak Ceviche & Plantain Fries / Day Lily Stir-Fry

Blog Post & Recipe: Za’atar

Combine. Slap on, so far I’ve had it on chicken, steak and tofu. All great!

Blog Post & Recipe: Food CAN Induce Orgasm: Steak Ceviche & Plantain Fries

Place a bed of plantain fries in a small bowl. Using an ice cream scoop (preferably non-metal), scoop a dollop of ceviche on top of the plantains.

Blog Post & Recipe: The tasty flower in my backyard

The orange day lily, hemerocallis fulva, is native to Asia, where dried buds, or "golden needles" are used in cooking. The bud makes an attractive addition to stir-fries, and it's high in protein and rich in calcium, phosphorus and Vitamin A. The nutritious day lily is so easy to cultivate that it now flourishes wild in 47 American states and two Canadian territories.

Day Lily Stir-fry

Squash Blossom Pesto / Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt / 6 Vegetarian Recipes for the Barbeque

Blog Post & Recipe: Squash Blossom Pesto [ via ]

I simple converted my standard pesto recipe, with the addition of saffron from the abandoned sauce recipe, and magic! A vivid orange sauce, nutty with parmesan and pine nuts with this mysterious undernote. Squash blossoms.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Fries with Orange-Nutmeg Salt [ via ]

The best success I had came at the end of my experimental process. I found that a screaming hot oven, a preheated, well-oiled baking sheet and straight or crinkle-cut sweet potatoes turned 3 or 4 times in the oven yielded the best results.

Blog Post & Recipes: Throw Another Melon on the Barbie

The grill, as everyone knows, is the best place to cook a steak, but that doesn’t mean you have to cook a steak every time you fire up the grill.

Vietnamese-Style Portobello Mushrooms ... Watermelon Burgers With Cheese ... Curry-Rubbed Sweet-Potato Planks ... Teriyaki Cabbage Steaks ... Chili-Rubbed Jicama Steaks With Queso Fresco ... Miso-Glazed Eggplant Slices

Missi Roti / Rogan Josh / 10 Quesadillas

Blog Post & Recipe: Garam Masala Tuesdays: Missi Roti [via]

Naan takes the cake among foreigners but try this unleavened Indian flat bread made on a hot iron plate (tawa) from whole grain wheat and legume (chickpea) and you might change your likes. Plus, for the health nuts, its more nutritious than traditional Naan as gram flour is high in protein and iron.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rogan josh, or, Kashmiri lamb curry — a sinfully delicious blend of very fragrant spices and flavors

Traditionally the dish is prepared in ghee, Indian clarified butter, with the spices fried in fat to awaken flavors and infuse the fat with the essence before adding other ingredients. Yogurt, the foundation of the sauce, gives a lovely tang together with the tomato. Almond adds texture, flavor and also thickens the sauce.

Recipes: Quick n' Easy: 10 Ways to Make a Great Quesadilla Tonight

Quesadillas with Chicken Sausage and Roasted Vegetables ... Kimchi and Avocado Quesadillas ... Unda-Style Quesadillas ... Potato, Greens, and Goat Cheese Quesadilla ... Grilled Chicken and Pineapple Quesadillas ... Tandoori Quesadillas ... Squash Blossom Quesadillas ... Cheese and Hominy Quesadillas ... Caramelized Onion and Steak Quesadillas ... Pear, Brie, and Honey Quesadilla

Guacamole / 3 Vegetarian Recipes from Yotem Ottolenghi / 3 Recipes Inspired by Sri Lanka

Blog Post & Recipe: How To Make Guacamole

This is not just a guacamole recipe and preparation, it’s a broader lesson about aromatics and acid and using seasonal foods.

Article & Recipe: A Chef Who Is Vegetarian in Fame if Not in Fact

[Yotam Ottolenghi's] culinary philosophy might be summed up as “Cook food less.” “I keep an ingredient very close to what it looks like naturally,” he said. “I take a vegetable and blanch it, leave it nearly raw. Or grill it and leave the color and the flavor at the center to enjoy.”

Chard Cakes With Sorrel Sauce ... Pasta and Fried Zucchini Salad ... Watercress, Pistachio and Orange-Blossom Salad

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Sri Lankan recipes

I'm getting exotic with the local and the home-grown, spicing up my greens from the garden with Sri Lankan flavours, tossing them with homemade curry powder, finishing them with a dash of coconut milk and dishing them up with improvised sambals. It's not an exercise in authenticity by any means, but by goodness it's delicious.

Spring onions and greens with coconut milk ... Bream curry ... Coconut roti

Chicken Burgers with Spicy Peanut Sauce / Mhemmer / Frying Daylilies

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Burgers with Spicy Peanut Sauce

And let's be honest: The burgers in this case are really just a vehicle for the peanut sauce. And believe us, the sauce is amazing!

Blog Post & Recipe: Mhemmer

Mhemmer is a spicy potato omelet from Morocco that has Spanish roots. The word mhemmer literally means cooked until red meaning the golden look you get from cooking things hence the way this omelet looks when it comes out of the oven.

Article & Recipe: Daylilies: Out of the Vase, Into the Frying Pan

Let me start by saying I am talking about the common daylily, hemerocallis fulva, as well as its various hemerocallis friends and relatives; there are thousands. What I am most definitely not talking about are bona fide lilies, like the Easter lily, which, if you are unfortunate enough to eat, you had better hope that the Resurrection is real ...

Tofu & Eggplant Salad / Grilled Tofu & Soba Noodle / 6 Banana Blossom Recipes

Recipe: tofu & eggplant salad

This quick and easy salad is something I rustled up the other day for a vegetarian friend. Normally I would add a spoonful of pounded dried shrimps and season with fish sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Tofu and Soba Noodles

To assemble, toss the soba noodles with a good amount of the dressing, reserving enough to drizzle generously on top of the tofu. Place the tofu on top of the noodles, and drizzle with more dressing.

Blog Post & Recipes: Ingredient Spotlight: Banana Blossom

Found in Asian grocery stores in the US, banana blossoms can be eaten raw, and are also cooked in soups, stews, and curries. They can also be steamed and served with dips, and peeled apart like an artichoke ...

Recipes with banana blossoms: Banana Blossom Salad with Chicken and Asian Pears ... Banana Blossom Salad ... Shrimp and Banana Blossom Salad ... Banana Blossom Curry ... Banana Blossom and Prawn Curry ... Fried Banana Flower

Cook with Fenugreek / Elderflower Fritters / Portuguese Seafood Stew

Article & Recipe: How to cook with fenugreek

Like cilantro, fenugreek is a plant whose leaves and seeds can be used in all sorts of ways ...

Roast Chicken Legs With Fenugreek, Cumin and Lemon

Blog Post & Recipe: Elderflower fritters

The flowers held themselves in a beautiful lacey shape when cooked and their aromatic flavour was intensified by the grappa. Just a little dusting of icing sugar made them into a perfect, delicate dessert.

Blog Post & Recipe: Shipboard Romance: Alain Morville and His Portuguese Seafood Stew

Alain Morville’s stew, known as Caldeirada da Marisco, is an example of a dish that lends itself to variation ... The chef used lots of seafood and added chunks of monkfish, too; he poured in a whole bottle of white wine (sauvignon blanc); and instead of water, he used shrimp stock, made with shrimp heads and shells, aromatic vegetables and a little more white wine.

Candied Violets / Raw Food with Icelandic Musicians / Vinaigrette

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Candied Violets

It’s a bit tedious, but you can get a bunch of them finished in under an hour. All you need are violets, sugar, egg whites and a small paint brush.

Blog Post & Video: "It's just like creating anything. when you create food, it's just like creating music."

The Jónsi and Alex (Recipe) Show: join Jónsi Birgisson (frontman of Sigur Rós), Alex Somers and their very loud blender to make raw food recipes. They made three videos from their Good Heart recipe book, for Macadamia Monster Mash, Raw Strawberry Pie, and Nammi Nammi.

Blog Post & Recipes: How to make a vinaigrette, and everything you need to know about them

Now that you know the standard ratio is 1 part vinegar to 3 parts oil, now that you know your own preference for how to balance the oil and the acid, now that you know how to look for different vinegars, now that you know to soak the shallots and seasonings in the vinegar, now that you know you can make a vinaigrette out of pretty much any tart-tasting thing and any oil you like

Basic Red Wine Vinaigrette ... Basic Mustard Vinaigrette

Roasted Rhubarb / Peeps Sushi / Edible Flowers

Blog Post & Recipe: A lot of rhubarb

I am pleased to announce that this spring, my allegiance lies in a pot of roasted rhubarb with white wine and vanilla bean. Eaten cold, ideally.

Roasted Rhubarb

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Peepshi = Peeps Sushi

5. Take a Peep head and tuck it into the top of the hollow Rice Krispies treat cylinder. Use a toothpick or tip of the a knife to help get it snug.

Article: Edible flowers? Blooming delicious!

"I love a baked potato with butter, scattered with marigold petals. The flower has a little bit of heat, but it has a very gentle, subtle flavour – I love it mainly for the colour. All roses are edible, but the useful ones are the scented ones, because it's the scent that translates into taste."

Stewed Capsicum & Tomatoes & Onions. Fried Zucchini Blossoms. Using Up Zucchini.

Blog Post & Recipe: stewed peppers, tomatoes & onions

Just fresh peppers from a Chinatown market, a plain old yellow onion, a couple of eggs, and a can of tomatoes from the cupboard.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Fry Zucchini Blossoms

They should not be wilted or browned, but rather look like they were just picked, all vibrant with color. Buy a nice, firm mozzarella. This is not the time for bufala, which is too wet and milky.

Blog Post & Recipes: What Is Your Favourite Way To Use Up (A Lot Of) Zucchini?

There's zucchini bread and zucchini muffins, of course, but we like to just slap ours on the grill with olive oil and a little salt and pepper. Delicious!

Here are a some more favorite zucchini recipes and ideas:

• Zucchini and Asparagus Strata
• Zucchini Muffins from Simply Recipes
• Curried Zucchini Soup
• Zucchini Garlic Soup
• Zucchini "Tagliatelle" from Dorie Greenspan
• Stuffed 8-Ball Zucchini
• Zucchini-Potato Frittata
• Grilled Zucchini and Grape Tomato Salad
• Zucchini Rice Gratin
• Sauteed Zucchini and Squash with Thyme and Feta
• Zucchini Fries
• Lighter Zucchini Fritti

How do you use up that late-summer zucchini bounty ...

3 Vegetable Dishes. Chipotle Barbecued Tofu. Sea Salt vs. Table Salt.

Recipes: River Cafe vegetables

This extract from the River Cafe Classic Italian cookbook offers three delicious Italian ways with peas, beans and courgette flowers.

Peas with proscuitto ... Deep-fried zucchini flowers ... Chickpeas with rosemary and garlic

Blog Post & Recipe: Chipotle Barbecued Tofu

I've found that the easiest way to handle canned chipotles in adobo sauce is to pour the whole can into the blender and puree it. Then, I measure out what I need for the recipe and freeze the rest.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sea Salt or Table Salt: Which is Healthier?

A little box with a question mark inside "from epicurious.com" popped up when I clicked on this link. It didn't seem to be harmful, just odd.

Most brands of sea and kosher salt, however, do not have iodine added. There's a common misperception that sea salt comes by the mineral naturally, due to the fact that sea water (and foods such as seaweed and fish) contains iodine. However, the information I turned up indicated that the amount of iodine in most sea salt is negligible—certainly not enough to supply the 150 micrograms needed daily by the average adult.

Meat Rubs. Toasted Cheese Sandwiches. Jamie

Recipe: How to ... create meat rubs.

Includes recipes for: chili powder; warm curry powder; jerk seasoning.


Article: Grilled cheese sandwich: Updating an American icon.

Like many true comfort food classics, a grilled cheese sandwich comes trailing clouds not of glory precisely, but of memory.

Article/Recipe: At home with Jamie Oliver.

Extracts from his latest book, Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life. Includes recipes for: amazing herb salad on a tomato bruschetta; proper chicken caesar salad; English onion soup with sage and cheddar; balsamic-baked onions and potatoes with roast pork; crispy courgette flowers stuffed with ricotta and mint; beautiful courgette carbonara; best barbecued meat and homemade barbecue sauce; strawberry salad with speck and halloumi; grilled strawberries with Pimm's and vanilla ice-cream; strawberry martini; and plum Bakewell tart.

Fresh herbs are not only tasty, but they can also be exciting when used in a dish with some conviction and a bit of attitude!