Nettle Beer / Brisket with Rhubarb and Honey / The Song of Ice and Fire Food Blog

Blog Post & Recipe: Homebrew from the hedgerow

This simple brew is easy to make but rather treacherous. The flavour is pleasant, if unsophisticated, and a pint of the stuff has the same effect on one's equilibrium as downing a pint of champagne would have.

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Blog Post & Recipe: brisket with rhubarb and honey

I came upon a brisket recipe with rhubarb and honey. I had never considered the combination before, but as soon as my eyes set upon it, it seemed like a no-brainer. The bright, tart rhubarb notes would perfectly highlight the slow-cooked, tender beef.

Blog: "In the Game of Food, you win, or you wash the dishes."

"Welcome! We are two big fans of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. We are also fans of food. What, then, would be more natural than to combine them into one fabulous blog?" The authors of The Inn At The Crossroads cook their way through the book series that starts with A Game of Thrones ... and post the sometimes intricate and often tasty-looking results. Recipes are included.

Risotto Balls / Supercook Website / One Blog's Favourite 2009 Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Risotto Balls (Arancini) (via Saveur)

Anyway, I froze the [leftover risotto] and finally found time to make them into one of my most favorite appetizers ever, risotto balls. Creamy and cheesy meets deep-fried and crunchy here folks.

Website: Supercook

Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with only the ingredients you have at home. To begin, simply start adding ingredients you have in the green box on the top left. The more ingredients you add, the better the results will be.

Blog Post: The Best of Pithy and Cleaver, 2009 Edition

Here’s a roundup of a few of this year’s kitchen highlights, recipes we’d definitely make again.

Roast Cherryaki Duck ... Tiramisu with Marsala and Kahlua ... Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies ... Chewy Ginger Cookies with Cardamom and Black Pepper ... Vegetarian Pa Jeon ... Easy Pizza Crust ... Honey-Mustard Salmon ... Salmon with Soy-Honey and Wasabi Sauces ... Grilled Smoked Mozzarella with Maple-Caramelized Bacon ... Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese ... Olive Oil Pumpkin, Carrot, and Zucchini Bread ... Lemon Ginger White Chocolate Scones ... Sunny Citrus Pound Cake ... Pumpkin Pie ...

And so on.

Three Potluck Recipes / Collard Greens with Red Onion and Bacon / The Kitchn's Editor's Favourite Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipes: Potluck Recipes

Cauliflower Gratin ... Mushroom Pate ... Cranberry Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Collard Greens with Red Onion and Bacon

To kettle add broth, vinegar, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, and about half of bacon, stirring until sugar is dissolved.

Blog Post: Editor's Choice: Dana's Favorite Posts of 2009

One of the Kitchn editors picks her favourite posts of the year (and another editor picks hers, and another editor picks hers, and another editor picks hers, and here are the site's most popular posts of the year).

Ina Garten's Lemon Cake ... A Profile of Washed Rind Cheeses ... Whiskey Old-Fashioneds (With Really Good Fruit) ... Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk Recipe ... Tarragon-Strawberry Jam ... How to Make Pasta: Tips From My Italian Mother-in-Law ... Victoria Sponge Cake and What's the Difference? Clotted Cream, Devonshire Cream, Double Cream ... Our Food Lover's Guide [to some North American cities] series ... Acts of Kindness: Send Groceries Instead of Flowers ... Baking Soda and Baking Powder: Why Use Both? ... My Edible Escape: A Baguette Sandwich in Bayonne.

Beef Stock. The Minimalist Kitchen. Food Blogs again.

Article: 50 of the world's best food blogs

Another list of food blogs from the Times.

This list comprises 50 of our favourite food blogs but is by no means exhaustive. Times Online invites users to submit their favourites for a follow-up article using the comment box below.

Article: Stocking the Minimalist Kitchen

Posters at the end disagree with some of the writer's choices.

Sometimes we’re in the mood to buy every expensive gadget we see; other times we want to whisk everything off the counter and keep only the necessities. In the spirit of early spring cleaning, we’ve put together a list of the 10 kitchen tools you need to whip up (almost) anything.

Recipe: How to Make Beef Stock

... the trick with stock is to roast the bones first to get some caramelized flavor going, then to slowly heat them in water until a bare simmer, and then let them cook that way, gently, for a good long time. With beef stock, it helps to include some beef scraps or stew meat, as well as aromatic vegetables and herbs. Also a few veal bones will help provide gelatin to the stock.

Cookbooks & Food Blogs.

Article: The art of food blogging

According to Anne Sage, author of a popular design blog The City Sage, a good food blog is like a trusty friend. “It should illuminate the blogger's personality, whether he or she is writing about a recipe for scones or their latest kitchen gadget. It’s like getting a recipe tip from a good friend, and who doesn't love to get kitchen advice from someone whose taste you trust and admire?”

Article: Pluck a flamingo

An article about cookbooks.

Although the recipes in one book are often similar to those in another, their presentation varies wildly. There are Lutheran cookbooks, Wiccan cookbooks, feminist vegetarian cookbooks (“The Political Palate”) and satirical cookbooks. There are instructions on cooking the food that Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Jefferson might have eaten. Cookbooks have been written by French prisoners, the pop singer Tom Jones, the astrologer Nostradamus and the winners of the Miss America competition.

The reason for this profusion is that cookbooks promise to effect a kind of domestic alchemy. Although seemingly straightforward, they hold out the hope of liberation from a routine of leftover chicken and from children who refuse to eat food of any colour except white. To follow their instructions—or, as Mr [Nigel] Slater would prefer, to be inspired by them—is to turn a mundane task into an engaging, romantic process. Cookbooks also provide an opportunity to delve into distant cultures without having to turn up early at the airport or read subtitles.

The first Western cookbook appeared a little more than 1,600 years ago. “De re coquinara” (concerning cookery) is attributed to a Roman gourmet named Apicius who, legend has it, poisoned himself upon learning that he could no longer afford to eat fancy food.

Melbourne Larder: a blog.

Blog: Melbourne larder

This blog belongs to a newcomer who sat in on the meeting last night.

Food and wine are an essential part of life for me. I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my husband, son and daughter and I love visiting Melbourne's numerous and ever-proliferating cafes, restaurants and bars, as well as our fabulous markets and culinary shops.

Top 10 Food Blogs & a Restaurant Review

Article: Top 10 Food Blogs from around the World.

As chosen by Simon Majumdar at The Times.



Restaurant Review: Ah, the mortadella, the formaggi, the meatballs ...

The Independent reviews Giuseppe, Arnaldo & Sons.

Even Gordon Ramsay is heading Down Under, opening a branch of Maze in Melbourne's Crown Casino complex in 2010.

Ramsay knows that while spectacular rainforests and outback deserts are all well and good, the best food hugs the urban coastal fringes of this sunburnt country. By modelling itself on Las Vegas, Crown Casino has already snared the cream of Australian cheffery, including Rockpool's Neil Perry, Paul Bocuse-trained Philippe Mouchel, and the Sydney Opera House's Guillaume Brahimi, as well as being home to Nobu's first Antipodean outpost. I'm currently on walkabout here myself, camping out at its most intriguing new opening, Giuseppe Arnaldo & Sons.

Salmon. Cooking Vlogs.

Blog Post/Recipe: Sake Ginger Glazed Salmon.

This is a very simple, highly flavorful salmon dish, using a classic Japanese yakitori marinade with the addition of some finely grated fresh ginger. The dish benefits from sitting in the marinade for a long time, overnight is best, but at least 2 hours minimum.

Article: Got a cellphone? Make a video.

In a world where you can find anything on the Internet, the newest way to learn cooking is from a genre called vlogs ... Local cooks Nina Simonds of Salem, Kathy Maister of Boston's Back Bay, and two preteens near Chicago are getting into the act. Pull out your chopping boards, start peeling an onion, and left click.