Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich + Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches / Seafood Curry Laksa / Beef Stew with Gremolata

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Since I have picked up a few tricks along the way, I thought that it was about time that I shared them with you.

Blog Post & Recipe: Seafood Curry Laksa [via]

Laksa can be categorized into two types which is Curry and Asam, they are both soup based dishes but the difference is that the Curry is made out of coconut milk while the Asam comes from the extract of some sour fruit like tamarind.

Blog Post & Recipe: beef stew with gremolata

Now don’t get all uppity about gremolata because it’s simply a fancy word for some freshly chopped herbs, lemon zest, sea salt and a small drizzle of olive oil. It seems humble enough, but when scattered over top the hot bowl of stew, it releases some seriously delicious scents and flavours.

Store Certain Herbs / Braised Radishes / Homemade Ginger Beer & Dark 'n' Stormy Cocktail

Blog Post & Tip: How to Store Cilantro (and Other Herbs)

Some herbs take to freezing well (such as basil, mint, chives, and obviously cilantro), and then they are quite easy to use later (or much later!) in soups, stews, and other cooked dishes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised Radishes {recipe} – When a Side Dish Not a Side Dish

Then we realized that we could braise them in the same way that we’ve braised their much larger Asian cousins, the daikon radish, but with different seasonings and flavors. Lemon. Thyme. Butter.

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Ginger Beer and the Dark 'n' Stormy

Besides all the cool ideas and wavelengths that must bounce around in that shop, they apparently have delicious ginger beer. And they offer an informal recipe in the spread: take ginger, cut it up, add some lemon juice and sugar, toss in hot water and yeast, and give it 24 hours.

Concept: braise radishes (remember, we were wondering about this last night?)

Herb Roasted Eggplant / Chicken and Tofu Laksa / Cooking Quinces

Blog Post & Recipe: Simple Herb Roasted Aubergine

The flavor comes from the herbed-salt rub and the touch of compound butter when serving!

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken and Tofu Laksa [via]

To make the laksa paste, chop the shallots, lemongrass, cloves, ginger, galangal and chillis roughly and add to a food processor. Blitz with the turmeric and vegetable oil until you have a smooth paste.

Blog Post & Recipe: Quince science

Cooking quinces is culinary magic. You start out with fruits that are yellow, hard and astringent. Three or four (or five) hours of gentle poaching later, they are fragrant, grainily soft, sweet and – most impressively – deep pink [...] I wanted to test two hypotheses: (a) that low sugar concentration in the poaching liquid reduces quince colour change, and (b) that lack of lemon juice in the poaching liquid reduces quince colour change. I was also curious about whether sugar and lemon interacted somehow

4 Spanish Recipes / Sunshine Barbecue Chicken / Eggplant Manicotti & 2 Other Recipes

Blog Post & Recipes: My Recipes published at DELICOOKS, and 4 delicious recipes for you to celebrate 3 Years of Blogging!

My Personal Spanish Menu (desserts not included)

Snail and mint Tapa ... Zucchini puree with Iberian Acorn ham ... Potatoes stuffed with Butifarra and grated with Allioli ... Toasted noodles with Palamós fresh shrimps

Blog Post & Recipe: Sunshine Barbecue Chicken

[This bbq sauce is] pretty undutch but at the same time it’s also a lot like our Dutch piccalilli, only in a sweeter jacket and with different vegetables. Very unlike anything I’ve ever tasted in combination with bbq chicken.

Blog Post & Recipes: Deliciously Upsided Down Dinners

I have an awesome new cookbook that I'll be raving about very soon and this Eggplant Manicotti caught my eye. The funny thing is... there is no real manicotti. The "pasta" is actually slices of eggplant with a very tasty filling.

Eggplant Manicotti ... Seared Lamb Chops with Sage, Anchovies & Capers ... Herb & Garlic Orzo

nb. M., I'm introducing your 'concept' tag.
Concept: eggplant in place of manicotti, or canneloni, pasta.

5 Drinks / Egg & Grilled Tomato Sandwich With Fresh Herbs / Ricotta Millet Pudding

Article & Recipes: Make your own drinks!

Click on the pictures above for Susy's delicious recipes for cherryade, cucumber gin, lavender lemonade, star anise voda and masala chai

Blog Post & Recipe: So many things: P2P, life and an Egg and Grilled Tomato Sandwich With Fresh Herbs

Now assemble the sandwich: first you put the tomato slices on the bread, if there are any juices, drizzle these on the bread before putting the tomato on it. Salt it. Then you put the egg on that and finish with adding a little salt and drizzling the herb oil over it all.

Blog Post & Recipe: Ricotta Millet Pudding

This deliciously creamy dessert references familiar dishes like rice pudding and coeur a la creme but manages to also maintain a unique identity. It is fresh, creamy, lemony, and perfect for spring. The warm raspberry sauce poured over the cold pudding is absolutely delightful.

Ricotta Millet Pudding with Warm Raspberry Compote

Tomato Soup / Chilaquiles / 3 Recipes with Hard & Soft Herbs

Blog Post & Recipe: Tomato Soup

This is a thick and creamy (yet creamless!) tomato soup. Made with canned tomatoes and the clever twist of white bread for heft, it’s an easy, bright, and flavorful dish.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chilaquiles

I think the best way to describe it is a casserole of stale/fried corn tortillas, a sauce of your choosing (red, verde, molé–whatever), and a whole bunch of whatever else you have handy (chicken, eggs, avocado, radish, cheese, crema, etc). This dish is meant to be relatively simple to prepare, a great way to make the most of leftovers/random odds and ends

Article & Recipes: Herbs are the next big zing

I think of herbs in two categories, hard and soft. “Hard” herbs are generally the tough ones that can grow through the winter. Think of myrtle, bay, rosemary and sage: these hardier leaves keep their flavour throughout prolonged cooking. They are the herbs I reach for at the start of a dish: they’ll give depth of flavour and a profound aroma by the time I’m finished.

“Soft” herbs such as thyme, dill, marjoram and parsley, need more gentle treatment. If you add them near the start of preparation they get lost: their delicate flavours don’t travel well. But stirred in at the end of cooking they can lift a dish, balance it, give it vibrancy and vigour.

Pork chop with hard and soft herbs ... Lentils with lots of soft herbs ... Rabbit roast with hard herbs

7 Risotto Recipes / Jackfruit Curry / Braised Fennel

Recipes: 7 Easy, Healthy Risotto Recipes

Make enough risotto for leftovers, to use in things like arancini and risotto cakes.

Basic Risotto ... Squash and Saffron Risotto ... Brussels Sprouts and Lemon Risotto ... Radicchio Risotto ... Herbed Risotto ... Seafood Risotto ... Lobster Risotto

Article & Recipe: Jackfruit curry

Jackfruit, available from Afro-Caribbean and Asian food shops and markets, has a rough outer skin and a white, fibrous interior. It is a great asset to non meat-eaters. Cooked until tender, it absorbs flavours, and has a texture not unlike chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised Fennel

The purpose of the liqueur is to intensify the licorice flavor of the fennel. If you don't have anise-flavored liqueur, or are avoiding cooking with alcohol, you can achieve a similar effect by adding a star anise pod to the stock when you are braising.

Lemon & Herb Risotto with Balsamic Roasted Asparagus / Cooking Dried Beans / A Whole-Grain Glossary

Blog Post & Recipe: Lemon and Herb Risotto with Balsamic Roasted Asparagus

I am inviting you to a leisurely, light summer meal of a wonderfully flavored lemon and herb risotto, served with roasted asparagus, which is then drizzled in some aged balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil.

Article: I agree with McGee

Buying and cooking dried beans ...

McGee recommends long, slow cooking. This, he says, breaks down beans’ carbohydrates into digestible sugars. I have cooked a lot of beans and I agree with McGee: It is essential to cook beans thoroughly.

Article: A whole-grain glossary

Twenty whole grains to cook and eat ...

Then there’s the confusion of defining or classifying grains, as some grains that we call grains are not. True grains belong to the cereal grass family; for this glossary, however, I include edible seeds that share the nutritional properties of whole grains (quinoa, buckwheat, wild rice).

Herby Summer Udon / Braised Artichokes / Four Testicle Recipes & Fried Chicken

Blog Post & Recipe: Brighten that dish with a dash of fresh herbs

Fresh herbs add the layered flavor of herbaceousness

Herby Summer Udon

Article & Recipe & Video: Artichokes Take a Dip in a Pool of Stock

As each half was ready, I put it, cut side down, in a large skillet filmed with butter. Oil is fine if you pick one that tastes good. When they were all in, and browned, I added stock ...

Braised Artichokes

Article & Recipes: Testicle... It's What's for Dinner and Aching Thighs (Onstad's Fried Chicken). [via Metafilter]

Onstad says. "When I write these Achewood cookbooks I try to be, you know, meticulous. Making sure you have as much help as possible, because if you look at any recipe, there's a lot of gray area."

Preparing Your Testicles for Action ... Animelles en Persillade ... Unhappy Family Jewels ... Ranch Tackle ... Tacos de Cojones

Herb Pie / Pumpkin, Goat Cheese & Bacon Pizza / Find the Best Fruit & Veg

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's herb pie recipe

You can use spinach instead of chard, but you'll need more because of its high water content. Serve with a tomato and red onion salad.

Article & Recipe: Rustic thin pizzas deliver taste, color, texture.

Look to the right hand side of the page and down for the recipe.

The dough for these special pies is rolled very thin, so when baked, it is crisp and golden. The toppings include ... caramelized onions and ... roasted cubes of butternut squash and sprinklings of creamy goat cheese and smoky bacon.

Rustic Pizzas With Butternut Squash, Goat Cheese and Bacon

Blog Post: How to find the best fruit and vegetables in your area.

1. Shop on delivery days ... 2. Buy the longer lasting vegetables ... 3. Make use of frozen and tinned ... 4. Get to know your supplier & be friendly, but a bit pushy ... 5. Grow what you can ... 6. Form a local co-op or go direct to the farmers ... 7. Eat whatever vegetables you can

Herb Risotto. Quesadilla Pie. Summer Squash Soup

Recipe: Fresh Herb Risotto

This classic risotto is flooded with fresh herbs at the very end of cooking. Serve it as a main dish or a side. Use a combination of sweet herbs and vivid-tasting salad greens, like wild arugula.

Blog Post & recipe: Buttermilk Summer Squash Soup

I happened to have a bit of buttermilk to use up here, and I like the creamy tang it brings to the soup, but feel free to add a splash of creme, or half & half, or a swirl of creme fraiche instead if that's what you have. If you like a deeper green soup (and some bonus nutrition), add a handful of chopped spinach toward the very end ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Quesadilla Pie

My version of a quesadilla pie is a casserole made in a pie dish with stacked flour tortillas and layers of cheesy filling, baked until browned and crispy. The beauty of quesadilla pie is that it's a great way to use up leftovers and odds and ends. The essentials are the tortillas and the cheese; after that it's up to you as to the variety and type of filling you want.

Blueberry Soup. Herb Guide. Fennel and thyme roasted chicken.

Recipe: Fennel and thyme roasted chicken

Think it takes too long to have a roast dinner on a weeknight? Think again!

Blog Post & Recipe: Blueberry Soup

I first bought mustikkakeitto or blueberry soup in Finland by accident ... Very quickly blueberry soup (which is more of a hot drink really) became a favourite post-work pick-me-up drink, especially in the icy winter months when colds and other ailments were common.

Article & Recipes: The essential herb guide

A brief guide to thirteen common herbs. The links to the recipes are in a box to the left.

- Dill has an intense, peppery flavour that deepens the sweetness of root vegetables ... Mint, such as you might buy in the supermarket, will bring out the sweet notes in savoury dishes ...

Related Links

* Tarragon, strawberry and cherry salad

* Parsley, white bean and prawn salad

* Herby lemon grilled chicken

Furikake Seasoning. Growing Herbs. Meat Cooked?

Article: How to tell when meat is done

What is the most accurate way to tell if meat and fish are done, aside from prodding them with a meat thermometer? Are there some visual clues I can use?

Article: How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Here’s a breakdown of what to grow, for clueless gardeners to the greenest of thumbs. Or jump to an explanation of light, water, pots, soil, food, and more.

Recipe: D.I.Y. Recipe: Vegetarian Furikake Rice Seasoning

Furikake is a Japanese condiment typically sprinkled over or mixed into rice. There are dozens of varieties on the market – most contain seaweed, sesame seeds, sugar, and salt ... Although I love looking at the rows of colorful furikake jars at the Japanese grocery store, I recently decided to conserve money and packaging by making my own ...

2 sheets toasted nori seaweed
1/4 cup toasted white and/or black sesame seeds
1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar

Bento Boxes. Iranian.

Blog: Lunch in a Box

A blog devoted to the bento box. Click on 'Lunch Links' for a long list of links to other bento websites, blogs, and resources.

Article & Recipes: Iranian new year's feast is worth the effort

Herb kookoo - a sort of dense souffle of chopped herbs, tart red barberries, and walnuts, bound together with eggs - is a traditional accompaniment to the Nowruz meal ... The other dish prepared this day is ash-e reshteh. This hearty noodle soup, full of beans and herbs, lightly thickened with flour, and finished with kashk, a kind of yogurt whey that adds a dairy tang and a bit of richness, is always made on Nowruz.

# Recipe Ash-e reshteh
# Recipe Herb kookoo

Budget Cooking. Avocado pits. Herbs and spices.

Article: Do the maths (or how to have supper with Nigel Slater for 31p)

Video: How to Remove the pit from an avocado

An avocado pit just sits there, practically laughing at you, as you struggle to release it from the slippery grasp of the delicious fruit. Chef Deborah Schneider ... shows how easily it can be removed. She also shares two ways of prepping the avocado: the cube and the flare.

Article: When to ditch old spices, herbs

Although the terms are often used interchangeably, they refer to two distinct types of seasonings. Herbs are the aromatic leaves of nonwoody plants - parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, etc. Many fresh herbs are widely available, and there are some whose dried forms are, I think, a lamentable waste of money. I would never use dried parsley, basil or cilantro in my cooking; a dish would be better off herbless.

Potatoes, Herbs, Cast Iron Cookware

Article: Cast iron's age-old allure

A short article about cast-iron cookware.

•Testing a skillet for cooking temperature, droplets of water should bounce or hop on the surface; too hot, they will disappear; too cool, they will just sit there.

Article: Pick the right potato to go with your meal

A look at the spud bins at the grocery store reveals plenty of potato choices. But which ones to serve with a corned beef dinner (not russets) and which to mash with milk and butter (definitely russets)?

Article & Recipes: Grow your own flavour

Growing herbs for the kitchen.

The more you pick the healthier the plant. Growers are told that if their chives start to flower they will have no more fresh leaves until the following year. Rubbish! Pick some of the flowers to use in salads and, if the plant is then cut back to within 4cm of the ground and given a good feed of liquid fertiliser, it will produce another crop of succulent leaves within a month.

Herbs can be picked from very early in their growing season. This encourages the plant to produce vigorous new growth. Most herbs reach their peak of flavour just before they flower. Snip off stems early in the day before the sun is fully up, or, even better, on a cloudy day.

Cut whole stems rather than single leaves or flowers. Always use a sharp knife, sharp scissors or secateurs, and cut lengths of 5-8cm from the tip of the branch, this being the new, soft growth. Do not cut into any of the older, woody growth. Cut from all over the plant, leaving it looking shapely.

... Lovage soup ... Fish with fennel ... Chocolate mint mousse

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!

Several little dishes

Article/Recipe: Twinkle Twinkle Little Starters.

Includes recipes for: tabbouleh, falafel, baba ghanoush, sesame seed biscuits, sardines wrapped in vine leaves, and tarator.

Mezze, a delicious first course of several little dishes, is the best part of an Middle Eastern meal.

Kangaroo Tail. Sea Trout. Growing Herbs

Recipe: Dew's Meat roo tail with banana and sweet potato mash.

Article/Recipe: Herbal Essence.

Article ends with recipes for baked sea trout with spring herbs, buttered samphire, and broad bean and herb frittata.

A sunny windowsill is all you need to grow your own herbs. The secret is to treat them mean - and then spoil yourself. Nigel Slater hooks a fragrant supper

Fish. Chopping herbs. Pesto. Honeyed lamb. Parsnips. Cafes.

Article: How to check for doneness.
... when you're cooking fish.

Let your left hand go limp. Now use your right forefinger to press into the flesh between your left thumb and forefinger; you should find the flesh soft and easy to dent. This is what rare fish feels like.

Article: How to chop fresh herbs.

Make sure your cutting board is clean before you chop anything. Herbs can absorb "off" flavors from remnants on the board, and hard ingredients, like chunks of peppercorns or seed spices, can damage the fine edge on knives.

Article/Recipe: How to make pesto like an Italian Grandmother.

Recipe: Honeyed lamb with rhubarb salsa.

Article: Backyard Baristas.

In spite of the perky, patronising tone ("just look for the cool kids sitting on padded milk crates ..." etc), this is an interesting article about people who set up "shoestring cafes" in Melbourne's old milk bars and homes.

Article/Recipe: Burke's Backyard archives: Parsnips.

Baked parsnips ... Parsnip soufflé ... Parsnip Soup ... Parsnip Chips ... Andrew's Roast Parsnips.

Andrew Cox wrote to Burke's Backyard saying that as a child he was forced to eat parsnips, and he hated them. However, three years ago he discovered that if you roast parsnips under a leg of lamb they taste entirely different. Andrew invited Don over for dinner with his family. He served a lamb roast, complete with parsnips. Don had to admit that the parsnips tasted pretty good, but Katie, the youngest member of the family, said that she did not like parsnips and didn't think kids should have to eat them.