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 ...
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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
Recipe:
Stuffed sheep's hearts - Fyllt hjörtu
Chop up the prunes and stuff the hearts with them. Sew closed.
Blog Post & Recipe:
Apfelschmalz - a typical German bread spread
Apfelschmalz (if you like to translate it: apple lard) is one of those typical and rustic bread spreads you will have for what is called 'Brotzeit', which is a snack with a rustic bread and often beer.
Recipe:
Dan Lepard's fennel and anchovy tart recipe
The Italian 00 flour gives a more tender crust than regular bread flour. Strong white flour can be used instead, but you'll need a dash more water and you won't have that same mellow texture when you bite into it.
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Cooked, fermented shark – Hákarlsstappa
I have no idea whether people still use this recipe, but I am publishing it here as a historical curiosity.
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roasted beet salad with oranges and beet greens
Note: the original recipe calls for wine vinegar. I made 2 batches. One following the recipe to a tee, and one skipping the vinegar as I felt it took away from the amazing sweetness of the beets.
Blog Post:
Weeknight Comfort: Making Mashed Potatoes a Meal
Can mashed potatoes really qualify as a meal by themselves? If you mix in enough other ingredients, we think they certainly can! Mashed potatoes ... make the perfect foil for just about anything we have in the fridge. Here are a few of our favorites extras!
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Recipe for Greek Cabbage Salad with Feta and Thyme
If you don't have fresh thyme, I think there are some other herbs that would work here, but I wouldn't use dried thyme.
Blog Post & Recipe:
Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar
We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with one other ingredient ...
Recipe:
Traditional Icelandic fish soup (halibut soup) - Fiskisúpa (lúðusúpa)
This soup is among the oldest recorded Icelandic recipes. It's sweet-sour taste is unusual for fish-based soups. Traditionally, the recipe is given for halibut, but you can also use salmon, trout, wolf-fish or lumpfish, or other fatty fish.
Recipe:
Kidney stew
This dish is also good with mushrooms.
Recipe:
Lamb with pea mash and peppercorn sauce
Place 1 mushroom on each plate. Top with mash. Thickly slice lamb. Top mash with lamb. Drizzle with gravy. Serve.
Article:
Ten Tips for Learning to Cook from Scratch
1. Cooking is not necessarily time consuming ... 2. It’s good to know what’s in the food you eat ... 3. You don’t need fancy gear ... 4. Music helps ... 5. But you need to be tuned in ... 6. You don’t need every ingredient ... 7. You can double a recipe or cut it in half ... 8. Most dishes start with onions and garlic sautéed in oil ... 9. Things cook faster in tiny pieces ... 10. Making soup is easy
Do you have a favorite rule of thumb for the kitchen? Share it!
