Turkish Coffee - Persian Armenian Style / Hobak Hotteok (Sweet Stuffed Pumpkin Pancakes) / 11 Literary Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkish Coffee - Persian Armenian Style

My mother learned to make Turkish coffee from her Armenian neighbor when she was just a young newlywed and had moved to a new home and a new town.

Blog Post & Recipe: Hobak Hotteok (Sweet Stuffed Pumpkin Pancakes)

Hotteok is a popular street snack in Korea. It's basically a pan-fried yeast dough stuffed with a brown sugar and nut filling ... Because it's pumpkin season, I've tweaked it a little to make pumpkin hotteok.

Blog Post & Recipes: Enjoy Thanksgiving with Our Literary Recipes Roundup

Enjoy Turkey Day with Biblioklept’s menu of literary recipes

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Twelve Ways ... Zora Neale Hurston’s Mulatto Rice ... Ian McEwan’s Fish Stew ... James Joyce’s Burnt Kidney Breakfast ... Herman Melville’s Whale Steaks ... Ernest Heminway’s Absinthe Cocktail, Death in the Afternoon ... Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque ... Thomas Pynchon’s Banana Breakfast ... Cormac McCarthy’s Turtle Soup ... Robert Crumb’s Macaroni Casserole ... George Orwell’s Recipes for Plum Cake and Christmas Pudding

Dungeness Crab Cake with Avocado & Chipotle Hollandaise / 59 L.A. Times Recipes / Moghrabieh

Recipe: Dungeness Crab Cake With Avocado and Chipotle Hollandaise

For the crab cakes, remove any shells from the crabmeat and place in a large mixing bowl. Add the mustard, mayonnaise, lime zest, cilantro, chives, pickles and 1/4 cup bread crumbs to the bowl and mix well. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Photographs & Recipes: What's hot: 59 of the latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

Whole-wheat pancakes ... Broiled eggplant salad with sautéed onions, garlic and tomatoes ... Creamy scrambled eggs with fines herbes ... Quick puff pastry ... Chickpea and noodle soup with spinach, Persian herbs and kashk topping ... Creamy rice pudding with cardamom and almonds ... Baby artichoke gratin ... Black Russian rye bread ... Fresh berry tart ...

Article & Recipe: Couscous with a Lebanese difference

Moghrabieh is a type of couscous that originates in Lebanon. It is similar in appearance to Israeli couscous, but is a little larger, and is made by forming pasta-like wheat dough into pea-sized balls. Moghrabieh is quite different from the finegrained couscous you'll see in most Canadian supermarkets ...

Heavenly spiced chicken stew with moghrabieh ... Moghrabieh and vegetable soup

Sesame Bok Choy / Cook Long Grain Rice / Dinner in 20 Minutes

Blog Post & Recipe: Sesame Bok Choy

I wanted something simple and a little spicy, so I sauteed some greens with garlic and red pepper flakes and called it lunch.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect long grain rice

And if something does go wrong, console yourself with the knowledge that in rice-eating cultures around the world, from Iran to Korea, a 'burnt' crust at the bottom of the pan is eagerly fought over as a delicacy

Blog Post & Recipes: Dinner in 20 Minutes, and a Blog Birthday

These are some of my favorite tips for putting a quick meal together. There are no surprises here but these little things do matter ... Over the years, I have come up with a long list of dishes that V and I (and visiting friends and family) enjoy eating for dinner.

Chickpea Tomato Curry / The Food In My Beard's Favourite Posts / Improbable Salmon

Blog Post & Recipes: Chickpea tomato curry!

Easy. All it takes is minor chopping and heat.

Blog Post & Recipes: 3 Years of Food in my Beard

3 years ago, I made a website so that I could remember all the recipes I was trying. Here we are, 615 posts, 483 Recipes, 3075 comments, and over 1 million unique visitors later ... So here are 50 or so of the best posts on TFIMB.

Blog Post & Recipe: Another Day, Another Salmon

And I’m acutely aware that many people reading this are terrified of cooking fish, to which I can only say: start with this recipe first. It is very difficult to screw up. The idea is that you cook the salmon in a very low oven for a twice as long as you’d normally cook it, and the result is fish that is buttery soft and moist.

Various General Kitchen Tips / Bacon & Halloumi Sandwich / Marc Bittman's 25 Favourite Recipes

Article & Tips: Kitchen confidential: what every cook should know

Soften butter with a warmed glass, keep potatoes away from onions and other insider tips

Blog Post & Recipes: Bacon & Halloumi Sandwich

You might think the sandwich is a complete salt-fest, but the lemon and lettuce balance and freshen it all up.

Blog Posts & Recipes: Marc Bittman ends his food column at the New York Times and chooses twenty-five of his favourites. The Times has combined all of its food blogs into one "free-range superblog," Diners Journal.

Picking 25 favorites out of more than 1,000 recipes from The Minimalist ... is an awesome task.

RED PEPPER PURÉE ... CHICKEN UNDER A BRICK ... PEAR, GORGONZOLA AND MESCLUN SALAD ... SPAGHETTI WITH FRIED EGGS ... BRAISED SQUID WITH ARTICHOKES ... PASTA ALLA GRICIA ... PUMPKIN PANNA COTTA ... WATERMELON AND TOMATO SALAD ... 45-MINUTE ROAST TURKEY ... CRISP-BRAISED DUCK LEGS WITH AROMATIC VEGETABLES ... SICHUAN CHICKEN WITH CHILIES ... BLACK COD BROILED WITH MISO ... STIR-FRIED CHICKEN WITH KETCHUP ... CORN SALAD WITH SOY AND TOMATO ... PARSLEY-HERB SALAD ... SOCCA (FARINATA) ... STIR-FRIED LAMB WITH CHILI, CUMIN AND GARLIC ... NO-KNEAD BREAD ... SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH SHRIMP ... PERNIL ... SOUTH INDIAN EGGPLANT CURRY ... FENNEL AND CELERY SALAD ... MEXICAN CHOCOLATE TOFU PUDDING ... MORE-VEGETABLE-LESS-EGG FRITTATA

Pho Ga / Big Bag of Salad / The Bitten Word's Top Recipes of 2010

Recipe: Pho Ga recipe

If you still have a turkey carcase in the fridge ... you can ... use it to make a fantastic stock, the base for a pho ga. Traditionally, poultry pho is a simpler affair than the beef version

Article: The Crisper Whisperer: Big Bag of Salad

First things first: find yourself a one- or even two-gallon zip-top bag or a large glass bowl with a tight-fitting lid. I recommend the bag approach, because zip-top bags are freakishly good at keeping salad fresh.

Blog Post & Recipes: Our 10 Favorite Food Magazine Recipes of the Past Year

More than ten, actually

Crispy Potato Roast ... Indoor Pulled Pork ... Cajun Red Beans and Rice ... Korean Fried Chicken ... Tuna Noodle Casserole with Leeks and Fresh Dill ... Spring Shells and Cheese ... Tipsy Affogato ... Eggplant Parmesan for Two... Sweet and Spicy Fried Peach Pies... Momofuku Milk Bar's Chocolate Malt Cake ... Chicken Chili ... Cauliflower Sformato ... Potato Gratin with Rosemary Crust ... Beef Roast Braised with Onions ... Compost Cookies with Cereal Milk Panna Cotta

Salt-Cured Fresh Olives / Lentils with Chocolate / Cara's Top 12 Recipes of 2010

Blog Post & Recipe: Salt-Cured Fresh Olives

The process is simple. Layer fresh black olives with pure sea salt.

Blog Post & Recipe: Lentils with Chocolate. No, really.

Certainly not a common dish anywhere, lentils with chocolate can be found on both sides of the Atlantic in northern Spanish, especially Asturian, and Portuguese cuisine, as well as throughout Latin America. The lentils are usually served soupily with a humble garnish of fried, garlicky croutons and a good glass of red wine

Blog Post & Recipes: Cara's Top 12 Cravings of 2010

Includes links to her husband's Top Twelve and another Top Twelve chosen by her readers.

It seems like all the other bloggers are choosing there Top 10 in 2010, but I started this round-up series by letting my husband pick his favorite dish from each month. So when it it was time for my readers' choice re-cap, I had to play fair and give you 12 recipes too. So why stop now? Here are my Top 12 in 2010.

Chicken Tequila Burgers ... Sesame Maple Ginger Tofu ... Baked Pumpkin Falafel ... Sizzling Haloumi with Roasted Asparagus and Tomatoes ... Shakshouka ...
Greek-Style Tomato-Braised Cauliflower ... Asian Tuna Salad ... Sweet PB & Berry Omelet ... Sockeye Salmon with Sweet Roasted Corn & Strawberry Salad ... Hummus with Honey and Moroccan Spices ... Lentil & Eggplant Moussaka ... Baked Pumpkin Cranberry Oatmeal Pudding

101 Fast Recipes for Grilling / Hummus / Bird Seed Bread

Article & Recipes: 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling

A vast majority take less time to prepare and grill than it takes to watch your coals turn white.

Article & Recipes: The perfect hummus debate

What's your idea of perfect hummus, and if you can make it at all, what's your secret?

Recipe: hummus with ful

Blog Post & Recipe: Bird Seed Bread

I figured that I could ramp up my own version of it and cram a ton of different seeds into and on top of the bread. I wanted to make bread out of bird seed basically.

Roast Lamb / Risotto / A Collection of South African Recipes

Recipe: Best British recipes: perfect roast lamb

These timings will give you a crowd-pleasing range of meat from well done but juicy at the narrow end, to slices that are still a little pink in the middle at the fat end.

Blog Post: How to Make Risotto.

Some links to risotto recipes at the bottom of the post.

Click through the slideshow for basic steps of this technique »

You can apply the basic risotto-making technique to barley or even certain types of pasta, like orzo or Israeli couscous.

Blog Post & Recipes: Monthly Mingle South African Roundup

Half of them are making bloody bobotie. Bonus imagination points to the one who thought of inventing homemade zoo cookies.

... a wide array of flavorful and aromatic dishes to celebrate South Africa.

Pork Chops and "pap" ... Corn and Country Ham Quiche ... Mash and Boerewors ... Smoked snoek cake with dried apricots on a sweet potato fritter ... Samp and Beans with Braised Mutton ... Bobotie ... Krummelpap/Putu Pap (Crumbly Porridge) ... L'Africana Pizza ... South African Bobotie ... South African Spiced Butternut Squash and Roasted Banana Soup with Coconut and Lime ... Milk Tart ... Maharagwe Ya Nasi - Beans in Coconut Sauce ... Koeksisters ... South African Yellow Rice with Baked Chicken Breast ... Honey Glazed Soetpatats - South African Sweet Potatoes ... Bunny Chow ... Koeksisters ... Bunny Chow with Chickpeas ... Cape Malay Tomato Bredie ... Koesisters - Cape Malay "Doughnuts" ... Bobotie ... Melktert ... South African crunchies/ Hawermoutkoekies/Oat meal bars ... South Africa BBQ Ribs ... Zoo Cookies ... Bobotie du Cap ... Pear Chutney ... Tomato Bredie ... Herbed Vetkoek ... South African Sweet Fritters ... Malvapoeding ... Koeksisters ... Biltong Potjie ... South African waterblommetjie bredie ... Roosterkoek - a South African braai essential ... South African Bobotie - with a twist

Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs / Chicken Wing Marinade / Australia Day Cuisine

Blog Post & Recipe & Video: Espresso Machine Scrambled Eggs

I scrambled these eggs using my espresso machines steamwand.

Blog Post & Recipe: Something for the barbie: A killer chicken wing marinade

With nothing more than a stalk of lemongrass, a bulb of garlic, some fish sauce and sugar, this marinade punches and kicks the liveliness of Saigon in your mouth.

Recipes: Australia Day cuisine

Traditional pavlova ... Homemade meat pies ... Lamingtons ... Lamb burgers with beetroot salsa ... Barbecued marinated lamb leg ... Barramundi burgers with tartare sauce ... Passionfruit slice ... Damper ...

... and pages more.

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.

Suet / Mushroom Marsala Pasta / 25 Years of the LA Times' Favourite Recipes

Article: Suet's come to this: the perfect pudding fat

Suet fat is one of the key ingredients in Christmas pudding but, even in December, it's hard to find in Melbourne ... Dennis Miles at Hobson's Bay Old Style Butchery in Williamstown says he always has some suet on hand, but few people buy it.

Blog Post & Recipe: mushroom marsala pasta with artichokes

The only note I’d make about the flavor is that, though I enjoyed the subtle meatiness of the dish, I can see why others might want a little acid to brighten it up; if you find this to be the case, I think a tablespoon or so of lemon juice or a splash of balsamic added at the end might do the trick.

Article & Recipes: Opening the vault: 25 years of our best recipes

The L.A. Times Test Kitchen tests hundreds of recipes a year. So coming up with our favorite recipes of 2009 is not an easy task. As the L.A. Times Food staff winnows down the list to 10 favorites, we decided to throw open the vault of the "best of" lists from year's past.

The Top 12 Recipes of 1985 ...

The Top 12 Recipes of 1986 ...

Etc

Thanksgiving / Curry Chicken / Thanksgiving

Articles & Recipes: Thanksgiving

Recipes, how-to videos, slide shows and past Thanksgiving coverage from the Dining section on the Times Topics page.

Blog Post & Recipe: Curry Chicken Recipe (Kari Ayam)

Curry chicken is made with bone-in chicken traditionally, and curry leaves are used to infuse the curry with the intense fragrance of the curry leaves. My family love eating curry chicken with nasi kunyit (turmeric sticky rice) but I will have to share that recipe in the future.

Blog Post & Recipes: Thanksgiving Ideas

Though the turkey is the star of the show, I find that I spend more time thinking up what to do for sides and without great sides the turkey gets kind of lonely. A great Thanksgiving dinner is of course topped off with a great dessert and for a holiday meal it is acceptable t go all out!

Turnip Gratin / Pumpkin-Apple-Pecan Pie / 101 Thanksgiving Ideas

Blog Post & Recipe: Turnip Gratin

... a casserole layered with thinly sliced, tender turnips, onions, bread, and bubbly browned Gruyere cheese.

Recipe: Cakespy: The Pumpkin-Apple-Pecan Pie

It happens every year: that delicious dilemma at the dessert table when you have to decide between the three titans of Thanksgiving treats: pumpkin, apple, or pecan pie? But what if they could be combined into one triple threat, a veritable Turducken of a Thanksgiving pie?

Recipes: 101 Head Starts on the Day (via metafilter)

For cooks, most Thanksgiving problems are brought about by the sheer number of dishes competing for the stove: It’s not easy to roast a turkey and sweet potatoes for 20 at the same time. The best solution is to make food in advance, like one of the dishes that follow.

RELISHES, CHUTNEYS AND JAMS ... SOUPS ... STUFFINGS AND GRAINS ... VEGETABLE SIDE DISHES ... SALADS ... BREADS AND CRACKERS ... DESSERTS

Growing & Cooking Tomatoes. Chai-Poached Pears. 101 American Foods.

Video: Nigel Slater's Tender: Growing and cooking tomatoes

Nigel Slater rounds off his series of veg-inspired videos with a tribute to tomatoes [because he's got a new cookbook coming out. Here are ten recipes from the book.]

Blog Post & Recipe: Pandora’s Chai-Poached Pears

The pears are filled with an intoxicating combination of Neufchâtel cheese (you could substitute mascarpone or cream cheese), vanilla, crystallized ginger and a few spoonfuls of the chai-infused poaching liquid.

Blog Post & Recipes: 101 American Foods to Try in the USA: Ebook! (via Hedonia, where they recommend broccoli on pizza blanco. See also: this post at BlogHer, where the blogger asks, "What's Your Definition of American Foods?" The Sara mentioned at the start of the post is the same person who posted this Ebook.)

As promised, here’s the 101 American Foods to Try in the USA: Ebook!

If you prefer to read the list online, here’s a recap of the posts:

* Part 1: Desserts
* Part 2: Main Dishes and Savoury Snacks
* Part 3: Drinks and Location-specific / Regional Specialties

Dip from Leftover Soup. Tattie Scones. Recipes from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

Blog Post: Tip: Turn Leftover Soup into a Dip

This wouldn't work for every soup in the book, but there are certain ones that could be easily thickened up and recycled, in a way, as a dip.

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Tattie Scones

These are simple yet delicious breakfast scones made from mashed potatoes and are popular /staple breakfast dish in Scotland.These can be panfried unlike the other scones which are always baked. [...] The recipe is very simple and involves mixing of flour,butter and boiled,mashed potatoes with salt ,pepper and optional herbs and forming a dough,rolling it out and panfrying it.

Webpage: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Recipes

Being a page of links to all of the recipes mentioned in Barbara and Camille Kingsolver's 2007 locovore book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. 'Local' in this case meant the US state of Virginia.

They are arranged seasonally, beginning with spring greens season. [...] To help with seasonal eating, we also include some of our season-specific meal plans, listed at the end of the recipes.

EGGS IN A NEST ... SPINACH LASAGNA ... ASPARAGUS AND MOREL BREAD PUDDING ... CHICKEN RECUERDOS DE TUCSON ... ASIAN VEGETABLE ROLLS ... STRAWBERRY RHUBARB CRISP ... 30-MINUTE MOZZARELLA ... SUMMERTIME SALAD ... EGGPLANT PAPOUTZAKIA ... FRIDAY NIGHT PIZZA ... BASIL-BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE ... MELON SALSA ... CUCUMBER YOGURT SOUP ...

... and nineteen more.

Green Chilli Risotto. Pumpkin Celeriac Soup. 100 Easiest, Fastest Recipes.

Blog Post & recipe: Green Chilli Risotto

This is another rather unorthodox recipe from Sue Style

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Celeriac Soup

One of my favourite blogs, Cook Almost Anything, recently showed a wonderful recipe for Jap Pumpkin Soup with Curried Onions. I really can only begin to tell you what a clever idea I thought it was to have a fairly plain pumpkin soup (no offence Haalo!) punctuated with a wonderful relish of curried onions : the very onions and curry seasonings that would usually be blended with the pumpkin soup, kept separate to highlight all the elements ...

Pumpkin and Celeriac Soup with Curried Onions

Article & recipes: 100 easiest, fastest recipes. Ever

To celebrate [the Observer Food Monthly's] 100th issue, we asked top chefs, foodies and cookery writers for their all-time quickest and simplest summer dishes.

Peach, tomato and basil salad ... Slow-roasted tomatoes ... Spicy crab with avocado ... Cipollotto di tropea salad ... A simple ceviche ... Asparagus, feta and smoked salmon salad ... Watermelon and feta salad ... Baked fennel with harissa ... Mimolette, red onion and watercress salad ... Asparagus and fried egg on toast ... Creamy spiced mussel soup ... Cod with tarator and pine nuts ... The best garlic bread ... Roasted corn on the cob with chipotle chilli butter ... Green salad with fresh herbs ... Grilled lamb with lemon grass ... Courgette and corn quesadilla ... Fresh guacamole ... Basquian lemon shrimp ... Broad bean bruschetta with oozy burrata ...

The first twenty. There are eighty more after that.

Beetroot Tart Tatin. The Congo Cookbook. Tofu & Purple Cabbage with Soba.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tofu & Purple Cabbage with Soba noodles

I basically just cubed up the tofu; sliced the onion, cilantro and cabbage (both purple and some white) into slivers; drizzled a little rice vinegar on it all and gave it a healthy squirt of ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot Tart Tatin with Frozen Broad Bean Crème Fraîche

We love beetroot and cook often with this wonderful vegetable. I only started growing them last year and found them easy to grow, the secret is not to water them too often otherwise the leaves grow and the root stays weak and skinny.

Website: The Congo Cookbook (beware of popups)

Welcome to The Congo Cookbook, a collection of African recipes (hundreds!) from All over Africa ...

Chicken | Fish | Meat | Rice | Soup & Stew | Sauce | Staple | Veg. & Side | Snack | Beverage | Other

Pan-Fried Pork Chops. Grilled fennel. Game Recipes.

Recipe: How to Pan-Fry Pork Chops

It is the most basic way to make the thing you’re making.

Website: Just Game Recipes

1,508 Game Recipes

Alligator
Bear
Beaver
Boar
Buffalo
Caribou
Dove ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled fennel bulbs, parmesan, olive oil, sea salt, lemon juice

Something as simple as this is the perfect precursor to Summer. Simply caressed with a bit of olive oil, and hugged with the warmth of the grill, these fennel bulbs make the perfect vegetable side dish to any grilled meat or seafood dishes. Splash on a touch of fresh lemon juice, sprinkle them with some parmesan cheese and ...