Fish Cake Soup (Odeng Tang) / Cock Ale / Chinese Ginger Duck

Blog Post & Recipe: Fish Cake Soup (Odeng Tang)

If you have the ingredients it won't take you more than 15 minutes to make this.

Blog Post & Recipe: And now for something a little more löwenbräu

So that’s cock ale. The name sounds so dirty. As does another beer brewed with meat: oyster porter. Another relic of the 19th century. Yes, this is English porter brewed with oyster meat, or sometimes ground up oyster shells.

Cock Ale

Blog Post & Recipe: Chinese Ginger Duck Recipe - 姜麻鴨

Anyway, this recipe is so simple in line with his simplistic attitude to food and life in general - the duck is simply cooked with copious amounts of ginger and some soy sauces for seasoning, add a dash of Chinese Shaoxing wine for added fragrance and that's about it. If you like ginger, I'm quite sure you will love this but if not, then this dish may not be your cup of tea to be honest.

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

Cook Quinoa with David Lynch / Tomatillo Hash with Sausage / Confit

Blog Post: "It's the only grain that's a complete, perfect protein"

How to cook quinoa with David Lynch. Part 1, part 2.

Recipe: Desperate for dinner: Tomatillos lead the rescue

In this case, a medley of chopped vegetables, given weight with sausage (rolled into little balls to break the monotony) and perked up with plenty of cilantro. The tomatillos turned out to be a surprise star, enlivening the dish with their tangy way.

Tomatillo hash with sausage

Article & Recipe: Confit method well worth effort

To confit is normally to cook secondary cuts of meat (or other things such as garlic, tomatoes or salmon) so they are preserved. The best-known would be confit duck. The method works particularly well with tougher and cheaper cuts of meat, as they benefit from the long, slow cooking. In a nutshell, it is essentially any kind of food that has been immersed in any kind of fat for flavour and preservation.

Confit goat legs

Death Star Cookie / Green Grape Pie / Rice Pudding

Blog Post & Recipe: Death Star Cookie [via Boing Boing]

A special Star Wars memory for me was when my grandma made me a Death Star cookie!

Recipe: Recipe: Green Grape Pie

The tart green grapes are so full and juicy; they are like sour cherries or enormous blueberries in their texture.

Recipe: Culinary SOS: Rice pudding from the Lazy Ox Canteen

What immediately sets this rice pudding apart is its amazingly light and delicate texture. Make the pudding ahead of time and chill thoroughly, then fold in whipped cream at the last minute to give it that fluffy texture.

Cakes That Look like Meat / Mapo Doufu / Three Hungarian Recipes

Blog Post: Cakes that look like meat

The OC Weekly has scoured Flickr for proud bakers' photos of their convincingly meat-like cakes and confections, assembling the best in a gallery called "Food Disguised As Other Food."

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Fall in Love With Sichuan Food: Mapo Doufu

It's a mixture of tofu, ground meat, and chile bean paste suspended in a bright red and dangerously spicy sauce. The first bite knocks you over with heat, and then this strange numbing sensation takes over your brain and cools you down.

Blog Post & Recipes: Lunches with Kati: Learning to love Hungarian food

Practically every Hungarian kitchen has a walk-in pantry, and Hungarians are zealous canners during the summer, lining their pantry shelves with goodies to eat during the long winter months when root vegetables dominate the markets.

Featured recipes: Paprikás Csirke (Paprika Chicken) ... Galuska (Spaetzle) ... Uborkasalata (Cucumber Salad)

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."

Steve Jobs Cheese Head / Potato Pizza & Pizza Flour / Nine Burger Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Steve Jobs Cheese Head [via Boing Boing]

So what better way to show appreciation for my much-loved Apple products than to create a tasty sculputure in the form of Apple's venerable leader?

Blog Post & Recipe: Potato Pizza and the Correct Flour to Use for Pizza Dough

I get asked all the time about what is the right flour to use when making pizzas, but that's really the wrong question. The question you should ask yourself is what kind of pizza do you like? Do you like thick, chewy pizza or do you like thin, crispy crust? The flour you choose makes a big difference in the crust.

Blog Post & Recipes: On Burgers... and the blogger's next post, Shepherds Pie Burgers.

I leave you with some of my past burger recipes.
Stuffed:
Huge Burger
Taco Burger
Red Curry Burger
Buffalo Turkey Burger
Tuna Burger

Unstuffed:
Cuban Burger
Caprese Burger
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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.

Food Porn Daily / Random Recipe Generator / Stuffed Cabbage

Website: FoodPornDaily (via Honest Fare)

click, drool, repeat

Website: Random Recipe Generator

Lettuces With Lettuces Mash ... Grilled Essence Of Vanilla ... Horseradish Sauce With Apple Sauce Crust

Insufficiently delicious? Reload the page for another.

Blog Post & Recipe: stuffed cabbage

In Russia, we called this dish “golubtsi”, and I’ve heard my Ukrainian friends refer to them as “holubki” ... But whatever you call them, they are amazing. In fact, they’re even better in the next few days as flavors develop more, and, if that weren’t bonus enough, they freeze beautifully too.

Watch Christopher Walken Cook

Blog Post & Video: Watch Christopher Walken cook chicken with pears

"What I do is I take some of this … fat. And I cut that off."

So begins the video "Man makes chicken with pears", a three-minute clip that would be notable for not an awful lot if it weren't for the dish being cooked, and the words above being spoken, by one Christopher Walken.

Bacon. Modena Sauce. D.I.Y. Cookbook.

Blog Post: 100 Ways to Use a Strip of Bacon (via Serious Eats)

I steadfastly refuse to stop eating it in every form imaginable. So to celebrate the endless survival of bacon, I’ve compiled this handy chart of 100 Ways to Use a Strip of Bacon.

Blog Post & Recipe: Salsina modenese

Scroll down to read the English version.

This sauce is an old recipe posted by Silvietta on Cookaround forum years ago. I have always appreciated it and prepared every Summer when vegetables are fresh and so inviting! [...] It goes well either with grilled, boiled or stewed meat or fish, it's nice and tasty with cheese and ham, it's an excellent ingredient for toasted bread ...

Article: Creating Your Own Recipe Book

Customized cookbook publishers have existed for years, but most have a large minimum number of orders and are best bets for fund-raising events. Today, a crop of publishers let home chefs inexpensively design and create a single book online for their personal use.

We tried four such services. Two of them, TasteBook and Create My Cookbook, only publish cookbooks. By contrast, Blurb and Bookemon are able to produce any type of book.

Reading & Eating. Tomato Pie. Bialys.

Blog Post: MISS MANNER’S GUIDE TO READING AND EATING

Certain foods lend themselves to being consumed by fervent readers. Sandwiches are the most obvious, of course. They were deliberately designed for one-handed eating by the Earl of Sandwich ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Tomato Pie

Think pizza meets cheesy bread and they make-out in a pie crust. The recipe lends itself to estimates. Handfuls of this, handfuls of that. I measured, but you could eyeball it and it would still work out.

Blog Post & Recipe: Bialys? They’re Greek to me.

Something that might have been an onion roll, only it was too flat. And the fried onions were collected in a center depression, not scattered throughout.

I tentatively asked the counterman for “one of those onion things.”

Capsicum Risotto. Comic Sandwiches. Chicken Breast Dessert.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Pepper Risotto

It’s a grain. It’s a rice. But it acts like pasta. Sort of. Cooking it is an experience. Cooking it is an art form…but an art form anyone can achieve.

Website: Insanewiches

That’s right, now you can break up your day by being the sandwich shrink and diagnosing how loony you think each sandwich is!

Article & Recipe: When Meat Becomes Dessert (via Serious Eats)

... tavuk göğsü [...] means "chicken breast," a name almost misleading in its simplicity. The dish does contain chicken, torn into feathery shreds, but these shreds are encased in a sweet milk pudding. In short, this "chicken breast" is a dessert.

Tavuk Göğsü

Rib-Eye, Potato and Portobello Kebabs. Carrot and Chantarelle Quiche. Cooking in a Hotel Room.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rib-Eye, New Potato and Portobello Kebabs

The recipe makes four skewers, with about 3 1/2 ounces of steak per skewer. That might seem a little chintzy, but since the rib-eye and mushroom pieces are marinated together, the recipe makes the most of the mushroom’s “meatiness.”

Blog Post & Recipe: Carrot and Chantarelle Quiche

A week or two ago I was staring at a pile of yellow chantarelle mushrooms and a bunch of young orange carrots in my fridge, trying to decide which one should become the centrepiece of our dinner table. Earthy wild mushrooms or succulent sweet carrots? [...] I [...] combined them both in a quiche ...

Blog Post & recipe: Cooking in Your Hotel Room - Foodie Flicks

British comedian George Egg recently posted a YouTube video in which he cooks dinner in his hotel room.

We're not talking about a quick salad and sandwich here. Without bringing any special tools from home, Egg [...] makes pasta and biscuits in his room -- from scratch. No hot plate. No microwave. If it wasn't captured in a video, we probably wouldn't believe it.

The entrée? A tortellini pasta with spinach, rocket and crème fraîche that he cooks in the room's tea kettle.

The Taiwan Burger

Blog Post: Vegetarian Food Gone Wrong

We found it at a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant last summer in Beijing, near the Lama Temple. On the menu it was called a "Taiwan burger".

Food Tattoos.

Webpage: Food is SO SEXY, I want to TAT my body with it! (Via the Guardian)

only CLASSY folks get a CRACKER BARREL tattoo

Sweet Meats. A Bacon Blog. Gamer Cupcakes.

Blog: The Bacon Show

ONE BACON RECIPE PER DAY, EVERY DAY, FOREVER

Website: Sweet Meats Plush Toys

Sweet Meats are the brainchild of Lauren Venell (nee Fleischer), a San Francisco product designer with butchers on both sides of her family.

Website: Snack or Die

# PaRappa the Rapper Sunny Sugar Cookies
# World of Warcraft Horde Cupcakes
# Pokemon Pikachu Sugar Cookies
...

Weird Meat. Wrinkly Potatoes. Dandelion with Lamb.

Blog: Weird Meat

WeirdMeat.com, a travel and food blog. Documents experiences eating strange foods around the world. What is weird to one, is normal to another.

Blog Post & Recipe: Canary Wrinkly Potatoes (Papas Arrugadas)

When I encountered this dish for the first time in a Spanish restaurant, I thought they used a special kind of potatoes as the insides were soft, almost mashed, encased in salty, slightly chewy skin. Apparently, it’s a classic Canarian dish for ordinary new potatoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Dandelion with Lamb

Scroll down to get to the English version.

This recipe is not from mainstream Turkish cuisine - as far as I know -, I inspired with this Cretan recipe, adapted to my turkish taste. I have no chance to find spiny chicory - stamnagathi here so I used dandelions as she advised, then omitted the lemon-egg (terbiye) sauce and added fresh tomatoes.

Jook. Pizza Pockets. Fancy Fast Food.

Blog: Fancy Fast Food ( Via the Guardian.)

Yeah, it's still bad for you -- but see how good it can look!

Blog Post & Recipe: Jook

Jook also goes by the name congee [...] Don't try to stick too close to the recipe; use it as a springboard for what's available. Like the dried mushrooms, for example, could be swapped out with some fresh, sautéed ones.

Blog Post & Recipe: pizza pockets!

I decided to make little hand-sized pizza pockets [...] but it kind of takes a long time, so I recommend two things: get your stuff prepped as far in advance as possible, and try doing it on a day that you don't mind having your oven cranked up to 500ºf