What to Save & Freeze for Stocks / Roast Butternut Squash & Chickpeas / Gnocchi di Pane e Prugne (Bread Gnocchi with Prunes)

Blog Post: Stockpiling Your Scraps: What to Save & Freeze for Stocks

• Bones and carcasses ... Vegetable & herb scraps ... Seafood shells & bones ... Cheese rinds

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash & Chickpeas

This recipe is reminiscent of chana masala, a savory dish of stewed chickpeas with spices and tomatoes. For a fall version, butternut squash has been added, pre-cooked by roasting pieces in the oven with spices.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gnocchi di Pane e Prugne (bread gnocchi w/ prunes)

This recipe is from the far north of Italy in the region of Trentino-Alto Ridge where the influence of Austro-Tyrolean food is prevalent. Some staples in their diet are wurst, cabbage, potatoes, apples, butter, polenta & dumplings. Yes this is Italy! These little bread gnocchi are called Knodeln which is a German word referring to a bread dumpling.

Gala Pie / Prepare Portabella Mushrooms / Growing Peas & Sweet Pea Gnocchi

Blog Post & Recipe & Pictures: Gala pie: king of the picnic blanket?

I sat under a table on beer-soaked carpet and wondered at the infinite egg. How was it possible that every slice of the yard long, loaf-shaped pie had a perfect slice of egg in it?

Blog Post & Video: Knife Skills: How to Prepare Portabella Mushrooms

When cooking the cap whole, it's best to score it lightly on the top side. This allows steam from inside to escape more easily, which both hastens cooking, and makes it more even.

Blog Post & Recipe: In defense of shelling peas

Well, for one thing, shelling peas have a more complex and interesting flavor than the more prevalent sugar snap peas. Freshly picked, they’re just as sweet, but not so one-dimensional. They are the first vegetables to be planted in spring ... Because they are planted and mature earlier than most spring vegetables, they feature prominently in many classic early-spring dishes from around the world.

Sweet Pea Gnocci

A Healthy Breakfast / Turkey Vegetable Dill Pie / Sweet Potato Gnocci

Blog Post: 7 secrets to a healthy breakfast

i. Make it yourself ... ii. Prepare in advance ... iii. Choose wholegrains ... iv. Add extra fibre ... v. Have an avo’ ... vi. Use fruit for natural sweetness ... vii. Yoghurt

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkey Vegetable Dill Pie with Chive Biscuit Crust

This is a great way to use up leftover turkey from Thanksgiving, and can easily be adapted for chicken. The flavours of the stew are comforting and traditional, while the biscuits are crisp on top and almost dumpling-like where they meet the stew.

Blog Post & Recipe: sweet potato gnocchi

Because these gnocchi are made with sweet and regular potatoes, and there are a few things I've learned that I'd like to share with you. First, is that it's very important to use the right potatoes - Russets have a high amount of starch and lower amount of water, compared to their other spud cousins - and that's exactly what you want - a nice, starchy potato. Sweet potatoes, however, are much more moisture-laden ...

Garlic Naan. Foodie Travel Writing. Potato Gnocchi.

Blog Post & Recipe: Weekend Project: Make Gnocchi!

These little potato dumplings are fairly easy to make, but take a little patience.

Basic Recipe for Potato Gnocchi

Blog Post & Recipe: Garlic Naan Recipe

And you can bake them in regular oven too, though it would be great to own a Mini-Tandoor; nevertheless, the experiment was absolutely successful

Blog Post: Food writing on the hoof

The food writing that I enjoy the most transports the reader from the humdrum to somewhere altogether more exciting – it also enhances my experience if I'm lucky enough to go there for real. The books I read if I do actually visit fall into two broad categories – those which have already whetted my appetite, and those I seek out while I'm there.

Threadcakes. Cut Your Food Bill. One Blogger's Ten Favourite Recipes.

Webpage: Threadcakes Gallery

An online cake competition by Chris Cardinal & Threadless.com

Article & Recipes: 7 tips to cut food bill but not flavor

1. Cook at home ... 2. Buy on sale ... 3. Buy what's in season ... 4. Shop smart ... 5. Use less protein ... 6. Throw nothing away ... 7. Use what you have

Olive dip ... Bean dip ... Everything but the kitchen sink meatloaf

Blog Post & Recipe: woohoo!

Well, I’m not sure how this happened, but my 500th post just crept up on me. I’ve dug through the archives and pulled out my favorite 10 food recipes to share with you one more time ...

blood orange + cherry cream scones ... fresh cherry + raspberry muffins ... ricotta, green onion & green garlic gnocchi ... garlicky baked fries ... port-braised cipollini onions ... carmelized cauliflower with salsa verde ... rosemary + pinenut shortbread cookies ... rhubarb johnny ... ginger cookies ... occidental fudge

Beet Gnocchi. Potato-Crusted Trout. Dairy Class.

Blog Post & Recipe: Beet Gnocchi with Herbed Garlic Butter

"They bleed when you cut them, look!"

Blog Post & Recipe: French in a Flash: Purple Potato-Crusted Trout a la Francaise

... it is served à la française, which means with a lemon butter sauce ... I spoon on a lightened version of sauce à la française which is flavored with curls of lemon zest and whole leaves of parsley.

Article: Milky ways

A journalist attends an adult education class called "Dairy Delights with Jeltje Gillian" and writes about her day.

At the end of a four-hour lesson I came home with butter, quark, mascarpone and cottage cheese -- all made by me. And along the way I had learned to make yoghurt, buttermilk, ice cream, labna and creme fraiche ...

The first job of the class was to begin the cottage cheese.

The milk is heated to just warm, then rennet is stirred in and it is left for an hour in a warm place to firm up. The result is a firm junket ...

Ricotta Gnocci. Four Iraqi dishes. Substituting Flour.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gnocci for Beginners. And Braggarts.

Ricotta gnocchi, where have you been all my life?

Blog Post: Good Question: Substituting White Whole Wheat Flour?

Here's a question from Kitchen reader Cara about working with whole wheat white flour in her baking:

At what ratio should white whole wheat flour be substituted for regular whole wheat? What about white whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour? Is the best way to substitute by weight 1 for 1?

Blog Post & Recipes: How about cooking Iraqi?

Recipes for four dishes are here for you to try:

1. Kubbat Mousel ...

2. Fasangoon ...

3. Sheikh Mahshi is one of the most loved stew dishes in Iraq and usually served with white rice fortified with roasted almonds and raisins ...

4. Timman Jazar ...

Kumara: Sweet Potato

Article & Recipes: How to cook with kumara

In most countries they are called sweet potatoes, but in New Zealand they are known by their Maori name kumara. Available in red, gold or orange, each variety has a deliciously different colour and taste.

... KUMARA GNOCCHI ... KUMARA & COCONUT CURRY

Gnocci. Strength Soup. Mushrooms. Hamburgers.

Article/Recipe: A word of difference.

Includes recipes for lemon gnocchi with pecorino and radicchio, eroleves or strength soup, and Catalan mushrooms.

Article: For the classic American meal, chefs keep it simple.

A number of chefs talk about their favourite ways of preparing hamburgers.

He uses only coarse sea salt and black pepper. "I season it aggressively, like a coating," says the chef. Then the burgers go onto a gas grill.