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

Pumpkin Sardine Patties / Cook Perfect Porridge / One-Pot Meal Miso Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Sardine Patties

I decided that these patties, rich in Omega-3, shall soon be as usual as the ones I made with dried shrimps.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to cook perfect porridge

The important thing is that porridge should be creamy in texture (lots of stirring required), but with enough chewy bite to keep it interesting.

Blog Post & Recipe: Hearty One-Pot Meal Miso Soup

This soup is very versatile and makes a lot, so plan on leftovers (you may need to add extra broth the next day as the noodles suck up all the liquid overnight). You can use whatever vegetables

Toasty Pumpkin Chickpea Fritters / Achari Paneer Tikka – Skewered Indian Cheese With Pickling Spices / Tauge Goreng

Blog Post & Recipe: Toasty Pumpkin Chickpea Fritters!

A light, crisp layer of panko breadcrumbs coat a cozy fall-inspired filling of mashed chickpeas, rich golden pumpkin, nutty hemp seeds, garlic, a hint of maple and a splash of bright cider vinegar.

Blog Post & Recipe: Achari Paneer Tikka – Skewered Indian Cheese With Pickling Spices

Achari comes from the word “Achaar” which means pickle in Hindi. Tikka is any kind of boneless meat or vegetables baked or roasted on skewers ... Paneer complements the strong flavors of the spice mix perfectly but you can use lamb, chicken or shrimp.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tauge Goreng

Humble, yet delicious, easy and quick to make. No wonder is popular in Indonesia and SE Asian country. Every household seems to have their own version. Some recipe add prawns, some add tofu and tempe, or simply nothing other then mung bean sprouts itself as a star. This is my version of tauge goreng, I always serve it with hot steaming Japanese, or Jasmine rice, no other side dish needed.

Pumpkin Rice Noodles / Roasted Figs with Sage in Red Wine / Irish Ale Battered Fish & Chickpea Chips

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Rice Noodles

This pumpkin noodles with minced pork is one of my favorite noodle recipes. I love to order this at my favorite Taiwanese noodle house.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Figs with Sage in Red Wine

To add to the earthy bite of roasted figs we snipped some fresh sage to the recipe. Wonderful, fragrant sage rounded off the roasted figs beautifully and the addition of some red wine really finished off the recipe perfectly.

Blog Post & Recipe: Irish Ale Battered Fish + Chickpea Chips

These chips are somewhat time-consuming upfront, but well worth the trouble. Totally delicious and marginally more healthy than potatoes because chickpeas are protein packed. In fact, you could make a meal out of the chickpea chips alone.

The Updated Noonday Reviver / Pumpkin Spice Latte / Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima Style

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe Comix: The Updated Noonday Reviver

Our cast of characters / this time / consists of gin, stout and espresso.

Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Latte

Heat the pumpkin, sugar, and spices over medium heat for a few minutes, then add the milk and whisk until smooth and blended. Heat until the milk is simmering, then either pour into mugs, or, if you’re super fancy, blend for a few minutes until frothy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima Style

Recipes for okonomiyaki vary from region to region in Japan and there are two main styles of okonimiyaki the Osaka style where all of the ingredients are mixed up into a batter and cooked and the Hiroshima style where the ingredients are layered as the pancake cooks.

Vegetarian Mushroom & Cannellini Bean Ragout / Pumpkin Chili with Cornbread Smudges / Fried Green Tomatoes

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegetarian Mushroom & Cannellini Bean Ragout Recipe

The ragout can be made up to 2 days in advance. Store, covered, in the refrigerator. Reheat before serving.

Recipe: pumpkin chili with cornbread smudges

The corn "smudges", as I've dubbed them, were an attempt to make cornbread flavored crackers... they tasted great with the chili, but be warned, they aren't crispy crackers.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes

Tip: They key to fried green tomatoes it to make sure that the tomato slices are not too thick to ensure that they get cooked all the way through. ... Tangy green tomatoes dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal and then fried until golden brown and crispy on the outside.

Celery Risotto / Braised Pumpkin / 3 Confit Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Risotto and A Marcella Hazan Recipe

The celery flavour is clear and fresh and there are no distractions, resulting in a wonderful creamy comforting plate of velvet risotto with a little celery crunch and pale elegant colour.

Risotto Col Sedano – Celery Risotto Recipe

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy Braised Pumpkin

Let the pumpkin boil over high heat for about 10 minutes. Lower heat and stir occasionally for about 5 minutes. Add few dashes of white pepper. Once pumpkin is tender, it’s ready to be served.

Article & Recipes: Confit: What's good for the goose is good for a lot of other foods

Today almost anything can be "confited" using a variety of fats. Variations are no longer limited to midwinter meals, and the cooking process doesn't necessarily have to take all day.

Shrimp charmoula confit ... Roasted tomato confit with bacon fat ... Caramelized pineapple confit

Sweet Potato Biscuits / Pumpkin, Chickpea and Lemongrass Curry / Goat Brain Fritters

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato Biscuits

The longest of the prep is making the sweet potato puree. I peeled and cubed mine, boiled until fork-tender, then pureed them in a food processor until smooth and velvety.

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy Pumpkin, Chickpea and Lemongrass Curry [via]

The beauty of this is you can throw in whatever you like in the curry; your favourite meat, veges or whatever you have sitting in the bottom of your fridge that isn’t sadly limp (for me, it was time to use up my dried chickpeas!).

Blog Post & Recipe: Bheja Fry - Goat Brain Fritters [via]

Preparing brains is much like preparing sweetbreads , which I've served many times in the French restaurants I've worked in. You rinse the brains in cold water for about an hour to eliminate excess blood, then poach in a court bouillon with a few tablespoons of vinegar for about 30 minutes. For bheja fry I used ginger garlic cumin and turmeric in the court bouillon as well as the standard onion, celery, and carrot.

Thai Coriander & Pepper Spice / Avocado Mango Dunburi / Roasted Pumpkin & Chickpea Soup

Recipe: Spices - Thai Coriander and Pepper

A basic Thai flavour to use on its own or make into a green curry paste.

Blog Post & Recipe: Avocado Mango Donburi (Japanese Rice Bowl), aka Avo-don

Then a thought occurred to me—what if I applied the same concept that Chef Mashita used for coming up with the California roll, to maguro-don?

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup

Plus it’s easy to make. You are using only five ingredients, yet producing a fabulous flavour. There’s practically no chopping involved and while there’s some cooking in the oven you hardly have to do anything.

Pumpkin and Sausage Lasagna / Zest a Lemon / Chipotle Pumpkin Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Layers of Fall: Pumpkin and Sausage Lasagna

The sage, spicy sausage, and wine mingle nicely with the savory side of pumpkin, softened with milk and fresh ricotta. A bechamel version would be lovely, too

Blog Post: Cooking Basics: How to Zest a Lemon

Use a gentle rocking motion, taking off just the top layer of skin. Rotate the lemon between each stroke so you get new surface area every time until you’ve gone all the way around the lemon.

Blog Post: Chipotle Pumpkin Soup

While we already have several pumpkin soup recipes on the site, we were missing one with more of a Southwestern feel. I'm delighted with how this soup turned out. It's smokey and spicy from the chipotle chiles, cumin and oregano.

Warm Pumpkin Salad with Cherry Tomatoes & Spring Onions / Moroccan-style Couscous & Eggplant Salad / Lemon Delicious Puddings & 16 Facts About Flour

Recipe: Warm pumpkin salad with cherry tomatoes and spring onions

Toss gently to combine and scatter with chives and coriander. Serve with roast pork or chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: The stomach wants what the stomach wants: Moroccan-style couscous and eggplant salad

I’ve spent a good chunk of the summer coming up with new and exciting ways to play with eggplant, and what I have here is one of the best–and easiest. Eggplant, chickpeas, couscous, onion. That’s pretty much it.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemon delicious puddings + 16 facts about (wheat) flour [5 ingredients]

weighing flour is quicker and more accurate than using cups ... self raising flour = plain flour + baking powder ... gluten is the main protein in wheat ... bread is made from high protein wheat ... cakes and biscuits are (generally) made from lower protein wheat ... plain, or all purpose flour is a blend of high and low protein wheat ... etc

Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing / Bread & Butter Pickles / 20 Curry Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing

While the grilled Caesar we love is brushed with oil and garlic prior to grilling, this salad is just sprinkled with salt and then laid onto the grill, cut side down, until the greens have a nice char.

Blog Post & Recipe: bread and butter pickles

... So very sweet! So sweet that I thought that the sugar level was a typo but sure enough, every other recipe I found listed sugar amounts in cups. Ayee. This one only called for one but I reduced my batch to 3/4 of a cup ...

Recipes: 20 of the best: curries

Chicken korma ... Avial mixed vegetable curry ... Lamb and cashew curry ... Massaman curry ... Burmese chicken curry ... Beef kofta ... Thai green curry with fish ... Butter chicken ... Prawn and green mango curry ... Sweet peanut chicken curry ... Eggplant and potato curry ... Malaysian fish curry ... Longrain's red beef curry ... Chicken and bean madras ... Turkey chilli ... Fish curry ... Thai red curry burger ... Chickpea curry with rice ... Prawn green curry ... Pumpkin, cauliflower & chickpea curry

How to Keep Basil Fresh / How to Roast a Whole Pumpkin / and Capsicum Too

Blog Post: How to Keep Basil Fresh for at Least Eleven Days

The trick is to treat the basil like you would a bunch of flowers.

Blog Post: How to roast a whole pumpkin [via Limes & Lycopene]

When it's done, all you do is slice it up and remove the seeds which, btw, are super easy to get out once the pumpkin is cooked.

Blog Post: Roasting transforms bell peppers into a new and versatile vegetable

Once roasted, the thin skin on peppers gets rather tough. To get rid of it easily, place the peppers in a heat-safe bowl and cover with plastic wrap. The residual heat will create steam in the bowl, which will help loosen the skin.

Fennel-Pastrami Gratin / Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad / One Blogger's Most Popular Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel-Pastrami Gratin (this recipe is an entry in a mass fennel-recipe gathering).

Give a fennel some pastrami and they let go of their guards. So imagine what a fennel, fronds and toasted seeds included, would become if cooked in cream with layers of pastrami and yukon gold potatoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Greatest Form of Flattery: Blatantly Copying Fergus Henderson’s Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad

If you can’t find marrow bones (we used beef bones, but veal are very popular as well), talk with your butcher about ordering some. They freeze well and can be used to thicken soups ... and stocks if you prefer not to have them roasted.

Blog Post: Top Ten from 2009

I’ve figured out how to see which recipes received the most attention from readers. So here are the 10 most popular with readers according to the blog counter I use ...

Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake ... Chocolate Zucchini Cake ... Strawberry Tiramisu ... Grilled Shrimp and Bulgur Salad ... Candied Orange Peel ... Stuffed Zucchini ... Zucchini Cheese Scones ... How To Make Homemade Pasta ... Pumpkin Ravioli with Walnut Cream Sauce ... Side Dish Salads

Pumpkin Spice Bread / Berry Souffles / Thanksgiving Leftovers

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Bread

A good texture and just the right amount of flavor. It is great toasted with some salty butter or a spoonful of apple butter.

Blog Post & Recipe: feel the fear and cook it anyway – how to become fearless in the kitchen

i. acknowledge your fear ... ii. feel your fear ... iii. ask yourself ‘what’s the worst that can happen?’ ... iv. then cook it anyway

4 ingredient berry souffles

Articles & Recipes: Gobble up these turkey leftovers and Turkey times two: Great dishes using leftovers.

Gobble: Four-Cheese Turkey Mac & Cheese ... Stir-Fry Turkey ... Artichoke Turkey Pizza ... Mediterranean Turkey Paella ... Turkey-Cranberry Quesadilla ... Warm Turkey Pita Sandwiches With Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce

T2: Turkey, Bacon and Granny Smith Apple Salad

How to Store Food / Thai Pumpkin & Chicken Curry / Maslin Soda Bread

Article: How to store foods properly to be safe

Keep olive oil and nut oils away from light ... Rotate your stock ... Cabinets and pantry ... And in the refrigerator/freezer ... Keep spices away from heat

Blog Post & Recipe: Thai Pumpkin and Chicken Curry (via Saveur)

I also added extra Bird's Eye Chillies at the end of the cooking to give that extra kick of wake-me-up and for my chilli-crazy brother who visited me so early in the morning on Friday

Recipe: Dan Lepard's maslin soda bread recipe

For All Saints' Day tomorrow [in the UK], a simple, earthy bread seems right. I've borrowed a very old flour mixture for this recipe – maslin flour, traditionally milled from wheat, rye and possibly some stray oats and barley.

Swede Tart / Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme / 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Blog Post & Recipe: Swedeaphobia Cure

Here is a delicious recipe for one of UK’s most unpopular vegetables.

The blogger doesn't name the recipe, but it looks like a savoury swede/rutabaga tart with a layer of crumbs on top

Blog Post & Recipe: Have you ever marinated your meat after cooking it?!

Nigella's Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme

Serve up the sliced steak with a bit of the marinade drizzled over the top. And your au naturale sweet potato...with just a slathering of moisturizer.

Blog Post & Recipe: Top 10 Pumpkin Dishes

Pumpkin Pie ... Pumpkin Puree ... Toasted Pumpkin Seeds ... Pumpkin Pie Milkshake ... Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream ... Pumpkin Caramel Cheesecake Turtle Bread ... Pumpkin Butter ... Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake ... Savoury Pumpkin Pie (Kolokithopita) ... Pumpkin and Black Bean Soup

Scallion Tart / Pumpkin Cornbread / Gyoza

Blog Post & Recipe: Scallion tart: the everything dish

It’s easy, easy like making Playdoh cups. All you have to do is have the ingredients in the house and 35 or so minutes to cook in.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Cornbread

It might not surprise you that my favorite cornbread is a) healthy and b) involves pumpkin. It's very moist and slightly sweet, and goes well with just about any chili I can think of. A bit of cinnamon gives it a hint of earthy, sweet spice that makes a really nice compliment to a meaty, spicy chili.

Blog Post & Recipe: Gyoza Recipe (Japanese Pan-Fried Dumplings)

My most recent adjustment to the gyoza recipe is in the technique I use when mixing the filling. In Elizabeth Andoh’s cookbook, Washoku, she describes a method that helps tenderize the meat and helps hold the filling together. She explains that it’s “a bit like baseball practice” because you are gathering the filling into a ball and throwing it back into the bowl repeatedly.

Thyme-Rubbed Lamb. Three Pumpkin Recipes. Ensaimadas.

Blog Post & Recipe: Thyme-Rubbed Lamb Loin Chops

A couple years ago, we read an interview with a chef [...] discussing which one ingredient was the most important in the kitchen. Whoever it was responded without hesitation (and of course we're paraphrasing): "Thyme ..."

Article & Recipes: Smashing pumpkins

PUMPKIN lovers will know that when the flesh softens around the stalk, it needs to be used quick smart.

Pumpkin and vegetable lasagne ... Cherry tomato and celery salad ... Pumpkin cake with glace ginger ... Pumpkin soup with celery and tomato

Blog Post & Recipe: Ensaimadas

One of the most frequent questions I've answered concerning my book and blog is about the source of my inspiration. "Everywhere" as an answer is the slightly boring, *yawn*, yet it hits the nail on the head ...

[...] soft and flaky, slightly sweet pastry, made from long fermented yeast dough, lots of powdered sugar and greasy fingers from the used lard ... ENSAIMADAS!!!

Three Pumpkin Recipes. Beetroot and Goat Cheese Tart. 10 Cheap & Green Kitchen Tips.

Article & Recipes: Economy Gastronomy: turn a pumpkin into a feast

For these recipes, I have assumed that you have bought a pumpkin weighing at least 3kg.

Pumpkin cannelloni with sage and ricotta ... Pumpkin risotto with roasted walnuts, red chicory and gorgonzola ... Spicy pumpkin chowder

Blog Post & Recipe: Beetroot and Goats Cheese Tart

Beetroot and Goats cheese love eachother and I was tempted to use thyme as the classic triad in the combination . However I decided to break with tradition and use a little sage and fennel , the combination worked well the sage is earthy and works well with the beetroot and I love the hit of crunchy fennel seeds ...

Blog Post: Serious Green: 10 Cheap & Green Kitchen Tips

1. Fill Your Oven ... 2. Get a Small Tub for Your Sink ... 3. Clean with White Vinegar and Baking Soda ... 4. Eat Less Meat ... 5. Keep Your Fridge and Freezer Full, Clean, and Sealed Tightly ... 6. Get a Power Strip ... 7. Ditch Paper Towels ... 8. Bring a Bag with You When You Shop ... 9. Embrace Yard Sales and Thrift Stores ... 10. Don't Waste Food