Spicy Green Tomato & Apple Chutney / Ignore Expiration Dates / FOODday picks 12 favorite recipes of 2010

Blog Post & Recipe: A proper chutney

It’s finally dawning on me that our capacity for sweet preserves is fairly limited, so I knew this year’s project would have to be savory.

English-style Spicy Green Tomato & Apple Chutney

Article: Ignore Expiration Dates

... we should focus our efforts on what really matters to our health—not spoilage bacteria, which are fairly docile, but their malevolent counterparts: disease-causing pathogens ... which infect the food we eat not because it's old but as a result of unsanitary conditions at factories or elsewhere along the supply chain.

Blog Post & Recipes: FOODday picks 12 favorite recipes of 2010

Storm Large's Roasted Vegetables With Toasty Quinoa, Tandoori Fish With Mango and Baby Spinach Salad, Margarita Bars, Bourbon Caramel Sauce, Spicy Chicken Thighs With Apricots and Olives, Grilled Sweet Corn on the Cob With Salty Coconut Cream, Southwestern Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Potato and Corn Salad, Endive, Fennel and Apple Slaw, Potato-Asparagus Soup, Chicken and Vegetable Cobbler, Easy Oven-Roasted Ribs, Thai Chicken Soup

Herb Pie / Pumpkin, Goat Cheese & Bacon Pizza / Find the Best Fruit & Veg

Recipe: Yotam Ottolenghi's herb pie recipe

You can use spinach instead of chard, but you'll need more because of its high water content. Serve with a tomato and red onion salad.

Article & Recipe: Rustic thin pizzas deliver taste, color, texture.

Look to the right hand side of the page and down for the recipe.

The dough for these special pies is rolled very thin, so when baked, it is crisp and golden. The toppings include ... caramelized onions and ... roasted cubes of butternut squash and sprinklings of creamy goat cheese and smoky bacon.

Rustic Pizzas With Butternut Squash, Goat Cheese and Bacon

Blog Post: How to find the best fruit and vegetables in your area.

1. Shop on delivery days ... 2. Buy the longer lasting vegetables ... 3. Make use of frozen and tinned ... 4. Get to know your supplier & be friendly, but a bit pushy ... 5. Grow what you can ... 6. Form a local co-op or go direct to the farmers ... 7. Eat whatever vegetables you can

Butchers. Black Bean & Goat Cheese Quesadilla. Lemony Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza.

Blog Post & Recipe: Black Bean and Goat Cheese Quesadilla

The beans are creamy and the tomatoes gives the mixture a bit of tartness.

Article: Chop and change

To stay a cut above the supermarkets, traditional butchers have had to reinvent themselves, writes Richard Cornish.

Blog Post & Recipe: lemony zucchini goat cheese pizza

Seeing as I’ve been buying yellow and green zucchini like it was going out of style, and the basil was right at the next table this week, and I’ve been on a bit of a lemon bender ...

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

Micro melons. Shopping a farmers market. Sausages and Green Lentils with Tomato Salsa

Article: 13 strategies for shopping a farmers market

10 Bring cash, "especially ones and $5 bills," Lycan said. "The farmers really appreciate that."

Blog Post & Recipe: Jamie's Sausages and Green Lentils with Tomato Salsa

As someone who lives with a great cook of a husband, I tend to fear making just so-so meals. I'm working on both my skills and my fears, and this recipe is one that has helped me build confidence ... It's a Jamie Oliver recipe ... We recommend mixing this up as desired with various types of sausage (turkey, veggie, whatever you like) and adding a bit more garlic, cinnamon and/or red chillies to taste.

Article: 'Micro melons' 20 times smaller than regular size

No recipe here, just a novelty melon.

The rare Pepquino melon measures just an over inch (3cm) from tip-to-tip but has the identical external pattern and distinctive shape of traditional watermelons ... While it resembles its larger cousins, it has a fresh crisp taste similar to a cucumber and juicy light green flesh.

It can be eaten as a snack or appetiser, like olives, in a summer salad, stir fried or made into a sorbet and teamed with dark chocolate.

Wilted Vegetables. Kid Kedgeree. Keep Meals Interesting.

Blog Post: Kitchen Cure Tip: Save Wilted Vegetables For Stock

Are you finding a few sad carrots, a wet noodle bunch of celery, brown and dusty parsley? Well, don't throw them out yet. Here are two ways to make good use of even the saddest vegetables ...

Article & Recipe: Kids in the kitchen: tuna and pea kedgeree

I’ve never believed that expression of flavours being too ‘adult’ for a child’s palate ... A gentle introduction to highly flavoured food is the key. This classic Anglo-Indian breakfast of kedgeree, a spiced rice, fish and egg dish that is a doddle to make is a great place to start.

Article: The art of home cooking

Although a certain amount of routine can be a good thing, too much of it can quickly turn shopping and cooking into a joyless exercise ... how can you stop yourself getting stuck in a rut?

I find that a certain amount of pre-planning helps ...