Norwegian Red Fruit Pudding / Labneh Balls / Sausage, Kale, & Bean Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Rødgrøt med Fløte, Norwegian Red Fruit Pudding

A pudding made of stewed red fruit, thickened with a little cornstarch and crowned with billowy whipped cream.

Blog Post & Recipe: Labneh balls

Besides being used fresh, labneh is also dried then formed into balls, sometimes covered with herbs or spices and stored in olive oil glass jars. The cheese can then be kept for over a year.

Blog Post & Recipe: Sausage, Kale, and Bean Soup (Crock Pot)

Soup like this is the best because you can use whatever you want. Canned beans, leftover rice, frozen peas, wilty vegetables, whatever. It’s up to you. No meat? More meat? It’s all cool with me.

Philadelphia Pepper Pot Soup / Lemongrass Chai Tea / 3 Surf-Club Meals

Blog Post & Recipe: Philadelphia pepper pot: the soup that won the American Revolution?

But true, tripey pepper pot has dwindled in popularity, and is now merely a curio in a few Philadelphia restaurants. The famous City Tavern sells a West Indian version on its lunch menu which reportedly does neglects tripe altogether.

Blog Post & Recipe: Lemongrass Chai Tea

If you had asked me about 6 months back if I would use lemongrass in tea I would have probably thought it was some strange Thai fusion version of tea. I didn't know then, that I had been having lemon grass tea for years only I knew it as "Chai Patta"

Article & Recipes: Surf-club cuisine

An ''oarsome'' (thanks for the title, Noosa Surf Club) prawn salad makes an easy-breezy lunch, with its freshly cooked prawns, avocado, radish and leaves drizzled with creamy green goddess dressing. Then there's a towering surf-and-turf burger that tops juicy chorizo and beef burger meat with crumbed calamari rings, beetroot, lettuce and tomato that's just plain surftastic.

Surf and turf beach burger ... Oarsome prawn salad with green goddess dressing ... Breakfast bruschetta

Pot-Roast Chicken with Sherry / 5 Roast Fish Recipes / Khurdi - Bohra White Stock Soup

Recipe: Recipe: Pot-roast chicken with sherry

Chicken parts are a boon for the hurried cook. This recipe calls for pan-browning the chicken, then baking it for a half-hour until crisp.

Blog Post & Recipes: Fast Fix: Five Ideas for Roasted Fish in Fewer Than 30 Minutes

If you're straining to figure out a way to fit [fish] into your daily routine, try these five foul-proof quick fixes. Each recipe takes fewer than 30 minutes to bake

Halibut, Spinach, and Tomatoes in Foil Packets ... Ginger and Cilantro Baked Tilapia ... Baked Salmon Fillets with Dill and Mustard ... Nobu's Miso-Marinated Black Cod ... Simple Supper: Snapper Veracruzana

Blog Post & Recipe: Khurdi - Bohra White Stock Soup

Khurdi or white soup is made with rich mutton stock and then flavored with whole spices. Milk is added to the soup to give it some body and creaminess. Milk also gives it the characteristically white color, which isn't really all that white. The deep and intense flavors are rounded off with lots of fresh mint to add freshness.

Mulligatawny / Butternut Pumpkin & Black Bean Enchiladas / Curried Eggplant Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Mulligatawny Reboot

Meet my favorite chicken soup in the entire world.

Blog Post & Recipe: Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas

I can’t begin to explain how delicious they are. I mean, sweet butternut squash with spicy enchilada sauce? That doesn’t even sound good! But they are amazing!

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe: Curried Eggplant Soup...Eat.Live.Be

It's sweet and spicy and has a lot of staying power due to the white beans that are pureed into it and all the fiber from the eggplant and apple that are mixed in there as well. (Yes, there's an apple in it. Trust me. It's a good move.)

Braised Red Cabbage with Malaga Raisins & Apple / Turkey Tips + Recipes for Stuffing, Glazes, Etc / Pong Tauhu -- Tofu with Meatball Soup

Recipe: Christmas lunch: braised red cabbage with Malaga raisins and apple

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Put all the ingredients in a casserole and mix well. Place in the oven and bake for 1½ hours until the cabbage is tender.

Article & Recipes: Getting the best from your bird

1. Read your turkey labels ... 2. Brine your turkey ... 3. Consider adding a "stuffing" that will add moisture to the bird ... 4. Invest in a meat thermometer ... 5. Let the cooked turkey rest for 30 minutes before carving ... 6. Great gravy

Recipes: Turkey Brine ... Seasoned Oil Mixture for Turkey ... Maple Mustard Turkey Glaze ... Turkey Gravy ... Turkey Stuffing

Blog Post & Recipe: Pong Tauhu--Tofu with Meatball Soup

BTW, this soup, pong tauhu, should not be confused with the Indonesian tahu pong. Although they are probably derived from the same root, tahu pong are fried tofu puffs. Those in this recipe are denser dumplings of tofu that are not fried.

Apple Pork Ribs Soup / Mulled Cider / Nabeyaki Udon + Three Mushroom Vegetarian Nabeyaki Udon

Blog Post & Recipe: Apple Pork Ribs Soup 苹果猪骨汤

The flavour of this soup really depends on what type or how big the apples are. The original recipe calls for 4 apples but I used 3 instead as the apples I used were quite large and I was afraid that the soup would be too sweet. So remember to adjust accordingly to your taste.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make mulled cider

The basic idea of making any mulled drink is to warm the liquor gently with spices. Which spices to use is up to you – nutmeg, star anise and vanilla can be used, though we're going to stick with tradition and use just cloves and cinnamon. Sugar or honey can be added to taste but because of the unusual addition of the very sweet sloe gin in this recipe, you probably won't need it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nabeyaki Udon and Three Mushroom Vegetarian Nabeyaki Udon

So find some loved ones and get yourself into the kitchen to make some nabeyaki udon. This udon has the thick chewy udon noodles and vegetables of the regular nabeyaki udon, but is made with a mushroom stock base. Plus it sports three varieties of mushrooms—shiitake, king trumpet, and enoki mushrooms and cubes of sauteed tofu. If you can’t find some of the mushrooms, substitute your favorites!

Dark Chocolate Drizzled Salted Fried Eggplant / Blackberry Ketchup / Dinuguan (Pork Blood Stew)

Blog Post & Recipe: Dark Chocolate Drizzled Salted Fried Eggplant

Eggplant gets fried in shallow oil, no salting ahead of time for these, and then they get sprinkled with a bit of salt once they come out of the hot oil and drizzled with melted dark chocolate.

Blog Post & Recipe: Blackberry Ketchup, Really?

This condiment is much more ketchup than sauce. And it's certainly not jam because it has a big vinegary bite. There is also enough complex spice in it to make it much more compatible with grilled meat than vanilla ice cream.

Blog Post & Recipe: D is for Dinuguan (Pork Blood Stew)

The pig’s stomach, intestines, heart, snout, cheeks, and ears are cut into pieces and are all thrown into the mix together with the pig’s meatier butt and belly. The meat and offal are slowly simmered in vinegar seasoned with salt, garlic, onions, tomatoes, and hot chilies. The pig’s blood is then added to the simmering stew while it is stirred steadily to keep the blood from curdling.

Mushroom Udon Noodles / How to Wash Rice / Soto Medan

Blog Post & Recipe: Mushroom Udon Noodles

I love thick, chewy udon noodles and the two kinds of mushrooms add another layer of chew to the dish. They are lightly seasoned with ginger, garlic, soy and sesame.

Blog Post & Video: Video: Atsushi's Way to Wash Rice Perfectly

Grains of rice need to absorb just the right amount of moisture before cooking so they can steam properly (humidity is how heat travels in foods) -- so washing the rice is key.

Blog Post & Recipe: Soto Medan

The soup is simple coconut milk-based soup, cook with spice paste and serve with condiments. Spices used that gives it the vibrant yellowish hue is fresh turmeric root paste. Almost all of fresh and dried spices found and grown in our region is used in the soup. The condiments are shredded chicken meat, bean sprouts, glass noodles and perkedel (potato patties). The soup is served warm with all these, sprinkled with shallot flakes, chopped spring onions and Chinese celery and liberally dosed with kecap manis (sweet soy sauce).

Mutton Marinated in Yoghurt & Vinegar / Persian Pomegranate Soup / 9 Asparagus Recipes

Recipe: Mutton Marinated in Yogurt and Vinegar

I used mutton chops for this but you can use shoulder which is generally the best cut.

Blog Post & Recipe: persian pomegranate soup

The pomegranates give it a sour, earthy flavour and the lamb adds intensity and richness. This type of Iranian stew is thick and hearty with chunky ingredients. I highly recommend it.

Blog Post & Recipes: Thirteen (Plus) Years of Asparagus

I’ve made a point almost every spring either to try something new with asparagus or to revisit a classic, and there are plenty of those. Here are a few of the oldies ...

Grilled Asparagus With Lemon Dressing ... Roasted Asparagus With Crunchy Parmesan Topping ... Pan-Roasted Asparagus Soup With Tarragon ... Asparagus Dutch Style ... Asparagus Vichyssoise ... Stir-Fried Asparagus With Pork ... Asparagus Salad With Soy-Mustard Dressing ... Asparagus With Morels and Tarragon ... Asparagus Pesto

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

4 Asparagus Recipes / Potato & Bacon Frittata / Cooking White Fish

Article & Recipes: Top tips: Mark Hix cooks with asparagus

Deep-fried turkey egg with asparagus ... Strozzapreti with cuttlefish and asparagus ... Cured pork loin with sweet and sour shaved raw asparagus ... Chicken and asparagus broth

Article & Recipe: The eggs have it

Frittatas are easy to make, delicious and nutritious, so they tick all the boxes for the beginner cook ... Once you know how to make them you can vary the fillings to suit your budget and tastebuds; they are a great way to use up leftovers and make a not-so-cheap ingredient go further.

Potato and Bacon Frittata

Article & recipes: Broiled, Sautéed, Roasted, Poached

The chart on the following page provides ideas for cooking 1½ pounds of white fillet, whether whole or cut into individual portions. None of these recipes take more than half an hour from start to finish; thicker pieces of fish will cook in 15 minutes or less, thinner pieces in under 10. You can tell that any fillet is done when it’s opaque and a thin-bladed knife meets little resistance when you use it to poke the thickest part of the fish.

Caldo Verde / Baking with Dark-Coloured Pans / Indonesian Oxtail Soup

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic caldo verde recipe

In its purest form, this heart-warming Portuguese broth contains nothing more than potatoes, garlic, couve gallego (a type of kale) and water.

Blog Post: Lower the heat when baking with dark-colored pans

The thing about black absorbing heat is also true for baking pans. Dark-colored pans make cakes, cupcakes or cookies bake faster so it is a good practice to lower the oven temperature by 25F.

Blog Posts and Recipes: Indonesian Oxtail Soup (Sop Buntut) Part I and Indonesian Oxtail Soup (Sop Buntut) Part II

Cooking oxtail requires a rather aggressive simmer - although not a rolling boil - to melt away all the connective tissues leaving the tender meat on the bone. This method doesn’t work in normal cuts which will simply turn tough and dry due to the lack of the protective layer.

Mock Turtle Soup / Chad's Country Loaf / 10 One-Pot Meals

Article & Recipe: Reveillon Dinner and Turtle Soup: A Creole Holiday Tradition

A typical early Reveillon menu had Daube Glace or veal grillades, egg dishes, breads, and puddings, and would often include turtle soup and oysters.

Mock Turtle Soup

Metafilter Post & Recipe: Tartine

Cool little video profile of Chad Robertson, co-owner, with his wife, Elisabeth Prueitt, of San Francisco's Tartine bakery. Chad is obsessed with bread.

Chad's country loaf ... panade ... "Kale Caesar" salad ... Brown Bread Ice Cream.

Blog Post & Recipes: 10 One Pot Wonders [via]

So here's 10 One Pot Wonders that result is great meals and easy cleanup!

Hearty Beef Stew ...Arroz con Pollo ... Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic ... Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon ... Chicken Canzanese ... Hungarian Goulash ... Chicken & Shrimp Jambalaya ... Vietnamese style Caramel Chicken ... Really Good Classic Pot Roast ... Tequila Lime Shrimp

Korean Oxtail Soup / Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms / 7 Golden Rules of Freezing & Frozen Pea Salad with Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: Korean Oxtail Soup (Tom Gang)

This soup is usually served unseasoned, with the diner adding salt at the table. I simply added some green onions for some freshness and crunch.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rabbit Stew with Mushrooms

There is an optional step to making this stew taken from classic French cooking (Antonin Careme) that transforms a good dish into a great one. Mash the rabbit or chicken’s liver, mix it with crème fraiche or sour cream, then push it through a fine sieve. The result is a pink slurry that will thicken and enrich your sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: 7 golden rules of freezing food
[5 ingredients | 10 minutes]

1. don’t refreeze raw food ... 2. it is OK to thaw food, cook it and then refreeze ... 3. cool your food before freezing ... 4. freeze things asap ... 5. choose appropriate packaging / containers ... 6. allow for expansion ... 7. freeze smaller portions ... things that love to be frozen ... things that don’t freeze so well

frozen pea salad with bacon

Sweet Potato & Brussels Sprouts Risotto. A Risotto Tip. Three Meals from One Chicken.

Blof Post & Recipe: Surprising Sprouts in Risotto

I was making a feta and sweet potato risotto [...] When I came to trying it, I planned to serve it with sprouts on the side. But then I thought, why not add them into the mix. And so I did.

Sweet Potato, Brussels Sprouts and Feta Risotto

Article: Soul food: Creamy dreamy risotto

An Italian chef of reassuring girth appeared and proceeded to cook a risotto in front of us and revealed the all-time great risotto secret (which you all probably know already) — a risotto needs a good beating. He did it lightly, but consistently, all the way through the cooking process ...

Article & Recipes: Economy Gastronomy: three recipes from one chicken

If presented with a whole chicken, most of us would probably opt to roast it, and why not? It's a real treat. However, I think you can end up getting a bigger yield from boiling the bird and the flavour is every bit as good.

Boiled Chicken ... Chicken pie with sweetcorn, mushrooms and tarragon ...Hot and sour chicken broth ... Coronation chicken

Beef Pho. Rendang. Puff Pastry.

Recipe: Recipe of the Day: Vietnamese Pho

This Vietnamese staple, pronounced ‘fuh’, is a concoction of fresh rice noodles soaked in hot flavorful broth, thin cuts of seasoned beef and a variety of garnishes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Indonesian Beef Stew - Rendang

There are different variations of Rendang: from the dry, black-brown type with stringy meat to the almost-soupy kind with, often, tough cubes. The Chinese makes theirs with pork! My favourite is made of beef, with thick gravy and tender meat with additional hard-boiled eggs to stretch the meal further.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Exquisite Joy of Puff Pastry

NUMBER ONE key to a good puff pastry is the butter. Go all out here and find the best unsalted butter you can get your hands on, no cost spared [...] The start to finish time is a bit long, 3 + hours, but most of that time is chill time in between folds [...] Pastries are as much science as art and you need to be as accurate as possible. So start weighing out ingredients and have less recipe missteps.

Turnip Gratin. Four Sausage Recipes. Chicken Noodle Soup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Turnip Gratin

Usually turnips have been reserved for the minor parts in my dishes but this time I was going to change that - turnip would be the star.

Blog Post & Recipe: Warming tones: Make-your-Own Chicken Noodle Soup

My favourite way to serve this dish is to lay out all the ingredients in individual bowls to enable each of your guests to design their own meal.

Article & Recipes: Celebrate the Fourth with Detroit franks and sausages

"The hot dog is an all-American experience," says [Tom Super, director of media outreach for the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council]. "It's fast, easy, cheap and warm."

Beans and Franks ... Grilled Hot Dog & Fruit Kebabs ... Sausage and Vegetable Kebabs ... Sausage, Red Bliss Potatoes & Gruyere Salad

Basil. Urban Farm. Chicken and peanut butter soup.

Recipe: Chicken and peanut butter soup with rice balls

This traditional Ghanaian recipe from is extracted from the book Recipes for Fostering, which promotes the value of using cookery to nurture vulnerable children

Article: Sniffing out the many varieties of basil

The number of basil varieties are nearly encyclopedic, from Purple Ruffles' tiny corrugated leafs to the monstrous sheets of Napoletano ...

How to select ... How to store ... When in season ... How to use ...

Interview: The Farm City: The Education of An Urban Farmer. An Interview With Author Novella Carpenter

Determined to eat sustainable meat and produce, Novella [Carpenter] recognizes that the only way she'll be able to afford [it] is if she raises it herself ...

Q: If someone is interested in embarking on their own urban farming adventure, what do you think is the easiest way to get started?

A: The easiest urban farm animal is the bee. They are so self-sufficient, so hard working, and they require very little maintenance ...

Chicken Sizzling Rice Soup. Asparagus pasta. Composting

Blog Post & Recipe: soup for woolly

Obviously homemade chicken broth is going to kick canned chicken broth in the balls, but canned works here. I actually made this batch with half homemade and half store-bought because I ran out of the homemade. Bring it to a boil.

Chicken Sizzling Rice Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: asparagus, goat cheese and lemon pasta

It was getting late and I still didn’t know what to make for dinner, only that I wanted it to take no time at all because sometimes you look so hard for dinner inspiration, you sap all of your cooking energy en route. This had six ingredients. It took perhaps fifteen minutes to make.

Blog Post: A guide to composting for down-to-earth cooks

"I was so worried about ratios of green to browns," says Heather Hawkins, co-founder of the Web site EnviroMom (www.enviromom.com), a once-reluctant composter. "I realized, I should just focus on keeping food scraps out of garbage. That was a breakthrough for me."

Albondigas Soup. Root Vegetable Shepherd's Pie.

Blog Post & Recipe: Albondigas Soup

Albondigas soup is a traditional Mexican meatball soup ("Albondigas" means "meatballs" in Spanish) that my mother has cooked for our family for almost 50 years. It is our version of comfort food. What makes the flavor of albondigas soup distinctive is the chopped mint in the meatballs.

Recipe: Root vegetable shepherd's pie

Dear SOS: I recently dined at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar & Seasonal Kitchen in Santa Monica. I had the root vegetable shepherd's pie with butternut squash purée main course. It was wonderful.

Dear Jacqueline: This is just the dish to eat right now, while we are still enjoying the last of that cool spring weather. Note that the recipe can be made ahead of time up until Step 10, then finished just before dinner so it's served piping hot.