Frog Porridge / Collard Greens / Hot and Sour Thai Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Frog Porridge 田鸡粥

We usually call this 'tin gai'(田鸡) in Cantonese, which simply translates into paddy field chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: Collard Greens

I had just about given up and resigned to the fact that I was going to be one of those people who hated collards. But then my mom intervened. She swore that my cousin's husband, Chad had the best recipe ever. She said it was fabulous...made with wine, etc!

Blog Post & Recipe: Hot and Sour Thai Soup Recipe

Tom Yum Thai soup has a unique taste. It's both spicy and sour and loaded with amazing flavors such as lemongrass, galangal, fresh kaffir limes leaves and coconut milk. For this version, I combined fresh water chestnuts, sugar snap peas, tamarind, red chili powder, baby squid and mackerel. You could also add shrimp or chicken. And of course, the soup is easy to make vegetarian as well.

Braised Brisket / 4 Confits / Prawn & Lemon Zest Soup

Recipe: Braised Brisket

You can also do this in a slow cooker.

Blog Post & Recipes: Vegetable Confit

This process can be applied to many other foods. Just keep these two guidelines in mind:

- Fully cover the food with fat (duck fat, olive oil, grapeseed oil, bacon fat…)
- Cook at low heat for a long time (no higher than 250ºF, 2-10 hours)

Cherry Tomato Confit ... Garlic Confit ... Bonus recipes: pearl onion confit and leek confit

Blog Post & Recipe: Shrimp & lemon zest soup

This was way, WAY more than the sum of its parts, and it’s all due to the the lemon zest. While the parsley garnish was good, chopped tarragon or chervil would be even better. I’d also consider making a dedicated tomato and shrimp shell broth with a tiny pinch of saffron.

4 Mussel Recipes / 3 Recipes with Cooked Peppers / Scottish Raspberry Jam & 15 Other Jams

Blog Post & Recipes: Medley of mussels

Hints for preparing mussels ...

MUSSELS WITH A TOMATO SAFFRON SAUCE ... STEAMED MUSSELS WITH FENNEL ... COCONUT AND HERB MUSSEL SOUP ... FAMILY-FAVOURITE MUSSEL FRITTERS

Article & Recipes: Pick the perfect peppers

Grilled, roasted or sautéed, a scorched pepper is a thing of deliciousness.

Warm chickpea and onion purée with sizzling peppers and lamb ... Hot chicken with peppers and chilli recipe ... Macedonian grilled vegetable salad recipe

Blog Post & Recipes: Scottish Raspberry Jam

Scottish Raspberry Jam

If you are now in the mood for jam, here a few recipes to tempt you: Strawberry Jam ... Plum Jam ... Mango & Orange Peel Jam ... Rum Pumpkin Jam ... Damson Jam ... Black Cherry & Cointreau Jam ... Strawberry & Rhubarb Jam ... Bramble Jelly ... Wild Fruit Jam ... Mirabelle Jam ... Summer Fruit Jam ... Peach & Apricot Jam ... Mango & Cardamon Jam ... Nectarine Preserve ... Thai Ginger, Rhubarb & Chilli Jam

Caldo de Camarón (Dried Prawn Soup) / How to Prepare Black Fungus & Wood Ear Mushrooms / Green Tea Infused Sunroot Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Where to Find Caldo de Camarón? Make Your Own...

That fresh squeezed lime juice is what makes all of the flavors in the soup, truly shine.

Blog Post: How to prepare black fungus and wood ears mushrooms

See where the red arrow points? If you feel around with your fingers in that part, you’ll know how much different the texture is from the rest of the fungus. That tough hard part should be cut off.

Blog Post & Recipe: Green Tea Infused Sunroot Soup ('Sunroot' is Jerusalem Artichoke)

We used green tea instead of broth in this soup. The flavors from the tea really works good together with the sunroot. Tea infusion is a fun way to experiment with new flavors in your standard soups.