Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce / Easy Indian Cabbage / Homemade Soybean Milk

Recipe: Fried Zucchini with Agrodolce. The recipe comes attached to this interview with Gabrielle Hamilton — "the winner of this year’s James Beard Award for Best New York Chef."

Agrodolce
3 cups cider vinegar
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. chile flakes
3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
1 cup mint leaves

Blog Post & Recipe: Easy Indian Cabbage recipe

Cabbage and cumin seeds are known to help digestion, making this recipe perfect for your stomach!

Blog Post & Recipe: Homemade Soybean Milk ~ 自制豆奶

You will just need soybeans, water, muslin or cheesecloth and of course a blender. Another good thing about making this at home is that you can adjust the amount of sugar you use in the milk or even add some other flavourings like pandan (screwpine) leaves for added fragrance. The important thing to note is that you can't shirk from the straining of the soybean milk as there are lots of remnants of the soybeans left behind. Apart from that, it is very straightforward and extremely easy to make.

Miso / How to Press Tofu / Pear Kimchi & Pear Kimchi & Blue Cheese Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: miso (the same blogger has posts for "miso-cured hen eggs," "miso-cured quail eggs," "miso-cured oyster," "miso-cured kombu," "tekka miso," and "miso adaptations")

Miso is surprisingly easy to make. The hardest parts are: waiting six months to over a year for the fermentation process to complete, and procuring the koji.

Blog Post: How to Press Tofu

Pressing tofu takes out the water in it and makes it firm. Pressed tofu becomes wonderfully dense and pleasantly chewy when cooked ... So how exactly do you press tofu?

Blog Post & Recipe: Pear Kimchi (followed by Pear Kimchi and Blue Cheese Salad)

Where the cabbage kimchi recipe calls for letting the kimchi sit out a room temperature for a few days to kick start the fermentation process I only let this pear kimchi sit for a half a day let the flavours come out and then I chilled it before serving it.

Sweet Potato, Apple & Lentil Soup / Spanish Lentil & Butternut Pumpkin Stew with Roast Garlic / Sautéed Fermented Soybean Waste with Black Nightshade

Blog Post & Recipe: Sweet Potato, Apple and Lentil Soup

The combination of sweet potatoes and apples is a natural, and using tart apples helps to ensure that the soup isn’t cloyingly sweet. Lentils add a a subtle yet mysterious heartiness.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spanish Lentil and Squash Stew with Roasted Garlic

This is a lovely, hearty stew that is both savoury but still slightly sweet. Lentils fill the stew as its base, and the butternut squash and red peppers add colour and sweetness. A head of roasted garlic brings a mellow sweetness as well. The peppers are both boiled and pan-fried for a contrast in flavour and texture (but I feel like this step could be skipped if you are pressed for time).

Blog Post & Recipe: WHB #278: Tumis Oncom dan Leunca (Sautéed Fermented Soybean Waste with Black Nightshade)

Most Indonesian cooking books written in English referred oncom as fermented soybean waste.

Indeed it considered to be closely related to tempeh (fermented soybean). But instead of soybean, oncom is actually made from natural by-products of other foods. For example, soy bean tailings from bean curd making, peanut presscake from peanut oil making, cassava tailings from the starch extraction or coconut presscake remnants after the milk squeezed out. These wastes are then fermented using molds.

5 Ways to Eat Grilled Vegetables / Dairy-Free Pesto / Butter-Glazed Radishes

Blog Post: How to Eat Grilled Vegetables 5 Days In a Row

Here are five ways to cook once on Sunday, then eat grilled vegetables for the entire week — without getting bored at all.

Day 1: Grilled ... Day 2: Reheated ... Day 3: Pizza ... Day 4: Marinara ... Day 5: Blended

Blog Post & Recipe: A Dairy Free Pesto

I think it must have been Lucy who first put me onto the idea of using miso instead of parmesan. Genius. White miso has a soft enough flavour that it doesn’t dominate, while providing plenty of that umami deliciousness which you’d otherwise be getting from parmesan.

Blog Post & Recipe: Have your way

As braises go, this one is very quick. You’re not dealing with short ribs or brisket here. The radishes spend almost as much time soaking in a bowl of water beforehand - to loosen any trapped dirt - as they do cooking. They get only a brief simmer in butter and stock, and then you reduce the liquid to a glaze that coats them. You can use any kind or color of radish you want, but if you use red ones, there’s a nice side effect: they give some of their color to the cooking liquid, which goes rosy, and they themselves wind up the color of cotton candy.

Butter-Glazed Radishes

Peas and Onions / Leek Bread Pudding / Miso Vegetables & Tofu

Blog Post & Recipe: Simple Peas and Onions

And if I have a spare minute I'll snip a leaf or two of mint from the yard, slice it thin and add to the peas.

Blog Post & Recipe: leek bread pudding

For this savory take on bread pudding, the leeks are sliced in pretty, pretty coins then cooked slowly in butter until soft and caramelized enough to bring tears to your eyes ... From there, you build a fairly standard savory bread pudding: toasted bread cubes, shredded cheese, herbs and a mix of milk or cream and eggs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Miso Vegetables & Tofu Recipe

Eight ingredients and a few simple steps come together into something special ... Harumi makes a seductively colorful side dish by dressing lightly blanched green beans, broccoli, and cauliflower in a salty-sweet miso dressing. I wanted to make a one-dish meal based on this general idea.

Vegan Popcorn Chicken / Red Posole / Sheep's Head

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Popcorn Chicken (they use soy)

We have double coated the nuggets for a thicker and crunchier outside; do it once if you are lazy or do not need a thick and crunchy coat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Posole for New Year's Day

I’d never had red posole and was a little dubious that she was serving this instead of black-eyed peas. She assured me, however, that this is what her family ate in New Mexico, not to mention it was traditional New Year’s Day fare in Mexico as well.

Article & Recipe: Sheep's Head

Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, where his feast, known as Andermas, was observed in olden days by repasts of Sheep's Head.

DIRECTIONS

Soak a well-cleaned sheep's head in warm water for three hours ...

Miso-Glazed Salmon / Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes / Cooking Frozen Okra

Blog Post & Recipe: Miso paste makes a quick, savory seasoning for salmon

SHORTCUT COOKING: With the addition of a little mirin, this richly flavored Japanese paste turns into a great glaze

Blog Post & Recipe: Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes

This recipe is fantastic because it calls for the potatoes to be made the night before and refrigerated. This isn't a gimmick because the potatoes themselves turn out creamy, fluffy and luxurious.

Blog Post & Recipe: Mix and Match Subzi

With hints re. cooking frozen okra.

A lot of people won't cook with frozen okra. For me, it is very rare to find good fresh okra so I can either embrace frozen okra or put up with an okra-free existence. I chose the former and have learnt to cook frozen okra in a way that it doesn't get slimy.

Dashi & Miso Soup. Pie Lollypops. The Pie-a-Day Project.

Blog Post & Recipe: In Search of Dashi and Perfect Miso Soup

To make a proper miso soup I needed to make dashi. To make dashi I needed water, konbu, and bonito flakes.

Blog Post & Recipe of Consisting of Enormous Pictures: Float (via Serious Eats, whose Carey Jones explains the matter more succintly than the person who wrote the original blog: "pie lollipops.")

I want to be promiscuous with my food.

Blog Post: Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day: A Terrific Project

It was Evan's idea to make a pie-a-day all through the summer -- that's 90 pies! It was also her idea to be serendipitous about her piemaking -- she never knows the night before what kind of pie she'll make the next day.

Miso Soup. Braising. Swedish food.

Recipe: Miso Soup

I first started making my own miso soup a few years ago, and am probably not making it in an authentic Asian style, but the recipe that follows is delicious and is my own.

Article & Recipes: In praise of the braise

The magic of braising is twofold.

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Related links

6 cheap cuts for family dinners

Recipe: Carnitas

Recipe: Orange and green-olive braised chicken

Best braising cuts

Article & Recipes: Swedish Ambassador

"You should always keep sharp knives and tidy kitchens," [chef Anna Mosesson] regales her audience, explaining that you are more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife than a sharp one. "And it will be a nasty cut," she says. Then she proceeds to julienne the leeks.

Related links

Lacy Potato Pancakes With Sauteed Mushrooms (Raraka)

Grav Lox Terrine (Lax Pudding)

Wallenbergers

Open-Face Shrimp Salad Sandwiches (Skagenrora)

10 tips to live by from chef Anna Mosesson

N.b. I'm adding a 'european' tag.

Sardines and Spaghetti. Leek and Zucchini Soup. Noodle Soup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Dinner Tonight: Venetian Spaghetti with Sardines

Not that there are any clams to be found—just the ultrahealthy and ultracheap sardine, onions, and a little milk which almost melt to combine as a gently flavored and slightly thick sauce. It coats the pasta beautifully.

Blog Post & Recipe: cream of leek & zucchini soup

... the flavor was perfect, the creaminess lent it a satisfying richness, and the zucchini made me feel like I was eating something reasonably healthy. A small cup was the perfect amount for a light lunch.

Article & Recipe: From a Simple Base, Endless Possibilities

Look at the 'Related" side-box for the link to the recipe.

What it is: a tasty, fast, cheap, infinitely variable broth-and-noodle combination. Its preparation is slowed down only by waiting for the water to boil.

A key ingredient is ketchup; if you can’t bear that thought, you can use tomato paste instead. There’s also sriracha, the Southeast Asian hot sauce; and soy sauce; vinegar; and sesame oil, all of which add character. The noodles I use are fresh egg pasta, but just about any kind of noodle can be used ...

Egg Noodles With Soy Broth

Soy Milk. Bean and Cabbage Soup. Lamb Chops. Oatmeal Biscuits.

Recipe: Blue Cheese and Oatmeal Biscuits.

Recipe: Lamb Loin Chops with Madeira and Cherries.

Recipe: How to make soy milk.

Another soy milk recipe.

Blog Post/Recipe: What's in a name?

Includes a recipe for "white bean & black cabbage soup."

Inspired by Jamie Oliver’s favourite Ribollita published in Jamie’s Italy.

Hamburger and kidney beans. Soy milk and tofu

Recipe: Texas hamburger and kidney beans

"I like the recipe because it is a hearty meal that doesn't take long and the ingredients are inexpensive. It will fill up a family and keep them warm on the inside in the winter on a low budget. Also, it has a colorful presentation. My mother got it from a woman who came from Texas; she met her in the 1940s and has made the recipe ever since. My mother was Lydia Carnecke Naiman."

Article/Recipe: Make your own soy milk and tofu.