Baked Sweet Potato with Black Beans / Spinach Egg Drop Soup / Halal Cart-Style Chicken & Rice with White Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato with Black Beans

You can also bake the potatoes in the oven for a crispier skin (don’t forget to eat the skin – it’s full of nutrients!)

Blog Post & Recipe: Sickies

Swim in a bowl of chicken broth accentuated with ribbons of velvety, beaten egg and shreds of spinach. Let the bright green onions make your taste buds sing.

Spinach Egg Drop Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Serious Eats' Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Sauce

Manhattan is home to many smells, but perhaps the most delicious is the chicken-y, savory scent that emanates from from the city's countless halal carts. Serving lunch to late-night, these carts dish up a container full of chicken rice that tastes like nothing else, crave-worthy and totally singular ... Marinated in oregano, lemon, and coriander, chicken thighs are browned, chopped into chunks and served over a pile turmeric-yellow rice.

3 Mushroom Recipes / Creamy Spinach Soup / Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce

Blog Post & Recipes: What’s for Dinner? – Mushroom Masters Dinner Duel

We’ve arrived at the mid-way point of our Mushroom Masters 2011: A Tournament of Taste!

Mushroom Wellington ... Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Tacos ... Marsala Mushroom Cream Sauce over Beer Braised Beef

Blog Post & Recipe: Desperation Dinners: Salad Soup (i.e., Creamy Spinach Soup)

A quick perusal of my refrigerator and pantry saved the evening, producing a couple of bags of spinach, some pearl onions, a block of cream cheese, fresh garlic, chicken stock, and an assortment of dried herbs and spices. While I brought the chicken stock to a simmer, I gave the spinach a quick chop ... then dropped it into the stock, along with the pearl onions, garlic, and herbs. After a quick cook, I added the cream cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce

I am a fan of cilantro, so for today's post, I thought I would serve up something cool and refreshing, that highlights vibrant herbs and vegetables. Perfect for these hot summers, you will find these Vietnamese-style Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Carrot Sauce satisfying with the crunch of carrots and cucumber, the coolness of slippery bean threads (rice vermicelli), succulent seafood, and peppy herbs such as mint, cilantro and basil.

Key Lime Pie / 2 Marinated Garlic Recipes / Spinach Strata

Recipe: Fresh Key Lime Pie

The key to making this pie delicious is the homemade crust and whipped cream.

Blog Post & Recipes: Marinated Garlic… two ways

As I strolled the aisles of my international food store the other day, I saw jars of marinated garlic. Inspiration struck! Here are the two versions I came up with… Herb & Spice Marinated Garlic and Japanese-style Soy-Miso Marinated Garlic. Enjoy!

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach Strata

To me, spinach + olive oil + lemon is a trio made in heaven. At dinner, I love the leaves dressed simply - with a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon. But at breakfast, fresh spinach decorated throughout a rustic strata and combined with a bit of feta and oregano is the perfect way to start the day.

5 Meatless Burgers / 5 Fish Recipes / Zucchini and Spinach Gratin

Blog Post & Recipes: 5 Meatless Burgers to Grill This Weekend

Here are 5 meatless burgers to grill this weekend:

Classic Bean Burger ... Chickpea Burger ... Quinoa Burger ... Baked Eggplant Burger ... Bean Burger

Recipes: Recipes to Help You Conquer Your Fish-Grilling Fears

They all use types of fish that are on the sturdy side—nothing delicate that you'll have to worry about mangling here—and they all include tips to help you achieve seafood success.

Maple-Mustard Grilled Salmon ... Corn-Husk-Wrapped Grilled Halibut with Charred Corn Salsa ... Grilled Blackened Catfish with Creole Mustard Butter ... Grilled Tuna with Cucumber Salad ... Grilled Mackerel with Tomato, Fennel, and Capers

Blog Post & Recipe: Zucchini and Spinach Gratin

To take a break from our usual (almost daily in the summer) way to cook up the zucchini (see mom's summer squash), we prepared a classic French gratin, with grated zucchini, spinach, onions sautéed with bacon, a persillade of parsley and garlic, all bound together with a few eggs, tossed with Parmesan, and baked until golden brown.

Making Tortillas / Grilled Vegetables with Balsamic Vinaigrette / White Beans, Sweet Potato & Spinach Tacos

Blog Post & Recipes: Making Tortillas

It is important to note that you will save yourself a lot, a lot, a lot of heartbreak and broken tortillas by lining the top and bottom of your press or pin with plastic wrap, parchment paper or baggies. Especially when working with the stickier dough for flour tortillas, any time saved by skipping this step is just not worth it.

Blog Popst & Recipe: Meatless Monday: Grilled Vegetables with Balsamic Vinaigrette

I’ve started grilling mass quantities of vegetables every few days and keeping them in the fridge, so they’re always ready to go. Making an omelet? Why not throw in some grilled onions, peppers and mushrooms. Need a quick lunch? How about some grilled vegetables and tzatziki in a pita? Add them to fajitas or pasta. Or, warm up the vegetables, and add some crumbled goat cheese for a big grilled vegetable salad.

Blog Post & Recipe: White Beans, Sweet Potato, and Spinach Tacos - A Guest Post by Joanne Bruno of Eats Well with Others

You see, you cook this pound of beans. And then you have dinner halfway prepared for every night of the week! You can throw the beans in salads or pasta or soup! Or my new favorite, which is to grab whatever greens I got in my CSA this week (and we all know that we're all getting greens aplenty in our CSA's. Don't even try to pretend otherwise.), wilt them down and saute them. Mix in my bean-of-choice for the week along with a roasted root vegetable. Season with smoked paprika and chipotle chile powder. Throw into a tortilla shell. Call it a taco or burrito or tostada or whatever Mexican dish pops into your head at that moment. And voila.

Concept: Grilled vegetables kept in the fridge. Line "the top and bottom of your press or pin with plastic wrap, parchment paper or baggies" when making tortillas.

4 Vegetable Soups / Spinach Sandwich / Radish & Basil Pesto

Blog Post & Recipes: More soups I've been making

Spicy Coconut Soup ... Radiant Bok Choy ... Lettuce & Potato Soup ... If I have a lot of greens leftover I make Jamie’s Ribollita.

Recipe: Spinach Sandwich

Apply butter on two slices of bread (on one side) and spread this spinach filling all over on one slice, place the other bread slice and toast till golden. Serve warm.

Blog Post & Recipe: Radish and Basil Pesto

This recipe was inspired by a similar one I saw on Clotilde Dusolier's "Chocolate and Zucchini" sometime last year. Hers called for using just the radish greens, and she also used a more traditional hard Italian cheese such as parmesan or romano, typical of a straight basil pesto. I've added some basil for a little more complexity, marcona almonds for their sweetness, feta cheese for its tang, and finely diced radishes for a little extra spice and crunch.

Nettle Pakoras / Watermelon & Fennel Salad / Caribbean Spinach & Coconut Milk Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: The Sting

My favourite way with nettles is to make Indian pakoras, all spicy, crispy, mysterious and green. They are a doddle to make and amazing to eat, even my 6 year old loves them.

Blog Post & Recipe: Watermelon and Fennel Salad [via]

I decided to try, pairing with fennel, whose anise notes I think go rather well with something sugary, and a little garlic & herbed goat cheese to help balance things out. A little fresh mint, olive oil, salt and pepper and I had myself a watermelon salad

Blog Post & Recipe: Caribbean Spinach & Coconut Milk Soup

Coming back to the recipe, as I started reading, first ingredient was spanish onion…well sweetish for me in a soup,second garlic…hmm…okay..followed by green chillies,coriander seeds & cumin (now we are talking)..then there was coconut milk,chicken stock and limes (I was already sold)..I must say it was the most amazing find of the day- a Caribbean spinach soup with coconut milk and known indian spices!!

Roasted Spring Garlic / Devilled Kidneys / Spiced Coconut Spinach

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted spring garlic

I remembered the beautiful heads of spring garlic I had purchased before I became sick. And I decided to roast them.

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic devilled kidneys recipe

This quick way of preparing kidneys is good for breakfast or a light supper. It will also work with rice instead of toast, as a more substantial meal.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spiced Coconut Spinach Recipe

You toast a few spices, add a pile of shredded spinach to the skillet, and finish things off with a burst of lemon juice and some shredded coconut.

Saag Paneer Pasta / Leftover Rice Cake / Tomato Chili Lime Marmalade

Blog Post & Recipe: Saag Paneer Pasta

The spinach yogurt curry sauce went perfectly with the pasta. The chunks of fried cheese were a nice crunchy texture balance with the soft noodles.

Blog Post & Recipe: Leftover rice cake

It’s like a massive vege burger in a way, with grilled cheese on top, crispy crumby cheese edges, and a nice moist middle. The bonus is that you don’t need to get your hands dirty shaping any patties, and you don’t need to dip the patties into breadcrumbs. I’m considering making all my vege burger recipes like this from now on – you can still cut them into wedges and put them in a sandwich or bun.

Blog Post & Recipe: Tomato Chili Lime Marmalade

I wasn’t sure whether to call this a marmalade or a relish, I think really it would be a relish because of the tomatoes but the tang of the lime rind really gives it that marmalade edge. So what do you use such a marmalade relish for? Well we have eaten it on toast, with cheese and I have even dipped my fish & chips into it! You could use it to spice up grilled fish or chicken, adding it to the dish before serving or you could just offer it as an extra condiment at the table.

Chrysanthamum Greens with Sesame Seed Dressing / Spinach Pkhali / Shoyu Ramen

Blog Post & Recipe: Seriously Asian: Chrysanthemum Greens

Lightly steamed or boiled, chrysanthemum greens have a mildly grassy, herbaceous taste with stalks that are sweet and slightly crunchy. The greens are common additions to sukiyaki and shabu-shabu, and are also very good in soups.

Chrysanthamum Greens with Sesame Seed Dressing

Blog Post & Recipe: Pkhali, Unearthed

Pkhali (the 'kh' is pronounced as a deep, guttural 'h') is a whole class of Georgian vegetable dishes that straddle the line between salad and dip. The constant is the walnut sauce, and the fact that the vegetable is cut very, very finely - almost (but not quite) to a puree.

Spinach Pkhali

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Shoyu Ramen at Home

A perfect bowl of ramen, unlike, say, a perfect steak, isn’t about coddling some cherished ingredient and letting it shine. No, it’s about a meticulous and flawless combination of about 28 different ingredients into a whole more powerful and important than any of the individual components could ever hope to be. That also means that it helps to have a crazed passion for the stuff, as it will undoubtedly take two days to recreate at home. It is a pain.

Spinach Feta Pie / Little Quinoa Patties / Easy Chicken Stock

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach Feta Pie

The original recipe was basically white rice, spinach, feta and eggs, topped with cheddar cheese but for this post I wanted to mix it up a bit.

Blog Post & Recipe: Heidi, well done

One dish that I think serves as great example to Heidi's style is her Little Quinoa Patties. A seemingly humble collection of ingredients, quinoa, eggs, and breadcrumbs, are punctuated by fresh onion, chives, garlic and a grating of cheese. Pan-fried until crusted and golden the cakes get unexpectedly gutsy

Little Quinoa Patties

Blog Post: Stock Convictions

People are unnecessarily afraid of bacteria. Once your stock is cooked, it’s safe to eat. If there was bad bacteria in it, you’d have killed it. Let it cool uncovered (the faster the better; don’t fear bacteria but don’t give them the upper hand). Leave the pot out on the stove top (covered or uncovered once it’s cooled, doesn’t really matter). Bring it up to heat the next day and any bacteria that landed there and began to mulitply (and they multiply with astonishing speed at 90 to 110 degrees F.) will be dispatched well before the stock hits a simmer.

Easy Chicken Stock

How to Cook Dried Beans / Baked Spinach / Chicken Dinner

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Cook Dried Beans

One thing that is demonstrably true is that you don’t have to soak your beans overnight; if you want beans for dinner, put them in water and cook them till they’re tender or at least edible, no soaking, no blanching, just put them in a pot and cook them.

Ruhlman's Beans & Bacon

Blog Post & Recipe: the best baked spinach

... she went on a tangent about a French “system” for spinach which she found “terribly good” and went on to describe a gentle cooking of spinach, stewing it in a very small amount of roux for a little binding and broth before stirring in a small amount of cheese and baking it in a dish topped with breadcrumbs.

Article & Recipes & Video: Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

The main part of the cooking is essentially an oven braise with a twist. You brown the thighs and breasts in the rendered fat, then cook the thighs with a load of vegetables and the quickly made stock. Later, you lay the breasts on top of the vegetables and roast until they’re browned and just cooked through.

How to Butcher a Chicken ... Quick Chicken Stock ... Chicken-Skin Croutons ... Braised and Roasted Chicken With Vegetables

Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa / Bravas Potatoes & Romesco Sauce / 3 Iranian Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Creamy Roasted Jalapeño Salsa

Chiles, garlic, lime and oil. Apply heat and then a blender. They are transformed into one of the best salsas I have ever eaten. The garlic allows this to emulsify into a surprisingly creamy sauce.

Blog Post & Recipe: Brava

I did a spin on patatas bravas, a popular Spanish tapas item that often calls for frying the potatoes and serving them with a romesco-like sauce ... Easily the best roasted potatoes I have ever made

Speedy Romesco Sauce

Article & Recipes: Middle Eastern food: Persian pleasures on a plate

In its fragrant yet robust cuisine, Iran could almost be a Mediterranean country. Dishes use handfuls of fresh herbs, as well as more exotic ingredients such as nuts, flower waters and dried limes.

Persian rice pudding recipe ... Duck fesunjun recipe ... Ash-e sak spinach soup with spicy beef koofteh recipe

Green Risotto / Burger Wrapped In Grape Leaves / Crab Innards

Blog Post & Recipe: Mrs Kennedy's Green Risotto

It's a simple risotto flavoured with puréed spinach. The latter turns it a lovely, vivid green colour.

Recipe: Burger Wrapped In Grape Leaves

The grape leaves provide the tangy taste that enhances the meat flavor. It is up to you to use any meat of your choice, minced lamb or beef mixed with parsley and onions, salt, black pepper and allspice

Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Crab Innards

Like the crab meat itself, the taste of what is inside varies depending on the type of crab. On blue claws the innards taste somewhat like caviar; on Dungeness, they are more abundant and custardy in texture, with a sweetness that reminds me of sea urchin.

Stewed Red Cabbage with Prunes / Welsh Cakes / Endive Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Stewed red cabbage with prunes

The prunes add a sweetness, orange juice some freshness and a good balsamico a lovely tang.

Blog Post & Recipe: worth the wait: welsh cakes

I’ve updated the traditional recipe which calls for currents and candied peel for dried cranberries and fresh orange zest.

Blog Post & Recipes: In Season: Endives

Often cooked or simply tossed raw into a salad, it's high in vitamins A and K, and is a great source of fiber.

Endives, Apples, and Grapes ... Jambon-Wrapped Grilled Endive ... Endive and Chicory Salad with Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette ... Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Belgian Endive and Tomato Chile Jam ... Braised Endives with Haricots Verts ... Braised Shrimp and Creamy Endive ... Baked Belgian Endive with Pecorino and Walnuts ... Spinach and Endive Salad with Lemon-Ginger Dressing and Crisp Won Ton Strips ... Endive and Celery Salad with Fennel

Steamed Chicken Rice / Spinach with Garlic Chips / Ratatouille

Blog Post & Recipe: Steamed Chicken Rice (Nasi Tim Ayam)

Texturally, it’s not for everyone as the rice is halfway between steamed rice and porridge. But I love it.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spinach with Garlic Chips

Also, instead of pouring spinach from a can straight into my mouth, I prefer to pan-fry it very quickly, then sprinkle it with golden garlic chips.

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic ratatouille recipe. Some time later the same paper ran a blog post called, How to make perfect ratatouille.

The ripe tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and peppers (all technically fruits), are cooked to a velvety texture on the edge of collapse. The flavour is heady with garlic and basil.

Caramelized Onion & Spinach Olive Oil Quick Bread / Braised Fennel Pizza / Fourteen Autumn Roasts

Blog Post & Recipe: Caramelized Onion & Spinach Olive Oil Quick Bread

After caramelizing onions to a sweet, golden brown and wilting the spinach with minced garlic, the vegetables are mixed into a savory quick bread batter. The only fat in this easy bread is extra-virgin olive oil, which lends a slightly fruity taste

Blog Post & Recipe: Top This: Braised Fennel Pizza (à la Paulie Gee's 'Anise and Anephew' Pie)

"I got just the pie," replied the man behind Brooklyn's Paulie Gee's. "It cannot be topped. My 'Anise and Anephew' has fior di latte, braised fennel, guanciale, and a post-oven drizzle of anisette cream with a garnish of fresh fennel fronds."

Slideshow & Recipes: Delicious autumn roasts

Herbed rack of lamb with potato smash ... Beef pot roast ... Portuguese-style chicken ... Mexican slow-roasted lamb shanks ... Char siu pork ribs ... Greek roast lamb with skordalia and potatoes ... Slow-roasted duck marylands ... Roast beef with Yorkshire puddings ... Lamb with quince and honey ... Lemon and thyme baked chicken ... Roast lamb ... Chicken pot roast with mustard cream sauce ... Pork leg roast with sage potatoes ... Beef rib roast with spiced salt

Martini / Three Recipes for Oily Fish / Twenty Salads

Video: How to make the perfect martini

Readers have posted comments under the video.

Great fan of Nick's artistry, and the fantastic variety of Martinis offered by Allesandro at Duke's, but restricting yourselves to the offerings of one manufacturer of gin, namely the multinational Pernod Ricard casts a long shadow of the assertion perfect.

Article & Recipes: Good oil's here on a grand scale

... oily fish - and that includes mackerel, salmon, sea trout and sardines - are sidelined in favour of nice, polite, white fish. Yet they outgun them on flavour, on richness and on those all-important omega-3 fatty acids every time.

Salmon and red pepper tartine ... Oven-roasted sardines with fennel and garlicky crumbs ... Mackerel curry with tomatoes and eggplant

Blog Post & Recipes: the top 20 stonesoup salads

This blogger has been running a series of salad guides: "leaves" "dressings" "shaved salads," and so on. Scroll to the bottom of her post for the links.

Now that (sadly) the end of Summer is on the horizon, it’s time to wrap up the definitive guide to salad with a highlights tour of the top 20 stonesoup salads.

chickpea & parmesan salad ... spinach, pearl barley & ricotta salad ... raw beet salad ... butter bean & tuna salad ... warm lentil salad with beets & ricotta ... BBQ chook & bread salad ... warm fig, prosciutto & buffalo mozzerella salad ... shaved cabbage salad with parmigiano reggiano & aged balsamic ... warm salad of roast pumpkin (squash) & chickpeas ... asparagus and double pea salad ... tuna chilli salad ... roast potato salad with smokey paprika ... shaved fennel salad with ricotta & peas ... crispy chilli squid salad ... roast baby onion & chickpea salad ... asparagus & buffalo mozerella salad with caper dressing ... rocket & radicchio salad ... char grilled veg with walnut & white bean puree ... celeriac salad ... catalan inspired bread & tomato salad.

Sesame-Maple-Ginger Tofu / Spinach Vadai / Garlic Three Ways

Blog Post & Recipe: Sesame-Maple-Ginger Tofu

Tofu can be flavored with pretty much anything you like - something as simple as the soy sauce and sesame oil that Erin suggests, or you can get a little more fancy if you like.

Blog Post & Recipe: Not Just Vadai, but Spinach Vadai ...

Vadai is a favourite savoury snack with its origins from South India. In Malaysia, many South Indian shops sell Vadai mostly at tea time but some sell them throughout the day as well.

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Garlic, Three Ways

So, this post will show you how to make:

1. Roasted garlic
2. Garlic-infused oil
3. Roasted garlic compound butter

Kale Chips. Jazzing up White Rice. Three Greek Recipes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Kale chips (via Limes & Lycopene)

If, like me, you favour salt and crunch over sweet for snacking, and if, like me, you have a garden full of kale, then kale chips will make you, and your garden, rather happy.

Blog Post: jazzing up white rice

I've tried using chicken broth instead of water, adding in sauteed onions, celery, peppers and toasted pine nuts. Without making too huge a project out of the rice dish, are there any other quick tricks to transform rice into something more interesting?

Article & Recipes: Greek recipes have become family legacies

"My family has a long tradition of great cooks," says attorney Louie Papaliodis of Fort Worth, a parishioner at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Euless. According to village records, his entire family came from Mesta, on the island of Chios.

CHICKEN KAPAMA (KOTA MACARONADA) ... GALAKTOBOUREKO ... SPANAKOPITA (SPANAKOTIROPITA)