Zucchini Pie with Bacon / 8 Spice Blends / Squash Puppies with Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise

Blog Post & Recipe: Zucchini pie with bacon

Call it quiche or pie - either way you'll love the combination of shredded zucchini, smoky bacon and green onions in a cheesy custard base.

Article & Recipes: Spice world

Read about these eight beloved blends from around the globe, then start trying them out at home.

Baharat ... Tabil ... Za’atar ... Ras el hanout ... Herbes de la garrigue ... Berbere ... Panch phoron ... Tempero baiano

Blog Post & Recipe: Squash Puppies with Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise

The squash in these Squash Puppies is chopped so finely that it melts into the rest of the batter, giving you balls of cornbread that are as crispy and golden brown as any I’ve ever had. The squash adds the slightest hint of sweetness, not enough to alarm a picky eater, but you’ll know it’s there. It also seems to help the batter form a tighter crumb, so the hush puppies are a little more tender inside but perfectly capable of sopping up ketchup, tartar sauce and Foster’s suggested accompaniment: her Roasted Jalapeño Mayonnaise.

Chayote Squash Sambal / Quick Pickled Roots / Grilled Onion Salad

Recipe: Sambal Goreng Manisah, Indonesian Chayote Squash Sambal

Simply delicious sambal with Chayote squash, which is pretty common everyday meal in Indonesia, especially in the island of Java.

Blog Post & Recipe: Quick Pickled Roots

Absolutely anyone can pickle quickly! You can pretty much pickle anything that grows with equal parts vinegar and water, a little salt and some spices. And as long as you're putting the jar in the fridge, no need to be cautious about acidity levels as you would with home canning. The best part? They take no time to make

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Onion Salad

Grilled onions can be just as good chilled as hot, especially when you let them marinate in an herb dressing. The grilling produces all sorts of caramelized goodness in the onions, taming their bite and bringing out their natural sweetness. An herby dressing acts like a marinade, further softening the onions, and infusing them with flavor. The best thing? The salad lasts for days, and actually improves with age, as the dressing soaks into the onions.

7 Risotto Recipes / Jackfruit Curry / Braised Fennel

Recipes: 7 Easy, Healthy Risotto Recipes

Make enough risotto for leftovers, to use in things like arancini and risotto cakes.

Basic Risotto ... Squash and Saffron Risotto ... Brussels Sprouts and Lemon Risotto ... Radicchio Risotto ... Herbed Risotto ... Seafood Risotto ... Lobster Risotto

Article & Recipe: Jackfruit curry

Jackfruit, available from Afro-Caribbean and Asian food shops and markets, has a rough outer skin and a white, fibrous interior. It is a great asset to non meat-eaters. Cooked until tender, it absorbs flavours, and has a texture not unlike chicken.

Blog Post & Recipe: Braised Fennel

The purpose of the liqueur is to intensify the licorice flavor of the fennel. If you don't have anise-flavored liqueur, or are avoiding cooking with alcohol, you can achieve a similar effect by adding a star anise pod to the stock when you are braising.

Recipes Using Seeds / Eight Tofu Recipes / 10 Tips for Storing Vegetables & Eggplant Parmigiana

Article & Recipes: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's seed recipes

There are few dishes that can't be improved by the addition of a small handful of seeds.

Poppyseed lemon cake ... Fennel meatballs ... Sesame dressing

Blog Post & Recipes: Weekend Wokking: Tofu - Delicious Round up

Lets see what delish dishes our awesome bloggers has made with this nutritious tofu.

Tandoori Tofu Kebabs ... Tofu with satay sauce ... Mr.Zhengs Soupy Tomatoes and Eggs with Tofu ... Steamed Fish and Tofu with Chinese Blackbeans ... Tofu and Squash Dumplings ... Semur tahu ... Vietnamese Dau Hu Chien Sot Ca Chua or Vietnamese Fried Tofu with Tomato Sauce ... Indian Style bites

Blog Post & Recipe: 10 tips for optimum vegetable storage

1. select the freshest produce ... 2. minimise physical damage ... 3. dirt is good ... 4. avoid cutting or trimming ... 5. select the best storage temperature ... 6. protect from exposure to light ... 7. minimise dehydration ... 8. avoid condensation & sweating ... 9. beware the banana ... 10. DON”T refrigerate your tomatoes

eggplant (aubergine) parmigiana

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.

Eggnog / Stuffed Squash / Cooking Parsnips

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe Review: Homemade Eggnog

A fresh-tasting blend of cold milk, cream and eggs seasoned with sugar, vanilla and nutmeg and spiked with dark, rich liquor, homemade eggnog is a far cry from the cloying, chemical-laden stuff that comes from cartons.

Blog Post & Recipe: Stuffed Squash

Stuffed squash is really just a poshed up baked potato. But love filling the squash with leftovers, odds and ends from the vegebox, the end of a loaf of bread toasted and made into breadcrumbs, some slightly hardened cheese of lone slice of bacon .

Blog Post & Recipes: The unparalleled parsnip

There seems to be no end to the versatility of the parsnip. What's your favourite recipe?

I think roasting them, probably in oil, although I have a penchant for beef dripping or duck fat, brings out the best in a parsnip, and unlike the potato, there's not need for pre-boiling.