Portobello Mushroom Escalopes / Soften Brown Sugar Without a Microwave / Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds

Recipe: Portobello Mushroom Escalopes

Serve with polenta, or potatoes, or cous cous, or even in a bun as a veggie burger.

Blog Post & Recipe: How To Soften Brown Sugar Without a Microwave

As you can see, the sugar softened to the point where I could mash it easily with a fork. (It took just a few minutes.)

Video: VIDEO: How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds

Todd Coleman shows us an amazing trick for peeling an entire head of garlic in less than 10 seconds — no acrid fingernails, no knife required.

Greek Cabbage Salad / Make Brown Sugar / Icelandic Fish Soup

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Greek Cabbage Salad with Feta and Thyme

If you don't have fresh thyme, I think there are some other herbs that would work here, but I wouldn't use dried thyme.

Blog Post & Recipe: Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar

We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with one other ingredient ...

Recipe: Traditional Icelandic fish soup (halibut soup) - Fiskisúpa (lúðusúpa)

This soup is among the oldest recorded Icelandic recipes. It's sweet-sour taste is unusual for fish-based soups. Traditionally, the recipe is given for halibut, but you can also use salmon, trout, wolf-fish or lumpfish, or other fatty fish.