Chard, Squash & Blue Cheese Tart. Baguettes. Peanut Butter's Potential.

Recipe: The new vegetarian: Swiss chard, Squash & Blue Cheese Tart

A lovely summer main course that needs no adornment other than a crisp green salad.

Blog Post & Recipes: ALMOST No-Knead Baguettes

I found this recipe even easier to execute than the NYT No-Knead Bread recipe and the dough was easier (firmer and not as wet) to work with.

The dry ingredients are added to the water and then stirred together, mixed, and then kneaded gently for a few minutes and then set aside to raise at room temperature for two hours. Then you stick the whole bowl of dough in the refrigerator overnight ...

Article & Video & Recipes: Exploring Peanut Butter’s Potential

There have been some small steps in discovering the possibilities of peanut butter. For example, home cooks have learned that it is an easy-to-find substitute for tahini (sesame seed paste) in some dishes, which can result in quick meals like cold noodles with peanut butter sauce and hummus and baba ghanouj made with peanut butter.

Grilled Pork Skewers with Peanut-Basil Sauce ... PBJ Sandwich Cookies ... Peanut Noodles with Shrimp

Mushrooms and Polenta. Chicken liver and Onions. Paleta Ice Pops.

Blog Post & Recipes: Mushrooms, Thyme, Shallots, and Polenta

Mushrooms are hearty, flavorful, and go well with most grains. I put them on pizza, pasta, and in phyllo pie. Here they are with polenta ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Liver and Onions

The liver and onions can be eaten alone, or served over rice or pasta. I liked the idea of them over raviolis, and I think the flavors of the goat cheese and liver worked well together (if you like strong flavors of course).

Article & Recipes: A chef perfects the paleta of childhood (via the Kitchn)

What makes a Mexican ice pop - called a paleta - different from an American one is the flavor. Paletas can be either savory or sweet, and they can include such ingredients as tamarind with chile, cucumber with lime, salted plum, rose petal, hibiscus tea and even tequila. They are either water- or milk-based and, aside from a bit of sugar and sometimes gelatin, have little else added ...

Paleta de Durazno con Miel (Peach & Honey Ice Pop) ... Paleta de Pepino con Limon y Chile (Cucumber Ice Pop With Lime & Chile) ... Raspado de Frambuesa (Raspberry Snow Cone) ... Raspado de Tamarindo (Tamarind Snow Cone)

Purple Udon. Cow Head Barbacoa. Four Marinades.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Cabbage Udon Noodle Soup - Purple Udon!

This is a simple udon noodle soup for Presto Pasta Nights created by Ruth, and this week hosted by Pam of Sidewalk Shoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: How to make cow head barbacoa

“What do you want with a cow head?” asked the farmer selling beef at the Union Square Greenmarket. “We don’t sell cow heads here in New York—they’re illegal.”

Article & Recipes: Summer marinades

There are two reasons to marinate (well, three if you count sloth): to tenderise texture and enhance flavour. Marinades are a combination of acidic ingredients (ie lemon juice or wine), flavourings (herbs, spices and garlic) and a glug or two of oil.

Basil, garlic & chilli marinade ... Ginger & soy marinade ... Yogurt & mint marinade ... Hugh's herby marinade

Green Chilli Risotto. Pumpkin Celeriac Soup. 100 Easiest, Fastest Recipes.

Blog Post & recipe: Green Chilli Risotto

This is another rather unorthodox recipe from Sue Style

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Celeriac Soup

One of my favourite blogs, Cook Almost Anything, recently showed a wonderful recipe for Jap Pumpkin Soup with Curried Onions. I really can only begin to tell you what a clever idea I thought it was to have a fairly plain pumpkin soup (no offence Haalo!) punctuated with a wonderful relish of curried onions : the very onions and curry seasonings that would usually be blended with the pumpkin soup, kept separate to highlight all the elements ...

Pumpkin and Celeriac Soup with Curried Onions

Article & recipes: 100 easiest, fastest recipes. Ever

To celebrate [the Observer Food Monthly's] 100th issue, we asked top chefs, foodies and cookery writers for their all-time quickest and simplest summer dishes.

Peach, tomato and basil salad ... Slow-roasted tomatoes ... Spicy crab with avocado ... Cipollotto di tropea salad ... A simple ceviche ... Asparagus, feta and smoked salmon salad ... Watermelon and feta salad ... Baked fennel with harissa ... Mimolette, red onion and watercress salad ... Asparagus and fried egg on toast ... Creamy spiced mussel soup ... Cod with tarator and pine nuts ... The best garlic bread ... Roasted corn on the cob with chipotle chilli butter ... Green salad with fresh herbs ... Grilled lamb with lemon grass ... Courgette and corn quesadilla ... Fresh guacamole ... Basquian lemon shrimp ... Broad bean bruschetta with oozy burrata ...

The first twenty. There are eighty more after that.

Buying Corn. Socca Flatbread. Cook with Fire and Steam.

Article: Medieval stews are back on the menu

I found the recipe in Dorothy Hartley's Food In England [...] which has a riveting section on ''combined operations'' cookery. Combined operations basically means using two heat sources, fire and steam.

Article: How to buy and prepare fresh corn

Follow these tips on buying summer's favorite finger vegetable ...

More on this topic

• Corn is just as good off the cob as on

• Southwestern Corn Pudding
• Toasted Corn, Pineapple and Avocado Relish
• Toasted Corn and Tepary-Bean Salad

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for Socca (Garbanzo or Chickpea Flatbread Pancake from France)

Chickpea flour is used all over the world to make thin flatbread crepes, pancakes, or crackers. Depending on where they're made, they can be called Pappadum (India), Farinata (Italy) or Socca (France). Farinata and Socca may or may not be the same, depending on which expert you ask, but they're definitely similar.

Socca

Garden Food. Grilled Eggplant. Caramelised Carrots.

Blog Post & Recipes: farm fresh dinner: new potatoes, braised greens and a beet salad

buttered new potatoes with mint & parsley ... beet & arugula salad with goat cheese & pecans ... braised greens with leeks & lemon

Recipe: Caramelised spiced carrots (via The Veggie Patch).

... finely shred carrots. Place in a bowl. Add onion, oil, sugar, chilli and nutmeg. Season with salt and pepper. Mix until well combined. [...] Divide carrot mixture between prepared trays. Roast for 1 hour

Article: How to grill eggplant without overcooking it

First, thinly slice the eggplant. Salt both sides of the pieces, and let them sit for an hour. Wipe off excess salt, and gently squeeze to drain the liquid. I brush my eggplant with ... olive oil, and season it with pepper. Set the grill to medium heat ...

Cucumbers. Wasabi Potatoes. The Dinner Dilemma.

Article & Recipes: Refresher course

A crisp, juicy cucumber is the very essence of a British summer, says Nigel Slater. It's also the number one ingredient for a warm-weather lunch

Cucumber mayonnaise for sandwiches ... Chilled crab and cucumber soup ... Potato salad with mustard and dill

Blog Post & Recipe: Wasabi Smashed Potatoes

Did you know that the bright green wasabi paste that you get of all Japanese restaurants is really horseradish with food coloring? Yeah. Don’t you feel duped? Real wasabi is pretty expensive and difficult to grow outside of Japan.

Blog Post & Recipe: helping to solve the dinner dilemma

Just as you power down your computer and begin to face the commute home, your thoughts turn to the eternal question - ‘What should we have for dinner?’ And inspiration just doesn’t strike. I hate when that happens.

warm salad of roast pumpkin (squash) & chickpeas

Mint Tea. Peas on Toast. Cooking a Whole Fish.

Blog Post & recipe: How to Make Mint Tea

At this time of year I always have loads of Mint. I have a patch growing in an old stone trough and every year it comes back ... So here’s my Mint Tea recipe

Article & Recipes: Taking On The Whole Fish

The uninitiated would question why anyone would even attempt to cook a whole fish. My answer: flavor ... I truly believe that fish tastes so much better cooked on the bone. The gelatin-rich backbone is an excellent heat conductor, and the fatty skin seals in the moisture

Get recipes for Korean Roasted Fish (Saengsun Yangnyum Gui), Date-Stuffed Fish (above) and Poached Fish, as well as tips on finding fresh fish.

I found both of the above at Serious Eats.

Blog Post & Recipe: a top toast-topper

Warning for all those against peas – mushy or otherwise – this recipe is built on them.

Smashed peas on toast
Adapted from a Jamie Oliver recipe

Via.

Pan-Fried Pork Chops. Grilled fennel. Game Recipes.

Recipe: How to Pan-Fry Pork Chops

It is the most basic way to make the thing you’re making.

Website: Just Game Recipes

1,508 Game Recipes

Alligator
Bear
Beaver
Boar
Buffalo
Caribou
Dove ...

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled fennel bulbs, parmesan, olive oil, sea salt, lemon juice

Something as simple as this is the perfect precursor to Summer. Simply caressed with a bit of olive oil, and hugged with the warmth of the grill, these fennel bulbs make the perfect vegetable side dish to any grilled meat or seafood dishes. Splash on a touch of fresh lemon juice, sprinkle them with some parmesan cheese and ...

Hurricane preparedness. Cheap and Healthy. Crunchberries.

Blog Post: Reasonable Consumer Would Know "Crunchberries" Are Not Real, Judge Rules

On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased "Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries" because she believed "crunchberries" were real fruit.

Blog Post: How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just By Looking at it

... how can you tell if a dish is good for you, just by looking at it? How can you avoid the pitfalls of secretly fatty and financially unsound food? How can you err on the side of caution when it comes to cooking?

Article & Recipes: Hurricane preparedness for cooks

Right now, except for a few showers, [South Florida] truly is a tropical paradise. But that doesn't mean we can forget our annual rite of passage, preparing for Hurricane Season ... Gradually stocking your hurricane pantry will make the task less daunting and ready you to prepare healthy, nutritious meals even during a power outage ...


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Hurricane: Kitchen tips

Cook Steak. Make Ricotta. Pumpkin, leek & chicken risotto

Article: Cook the perfect steak

What are the prime cuts? ... The grade ... Prepping ... The grill ... Doneness

Recipe: Oven-baked pumpkin, leek & chicken risotto

Forget stirring, this easy risotto is cooked in the oven, giving you more time to do, well, other things!

Article & Recipes: The Kitchen Thinker: making your own ricotta

I say it is one of the easiest things in the world, far easier than boiling an egg accurately ...

True ricotta – which means twice-cooked in Italian – is made from the rich whey left over from cheese-making (the ricotta-making process in turn creates more curds – the ricotta – and more whey, which is now exceedingly watery). Those of us without access to large volumes of rich whey can make a good approximation from whole milk cooked together with some kind of souring agent – vinegar, yogurt, buttermilk or lemon.

Seasonal tags.

Seasonal tags have been introduced: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Build a Better Burger. Seasonal Pasta Dishes. Ye Olde Cookery.

Blog Post: How To Build A Better Burger

... today we're talking about the physical order in which the ingredients are layered. By stacking your burger in a certain manner, you can actually help tame the rogue condiments and escaping vegetables (we're looking at you tomato) and enhance the flavor of your burger

Article & Recipes: Marrying pasta and veggies in southern Italy

I became an Italian food goddess when I realized the following:

Fresh vegetables of the season + pasta = a fabulous bowl of Italy.

Pasta by the [northern hemisphere] month

May: Asparagus Broth with Seashell Pasta, Lime & Pecorino ... June: Zucchini, Fava & Arugula Soup ... June: Watercress & Wonton Soup ... July: Yellow & Green Bean Soup with Ditalini ... July: Fennel & Tomato Soup, with Tiny Pasta ... August: Basil-Scented Zucchini, Yellow Peppers & Red Tomatoes .. August: Corn, Zucchini & Tomato Broth with Cheese Ravioli

Website: Gode Cookery

A compilation of medieval recipes from authentic sources adapted for the 21st century kitchen, along with diverse facts on food & feasting in the Middle Ages & Renaissance and other historical culinary items.

Example:

To make a Herring-pye.

Put great store of sliced Onions, with Currans and Raisins of the Sun, both above and under the Herrings, and store of Butter; put them into your Pye, and bake them.

(This is the entire recipe.)

101 simple summer meals

101 simple summer meals.

23. Posh cheese on toast

Grill one side of a slice of baguette. Cut a log of goats' cheese with rind into rounds, cover the untoasted side with cheese, and grill until browned and bubbling.

Beetroot.

Article/Recipe: Seasonal Eating: Beetroot.
"Seasonal" in this case means "seasonal in the UK."

For a really simple treat, slice it really thinly, brush with oil and roast in a hot oven until you get sweet beetroot crisps, or bake it whole in the oven in foil with balsamic vinegar and serve with couscous.

Roast Lamb. Pot roast. Foodie?

Article: Lamb Roasts Made Easy.

A few cooking tips.

Article/Recipe: The Magic Pot.

Tips for a good pot roast. Includes three pot roast recipes.

There is, I think, a subtle art to pot roasting, or rather an understanding required of the method and careful attention to the amount of heat and liquid. However, once you understand the basic principles you are free to go ahead and make up different dishes and flavours without being tied to the exact quantities and measures of a particular recipe.

Start with a heavy casserole pot that will fit snugly around the meat you are using. The best choices are secondary cuts - the pieces of muscle with a little gelatinous matter and fat throughout, such as leg or shoulder. A whole chicken works beautifully but a small one is easier to turn in the pot.

Article: Are you a foodie?

Are you a Foodie?

1. Do you consider shopping for food and wine to be 'quality time'?

2. Do you take an enthusiastic interest in the preparation and consumption of good food?

3. Are you always searching for the newest food shops, restaurants, take away’s and ingredients?

4. Do you plan holidays and weekends away around food festivals, winery walkabouts and regional food experiences, good wineries and country restaurants?

Etc, etc. The people who set out this questionnaire are Australian food writers whose names are Allen Campion and Michele Curtis. I've added their website to the links bar. The website contains a brief guide to seasonal produce in Australia.

Website: Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation.

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has been set up to seek funding for and oversee the development of Kitchen Garden projects in primary schools across Victoria.

Using the program at Collingwood College as a model, our aim is to pleasurably engage and encourage young Victorians in growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing delicious and healthy food in the belief that such skills are essential to the development of life-long joyful and healthy eating habits. Many young people have little sense of where their food comes from, and little experience of sharing a meal convivially with others around a table.