Spicy Shoyu Ramen / Sausage Rolls with Apricots & Whisky-Caramelised Onions / Moroccan Slow-Roasted Shoulder of Lamb + Bramley & Mincemeat Pasties

Blog Post & Recipe: Spicy Shoyu Ramen

If you prefer no spicy taste at all for yourself or young children, you can use regular chili bean paste (doubanjiang) and not spicy chili bean paste (la doubanjiang).

Blog Post & Recipe: Sausage rolls with apricots and whisky-caramelised onions

Anyway, [whisky-caramelised onions are] incredible in these sausage rolls too, together with re-plumped dried apricots and a good pinch of chipotle chilli flakes to play off that smoky thing going on with the whisky. At first I was worried the rolls might be a little on the sweet side with the onions and fruit but god damn if they weren’t just plain sexy.

Blog Post & Recipe: Nigel Slater's mincemeat pasties and lamb recipes

Chunks of meat are all well and good, but few things beat a whole joint, slowly roasted on the bone until the meat slides away at the slightest prod. Lamb shoulder is arguably the king of such joints. It's tough as old boots, but so perfectly fatty that when sympathetically cooked the fat melts through the meat

Moroccan slow-roasted shoulder of lamb ... Bramley and mincemeat pasties

Turkish Coffee - Persian Armenian Style / Hobak Hotteok (Sweet Stuffed Pumpkin Pancakes) / 11 Literary Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Turkish Coffee - Persian Armenian Style

My mother learned to make Turkish coffee from her Armenian neighbor when she was just a young newlywed and had moved to a new home and a new town.

Blog Post & Recipe: Hobak Hotteok (Sweet Stuffed Pumpkin Pancakes)

Hotteok is a popular street snack in Korea. It's basically a pan-fried yeast dough stuffed with a brown sugar and nut filling ... Because it's pumpkin season, I've tweaked it a little to make pumpkin hotteok.

Blog Post & Recipes: Enjoy Thanksgiving with Our Literary Recipes Roundup

Enjoy Turkey Day with Biblioklept’s menu of literary recipes

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Twelve Ways ... Zora Neale Hurston’s Mulatto Rice ... Ian McEwan’s Fish Stew ... James Joyce’s Burnt Kidney Breakfast ... Herman Melville’s Whale Steaks ... Ernest Heminway’s Absinthe Cocktail, Death in the Afternoon ... Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque ... Thomas Pynchon’s Banana Breakfast ... Cormac McCarthy’s Turtle Soup ... Robert Crumb’s Macaroni Casserole ... George Orwell’s Recipes for Plum Cake and Christmas Pudding

Cook Bread in Cabbage Leaves / Steamed Chicken with Dried Mushrooms & Red Dates / Rose Turkish Delight

Blog Post: Cabbage Bread

These fanciful looking critters are in fact standard, easily-baked-at-home rolls encased in cabbage leaves, resulting in this cool effect ...

Recipe: Steamed Chicken with Dried Mushrooms and Red Dates

Directions: Mix together all ingredients in a steaming bowl. Cover and leave to marinate for at least 1 hr. Steam on medium low heat for about 20-25 mins or until done.

Blog Post & Recipe: Rose Turkish Delight

This is my first attempt at Turkish Delight even though it is one of my favourite sweets I have never made it before. When looking for a recipe I found there are two kinds, one you just boil the ingredients like you would jam and the other adds gelatin. I decided to make the one with gelatin ...

Chaud-Froid Egg & Grissini / Dorayaki (Japanese Red Bean Pancake) / Dawood Basha (Lebanese Meatballs in Tomato Sauce)

Article & Recipe: Marque of excellence

Sweet and sour, hot and cold, this symphony in a shell delivers with magnificent simplicity.

Chaud-froid free-range egg and grissini

Blog Post & Recipe: Dorayaki (Japanese Red Bean Pancake)

Today’s dessert Dorayaki is best described as a dessert sandwich with red bean filling between two slices of pancake.

Blog Post & Recipe: Dawood Basha - Lebanese meatballs in tomato sauce

This dish gets its name from the Ottoman pasha Dawood who governed Lebanon in the 18th century. The dish is easy to make, tender, melt-in-your-mouth meatballs with a simple tomato sauce over rice, is irresistibly good.

Perfect Roast Beef / Mini Peach Custard Pies / Chickpea Snackers

Blog Post & Recipe: The Perfect Rocking Roast Beef

• Always bring the beef to room temperature before cooking. I leave mine out for about 30 minutes (or up to an hour if it’s been chilling in the coldest part of my fridge).

Blog Post & Recipe: Mini Peach Custard Pies

I love this recipe because the custard only has five ingredients. It also puts the peaches on beautiful display. You could also use apples, any type of berry, or whatever fruit you like, really.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chickpea Snackers

As with the kale chips, this is a highly adaptable recipe so feel free to swap your favorite spice blend for the paprika. I prefer to use dried chickpeas and cook them myself because I think they result in a better texture and a more distinct nutty chickpea flavor. However, if you don’t have the time or patience for soaking and cooking chickpeas, go ahead and use canned — just make sure to rinse and dry them thoroughly before roasting them.

Iced Coffee Pops / Apple Tarragon Granita / Smoothie Bag

Blog Post & Recipe: Iced Coffee Pops

Mix the coffee with the sweetened condensed milk. Add tablespoon of cocoa powder and adjust to taste

Blog Post & Recipe: Apple Tarragon Granita

In an 8 inch square dish, combine all ingredients until sugar is dissolved. Freeze 1-2 hours and stir with a fork. Freeze 2-3 hours longer, stirring with a fork occasionally. (Once it is mostly frozen it's more like fluffing with a fork than stirring.) Stir with a fork before serving.

Blog Post: {The Basics} Smoothie Bag

Then when it comes to buying fresh fruit...there are plenty of times when it doesn't get eaten fast enough and it's a waste not to use it. That's where the smoothie bag came into play. Any fruit that reaches the still good, but too bruised or soft stage, it gets cut up to freeze. I lay the frozen pieces out on a plastic wrap lined sheet pan and freeze them until hard.

3 Egg Recipes / Chinese-style Steamed Fish / Dry-Braised Stuffed Okra

Article & Recipes: All they're cracked up to be

To store eggs, place them in the fridge for up to one month in their original carton. The pointed end should face downward.

Eggnet omelet with Asian-style duck ... Baked eggs with eggplant, chorizo and tomato ... Brown sugar 'n' spice meringues

Blog Post & Recipe: A healthy cooking technique made fragrant, delicious: Chinese-style Steamed Fish

Bamboo steamers have become the traditional and most popular tool for steaming foods. We certainly love ours. But there are ways to steam food if you don’t have one. One is to set a wire cake rack inside a deep, lidded skillet large enough to accommodate a glass pie plate or other vessel to hold the food you’re steaming. That method works well for this dish.

Article & Recipe: Dry-braised stuffed okra makes for a tender dish

I also wanted to stuff the vegetable, and experimented with a few combinations. Minced anchovy mixed with sweet and smoked paprikas turned out to be a Food & Wine staff favorite. It didn't take a lot of stuffing to fill the lengthwise slit in the okra, and the flavors were plenty intense. You can hold the stuffed okra for several hours before cooking. Brown them in a hot skillet lightly coated with oil, then reduce heat to low, cover and cook until tender.

Ginger Switchel / Prepare and Cook Beef Heart / Saffron Pistachio Kulfi

Blog Post & Recipe: Drink Recipe: Ginger Switchel

Dating back to the early American colonies and possibly the Caribbean before that, this vinegar and ginger drink became known as haymaker's punch in the 19th century, when it was served to quench farmers' thirst during the hay harvest.

Blog Post & Video: How To Prepare and Cook Beef Heart

To prepare the beef heart for cooking, cut away all the fat, any obviously squishy tissue, connective tissue, valves, papillary muscles and tendineae attached to the valve flaps; it should be obvious by sight what’s good to eat and what’s not. You want clean dense muscle only; you’ll have a lot of trim—don’t make yourself too crazy trying to get every last bit.

Grilled Beef Heart with Herbed Vinaigrette

Blog Post & Recipe: Saffron Pistachio Kulfi - An Indian Ice Cream

Kulfi is an Indian answer to ice cream. Unlike the western ice cream kulfi is a milk based ice cream which is not churned but is more creamy than usual fare. Traditionally the milk is reduced to half by heating the milk over a long period of time which gives it a nutty and distinct flavor. The traditional flavors are of saffron, pistachio and almonds but these days you will find fruit kulfi's as well.

Chicken, Leek & Fennel Pie with Cream Cheese Pastry / Roast Beetroot & Chickpea Salad / Pandan Lamingtons

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken, Leek and Fennel Pie with Cream Cheese Pastry

Recipe adapted from Maggi Beer’s Chicken, Grape and Champagne Pie (from the cookbook Maggi’s Kitchen and online).

Blog Post & Recipe: Roasted Beet & Chickpea Salad

This is an easy salad and was delicious at room temperature or cold from the fridge. The fresh mint goes really nicely with the earthy flavor of the sweet beets.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pandan Lamingtons

I adapted a recipe for plain lamingtons by adding some pandan essence paste to the sponge cake. It was quite convenient that the recipe used a chocolate ganache rather than a cocoa icing for the coating, as I was able to switch it to white chocolate ganache which was a much better match for that lovely soft & fluffy green pandan cake.

Homemade Violet Crumble / The Eskimo Cook Book / How to Peel Ginger

Blog Post & Recipe: Let's Do the Hokey Pokey!

So if you are asking why bother with scratchmade honeycomb if you can get Crunchie or Violet Crumble, I would say, because you can use better chocolate, that's why.

Blog Post & Recipes: The Eskimo Cook Book

The Eskimo Cook Book is a collection of recipes brought together by children at the Shismaref Day School in 1952 and published as a booklet by the 'Alaska Crippled Children's Association'.

Cranberries ... Blueberries ... Lincod Eskimo Ice Cream ... Ahzeeach and Ahlowe'-kuk ... Buegwakuk ... Tomcod Liver and berries ... Ah-pick ... Willow Meats ... Eskimo Ice Cream ... Sue'wok (dried salmon eggs) and berries ... Eggs (duck or sea-gull) ... Conch ... [etc]

Blog Post & Video: How to Peel Ginger

All those little nooks and nubs make peeling ginger with a paring knife a veritable nightmare. Think of the waste! Intolerable. So Amanda dreamt up a trick that requires nothing more than a small spoon and Merrill has a hand at demonstration: you use the spoon's edge to quickly scrape away the root's surprisingly thin skin. It's so safe you could even enlist the wee folk for this task!

12 Sardine Recipes / Grill Your Vegetables / 8 Recipes from Simon Hopkinson

Blog Post & Recipes: Healthy & Sustainable: 12 Ways to Eat Sardines

Recipes with Fresh Sardines:

Broiled Sardines with Gremolata ... Crispy Sardines with Lemon & Mint ... Sardines on the Grill ... Sardines with Chickpeas, Lemon & Parsley ... Grilled Moroccan Sardines ... Sardines with Crisp Paprika Crumbs

Recipes with Canned Sardines:

Sardine Salad with Chickpeas & Feta ... Beet & Sardine Salad ... Sardine, Avocado & Radish Salad with Watercress ... Pantry Puttanesca with Sardines ... Beer-Batter-Fried Sardines & Lime ... Sardine Spread

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Grill Your Vegetables

Just don't think you can throw those mushrooms on the grill as is. They need to be spruced up. Oil, and vinegar, and spices, oh my. The rest of the vegetables are really not hard. Brush them with a little olive oil, and add salt and pepper. You're basically going for a nice char-grilled exterior.

Blog Post & Recipe: Simon Hopkinson's Good Cook recipes and an interview with Simon Hopkinson.

SLOW-COOKED RABBIT IN OLIVE OIL, WITH POTATOES AND AIOLI ... MARINATED BUTTERFLIED LEG OF LAMB WITH ASIAN GREEN SAUCE ... AUBERGINES WITH OLIVE OIL, GARLIC, PARSLEY AND FETA CHEESE ... SALAD OF BROAD BEANS, SMOKED COD'S ROE, RICOTTA AND OLIVE OIL ... MARINATED SARDINE FILLETS ... SMALL MERINGUES WITH WHIPPED CREAM ... WARM PRAWN SALAD WITH FLAGEOLET BEANS, ONION, PARSLEY AND OLIVE OIL ... HOMEMADE TANDOORI CHICKEN

Homemade Doughnuts / Spanish Omelette / Tacos de Carnitas with Salsa Verde

Article & Recipe: The Quest to Best Krispy Kremes

What all of these doughnut shops have in common is the light yeasty dough that defines their doughnuts as perfect doughnuts.

Recipe: Homemade Doughnuts

Blog Post & Recipe: The perfect Spanish omelette

On the face of it, this simple frittata-style recipe should present fewer issues than the classic French version: it's an altogether more rustic affair, which scorns the delicate jiggling and rolling practised across the border.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Food Lab: Make Crisp, Juicy Carnitas—Without a Bucket of Lard

So the key to great carnitas (and French confit, for that matter) is to heat the meat to a specific temperature, and try and keep it there long enough for the collagen to break down, while minimizing the amount of moisture lost.

No-Waste Tacos de Carnitas with Salsa Verde

Summer Borscht / Malaysian Shaved Ice / Cooking With Stout

Blog Post & Recipe: Keeping My Cool

It's a cool and creamy combination of cooked fresh beets, cucumber and dill.

Summer Borscht

Blog Post & Recipe: Ice Kacang/ABC (Malaysian Shaved Ice)

Plus, everyone loves the sweet-tasting shaved ice, with numerous toppings such as red beans, creamy sweet corn, grass jelly, attap chee (palm nuts), etc. You can also add ice cream, fruits, peanuts, and/or raisins…

Article & Recipes: Pouring Stout Into the Pan Instead of the Glass

But when it comes to cooking, the best idea is to use whichever stout you most enjoy drinking — or whichever is easiest to find. The differences, apparent when you’re having a pint, are relatively subtle after being subjected to the heat of cooking.

Mushrooms with Herbs and Stout ... Grilled Thick Lamb Chops with Stout-Citrus Glaze

Ginger Beer / Baked Eggs / Loukoumathes

Recipe: Nigel Slater's classic ginger beer recipe

To make your beer even more refreshing, tuck in a handful of lemon verbena leaves or a few sticks of bashed lemongrass.

Article & Recipe: How to bake eggs

First she gathered her ingredients: two eggs and two castelvetrano olives per serving; salt and pepper; cream; and bread crumbs.

Blog Post & Recipe: Now That’s a Mouthful

Fried dough, by any name, would taste as good. Case in point: loukoumathes, those puffy little yeasted doughnuts—also spelled loukoumades—which, like most Greek desserts, are best served drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Loukoumathes

Scallop-and-Plum Ceviche / Two Thyme Recipes / Folded Pancake with Red Beans & Coconut

Article & Recipe & Video: Ceviche, a No-Cook Meal

I love this unconventional seasoning combination of ripe plums and fresh tarragon.

Scallop-and-Plum Ceviche

Article & Recipes: Nigel Slater's roast tomatoes, thyme and goat's cheese, and thyme and lemon cake recipes

I have taken to crushing my leaves of thyme with salt and a heavy weight.

Roast tomatoes, thyme and goat's cheese ... Thyme and lemon cake

Blog Post & Recipe: folded pancake with red beans & coconut

There are several sweets that spring to mind but one in particular seem straight forward to make; folded pancakes stuffed with sweetened red bean paste and freshly grated coconut.

Roasted Rhubarb / Peeps Sushi / Edible Flowers

Blog Post & Recipe: A lot of rhubarb

I am pleased to announce that this spring, my allegiance lies in a pot of roasted rhubarb with white wine and vanilla bean. Eaten cold, ideally.

Roasted Rhubarb

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Peepshi = Peeps Sushi

5. Take a Peep head and tuck it into the top of the hollow Rice Krispies treat cylinder. Use a toothpick or tip of the a knife to help get it snug.

Article: Edible flowers? Blooming delicious!

"I love a baked potato with butter, scattered with marigold petals. The flower has a little bit of heat, but it has a very gentle, subtle flavour – I love it mainly for the colour. All roses are edible, but the useful ones are the scented ones, because it's the scent that translates into taste."

Sticky Lemon Rolls / Pašticada / Curry & Masala

Blog Post & Recipe: sticky lemon rolls with lemon cream cheese glaze

Other hemisphere, evidently.

Now I’m a fan of cinnamon rolls like no other, but when I saw this recipe for sticky lemon rolls it just felt like a giant sign that reads “Come on Spring!!”.

Blog Post & Recipe: Pašticada

Pašticada is a famous Croatian dish. A must try when you visit Dalmatia. The meat is incredibly tender and sweet dessert wine prošek gives it just the right seasoning.

Article & Recipes: Simon Hopkinson's Southeast Asian vegetarian recipes

If, like me, you enjoy the taste of an authentic Indian (in the broadest sense) flavour to a curry, dhal, mulligatawny or even a samosa filling, the making of a home-made masala paste will herald all the future excitement of actually using it in such things.

Crisp celery and apple salad in curry cream dressing ... Curry "essence" ... Marrow and tomato masala ... Masala paste

Hash Browns / Chickpea Flatbread with Pork Souvlaki / Womadelaide Recipes

Article & Recipes: The Cheat: The Upper (and Lower) Crust

There are two ways to flip hash browns.

Henrietta’s Hash Browns ... Scrambled Eggs With Trout Roe

Blog Post & Recipe: Chickpea “Flatbreads” with Pork Souvlaki

I really want to focus on the chickpea flatbread. The idea for this came from an old Jamie Oliver cooking show I was watching on t.v. one afternoon. The “trick”-if you want to call it that-was placing half a can of chickpeas into the flour mixture along with a number of spices.

Recipes: Taste the World

Taste the World has introduced hungry WOMADelaideans to mouth-watering and intriguing recipes from a kaleidoscopic array of countries and cultures ... Here are some of the recipes from Taste the World 2010

BABYLON CIRCUS 'Skate Wings with Camembert Gratin' ... KAMEL EL HARRACHI 'Algerian Chorba' ... MARIEM HASSAN 'Mefrisa' ... NICKODEMUS 'Basque Stew' ... NORTEC COLLECTIVE 'Fish Taco' ... OJOS DE BRUJO 'Tortilla de Patates' ... UNIFIED GECKO 'Saksuka' ... YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN 'Makizushi (Sushi Roll)' ... PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA 'Ghanaian style Corned Beef & Rice' ... POH LING YEOW 'Kuih Koci with Salty Coconut Custard' ... SIMON BRYANT 'Passionfruit Marshmallow' ... KIDS COOKING 'Pasta'

Mulled Wine / Čomlek / Cardamom Pistachio Cookies

Blog Post & Recipe: All is Quiet

I love the combination of the sharp citrus with the sweetness of the sugar and vanilla.

Mulled Wine

Blog Post & Recipe: Čomlek

Čomlek is mostly made in Macedonia and Albania. It is probably a form of Turkish Çömlek kebabı (earthenware bowl kebab) - kebabs in a casserole dish

Blog Post & Recipe: Mary Ellen Rae's Cardamom Pistachio Cookies

... when I saw that this cookie eschewed cinnamon and nutmeg, was austere and plain save for a gentle sprinkling of ground cardamom and a few green shards of pistachio, it became the only thing I wanted to bake.

Pumpkin Spice Bread / Berry Souffles / Thanksgiving Leftovers

Blog Post & Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Bread

A good texture and just the right amount of flavor. It is great toasted with some salty butter or a spoonful of apple butter.

Blog Post & Recipe: feel the fear and cook it anyway – how to become fearless in the kitchen

i. acknowledge your fear ... ii. feel your fear ... iii. ask yourself ‘what’s the worst that can happen?’ ... iv. then cook it anyway

4 ingredient berry souffles

Articles & Recipes: Gobble up these turkey leftovers and Turkey times two: Great dishes using leftovers.

Gobble: Four-Cheese Turkey Mac & Cheese ... Stir-Fry Turkey ... Artichoke Turkey Pizza ... Mediterranean Turkey Paella ... Turkey-Cranberry Quesadilla ... Warm Turkey Pita Sandwiches With Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce

T2: Turkey, Bacon and Granny Smith Apple Salad