Cleaning Sea Urchins / Jackfruit Custard / Parsley & Anchovy Dumplings

Blog Post & Video: Video: Cleaning Sea Urchins (The Horror!)

I took a deep breath, resisted all squeamishness and cleaned them all. The reward was a plateful of the freshest, most delectable Uni one can taste.

Blog Post & Recipe: Jackfruit – from garden to plate #5 (scroll to the bottom of the post for links to four more From Garden to Plate posts).

The flesh of this fruit was very soft, much riper than other versions I’ve tasted, and took on an almost bubble gum quality and flavour. It was quite delicious in a sickly-sweet kind of way, the variety and over-ripeness removing any Durian-like pungency ...

Jackfruit Custard

Blog Post & Recipe: Parsley & Anchovy Dumplings

Usually when I make a beef stew I dissolve a couple of anchovies in the oil before adding anything else. This gives the stew an deeper, richer flavour with none of the fishiness. Instead, the anchovies went into the dumplings with parsley for some grassy freshness. It worked beautifully, just as I'd hoped - the anchovies had melted into the dumplings well.

Coconut and Beetroot Soup / Mushroom, Leek and Lemon Risotto / Goat & Spinach Curry

Blog Post & Recipe: A Dashing Coconut and Beetroot Soup

The recipe is adapted from a great book, Entertaining Vegetarians by Celia Brooks-Brown, who says that the combination of coconut and beets is typical to Southern India.

Blog Post & Recipe: Meatless Monday!: Mushroom, Leek and Lemon Risotto. And resolutions!

Think of adding each ladleful of vegetable stock to the risotto the same way you would add juice to a toddler’s sippy-cup.

Blog Post & Recipe: Goat & Spinach Curry

The finished result looks a bit like sludge, but is rich, gamey, and full of flavour. The meat was tender and fell off the bone. I added some cubed lamb neck fillet to bulk it out, but this isn't necessary if you have particularly meaty goat pieces.

Food Porn Daily / Random Recipe Generator / Stuffed Cabbage

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Website: Random Recipe Generator

Lettuces With Lettuces Mash ... Grilled Essence Of Vanilla ... Horseradish Sauce With Apple Sauce Crust

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Blog Post & Recipe: stuffed cabbage

In Russia, we called this dish “golubtsi”, and I’ve heard my Ukrainian friends refer to them as “holubki” ... But whatever you call them, they are amazing. In fact, they’re even better in the next few days as flavors develop more, and, if that weren’t bonus enough, they freeze beautifully too.

Welsh Rarebit Muffins / Substituting Agave for Sugar / Calf's Liver with Onions

Blog Post & Recipe: Nigella's Welsh Rarebit Muffins

Neither particularly healthy nor sweet, they are a great snack for on the road and would be delicious with breakfast eggs or a bowl of soup.

Blog Post: Tips for Substituting Agave in Baked Goods

Agave isn't a difficult ingredient to add to your pantry and won't crystallize (like honey), making it have a ridiculously long shelf life. Agave is easy enough to interchange in sauces, drinks or stir frying, but baking can be a bit more difficult.

Blog Post & Recipe: Calf's Liver with Onions

One of my favorite calf's liver recipes comes from The River Cottage Meatbook, in which the pan is deglazed with balsamic vinegar after the liver has been seared. A well-aged balsamic pairs nicely, but recently I've been using an aged fig vinegar, a sweeter and much fruitier alternative.

Smoked Duck / Three Salsify Recipes / Faux Fennel Pollen

Blog Post & Recipe: where there's smoke, there's duck ...

Smoked duck! Ah, of course, I said. Sichuan smoked duck. Of course. Erm, but I've never smoked anything in my life before. (Honest, Dad.) So, er, how?

Recipe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's salsify recipes

Salsify and scorzonera are beautiful names for rather unprepossessing roots, but if they're unfamiliar to you, I urge you to get intimate with them.

Salsify fritters ... Salsify tempura with a spicy dipping sauce ... Salsify gratin

Blog Post & Recipe: Faux Fennel Pollen (via a link to the same blogger's recipe for Fennel and Orange Salad)

So I experimented, grinding some fennel seeds along with coriander, black peppercorns, sea salt and a dash of cayenne. I used an electric coffee grinder, pulverizing the mixture to a powder ... I rubbed the mixture on both sides of some boneless pork chops

Vegan Popcorn Chicken / Red Posole / Sheep's Head

Blog Post & Recipe: Vegan Popcorn Chicken (they use soy)

We have double coated the nuggets for a thicker and crunchier outside; do it once if you are lazy or do not need a thick and crunchy coat.

Blog Post & Recipe: Red Posole for New Year's Day

I’d never had red posole and was a little dubious that she was serving this instead of black-eyed peas. She assured me, however, that this is what her family ate in New Mexico, not to mention it was traditional New Year’s Day fare in Mexico as well.

Article & Recipe: Sheep's Head

Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, where his feast, known as Andermas, was observed in olden days by repasts of Sheep's Head.

DIRECTIONS

Soak a well-cleaned sheep's head in warm water for three hours ...

Risotto Balls / Supercook Website / One Blog's Favourite 2009 Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Risotto Balls (Arancini) (via Saveur)

Anyway, I froze the [leftover risotto] and finally found time to make them into one of my most favorite appetizers ever, risotto balls. Creamy and cheesy meets deep-fried and crunchy here folks.

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Blog Post: The Best of Pithy and Cleaver, 2009 Edition

Here’s a roundup of a few of this year’s kitchen highlights, recipes we’d definitely make again.

Roast Cherryaki Duck ... Tiramisu with Marsala and Kahlua ... Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies ... Chewy Ginger Cookies with Cardamom and Black Pepper ... Vegetarian Pa Jeon ... Easy Pizza Crust ... Honey-Mustard Salmon ... Salmon with Soy-Honey and Wasabi Sauces ... Grilled Smoked Mozzarella with Maple-Caramelized Bacon ... Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese ... Olive Oil Pumpkin, Carrot, and Zucchini Bread ... Lemon Ginger White Chocolate Scones ... Sunny Citrus Pound Cake ... Pumpkin Pie ...

And so on.

Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs / Chicken Stew / Top 10 2009 Posts on Serious Eats

Blog Post & Recipe: Cauliflower Risotto with Anchovy Crumbs

The risotto was delicious but the real revelation was the anchovy crumbs , very unami and I now want to eat them on everything , thinking baked potatoes, macaroni cheese.

Blog Post & Recipe: Chicken Stew

What makes this stew so heartwarming are the aromatic spices – fennel, clove, cinnamon and finally some rosemary, thyme, peppercorn and crushed pepper.

Blog Post: The Year That Was: Top 10 Posts on Serious Eats

1. The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs »
2. Recipe: Rice Krispies Sushi »
3. Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever »
4. Recipe: How to Make a Choco Taco »
5. One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk »
6. Adam's Top 8 Pizzas of 2009 »
7. The Food Lab: Turkey Brining Basics »
8. A List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter »
9. The Ultimate NYC Chocolate Chip Cookie Tour »
10. Animal-Style Fries at In-N-Out Burger »

Fennel-Pastrami Gratin / Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad / One Blogger's Most Popular Posts of 2009

Blog Post & Recipe: Fennel-Pastrami Gratin (this recipe is an entry in a mass fennel-recipe gathering).

Give a fennel some pastrami and they let go of their guards. So imagine what a fennel, fronds and toasted seeds included, would become if cooked in cream with layers of pastrami and yukon gold potatoes.

Blog Post & Recipe: The Greatest Form of Flattery: Blatantly Copying Fergus Henderson’s Roasted Marrow Bones with Parsley Salad

If you can’t find marrow bones (we used beef bones, but veal are very popular as well), talk with your butcher about ordering some. They freeze well and can be used to thicken soups ... and stocks if you prefer not to have them roasted.

Blog Post: Top Ten from 2009

I’ve figured out how to see which recipes received the most attention from readers. So here are the 10 most popular with readers according to the blog counter I use ...

Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake ... Chocolate Zucchini Cake ... Strawberry Tiramisu ... Grilled Shrimp and Bulgur Salad ... Candied Orange Peel ... Stuffed Zucchini ... Zucchini Cheese Scones ... How To Make Homemade Pasta ... Pumpkin Ravioli with Walnut Cream Sauce ... Side Dish Salads

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.