Domestic
Japanese Spinach Goma-ae
This healthy spinach side dish has a sweet, nutty flavour and goes with pretty much any meal. It is particularly well-suited as a sushi side dish.
09/30/2020
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Domestic
Leftover Risotto Arancini
Leftover risotto is never as good the next day. All the work you put into it to make it creamy, silky, and luscious is lost. Luckily leftover risotto has the perfect texture for making arancini!
09/24/2020
Foraged Foods
Miso-Kabocha Risotto with Maitake Mushrooms
This fusion of Italian and Japanese elements work as a perfect backdrop to show off the prized Maitake or Hen of the Woods wild mushroom.
09/24/2020
Foraged Foods
Vietnamese Bún with Puffball Mushroom
Bún is a traditional Vietnamese dish of rice vermicelli noodles topped with meat, veggies, and sometimes chopped spring rolls. It is served with nước chấm, a bracing sauce made primarily of fish sauce.
09/23/2020
Domestic
Braised Red Cabbage with Apple
This braised red cabbage and apple dish is known as rodekool met appel in Dutch and is traditionally served with stewed meats, and is simultaneously sweet and tart.
09/23/2020
Cooking skills
How to Can Diced Tomatoes for the Freezer
This easy instructional will show you how to preserve your summer bounty of tomatoes into a useful product you can use later. You’ll be thanking your past-self for the work done when you pop open a jar in February and feel the summer sunshine cascading out!
09/23/2020
Baking
Garlic and Rosemary Baguette
The addition of garlic and rosemary makes this bread extra delicious! Serve with charcuterie, as a sandwich, or on its own slathered with some good quality butter.
09/22/2020
Domestic
Dutch-Style Stamppot
Stamppot is the blanket term for mashed vegetables in the Netherlands. It is also their national dish! This stamppot is made with green curly kale, or boerenkool, and is served with a Dutch smoked sausage (rookworst or metworst).
09/21/2020
Foraged Foods
Smoked Za’atar Puffball Mushroom
Manakish is a Levantine dish consisting of pita bread, slathered in za’atar, cheese, or minced meat and baked, almost like an Arabic pizza. Giving puffball mushrooms a similar treatment makes for seasoned crunchy on the outside, tender on the inside deliciousness!
09/09/2020
Domestic
Chana and Moong Dal with Dill – Lentil Stew
Chana dal (or Bengal gram as it is also known) consists of brown or black chickpeas that have been hulled and split. It is one of the earliest legume crops in human record!
09/09/2020
Breakfast
Quinoa and Oat Porridge with Stewed Plums
This healthy, fibre-packed breakfast is exactly what you need in the morning! The addition of stewed plums makes for a delightful sweet and sour experience and adding granola, nuts, or seeds on top gives it the perfect textural contrast!
09/01/2020
Breakfast
Homemade Maple-Nut Granola
This granola is easy to make, and has the benefit of being able to accept any dried fruits, nuts, seeds, or flavourings you can throw at it!
09/01/2020
Domestic
Fattet Hummus
Fattet hummus is a dish with many regional variations from Lebanon to Jordan to Egypt to Eritrea, but at its heart is always broken stale pita bread (Fatteh) and chickpeas (hummus).
08/11/2020
Breakfast
Deluxe Avocado Toast
Regular avocado toast is delicious on its own, but you can make a deluxe version by adding a few lavish ingredients. Wow your guests by bringing this out on a platter for a sumptuous brunch with mimosas!
08/11/2020
Domestic
How to Make Kimchi
Despite the number of steps involved, making kimchi at home isn’t very hard! Lacto-fermented foods like this kimchi are very healthy, full of probiotics and fibre while being low in calories!
08/11/2020