This category is designed for the home cook that likes to explore all of the cooking techniques, from simple stovetop skillet cooking to slow cooking to indoor grilling to dehydrating. The recipes cover the range of cooking techniques popular in different cultures and cuisines, and include:
Quick Summary: Turn fresh chile peppers into deeply flavored smoked peppers for homemade chipotle, spice blends, and salsas. Covers three smoking methods for home gardeners: stovetop smoker, charcoal grill, and electric smoker. Includes tips on pepper selection, smoke times, and grinding into powder. From a farmer who sold smoked pepper spice blends and smoked tomato …
I made this for my family over the winter holidays as a celebration breakfast (and an excuse to have them test my Earl Grey tea blend with cardamom and pink peppercorns). A Full English breakfast is one of those meals that looks intimidating but is really just about timing. It’s a matter of juggling pots …
Quick Summary: A Ploughman’s Lunch is a traditional British cold meal of cheese, crusty bread, pickles, and accompaniments served in pubs across Britain. It pairs naturally with Builder’s Brew, a strong black tea brewed dark with milk. This guide covers traditional ingredients, the meal’s marketing-driven history, and brewing tips for the perfect accompanying tea. JUMP …
So quick and easy: just coat the salmon in sesame seeds and bake for 10 minutes. Mix up an Asian sauce full of umami to pour over some quickly sautéed bok choy and you have a low carb dinner that is chock full of flavor, as well as full of vitamins and minerals. Jump to: …
Low carb scallops are a welcome addition to any keto or low carb lifestyle. This recipe for Seared Scallops with a Grapefruit Butter Sauce is truly unique.
This recipe is for a tamale pie, but also includes a low carb version which is more like a ragu.
Sweet potatoes are a traditional Thanksgiving side dish for our family, but there are many ways to customize the topping for roasted sweet potatoes. This recipe brushes a harissa sauce (or paste) over the potatoes while broiling and then drizzles a blackberry and rosemary compote over the top after they come out of the oven. …
This easy pasta dish is rich creamy comfort food in a bowl, perfect for a fall weeknight dinner. It takes less than 30 minutes to from start to finish and hits all the high points: creamy texture, smoky protein, and the autumn flavor of fresh sage. Triple tested for ease of success. Jump to: RECIPE …
The fruity undertones of smoked jalapeno peppers (aka chipotle peppers) complement the sweet and dusky flavor of raspberries. This easy raspberry chipotle sauce pairs perfectly with baked chicken, game birds and turkey. It is also wonderful spooned over cream cheese and served on crackers as a colorful holiday appetizer. Jump to: RECIPE | Ingredients | …
This sweet and spicy blackberry sauce is a perfect pairing with a quick-cooking flank steak or skirt steak. The sauce is an easy blender sauce that can be kept in the fridge for a few days, and the flank steak is a cut that cooks very quickly (on the grill or in a skillet). In …
These fried green tomatoes were made with an heirloom tomato from our farm (HeathGlen Farm) called Aunt Ruby’s Green. Accompany them with a tangy crab remoulade, and you have Southern comfort food worthy of a high-end restaurant. Plate it as a stack for visual impact, or serve the fried tomatoes flat with crab salad spooned …
I’ve been on a real fruit-with-dough bender lately, working my way through all the old fashioned dishes in an attempt to distinguish cobblers from crisps from crumbles from buckles, from pandowdys. This recipe is for the buckle, which is generally made with berries folded in cake batter before baking with some crumb topping. All of …
I’m always looking for ways to enhance the flavors of lowly vegetables, while at the same time keeping it simple as possible. Yotam Ottolenghi of course is a master at creating beautiful, flavorful vegetable dishes, but I always find myself opting for an easier recipe. Roasting the beets and carrots with a little spice and …
A low carb shrub syrup can bring berry desserts to a new level without a lot of added sugar. Perfect for low carb lifestyles
These crispy zucchini fritters use shredded zucchini in place of potatoes, but the best part of this recipe is that the fritters hold their shape in the pan. I’ll never forget sharing the first version of this recipe with my daughter only to get a tearful phone call about them falling completely apart in the …