Recession Recipes

The simple things can often be some of the best. When in Catalunya, the part of Spain that holds Barcelona, this holds true for the well-known pan con tomate (or pa amb tomaquet in Catalan). It’s simply toasted bread rubbed with a clove of raw garlic and a tomato, then salted — and it’s the [...]

I hope that every one’s Thanksgiving preparations are going well and the turkey is defrosting or already in a brine for the big day! After the Thanksgiving meal tomorrow, one usually ends up with a lot of leftovers, especially loads of turkey meat. As much as I love turkey, cranberry, and stuffing sandwiches the day [...]

I love Brussels sprouts, and I always look forward to eating them at the holidays each year. Normally they are kind of a pain to make and seem to take forever to prepare and roast, which is why we seem to only eat them at the holidays. However, this recipe from Mark Bittman is very [...]

Thanksgiving is next week, and we have you covered: we’ve cooked up a bunch of great recipes we’ll be sharing with you over the next several days so you’re ready for your big meal. First up: turkey!
I’ve been known to spend hours making turkey. My favorite recipe is to smoke a turkey (which takes about [...]

We both really like middle eastern food, and one of our favorite cookbooks is from the restaurant Moro in London, which melds together Middle Eastern, Spanish and Moroccan food wonderfully. As we’ve been trying to eat more vegetables lately, I searched through it for some good, moreish veggie recipes, and found one for Turlu Turlu, [...]

Out of all the jams that I’ve made this summer, this Peach Jam just might be my favourite. Instead of cutting the peaches up into small pieces so they would cook down into a smoother jam, I kept them quite large so the resulting jam is full of really big chunks of fresh peaches in [...]

You might have noticed that we’ve been on this jam/pickling/preserving kick lately. I’m not exactly sure what prompted it, but we’ve been canning stuff lately, and it’s been a lot of fun. I was going to make some sauerkraut, but saw that it took several weeks, so I thought I’d try the kimchi recipe on [...]

This Mixed Berry Jam is a slight variation of the Plum Jam from yesterday, and just as simple to make. You use strawberries as your base and then add a mixture of berries. I only had blueberries on hand, so I used just them and the jam was outstanding. I love putting a dollop of [...]

One of my latest food obsessions is making homemade jam. Ever since I made Strawberry Jam a couple of months ago, I’ve been looking for new recipes to make. The September issue of Food & Wine magazine includes a few fast and easy jam recipes that have helped me create small batches of luscious jam.
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We have really enjoyed watching Top Chef Masters lately. We are huge normal Top Chef fans, but it is just a bit more fun to see such famous chefs scrambling in the kitchen, or draining pasta in a dorm shower. My favourites in the finals right now are Michael Chiarello, Hubert Keller, and Rick Bayless, [...]