A selection of dishes for which I’ve actually written down measurements and instructions (or as close as I get)! Some items may be listed under more than one heading. You can also use the Search bar to find a particular post or topic.
Breakfast
- Cranberry clafoutis
- Sour cream coffeecake
- Brie Pancake
- Cottage cheese pancakes
- German apple pancake
- Korean pancake
- Cheese blintzes
- Cream scones
- Ricotta muffins
- Potato Latkes
- Steel-cut oats
- Matzoh brei
Eggs
Soups
- Hungarian mushroom beef soup
- Hungarian goulash soup
- Lamb tagine soup
- Pasta fazool (Italian sausage, bean and noodle)
- Portuguese kale-sausage soup
- Hot and sour soup
- Yogurt spinach soup
- Cauliflower soup with cumin and coconut milk
- Caldo de pescado (Galician seafood soup)
Salads
- Impromptu chickpea salad
- Tabouli
- Butter lettuce with prawns and avocado
- Squid and white bean salad
- Sesame noodle salad
Dips, Nibbles & Condiments
- Olives with cumin and paprika
- Gougeres au cumin
- Fresh cranberry-orange relish
- Sausage-stuffed mushrooms
- Muhammara (red pepper-walnut spread)
- Berbere seasoning
- Roasted tomatillo salsa
- Hot chili oil
- Chimichurri sauce with another version here
- Pickled zucchini shreds
- Pakora
- Nam Pla Prik
- Gentleman’s Relish
- Meyer lemon salsa
- Hunanese salted chiles
- Dabo kolo
- Pickled garlic scapes
- Pickled lotus root
Breads, Savory Tarts & Dumplings
- Pizza
- Lamb pizza with pine nuts
- Hum Bao with pork-bean sprout filling
- Mushroom galettes with goat cheese
- Irish soda bread
- Rhubarb ginger muffins
- Emeruli Khachapuri (Georgian cheese-filled flatbreads)
- Chinese scallion-chive breads
- Buckwheat crepes
- Toad in the Hole
- Chorizo-poblano quiche
- Sweet potato dinner rolls
- Challah
- Hamburger Buns
- Hortopita (phyllo pie with mixed greens and feta)
- Injera (Ethiopian sour flat bread)
- Fenugreek chapati
- Tourtiere
Poultry
- Kung Pao chicken
- Cardamom chicken
- Chicken with lemon and olives
- Dong’an (vinegar) chicken
- Butter chicken
- Chicken curry with coconut and mustard seed
- Indian chicken in tomato sauce
- Chicken pot pie
- Chicken and sausage bake
- Chicken with spring garlic and Pedro Ximenez sherry
- Panir-stuffed chicken thighs
- Tamarind chicken
- Rice noodles stir-fried with chicken and mushrooms
- Tai Bai chicken
- Thai chicken stirfry
- Braised chicken with garlic
Seafood
- Scallops with scallop cream sauce
- Shrimp curry with fenugreek leaves
- Garlic-coconut shrimp
- Shrimp gratin
- Scallops with buckwheat soba and beet greens
- Gravlax
- Sole with lentils and lemony breadcrumbs
- Squid and white bean salad
- Clams and white beans
- Canned salmon cakes
- Caldo de pescado (Galician seafood soup)
- Squid curry
Meat
- Glazed gingery pork ribs
- Porter-braised short ribs
- Vietnamese caramel-braised pork ribs
- Pork vindaloo
- Lamb tagine with preserved lemon and olives
- Spiced braised Nyonya pork
- Delectable pork with rai masala
- Ethiopian beef tartare
- Easy pork or lamb kebabs
- Kebab b’il karaz (lamb meatballs in sour cherry sauce)
- Sirloin skewers with herbs, lime and chiles
- Pork with pickled mustard greens
- Swedish meatballs with cream gravy
- Meatballs in arrabbiata sauce
- Cassoulet
- Peppery beef daube with shiitakes
- Parsi meatloaf
- Sichuan dry-fried beef
- Kofte kebabs
- Steak with sumac and pomegranate
- Braised lamb shanks Provençal
- Ma Po tofu (with beef)
- 6-hour leg of lamb
- Grilled tamarind pork
- Beef kheema
- Grilled Cuban pork
- Kalbi
- Red-braised beef with daikon
- Cumin beef
- Mexican chorizo
Grains, Pasta & Noodles
- Char Kuey Teow
- Farro risotto with sage and orange
- Bulgur pilaf with cabbage and sumac
- Pumpkin ravioli with sage butter
- Lasagna
- Buckwheat soba with beet greens and scallops
- Spaghetti with anchovies
- Noodle kugel
- Mushroom lasagna
- Gemelli with wine-braised sausage
- Dan dan noodles with previous attempts here
- Pastitsio
- Parisienne gnocchi with squash and mushrooms
- Rice noodles stir-fried with chicken and mushrooms
- Green apple risotto
Fruits, Vegetables & Beans
- Lacinato kale with white beans
- Saag paneer (spiced spinach with Indian cheese)
- Chickpeas with pomegranate molasses
- Chickpea fritters
- Braised rhubarb with herbs and saffron
- Fava bean puree with Swiss chard
- Braised cabbage
- Braised Savoy cabbage with stinky cheese
- Buttery cabbage with fennel and green chile
- Potato-beet gratin
- Brussels sprouts with poppyseed and lemon
- Nyonya-style water spinach
- Green beans with ajwain and ginger
- Spiced sweet potato wedges
- Grilled eggplant with Indian spices
- Spiced okra
- Mashed potatoes with goat cheese
- Lentils with herbs and breadcrumb salad
- Creamed spinach
- Scalloped potatoes
- Christmas lima beans with pork chops and cabbage
- Potato Latkes
- Eggplant mush
- Pea puree with Thai green curry
- Petatou
Tofu
Sweets
- Corpus Christi pecan cookies
- Orange and Sichuan pepper ice cream
- Vegan coconut cupcakes
- Black-bottom cupcakes
- Gateau au yaourt (French yogurt cake)
- Guinness chocolate cake
- Yogurt cake with blood orange curd
- Bittersweet chocolate ice cream
- Rugelach
- Tarte Tatin
- Rhubarb crisp
- Pear custard pie
- Baked pears with nut-sour cream filling
- Cranberry crumble tart
- Buttermilk chess pie
- Shaker lemon pie
Drinks
- Boulevardier
- Brevity
- Brooklyn
- Chin Up
- Cornwall Negroni
- Daiquiri
- Diva Quaranta
- The Day Off
- Deep Blue Sea
- Elderflower Descant
- Fior di Sicily
- Hemingway Daiquiri
- High Plains Drifter #1
- Hummingbird Down
- Jack Rose
- Jasmine
- Lillet Sin
- Negroni
- Norwegian Sunset
- Pegu
- Pitchfork
- Royal Yunnan
- Runabout
- Sazerac
- Snowed In
- Spring Feeling
- Toto
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