Sick of soggy latkes? Hanukkah's only a few days away, but there's plenty of time to perfect the art of frying potato pancakes...
Perfecting Potato Latkes - Tip of the Day
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Tip of the Day - Food-themed gift baskets
Gift baskets brimming with food and kitchen goodies look gorgeous in store windows, but you don't have to splurge to bestow your friends with these lovely gifts. Make your own instead!
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What to Cook Tonight - Slashfood Ate (8)
Between my vast cookbook collection, the over 100 food blogs that I read, and the wonderful recipe web sites that I use daily, I can find a recipe for just about anything. Anything, that is, except a dish that seems suitable for dinner. Why is it that I can easily find a recipe for chestnut-armagnac souffle (doesn't that sound good?), but not one thing that I feel like eating or cooking on a given night? I usually just end up falling back on old favorites, so I thought I'd share list some here, just in case anyone out there has the same problem as I do. Chances are that many of our default dishes overlap, but maybe if everyone shares some, we'll get some new dishes circulating...1. Mario Batali's pollo al vino cotto -- The second tastiest chicken dish a person can prepare in a home kitchen (the first is chicken with figs from the Silver Palate Cookbook, but it takes some advance planning)
2. Chicken Caesar salad -- Healthy, plus it's easy to throw in other vegetables that you have laying around
3. Black bean soup -- I use my mom's recipe, but here's a really quick one from Epicurious
4. Roasted chicken -- Carrots, onion, potatoes, rosemary, thyme, lemon, salt, pepper.
5. Roasted vegetable chopped salad with reduced balsamic vinaigrette -- I roast any vegetables I can find at 400 for 30 minutes, then chop them up, toss them with chopped radicchio and chicken if available, and drizzle with a reduced balsamic dressing.
6. Soba noodle salad -- This is always easier than I think it's going to be, and just as refreshing. Here's a beautiful one from Simple Recipes to get you started
7. Lemon fish -- Any piece of any white fish doused in lemon juice, salt and pepper, usually accompanied by a baked potato
8. Sushi take-out -- If worst comes to worst, and I really can't bring myself to cook, this is my plan.
Now, your turn! Please share your default dinner menus!
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S'mores Recipes - Slashfood Ate (8)
My family used to have Thanksgiving dinner with just me, my parents, and my two younger brothers. We'd eat roasted chicken (since 5 is too few for a turkey) and then toast marshmallows in the fireplace for dessert. I always crave s'mores around Thanksgiving as a result, and I've been trolling the web for recipes/articles about this delicious snack. Here are a few of the best:1. Inside-out s'mores from Foodaphilia
2. S'mores bread pudding from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
4. Pumpkin spice marshmallows from Serious Eats (for putting into s'mores!)
5. S'mores maker form Kitchen Contraptions. I think I need this.
6. A cookbook all about S'mores, reviewed by Baking Bites.
7. S'mores cookies from Cookie Madness
8. S'mores cupcakes from Cupcake Bakeshop
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Make Food Your Centerpiece - Tip of the Day
Flowers are pretty and candles are chic, but foodies know that the most fun centerpieces are made of more food! Check out these ideas for making beautiful food centerpieces for your Thanksgiving table.
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Thanksgiving Breads - Slashfood Ate (8)
Because Thanksgiving dinner often features so many heavy foods, too many households pass up the opportunity to serve up a delicious and festive bread with the meal. Check out these autumn-inspired breads that will fill your Thanksgiving kitchen with a yummy aroma and please guests of all ages and tastes.1. Cranberry Walnut Braid from Epicurious. I made this yesterday, and was thrilled by how beautiful it looked and wonderfully seasonal it tasted.
2. Sweet Potato Buttermilk Rolls from Pinch My Salt. Is there such a thing as too much sweet potato at Thanksgiving? No. No there is not.
3. Quick and Easy Whole Wheat Bread from Zesty Cook. I like the quick and easy part. And the whole wheat bread part.
4. This doesn't really count as one recipe, but check out this article from the New York Times about breads to bake for Thanksgiving. We linked to it once before here, but I'd say it deserves a second mention.
5. Cinnamon Raisin Bread from All Recipes. Leftovers for breakfast!
6. Overnight Soft Herb Rolls from My Recipes. Anything you can prep ahead is Thanksgiving gold.
7. Creamed Cornbread from The Food Network. A southern twist on a classic.
8. Thanksgiving Dark Dense Pear Bread from the Huffington Post. HuffPo, you ask? It seems so.
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Chocolate for Dinner (and Appetizer and Dessert)
On Friday night, I headed downtown to the Hotel Sofitel for Gaby Restaurant's second annual Nuit du Chocolat, a four-course chocolate dinner. I'll say that again: a four-course CHOCOLATE dinner.Depending on your tastes, the idea of a chocolate dinner might have you drooling over your keyboard. Or for those lacking a sweet tooth, it might have you fighting back up even less pleasant bodily fluids. I'll admit that my pre-dinner feelings were somewhere in between. When I first signed up to go, I was extremely excited. But as the night approached, I began to have reservations (Ugh, do I really have to get on the subway in the rain? Isn't this meal going to make me sick?). Yet I pulled myself and my umbrella together, and made a trek that turned out to be well worth it.
The menu, composed by Gaby executive chef Vincent Menager and L'Atelier du Chocolat chocolatier Eric Girerd featured both savory and sweet chocolate-filled dishes. Not only was I treated to some amazing food (I'll give full deets after the jump), but also some sweet tips for incorporating chocolate into my own cooking.
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Make Weekend Breakfasts Easier - Tip of the Day
By the time you lug yourself out of bed at 11 a.m. on a Sunday, do you really want to spend another 30 minutes prepping brunch before you start cooking? Try using make-ahead brunch recipes for an even more relaxing weekend morning.
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Slashfood Ate (8) - Fruit pancakes
Over the weekend, I ate the best pancakes of my life. I headed to CT with friends, and we had pancakes BOTH mornings. Sunday morning, I tasted the most delicious blueberry pancakes that you can imagine -- the taste and fluffiness were beyond what I thought a pancake could achieve. So I was already on a pancake high when I returned to the internet Sunday night to find TWO WHOLE blog posts on fruit pancakes. It made me even more excited to start experimenting with these types of recipes at home. Here are some from around the web that look particularly tasty:1. Apple Pancakes from Smitten Kitchen
2. How to add fruit to pancakes post from Baking Bites
3. Whole-wheat pumpkin pancakes from Pinch My Salt (not a fruit, but so mouth-watering!)
4. Pineapple orange pancakes from All Recipes
5. Oven pear pancake from Real Simple
6. Vegan blueberry pancakes from Epicurious
7. Oatmeal raspberry pancakes with berry coulis from My Recipes
8. Spiced banana pancakes from Post Punk Kitchen
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Tip of the Day: Use a feed reader to organize your recipes
Blogs are a great resource for finding recipes, but unless you print out every post you like, it's difficult to keep track of dishes that you want to try! Get savvy with a feed reader, and you'll discover a great new way to organize new recipes.
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Slashfood Ate (8): Unexpected homemade goodies
I'm often surprised to realize that many of the groceries I buy can be simply made at home. I tend to presume that cottage cheese just grows on supermarket shelves, for example, or that making vanilla requires complex machinery. So while it may be more convenient to throw these items into your cart than to cultivate them in your own kitchen, try making any of these eight treats at home the next time you're feeling bold.- Homemade cottage cheese from Serious Eats
- Homemade vanilla extract from Simply Recipes
- Homemade peanut butter cups from Baking Bites
- Homemade girl scout cookies, also from Baking Bites
- Homemade yogurt from 101 Cookbooks
- Homemade soy milk from Just Hungry
- Homemade butter from The Wednesday Chef
- Homemade soda from Mother Earth News
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Tip of the Day: Recycle Halloween Candy
When I was a kid, my parents let me and my brothers each keep seven pieces of Halloween candy (we could have one piece each day for a week), and my dad brought the rest to work. So that no child may ever suffer such a cruel fate again, here are some more innovative ways to deal with your post-Halloween candy surplus!
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Slashfood Ate (8): Food in a food
At every major meal event, I have to limit my mother to one "food in a food" -- meaning one dish where the plate/bowl is also edible. It's true that serving food this way can make for a killer presentation, but there's a fine line between killer and overkill, so I try to limit her to one dish. That said, here are some fabulous for serving food inside of food this fall...1. Fall yams served in orange cups, from Epicurious.
2. Pumpkin souffles inside pumpkins, from Martha Stewart
3. Roasted butternut squash pastina served inside a pumpkin (or inside winter squash, perhaps?) from Food Network
4. Clam chowder in a bread bowl from yumsugar
5. Cappuccino Mousse in chocolate cups from All Recipes
6. Stuffed bell peppers from Simply Recipes (this counts because the recipe just looks so good!)
7. Lemon sorbet in frozen lemon shells from Homemade Ice Cream Desserts
8. Fruit salad served in melon from Fine Living
Have a beautiful serving idea of your own? Please share!
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Tip of the Day: Decorate cookies creatively
If you're baking Halloween cookies this weekend, don't limit yourself to basic sprinkle and icing decorations. Get creative with unexpected toppings!
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Slashfood Ate (8): Liquorice
It's easy to get into the spirit of fall produce -- what's not to love about fresh apples and beautiful root vegetables? But it takes a true fall-lover to embrace the all of the candies of fall as well. You have to take the candy corn with the caramel apples, the liquorice with the maple sugar candy. Liquorice it seems, is a pretty divisive candy. If you hate it, you hate it. I love it, and here are some yummy variations that I've spotted across the web.Liquorice Root Tea from Teaviews
Liquorice Altoids, reviewed by Candy Addict
Liquorice Caramels from the Vermont Country Store
Liquorice Pudding from Epicurious
Very Salty Liquorices from Dutch Sweets
Liqource Cupcakes from Apple & Spice
Liquorice Ice Cream from Chow
Chocolate Licorice from Chocolate Heaven
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