Entries tagged with 'Weekend Cook and Tell'
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked you to go temporarily vegetarian by making a satisfying meatless main. This challenge proved to be a popular one, here are some of our favorite herbivorous responses: Cantaloupe Alone is no vegetarian but this Fall Flavored Red Lentil Soup with Eggplant was a hit. ElizabethS and friends made a spread of vegetarian Spanish-inspired tapas. Check out the pictures over at The Manhattan (food) Project. The ambitious morgancain made not one but three vegetarian dishes, a mushroom rice casserole, a quinoa lentil curry, and a grilled corn and black bean salad. NotAmerican and family are mostly vegetarian so it's no surprise they have great ideas for veggie...
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[Photograph: Grace Kang] Last week we asked you to let us know what was on the menu for your Labor Day Barbecue. It sounds like all of you ate pretty well over the weekend! Here are some of our favorite responses: aholsber claims to not have done anything too impressive—he only slow-cooked two whole briskets, a pork loin, ten pounds of chicken breasts, two racks of spareribs and five pounds of sausage in his smoker. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty impressive to me! I had never heard of deviled potatoes until kirbie posted about them. The red and blue potatoes made them even more of a Labor Day hit. hmw0029 made Mexican Roadside Chicken with...
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[Flickr: niznoz] Last week we asked you to make a dish using one of the Unsung Heroes of Your Kitchen. The challenge was to take humble ingredients such as carrots, celery, and onions and turn them into something spectacular. As expected, we got some pretty inspired responses. Here are some of our favorites: eggyzhe has made many pureed vegetable soups before but decided to give carrots a try over the weekend. The soup had a very pronounced carrot flavor that eggyzhe plans to incorporate into other recipes. cybercita has a top secret recipe for a carrot mold that tastes like a savory carrot cake. She can't share all of the ingredients but it does include grated carrots, flour, butter,...
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Photograph by Robyn Lee Well, it was hot when we purposed the idea for this past week's Weekend Cook and Tell, and now, a week later, it's even warmer. Last week's challenge was to attempt to beat the heat by making a meal without breaking a sweat or heating up your kitchen. We've received wonderful replies and recipes, both raw and cooked. Here are some of the coolest responses: Gentlyferal is the proud owner of a solar oven which was used to slow-cook kuri squash and make an onion-infused butter. Janaatwg likes to make cold vegetable-based soups using tomatoes that a neighbor sells. This neighbor must have had a pretty great crop because janaatwg made gazpacho three times last...
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Photograph from pbs.org/juliachild Last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge was to recreate a dish from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The challenge was inspired by Julie & Julia, which opened over the weekend. As it turned out, the soaring temperatures of last weekend and this week made it much more appealing to go and see the movie than fire up the stove. We didn't get a lot of responses, but a few brave souls accepted the challenge. Here are some of their Julia-inspired responses: Duncan1205 made Jambon Baise' au Made're. It's basically ham braised in Madeira and beef stock. Duncan1205 claims that this dish has converted non-ham-eaters into ham lovers. Cybercita has made several recipes...
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Photograph from justmakeit on Flickr It's Wednesday afternoon and that means it's time to round up all of your Weekend Cook and Tell projects! Last week's challenge was all about embracing the anchovy and frankly I'm a little taken aback by all the love you have shown for these little hairy fish. I thought I was pretty much alone in my love for anchovies but as it turns out, they aren't such an acquired taste after all. Here are some of our fishiest and favorite responses: College days inspired shoneyjoe to revisit the combination of chicken-flavored ramen noodles accented with a few anchovies. The results were salty, oily, fishy and delicious, with a hint of ridiculous. In typical Italian...
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Photograph from Manjith Kainickara on Flickr It's Wednesday and that means it's time to round up all of your Weekend Cook and Tell recipes! Last week we asked you to take advantage of the beautiful bounty of summer tomatoes that are just now coming into season. Here are some of our favorite tomato-centric responses: Slow roasting tomatoes in the oven is a great way to concentrate their flavor and bring out extra sweetness. Take a look at tatianak's recipe over at Life in Cowtown. Mr guy went the cocktail route, using his tomatoes to make these bloody marys with fresh tomato juice. Tomatoes were the base for NotAmerican's simple summer sandwich along with some cucumber, salt, and pepper on...
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Photograph by uberculture from Flickr Last week we asked you to dine in the great outdoors with our Weekend Cook and Tell: Picnic challenge. The only prerequisite for this challenge was to eat a meal al fresco, and with last weekend's summery weather we've gotten some great picnic-related responses. Here are some of our favorites: Always a wealth of great recipes, Orchidgirl shared some wonderful picnic-worthy salads, including potato, egg, cucumber and dill salad, and cucumber and radish salad. Kalajo put together a pretty idyllic picnic at a Washington winery with a bottle of Viognier and these summer crab rolls. Malecki used the leftovers from the previous night's homemade sushi to come up with this creative picnic pita. A...
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Photograph by Robyn Lee Last week's Weekend Cook and Tell was all about going solo, cooking, eating, and dining alone. We wanted to hear all about what you eat when you are alone, whether cooking for yourself or eating out as a party of one. Some of you find it to be a bit of a chore, or even worse while others relish the prospect of a meal alone. Here is a selection of some of our favorite responses: Malecki took this challenge as an opportunity to eat all of the things that his boyfriend isn't a big fan of. Take a look at this salad: rare steak, runny eggs, and a dirty martini? I think malecki's boyfriend is...
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Photograph by Cassaendra Last week's Weekend Cook and Tell was all about burgers. We asked you to share some of your favorite burger techniques and recipes with us for the holiday weekend and as usual we've gotten some fantastic responses. Here are some of our favorites: Tired of dry beef patties, ChloeA has taken to using ground pork in its place. Sprinkled with brown sugar, salt and pepper, pan seared and served with onion and ketchup, these pork burgers stayed juicy. NotAmerican likes to prep the grill by grilling some bacon before the burgers go on. This technique flavors the burgers with a hint of bacon and keeps them from sticking. Kalajo made burger bun from scratch using this...
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