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Food.comThe British have always been fond of highly spiced food, a taste which can be traced back in our cooking to medieval times and which can be seen today in our pungent commercially prepared sauces and mustards. This tasty curried broth belongs to the early nineteenth century and is part of the heritage of the British Raj. British people who spent years in India grew to love the local spicy food and brought back their favourite recipes which were adapted in the Victorian kitchen. "Pepper Water" was the nearest thing to soup in the cuisine of India, and indeed the word mulligatawny comes from the Tamil words molegoo (pepper) and tunes (water). It was originally a vegetarian 'sauce', but the British added meat and various other ingredients to create a variety of mulligatawnies, which were popular in India and Ceylon, but had an extremely bad press back home in England! A basic peppered water was flavoured with various other ingredients, then the soup would be served with side bowls of cooked rice, lime wedges, grated coconut, snippets of fried bacon, quartered hard-boiled eggs and sliced chillies. You helped yourself to what you wanted - a meal in itself. I serve mine with Raita and Chutney, and sometimes hard-boiled eggs, you can add whatever you like to the basic soup posted below. This recipe was taken from The Memsahib's Cookbook and has been adapted to personal taste.Food52This dish is based on a recipe that was handed down from my Italian great-grandmother. Even today when I smell the aroma of this dish cooking and taste the sweet, roasted, caramelized vegetables, juxtaposed against tender bites of chicken encased in a garlicky, breadcrumb crust, I am immediately transported back to my childhood. Like most of the women in my family, my great-grandmother was an amazing cook and would make dishes like this for dinner after Sunday mass, serving her big, extended family hearty but simple fare. She was used to feeding lots of people with big appetites, but she and my great-grandfather were immigrants and had to work hard to make ends meet. She had to make her food budget stretch and needed to be clever and imaginative with her techniques and ingredients. While this is my great-grandmother’s recipe, I have played around with the recipe and made it my own. My great-grandmother used dry herbs; I prefer fresh and use whatever's in season and what’s growing in my garden. In the summer, a handful of basil and a few sprigs of oregano are heavenly. Also, different vegetables can be substituted (at the peak of summer, I am partial to zucchini and eggplant). For this contest, I used inexpensive root vegetables that are sublime roasted—potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions—but splurged for the fennel and red pepper. They are not exactly in season in the winter, but they are my favorite vegetables to roast. My great-grandmother’s recipe does not contain any acid, but I like the bright flavor that lemon zest and juice bring to the bread crumb crust and to the pan sauce. The roasting technique, which is adapted from Judy Rogers's Zuni Cookbook, uses slow moist heat to gently cook the chicken and vegetables in a covered pan. The addition of a little wine with the olive oil deepens the sweet, mellow flavors. When I think of a feast, this is the kind of meal that I like to cook and serve and share with loved ones, no matter how many people are at my table. (Amounts can be doubled or tripled—just bake chicken and vegetables on a rimmed baking sheet instead of a sauté pan.) I find this kind of slow-food meal immensely pleasurable to prepare. So often I am rushing during the week to get dinner on the table, but this is the sort of recipe that I enjoy making on the weekend when I can take my time browning the chicken, chopping the herbs and cutting the vegetables just so. Then the whole thing roasts in the oven for an hour, leaving the cook free to sip a glass of wine, make a salad or chat with loved ones. And when it’s finally served, this is a dinner that doesn’t put on airs or stand on ceremony. This is simply food that makes you feel good.Food.comI needed a baking cookbook of some sort for my "dessert of the month" challenge and after careful deliberation, and much drooling, over at least 20 books about baking, each with stunning photographs I settled on William Sonoma's The Baking Book: Essential Recipes for Today's Home Baker. I love this baking cookbook. I've leafed through it a number of times already...just to make sure I didn't miss anything delicious. I'm intrigued by a number of the different baking methods and I know that this cookbook will help me expand my baking knowledge and repertoire!!! Earlier in the week, my quarterly shipment of organic maple syrup arrived from Amazon. I knew right away that this bread would be first on the list to try! While I didn't have any pecans in the pantry, I did have some walnuts leftover from the holidays. They substituted easily into the original recipe, as did the rice milk that I used in place of the buttermilk. I love how this recipe uses the pecans/walnuts. You grind half of them in a food processor with some flour and then mix the "nut flour" into the batter. And then you coarsely chop the other half to fold into the batter after it has been prepared. This created a perfectly nutty flavor with not too much crunch! And all the milk, syrup, eggs and butter gave them a great moist and fluffy texture. A keeper of a recipe, for sure...Nom. Nom.
