Thursday, September 27, 2018

11 Recipes To Fall in Love With Feta this Fall

Unless you’re Greek you probably don’t have a passionate opinion about feta. In Greece, feta is the Brad Pitt of the cheese world. From breakfast to dessert, feta always has a starring role. In America, feta’s more like Geoff Stults. It’s a good cheese, but it just doesn’t get that much play. These 11 recipes might just bring feta to the forefront of American cheese culture too. From breakfast sandwiches to tacos, there’s a lot you can do with it to liven up your recipes!

And if you haven’t already heard, like any good celebrity, feta has been making a lot of headlines lately.  So if you really want get up to date on feta cheese, then you should also read my article Feta, the Great Cheese Debate.

1. Reinvent Your Breakfast Sandwich

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Give your breakfast sandwich a sophisticated twist with my open faced feta, egg, Kalamata olive, and kale sandwich. It’s a healthy and delicious alternative to the classic sausage and egg combo. This breakfast sandwich always brightens up my Monday mornings. Get our Healthy Open-Face Breakfast Sandwich recipe.

2. Give Weekend Brunch A Makeover

BBC

Need a delicious, yet simple, recipe that’s sure to impress? Try this tasty frittata with the unexpected combination of pole beans and feta cheese. It’s the perfect recipe for weekend brunch. Get the recipe here.

3. Liven Up Your Salads

Martha Stewart

We Greeks eat feta with everything, including our melons! If you haven’t tried the sweet and salty combination of feta cheese and watermelon, then you’re missing out. The combination also makes for a great salad. For an extra kick, try adding roasted jalapenos. Get the recipe here.

4. Get Creative With Sides

Grilled vegetables always make for a flavorful side, but they taste twice as good when you add tangy feta and fresh mint into the mix. So next time you fire up the grill, get our Summer Squash with Feta and Mint recipe.

5. Go Greek With Tacos

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Forget south of the border, for these shrimp tacos we’re heading to the Mediterranean! With roasted red peppers, oregano, and feta cheese, this is the perfect recipe to add some variety to taco night. Get our Greek-Style Shrimp and Feta Tacos recipe.

6. Get Stuffed With Chicken

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For a delicious and flavorful recipe that’s sure to keep chicken breasts moist and flavorful, try stuffing the breasts with creamy feta and fresh spinach. This simple recipe is perfect for family night and dinner parties alike.  Get our Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Feta and Spinach recipe.

7. Make Soups Hot Again

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Sorry moms, but chicken soup is so passé. With the cold days of winter ahead, it’ll soon be time to shift into soup mode. Try warming up with this quinoa chowder, topped with the delicious combination of feta and scallions. You can sign me up for seconds! Get our Quinoa Chowder with Spinach, Feta, and Scallions recipe.

8. Create The Perfect Spread

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Remember the days of Cheez Whiz in a jar? That fluorescent orange “cheese” made me want to swear off cheese spreads for life. But one bite of this easy to make spread, with feta, lemon zest, and fresh herbs and you’ll become a fan for life. Get our Whipped Feta Spread recipe.

9. Elevate Biscuits To New Heights

Breakfast, brunch, even fried chicken wouldn’t be the same without flaky and buttery biscuits. My recipe for a feta and dill flavored biscuit is certain to liven up your next meal, and have everyone wanting to break bread with you.

10. Dream Up A Sweet Finish

Love & Flour

Forget about visions of sugar plums dancing in your head. This light and flavorful dessert combines baked pears with honey, feta cheese, and mint. It’s the perfect ending to enjoy with a glass of Sauternes. Get the recipe here.

11. Makeover The Holidays

Green Kitchen Stories

This year give your Thanksgiving meal the ultimate makeover. Forget the green bean casserole! Try this recipe for pumpkins stuffed with kale & feta. It makes for a divine side dish, that’s certain to please even the most difficult relative at the holiday dinner table. Get the recipe here.

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Mulled Wine: The Warm, Fall Beverage to Serve at Your Next Dinner Party

Alternative Uses For Your Bundt Pan Besides Baking Cake

other things to make in a Bundt pan

Be honest. How often do you actually use your Bundt pan? It certainly turns out beautiful cakes, but you can’t eat dessert all the time. Luckily, just like your Instant Pot and stand mixer, Bundt pans are good for more than one thing—so break yours out, dust it off, and put it to work more often.

When you’re not in the mood for a Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce or a Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake, you can use the ring-shaped, fluted pan with its fancy patterns and ridges for lots of other purposes. Plenty of them aren’t even food-related—but of course, the best ones are. In summer, it can serve as a handy tool for cutting the kernels off corn cobs, but check out some things you can make in the Bundt pan itself. If you don’t already have one in a cupboard, you just might be inspired to buy one. Just pay attention to the size the recipe specifies; if you have a 12 cup pan but the recipe uses a 6 cup model, you’ll probably want to double up.

Roast a chicken.

Bundt Pan Roasted Chicken

Apron Strings

Scatter chopped vegetables in the bottom of the pan and prop a whole chicken, rubbed with whatever herbs and seasonings you like, on the center spoke (so to speak), then roast it. The juices will flavor the veggies, and the skin will crisp nicely—although, depending on the size of your chicken and of the pan, the leg skin may be a bit flabbier, so you might want to make the veggies in another pan and toss them in the juices afterward. Vertically roasting poultry is a technique beloved by many, and taking a cue from Cooks Gazette, you may want to try impaling the bird with the legs up instead of the more common “sitting” position. Get this Bundt Pan Roasted Chicken recipe.

Make a meatloaf.

Persian-Inspired Bundt Meatloaf with Pomegranate Sauce

The Persian Fusion

Despite its reputation as dry and boring, meatloaf can be exceptional—and you can make it in a Bundt pan for a prettier presentation. This Persian-inspired meatloaf includes fillings like hard boiled eggs and spinach for extra oomph, but you can make a classic bacon-wrapped meatloaf too, or any other loaf you like! Get this Persian-Inspired Bundt Meatloaf with Pomegranate Sauce recipe.

Make a circular sandwich.

Ham and Pimento Cheese Bundt Pan Sub Sandwich

4 Sons ‘R’ Us

Baking a loaf of bread in a Bundt pan means you can serve what looks like a giant bagel sandwich, which is obviously fantastic for feeding a crowd. You can make your own dough or use store-bought; either way, be sure to slice carefully with a serrated knife to keep the ring intact. Then fill it with whatever you fancy, from cold cuts to tuna to turkey and avocado, or run with the bagel resemblance and do an oversize bacon, egg, and cheese. You really can’t go wrong. Get this Ham and Pimento Cheese Bundt Pan Sub Sandwich recipe.

Make a Jello mold.

Spiked Rainbow Jello Bundt Mold

Foodista

Bundt pans are a natural fit for Jello and molded salads in general, but if you’re not 100 percent on board with those jiggly applications, maybe a gigantic (and rather fetching) Jello shot is more your speed? Get this Spiked Rainbow Jello Bundt Mold recipe.

Make flan.

Tres Leches Pumpkin Bundt Flan

Tortillas and Honey

Just as Bundt pans are great for molding gelatine, they’re fabulous for caramel-drenched flan. This version is perfect or fall thanks to pumpkin puree, but you can make any flavor you prefer, from classic vanilla to coconut flan and beyond. Get this Tres Leches Pumpkin Bundt Flan recipe.

Make an ice ring for punch.

Velvetbomb Punch with Bundt Pan Ice Ring

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Using a Bundt pan to make an ice ring is an easy way to efficiently chill a bowl of punch (it also melts less quickly than cubes), and simultaneously make it prettier, especially if you embed citrus slices, whole berries, or even edible flowers in the ice. You can also freeze another liquid—in our whiskey and Guinness punch, for instance, we make an ice ring from a mix of hard and regular apple cider. Get our Velvetbomb Punch recipe.

Make monkey bread.

Cinnamon Nutmeg Monkey Bread

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After cakes, monkey bread might be the most common use for a Bundt pan, but that’s only as it should be, because it’s delicious, delightfully named, and fun to pull apart. Try pumpkin monkey bread, chocolate-caramel monkey bread, or go classic with this simple cinnamon-scented version. It calls for making your own yeast dough from scratch, but in a pinch, you can use balls of store-bought biscuit or crescent roll dough. Get this Monkey Bread recipe.

Make bubble bread.

Savory Herb and Cheese Monkey Bread

Five Heart Home

Really, this is just another name for savory monkey bread, but it’s equally fun—and delicious, so we’re giving it its own spotlight. As with the sweet version, you can make your own dough, or use shortcut crescent rolls or biscuits (or pizza dough, in the case of pull-apart pizza bread). As for the add-ins, you can get as involved as scrambling eggs, cooking bacon, and shredding cheese, or keep it simple by quickly rolling the dough balls in different herbs and cheese. Mixing and matching the coatings makes for an especially festive ring with great flavor. Get this Savory Herb and Cheese Monkey Bread recipe.

Make stunning stuffing.

Bundt Pan Stuffing

A Spicy Perspective

Dress up your dressing this Thanksgiving and make it in a Bundt pan, for a delicious centerpiece that has plenty of crisp crust to go around. Any bread-based stuffing should work well, so feel free to use your favorite recipe—but be sure to thoroughly grease the pan before packing it in (a good rule of thumb for anything you make in one of these detailed pans, really). Get this Bundt Pan Stuffing recipe.

Make a phyllo ring.

Bundt Pan Phyllo Torte with Chicken, Ricotta, and Swiss Chard

Nerds with Knives

You can make a standard frittata in a Bundt pan, but why stop there? Mix the eggs with plenty of cheese, diced ham or chicken, garlic, and Swiss chard and encase it in a shattering-crisp, super flaky, golden-brown wrapper of phyllo dough and you have a showstopper on your hands. It’s a labor of love, yes, but it’s worth it when you want an impressive dish that tastes as good as it looks. Get this Bundt Pan Phyllo Torte with Chicken, Ricotta, and Swiss Chard recipe.

Make a stuffed rice timbale.

Bundt Pan Sartù di Riso Meatball, Sausage, and Rice Timbale

That Oven Feelin’

Sartù di riso is a Neapolitan rice timbale, stuffed with meatballs and tomato sauce. Breadcrumbs help hold the cooked arborio rice together when you unmold it, but like the phyllo ring, this one isn’t exactly a weeknight dinner. Get this Bundt Pan Sartù di Riso Meatball, Sausage, and Rice Timbale recipe.

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How to Incorporate Your Fall Produce Into Salads

Roasted Beet Tzatziki Salad

Why does summer get all the glory where beautiful vegetable dishes are concerned? Frankly, it’s spring and fall when all of the really showstopping crops come to fruition, and yet summer gets all the fun for being the season of salads. And why’s that? Because, bathing suit season? Because, lettuce? Really, lettuce?

Not this year. Just because the weather is getting cooler is no reason not to enjoy some of the brightest stars of September in their most simple but glorious presentation: salads. Pair any of these fall harvest compositions with a nice soup if you crave the warmth. Or, better yet, red wine.

Fennel Bulbs

Fennel Jicama Salad with Lemon-Pink Peppercorn Dressing

Matt Armendariz

While it might be difficult to prove empirically, I believe fennel is the most underrated of vegetables. Crunchier than even celery, nearly as herbaceous as a bunch of basil, capable of participating as beautifully raw as caramelized, and providing its own dainty garnish, it is past time to get more fennel in your life. Begin with this briny, savory crunchfest, which is as much a meal as it is a conversation piece. Get this Fennel Jicama Salad with Lemon-Pink Peppercorn Dressing recipe.

Sweet Potatoes

Warm Spinach Salad with Smoky Pecans and Sweet Potato

Chowhound

Before you give in to the lure of sweatpants and relegate sweet potatoes to soups and marshmallow-topped casseroles, give it a little love somewhere that’s green. Here, roasted sweet potatoes and smoked paprika-spiced pecans take the place of bacon in a spinach salad that’s even served warm. Get our Warm Spinach Salad with Smoky Pecans and Sweet Potato recipe.

Beets

Roasted Beet Tzatziki Salad

Egg Shop

At once sweet and earthy, if you have never found a beet dish to convince you of its purple majesty, dig this—the beets here are in the sauce. Not beets with tzatziki; beets in tzatziki. Try pickling your own beets for an extra tangy, creamy dressing to apply to a host of other vegetables. Get this Roasted Beet Tzatziki Salad recipe.

Pears

Poached Pear and Blue Cheese Salad

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Not all the stunners of fall have been incubating below the soil. Some beauties are literally low-hanging fruit, waiting for the precise autumnal chill in which to be plucked to achieve their gently poached destiny. Did I mention the poaching liquid includes red wine? You’ll know what to do with the rest of the bottle. Get our Poached Pear and Blue Cheese Salad recipe.

Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad

Burcu Avsar and Zach Desart

Brussels have become so ubiquitous, what with their appearances in everything from slaw to risotto, that we’ve forgotten they have a natural season: now. Here they make kale seem positively antiquated as a base for a Caesar. Get this Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad recipe.

Figs

Fig and Arugula Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing

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Sure, you can enjoy dried figs all year long, but now through October is the time to be seduced by plump, juicy, fresh figs. Their freshness is highlighted by a simple setting of peppery arugula and a sweet and tangy honey mustard dressing. Fall in the Garden of Eden is a glorious time, indeed. Get our Fig and Arugula Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing recipe.

Winter Squash

Roasted Delicata Squash Salad

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Delicata squash is technically a summer squash, though it is traditionally treated as a winter squash, hence: autumn squash. If you have limited your squash intake solely to butternut, acorn, and spaghetti varieties, then you have limited yourself. Get on board with this lovely—and dare I say, delicate—salad with pepitas and ricotta salata. Get our Roasted Delicata Squash Salad recipe.

Parsnips

Parsnip Salad with Grapes, Blue Cheese, and Spiced Pecans

S.K.Y.

When I was a child I thought parsnips were merely haunted carrots. As an adult, I still feel that way, so what better vegetable to usher in Halloween season? And since bathing suit weather has kinda officially ended, I’m not one to turn away from recipes with more blue cheese. Get this Parsnip Salad with Grapes, Blue Cheese, and Spiced Pecans recipe.

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18 Ways to Drink Your Fall Fruits (Spiked)!

Summer beverages are all about the thirst-quenchers: lemonades, iced teas, and beers the palest shade of yellow. Winter, on the other hand, is the time for hot cocoa, toddies, and anything that will erase the agony of the cold.

So what about fall, the season in between? Clever marketing may have us believe that it’s the time to scarf down pumpkin spice everything, when really it should be about featuring the fruits of the season. We’re talking about beverages with apples, pears, grapes, cranberries, and pomegranates. The sort that have way more actual products of the autumn harvest in them than some dubiously-made goop from a squirt bottle.

It’s time to end the parade of pumpkin-like flavors and reclaim fall for its real fruits, in their many shades of russet, ruby, and amber. We’ve collected 18 drink recipes to lead the way.

1. Green Apple Sparkler

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The seltzer might give this alcohol-free Italian soda it’s sparkling name, but it’s really the prickly flavor of Granny Smiths that dazzles and shines. Get our Green Apple Sparkler recipe.

2. Brandy-Apple Punch

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Fruit punch can be so much more than a candy-like medley of tropical fruits. This version is downright autumnal with its mix of apple, cranberry, and brandy. Get our Brandy-Apple Punch recipe.

3. Bobbing for Mezcal

Okay, “bobbing” for mezcal may be a bit of a stretch when the smoky agave liquor is so easy to pick out among the ingredients. Regardless, that headstrong aroma brings a mouthful to savor against the sweetness of apple cider, maple syrup, and ginger beer. Get our Bobbing for Mezcal recipe.

4. Cranberry-Apple Shrub

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Shrubs (sweetened and infused drinking vinegars) are addictively acerbic. This cranberry and apple version can serve as the base for a wide array of pucker-y creations. Get our Cranberry-Apple Shrub recipe.

5. Cranberry Shrub Spritz

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You can mix the above shrub with a few ounces of seltzer for a carbonated drink that’s a complete 180 from your sugary sweet colas. Get our Cranberry Shrub Spritz recipe.

6. Rum and Cranberry Shrub Cocktail

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Or you can shake it with some dark rum, which gives it a molasses-y edge. Get our Rum and Cranberry Shrub Cocktail recipe.

7. Le Petit Hibou

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This “little owl” amplifies the fruity qualities of a pinot or sauvignon blanc, blending it with apple juice and Lillet apertif. Get our Le Petit Hibou recipe.

8. Autumn Chiller

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Think of the autumn chiller as a brisk, summer juice with the flavors of fall, suited for sipping on those still-warm days between the two seasons. Get our Autumn Chiller recipe.

9. Hot Mulled Sherried Apple Cider

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Hot mulled cider is well known for its ability to accommodate healthy glugs of whiskey and rum. But sherry? It turns out that nutty amontillado is ideal for accentuating the mellow spices that are also thrown into the mix. Get our Hot Mulled Sherried Apple Cider recipe.

10. Slow Cooker Spiked Wassail

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A wassail is made by slowly mulling juices with a handful of aromatic spices. It’s then spiced with apple brandy and served with whole roasted apples that skim the surface—could you get much more autumnal than that? Get our Slow Cooker Spiked Wassail recipe.

11. Concord Grape Martini

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Concord grapes have an unmistakable, almost aggressive flavor, one that can be tricky to mix with others. Luckily, it finds a mate in the juniper and bergamot notes of gin, making a martini that’s fruity without being frivolous. Get our Concord Grape Martini recipe.

12. The Crushed Grape

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Think of this as a seasonally appropriate alternative to the mimosa or bellini that fits in just as easily at brunch. With red grapes, pisco, and the obligatory dash of sparkling wine to top it off, it feels at home alongside waffles and benedicts. Get our Crushed Grape recipe.

13. Grilled Sangría

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If you’re enjoying an Indian summer and haven’t yet put away the grill, you can make the most of the situation with this sangria that uses fall fruits for backyard barbecue purposes. The skewered apples, grapes, and citrus take on a smoky flavor that then plays off the full body of red Rioja. Get our Grilled Sangría recipe.

14. Spiced Brandy-Pear Punch

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Don’t forget that cider season isn’t just about apples—pears make for a perfectly sweet, floral, and refreshing drink, too. This punch allows hard pear cider to go deep, marrying it with cinnamon and Courvoisier. Get our Spiced Brandy-Pear Punch recipe.

15. Spiced Pear-Champagne Punch

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For a completely different pear-centric punch, add champagne. Effervescent and cheery with bubbly, spices, and blood orange, this large-format drink is fit for special occasions. Get our Spiced Pear-Champagne Punch recipe.

16. Sparkling Rum and Pomegranate Punch

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Pomegranate juice is powerful and straight to the point, but rum and sparkling wine can help sweeten its aggressive edge. Serve this punch with a stunning pomegranate and lime ice block, which not only looks good, it will also help keep the drink cool without watering it down. Get our Sparkling Rum and Pomegranate Punch recipe.

17. Cranberry Culprit

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The cranberries here are only guilty of improving on a bar staple, swapping out the amaretto sour’s cloying lemon-lime mix for the briskness of cranberry. Get our Cranberry Culprit recipe.

18. Smoky, Hot Apple Cider with Scotch

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For a smokier take on fall fruit, try this warm cocktail. Get our Smoky, Hot Apple Cider with Scotch recipe.

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Caponata

This Eggplant Caponata is a delicious Italian relish made with eggplant, onions, garlic, tomatoes, pine nuts, olives, raisins, capers, and parsley. Perfect spread for bread or a dip for breadsticks!

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