Best of food and drink this week | canada.com

?A round-up of some of our favourite recipes and food-related features this week including recipes for an Apple Cranberry Br?l?e and a bourbon-based cocktail, and five ?Old World? wine picks under $15.

Apple Cranberry Br?l?e

Photograph by Kati Molin, Fotolia.com

Choose a variety of locally-grown apples for this Apple Cranberry Br?l?e, which serves six and can be made in just over an hour (including cooking time).

Ingredient of the week: pistachios

Photograph courtesy of Serious Eats

We?ve compiled a collection of sweet, savoury and boozy recipes featuring pistachios, including a Blackberry Pistachio Icebox Cake, Broccoli and Pistachio Soup and a Pistachio Sour.

Reinventing classic Rosh Hashanah dishes

Photograph by Matthew Mead, AP

This traditional Rosh Hashanah recipe for Kasha Varnishkes (a buckwheat and pasta dish) was adapted from Mark Spangenthal of?Kutsher?s Tribeca restaurant in New York City, and is made with porcini mushrooms and veal bacon. This year, Rosh Hashanah begins in the evening of Sunday, September 16, 2012, and ends in the evening of Tuesday, September 18, 2012.

Vegetables in a Court Bouillon

Photograph by Darren Stone, Times Colonist

This French-style vegetable dish achieves its ?world of flavour? not with butter or cream, but by simmering a variety of vegetables in a broth spiked with olive oil and wine.

Five ?Old World? wines under $15

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For Michael Godel?s $15, these are the ?new? lands he would look to first as the search for affordable, quality wines goes back to the Old World. Read on for five affordable picks to enjoy this weekend.

Seasonal Sips: Jumping Jack Flash

Photograph by Ric Ernst, The Province

This week?s cocktail is a bourbon-based martini scented with orange, pineapple, banana and vanilla ? Vancouver-based bartender Micah Dew?s Jumping Jack Flash.

And to finish, some tasty inspiration from the blog world:

A Chemex Method from hufort on Vimeo.

- If you?ve ever wondered how to brew coffee using a Chemex coffeemaker, watch A Chemex Method (video above) by Hugh Forte of The Sprouted Kitchen
- Rob Feenie?s Quinoa, Green Bean & Tomato Salad from Poppytalk
- The Magic of Making Salt from Michael Ruhlman
- Fig, Olive Oil and Sea Salt Challah from Smitten Kitchen
- Sweet Paul Magazine Fall 2012 is full of goodies such as Whoopie Pies with Chocolate Ganache, Apple Beignets with Caramel Sauce, and Caramelized Onion and Thyme Tart

Source: http://o.canada.com/2012/09/14/best-of-food-and-drink-this-week-19/

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