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March 29, 2013
A Recipe From the Chef: Beachwood Cafe's Chai-Ginger Hot Cross Buns
If, like any good Episcopalian, you feel that you should enjoy hot cross buns but, like many of us, you nonetheless loathe the yeasty rolls with their bitter bits of candied citrus peel, chef Minh Phan of Hollywood's Beachwood Cafe may have a solution for you. She replaces the citrus bits (currants ... More >>
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February 11, 2013
Trader Joe's Mexican Chocolate How to Make Mexican Hot Chocolate
Trader Joe's is known for traveling the globe to find a wide and ever-changing variety of foods. They recently went next door to bring back Organic Stone-Ground Mexican-Style Dark Chocolate, which has the shape, taste and paper packaging of traditional south-of-the-border chocolates. There are two ... More >>
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January 16, 2013
Cookbook Review: How to Boil an Egg A Lemon Ricotta Pancake Recipe By Way Of London & Paris
In this new year of chef cookbooks and kitchen resolutions, sometimes you simply want to fine tune the basics: the perfect pork chop, the creamiest ice cream, How to Boil an Egg. In her latest book, Rose Carrarini, owner of Paris' Rose Bakery, reminds us just how much of a culinary chameleon the egg ... More >>
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December 20, 2012
Copenhagen Pastry: Marzipan Pigs A Recipe for Danish Rice Pudding
There are many reasons to stop by Copenhagen Pastry, the bakery and retail shop in Culver City owned and operated by Danish native and longtime Angeleno Karen Hansen. The dark, seed-covered loaves of rye bread. The little bags of holiday sugar cookies. The LAMill coffee. The trays of freshly baked f ... More >>
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December 7, 2012
Bake This Now: 3 Must-Have Holiday Cookie Recipes
Take a look at the calendar. It's time to do some major baking. Hanukkah beings Saturday; after next weekend, you'll be down to the Christmas shipping wire. And for those of us who simply use the season as a joyful excuse to eat more cookies, we'll be more than happy to take some of those Röckenwag ... More >>
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November 5, 2012
Product Review: The "Rose Double Boiler" From Rose Levy Beranbaum's New Cookware Line
If you're a baker, you've probably had the Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum on your shelf at some point during your baking career. Now, you can have Beranbaum's double boiler, too. The cookbook author has teamed up with NewMetro Design, the company behind the BeaterBlade, a stand-mixer paddle att ... More >>
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September 12, 2012
Baking Books: A Baker's Field Guide To Doughnuts (Mock Krispy Kremes!) A Peanut Butter Glaze Recipe
Type "Field Guide" into the Amazon book search list, and you'll get, as of this typing, 39,688 results. These are the moments when we suspect the A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts, to be released in a few weeks, will come in handy. A little rainbow sprinkle, Boston cream, or old-fashioned buttermil ... More >>
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August 13, 2012
Cake Pops: Popularity Persists A Snickerdoodle Cake Pop Recipe From Surprise Surprise Bake Shop
At a recent fancy event, when the dessert table was unveiled, we were startled by how many adults elbowed past children to get to the cake pops display. (Hey, that little kid was going for the last red velvet one! We couldn't let that happen.) This got us thinking about how cake pops seem to be eve ... More >>
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August 6, 2012
Tips for Better Meringues From Shirley Corriher A Blueberry Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe From Cutie Pie That!
On paper, meringues look like the easiest thing to create, basically just egg whites and sugar. But looks can be deceptive. While the goal is a melt-in-your-mouth crispy texture, often the disappointing result is a sticky puddle of goo. Determined to find out what we're doing wrong, we turned to re ... More >>
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August 2, 2012
Meet Your Food Blogger: Nastassia Johnson of Let Me Eat Cake
Nastassia Johnson, blogger behind Let Me Eat Cake, has picked out several items to try at downtown's Semi Sweet Bakery on a recent afternoon: A croissant flecked with chocolate, an Almond Joy Doughnut, and a cookie called "Triple Chip" -- chocolate, butterscotch, and potato. She wanted a slice of 7- ... More >>
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July 20, 2012
A Cookbook for Bakers: La Tartine Gourmande A Summer Fruit Custard Recipe
La Tartine Gourmande, by Boston-based food writer, blogger and photographer Béatrice Peltre, was released earlier this year, but that recipe for apricot tartlets with honey, almonds and olive oil looks pretty perfect for summer. And heaven knows we could all use a quick raspberry-lime-coconut cust ... More >>
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July 18, 2012
Cookbook Review: The Truck Food Cookbook An Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
John T. Edge is not the young, Hipstamatic-driven author we expected would write The Truck Food Cookbook, more so as there are already several food truck-related cookbooks out there. But short of perhaps Jane and Michael Stern, Edge is exactly the sort of old school journalist we'd hoped would explo ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook A Pot Cocktail Recipe
Whenever another pot cookbook lands on our desk, as The Official High Official Times Cannabis Cookbook recently did, we try to look at it from an unbiased reviewer's perspective -- but usually decide the publisher was likely stoned when they accepted the book proposal. The recipes tend to be eeril ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart
Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie
After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Eat This Now: Flan
Tacos, tequila and one more dish should be an ingredient for a proper Cinco de Mayo feast. On menus from Highland Park's My Taco to downtown's Border Grill to Santa Monica's El Chollo to almost every Mexican or Spanish-accented eatery in between, under desserts (postres) there will be flan. The ubiq ... More >>
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March 30, 2012
Weekend Baking: The Pie it Forward Cookbook A Chocolate Stout Pie Recipe
Those summer berry and fall holiday pies may get all of the seasonal baking attention, but spring really is the ideal time to Pie it Forward, isn't it? There are those rainy weekends best left to indoor dough rolling, the partly cloudy ones that aren't quite ready for berry picking outings, and thos ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
Guinness and Ice Cream for St. Patrick's Day: A Recipe for Stout Float
I don't know if a stout float is an Irish dessert but it doesn't really matter, as Saint Patrick's Day celebrations aren't really Irish anyway. A beer float can be awesome, and when done right, it's the perfect creamy-sweet refresher after the traditional American-Irish, salty dinner of corned beef ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Happy Birthday Dr. Suess: Green Egg Cookies for Larchmont Elementary Recipe
Dr. Suess spent a lifetime weaving cunningly benign rhymes for children about the environment, the dangers of isolationism and materialism, racial equality and the arms race. But ask a kid (or most adults for that matter) what they remember most about Suess and they're likely to zero in on the food ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Happy Margarita Day: Sticky Finger's Sweets Vegan Strawberry Margarita Cake Recipe
flickr user aliciagriffinSticky Fingers' Vegan Margarita CupcakesDepending on your willpower perspective, it's either the first day of Lent or national Margarita Day. Or who knows, it could be both if you make the vegan strawberry margarita cake -- or sure, Happy Hour cupcakes -- from the new ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
5 Paula Deen Desserts Not to Try if You're Diabetic: Or, Adventures in Schaden-fried
Given Paula Deen's recent announcement about her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis and her partnership with Novo Nordisk, we thought we'd follow up our 5 Paula Deen Holiday Recipes We Don't Want To Try with a few more recipes we would suggest diabetics (and health-conscious eaters in general) stay away from ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Dine à la Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center A Waldorf Salad Recipe
Banners for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time (P.S.T.) initiative appear to be on every light pole citywide. There are 60 exhibitions covering every aspect of Los Angeles' postwar art scene from 1945 to 1980 at art museums and galleries across Southern California. That post-war fixation extends to ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
A Recipe For Chocolate Bark: Quick Gifts for Chocolate Lovers
Jeanne Kelleychocolate barkNeed a gift in a hurry? Why not make bark? Chocolate bark is a wonder of a confection -- it's quick to make, it looks cool and is adaptable to every taste -- at least of course for those who's tastes include chocolate. The candy can be made in about 30 minutes flat ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Cookbook Of The Week: Desserts by Michel Roux A Chocolate-Almond Rochers Recipe
amazonNormally, baking books by top restaurant pastry chefs, at least the Michelin-star type, are big. And glossy. As with the previous cookbooks from French pastry chef and former London restaurateur Michel Roux (his son now runs La Gavroche restaurant), you needed those gorgeous super-sized ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Buche de Noël Meringue Mushroom Tips From A Master Pastry Chef A Recipe
As we can imagine few things more miserable than stepping foot in any retail store on the busiest shopping day of the year, we will be spending the day after Thanksgiving drafting our holiday baking plan of action. Baking Friday, if you will. Up this year: Buche de Noël. Home baking frustrations ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Gourmet Product Awards Winners Announced
Courtesy of Malibu Pies.Chipotle chile peanut butter, blueberry licorice and coconut hibiscus tea were among the winners at the first Gourmet Product Awards. The competition honors the best new gourmet products in 43 finely divided categories including condiments, confections, dairy, oils, ba ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Katherine Tidy's Very Yellow Lemon Meringue Pie: A Recipe
In our conversation with Katherine Tidy, the food stylist on BBC Film's coming-of-age food comedy Toast, we spoke of a lemon meringue pie that presented Tidy with one of her biggest challenges on the shoot. "It was pivotal," says Tidy, "so I did lots of samples of it and took pictures of it and e-ma ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Battle Pot de Crème: Mark Peel vs. Suzanne Goin a Recipe from the Winner
C. LeVasserThe duo of pots de créme.We, and maybe you, continue to spend the majority of our time cooking at home, rather than eating out. Learning how to make things like New Orleans-style boudin blanc, and Sardinian malloreddus, seems to bring us a good bit more joy these days. So today, w ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Q & A With Nancy Silverton: The Mozza Cookbook, The Problem of Gelato Doing One Thing at a Time Very, Very Well
A. ScattergoodNancy Silverton and her new cookbook at Mozza Nancy Silverton, who is an over-achiever in much the same way as is, say, Malcolm Gladwell, has had a productive summer even by her standards. Mozzas in Newport Beach and Singapore recently opened; Amy Pressman's burger project, Shor ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Your July Sugar Rush: Free Slurpees, Lollipops and Dessert A Slurpee Recipe
Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Cookbook Review: Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams The Ice Cream Recipe You Really Want
Like so many things in life, the glorious rules of the Pastry Kitchen -- always use chilled butter in a pie crust, always temper egg yolks into a hot liquid -- are made to be precisely and respectfully learned. And subsequently broken. When it comes to ice cream, no one has perhaps done mor ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Review: Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes For The End A Jonestown Kool-Aid Cake Recipe
Sure, Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes For The End, is a gimmicky new pocket-sized book by author Shannon O'Malley who boasts on her book jacket bio that she "has no previous baking experience." That's also why this book is a pretty great cure for summer workweek doldrums with its snarky recipes for ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
A Recipe From The Chef: Maida Heatter's Mexican Chocolate Sorbet
JGarbeeMaida's Chocolate Sorbet and Peanut Butter Cookie DoughAmidst much talk this week of princesses, we have be focused on our chatting with our Queen. Maida Heatter, of course. Choosing what recipe to run has been the trickiest part. Should we run a brownie recipe? Perhaps, as Maida certa ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: Cake Police, the Perfect Bowl of Soup Culinary ESP
Award-winning writer, native Angeleno and USC creative writing teacher Aimee Bender's second novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, opens with 9-year-old central protagonist, Rose Edelstein, taking a bite of birthday cake that her mother has made from scratch and tasting... bottomless ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter's Cookies Ladybird Johnson's Moonrocks Recipe
Though some may call Maida Heatter "The Queen of Cake,"and her revamped Maida Heatter's Cakes is certainly at the top of our weekend baking list, after flipping through her companion cookbook, Maida Heatter's Cookies, we would argue that royal title is best bestowed on the octogenarian (or ol ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Prince William's Groom's Cake Revealed The Royal Family's Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe
Eating RoyallyChocolate Biscuit Cake (Background)If you enjoyed a tabloid-free weekend, let us break your fast with the latest Royal wedding reception menu gossip: Prince William has chosen a groom's cake made of tea biscuits and chocolate. A groom's cake? Though groom's cakes are more comm ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Cookbook Review: Teen Cuisine A Teen (Tween?) Friendly Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Parent or not, we all know a teenager who could use a kick to get their ass into the kitchen. Teen Cuisine by Matthew Locricchio could be that book. Or not, depending on how much those kids have already spent in the kitchen during their Tween Tribune reading years. We would argue that Tween A ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Panna Cotta Is (Usually) Boring A Recipe for Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Compote
Ryan Millerpanna cotta Panna Cotta is boring. Gingered versions show up on "fusion" restaurant menus all over town, and just about every Food Network star (insert desired perkiness, accent, girth or cleavage here) has demonstrated just how easy the Italian "cooked cream" is to make. But, this ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
A Recipe From the Chef: MovieRecipes.net's Pulp Fiction Vanilla Milkshake
Pulp Fiction MovieRecipes.net chef John Christenson's recipe for the vanilla milkshake from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction does not come with coke, heroin or adrenaline (sorry), but it is a sublime version of a legal old school shake. Turn the page for the recipe, read our interview with M ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
Purim With a Shiksa Kosher Cosmo & Poppy Seed Cake Recipes
from Wonder Bread & ham to hummus and challahPurim is just around the corner, beginning Saturday, March 19th, and some of us are already daydreaming about hamentashen; kreplach; sufganiyot; and other bizarre-sounding foods. Tori Avey, also known as Shiksa in the Kitchen, is loosening her belt ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
The Cocktail Issue: Golden State's Beer Float A Recipe
Anne FishbeinGolden State's beer floatThis past week's cover story was the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day h ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
The Twelve Days of Cookies: Blackmarket Bakery's Coconut Curry Mango Bar Recipe
Blackmarket BakeryCoconut Curry Mango BarsAs our Twelve Days of Cookies comes to a close this year, we feel compelled to offer our thanks. Not only to the pastry chefs and baking book authors who shared their recipes, but to Sherry Yard's chocolate lab, the catalyst for her holiday dog biscui ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
A Recipe From The Chef: The Royal Family's Chocolate Birthday/Yule Log Cake ( Now Wedding?)
Leonardo FrusteriThe Royal Yule LogWhen we talked with Darren McGrady, the Royal Family's former private chef (and later Princess Diana's chef -- yes, he considers those two very different titles), he told us about cooking for the Queen of the kitchen, as well as his thoughts on the upcoming ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
The Twelve Days Of Cookies: Sesame Seed Biscotti Via Alice Waters (Sort Of)
cookiemadness.netSesame BiscottiWhat happens when you merge Alice Waters and stale cookies? Eggs divide, organic flour magically appears, and a Biscotti baking book is born. If you read yesterday's review, you probably already have the baking book from the American Academy in Rome on your Ama ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
The Twelve Days Of Cookies: Elizabeth Belkind's Mexican "Hot" Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Cake Monkey BakeryChocolate Chile de Arbol Cookies With Chipotle-Chocolate GanacheIf you've been keeping up with our Twelve Days of Cookies, you've already made Alice Medrich's peanut butter meringues, Evan Kleiman's Italian taralli, Sherry Yard's canine-friendly cookies, and Richard Ruskell' ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
A Recipe from the Chef: Craig Thornton's S'more
Julian FangThe Wolvesden version of a s'more Last week, we brought you the recipe for Craig Thornton's dish, "Wolves in the Snow," his beautifully twisted representation of, "a wolf attack on a plate." This week, we're digging into another part of the chef's recipe collection, in which he put ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
The 12 Days (or Something Like That) of Cookies, Starting With Alice Medrich's Chunky Peanut Butter Clouds
alicemedrich.blogspot.com/Medrich's Bakers ScaleNot to dismiss pie, but cookies, now there's a solid reason to love the holidays. As we're already thick into Target-red holiday commercial reruns and yet another destined-for-the-sale-bin Christmas ornament, we really would rather be in the kit ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Blast from the Past: 10 Pictures from Cookbooks for Kids
Because teaching kids to cook isn't the same as teaching grown-ups, cookbooks have always used a different approach in getting children to learn how to prepare food: they get them into the kitchen with pictures of cute, fun-to-make desserts. Flickr user Charm and Poise has compiled vintage kid-food ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/25-10/29
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And if you need the address of a place to eat soup dumplings, tlayudas or charcoal-grilled hagfish, feel free to give me a call." An Open Letter to Paula Deen. "Yes, there are those tips on casting a spell in the Introduc ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Celebrity Chef Scandals: Pastry Dude Pleads in Plot to Pop Wife His Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
One of the more twisted stories in fooddom came to a near-close today when Juan-Carlos Cruz, the former Calorie Commando host on the Food Network, pleaded no contest to the charge that he solicited three homeless men at the Santa Monica Promenade to rub out his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Sen ... More >>
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