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Nuts and Edible Seeds

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    La Casita Mexicana Introduces Its Bottled Mole Paste

    If you make mole from scratch, it takes hours, right? Or maybe days, considering all the ingredients you have to assemble, toast, grind, combine and simmer. Well, what about two years? That's how long it took Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu of La Casita Mexicana to perfect a bottled versio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Cookbook Of The Week: Asian Tofu By Andrea Nguyen Is A Keeper Her Cashew Cardamom Fudge Recipe

    Our cookbook this week is the just-released Asian Tofu: Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook It at Home. Because if anyone can convince us to make tofu at home, it is Andrea Nguyen, the sort of tightly focused, thoughtful food writer who inspires you to explore a new subject (Vietnamese cuisin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Witchita Pecans Farmers Market Fairy

    The Witchita pecan, developed in Texas back in the 1940s for more arid climate production, is one of a handful of pecan varieties that actually do well in California (it usually like a moister climate). K&K Ranch grows the Witchita and has had the nuts -- still in the shell -- available for the past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Soupsmith Soup Truck to Hit the Streets

    Courtesy of FrysmithThe Soupsmith truck​Soupsmith, a pop-up soup truck from Frysmith, will roll out later this month -- but only for one week. During the third week of January, Frysmith will "power down the fryers and pull out the stock pots" for a soup-only menu inspired by the flavors in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Master Cleanse, aka 'Lemonade Diet': I Tried it During Christmas. Here's How That Went

    In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it. Deciding to go on the master cleanse in December was either inspired or idiotic. Since I got the idea while in the far-too-familiar haze of a wine buzz, I blame it on the alcohol. You'r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    A Recipe For Chocolate Bark: Quick Gifts for Chocolate Lovers

    Jeanne Kelleychocolate bark​Need 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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Cookbook Of The Week: Desserts by Michel Roux A Chocolate-Almond Rochers Recipe

    amazon​Normally, 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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Borekas at Tarte Tatin Bakery: Savory Among the Sweet

    D. GonzalezMaybe one... or two: Borekas from Tarte Tatin Bakery​ Usually, there's one overarching purpose that drives most visits to a bakery: a straight dose of the sweet stuff. That was our mission when we first visited the recently turned 1-year-old Beverly Hills bakery Tarte Tatin. But w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Local Pantry: Fat Uncle Farms Will Make You Rethink Your Nutella Habit

    jgarbeeCall It What You Will, We Call It Good​Fat Uncle Farms is one of those guilt-inducing farmers market stops by default, meaning that even something healthy like almonds feels like an indulgence when you are surrounded by piles of carrots. But you really do need a bag of rosemary-sea salt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    New Crop: Red Walnuts from K&K Farms

    Felicia FriesemaRed walnuts from K&K Farms at the Hollywood market.​ K&K Farms out of Orosi semi-debuted a striking new walnut at the Hollywood farmers market this season. They've actually had the Yolo Red walnut for a few years now, but haven't consistently brought it to market. This year i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Food from Many Greek Kitchens A Recipe For Sesame Rings

    ​In the cookbook world, there is a longstanding beauty versus brains dichotomy. We judge a cookbook by its stunning photographs (admiring each page, then promptly relegating the book to the coffee table) or by its encyclopedic recipe index and straightforward prose (ah, now this is going to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Truly Mexican A Pipián Verde (Green Pumpkin Seed Sauce) Recipe

    ​Mexico City-born (now New York City based) chef Roberto Santibañez's latest cookbook. Truly Mexican: Essential Recipes and Techniques for Authentic Mexican Cooking with JJ Goode is truly exactly what the subtitle describes -- something that is not as common in the cookbook world as it should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    A Good Granola Is Hard To Find A Recipe

    Jeanne Kelleygranola​ A good granola is hard to find. The supermarket selection, no matter what the flavor or brand -- organic or otherwise -- tastes like stale oat flakes. And the proliferation of low fat granolas -- don't even bother with those, unless you enjoy snacking on sweetened cardboa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    David Haskell's Magnum Wine Pairings: Or, Adventures in Apricots, Uni & Potato Chips

    emdot/Flickr​ Los Angeles sommelier David Haskell (Le Cirque, Bin 8945) -- whose Magnum event with chef Joseph Mahon at Royal/T on April 17th through April 19th will benefit the Japanese sake industry devastated by March's earthquake and tsunami -- usually likes to tell a story when he does a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    A Recipe From The Chef: Sous-Vide Egg Yolks With Arugula-Raclette Pesto From Kelley Lee's Alchemist In Shanghai

    The AlchemistSous Vide Egg Yolks With Arugula-Raclette Pesto​In our two-part interview with Shanghai chef/restauranteur Kelley Lee, the Cerritos native told us about the trials of introducing gastropub burgers to a McDonald's obsessed city, opening a brewery when she knew nothing about craft b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Weird Science: Walnuts, Nature's Perfect Nut?

    Guzzle & Nosh​Every few years there's a new study touting the salutary properties of the latest "superfood." Blueberries, acai, maqui. (We're only slightly ashamed to admit we learned about the Chilean wineberry from a menu at Yogurtland). What's the latest supercallfragalistic food? The walnu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    The New Snack Cake: Cashew Caramel Bar from Luisa & Son Bake Shop

    D. GonzalezNo kidding around: The cashew caramel bar​ Excitement in food world seems driven by the perpetual pursuit of the new. A hot opening. Emerging trends. Yet, so much about food is tied to the past. Case in point, a hot new restaurant writes on their menu how it was inspired by the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Local Macadamia Nuts

    Felicia FriesemaMacadamia nuts at the Hollywood market this past weekend.​ Ruth Reichl tweeted about the Hollywood market this weekend: "Stunned by abundance. Hollywood Farmers Market: strawberries, Kishus, tomatoes, oysters, avocados, herbs, lettuce, live crabs. LA in winter." 140 characters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Best Almond Paste: Fat Uncle Farms Calls It Marzipan, We Call It Good

    J. GarbeeAlmonds, Honey And Apricots (Or Oranges) = The Marzipan Of Your Dreams​ In today's world of health-touting food packaging, even hard alcohol is boastfully going organic (you would think 80 proof would make anything pesticide free). And so there is an insidious pleasure in buying farm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    The Twelve Days Of Cookies: Sesame Seed Biscotti Via Alice Waters (Sort Of)

    cookiemadness.netSesame Biscotti​What 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 Scale​Not 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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 11, 2010

    A Movable Beast: L.A. Weekly's 99 Essential Restaurants

    The modern L.A. restaurant, unleashed

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Notes on Eating the Great Pumpkin A Roasted Pumpkin Seed Recipe

    Flickr/yiie​ If you're like a lot of people and never got around to carving your Halloween pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern, don't let it go to waste, or even straight to the compost pile. You can harvest the seeds and turn them into a sweet or savory snack or garnish. And if you happened to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Millet-Corn Chowder: A Class a Recipe

    Flickr/permanentlyscatterbrained​ Join doctor of Chinese medicine Henry Jun Wah Lee and holistic chef Vicky Valencia for an evening of food and learning in Pasadena on Thurs., Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. There will be tasty (and healthful) dishes to sample, practical recipes you can use, and enlight ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Raw Peanuts

    Felicia Friesema​ The demand for fresh, raw peanuts in the shell used to come largely from displaced southerners from both the U.S. and Vietnam, where boiled peanuts (or dau phon) are a treasured snack. East of the Mississippi, the annual peanut harvests prompt celebrations similar to Ventur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    A Day At El Bulli Cookbook, The Paperback Edition: Get it While You Can

    Maribel Ruiz de ErenchunEven Adrià Gets That 10:20 A.M. Feeling​If you've always wanted to dine at El Bulli, no doubt you already know your Ferran Adrià days are numbered (though the restaurant is now reportedly closing in 2012 rather than this fall). But you can always buy the 500 page har ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Green Walnuts

    Felicia FriesemaGreen walnuts at K & K Ranch​ The green walnut was featured as an exciting "new" import at this year's Fancy Food Show in New York. While it is a little hard to come by, the entirely edible (but really sour) green walnut is hardly new. Sixteenth century Englishmen and women w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Momed Explores the Eastern Mediterranean

    Momed, the new Mediterranean restaurant in Beverly Hills, was lucky. It inherited a wood burning oven from the previous occupant, the Italian restaurant Rosti. And so you can have Turkish flatbreads straight from that oven with such toppings as oven-roasted wild mushrooms, akawi cheese and broccoli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    David Lebovitz Update: A New Book, A Video A Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

    Guess who's got a new book out? David Lebovitz, former Chez Panisse pastry chef, blogger extraordinaire, manic issuer of tweets -- "Am trying to figure out what's more important: cookware or bed sheets?" -- chocolate tourist, writer of cookbooks, and, well, one could go on. But why, when Lebovitz do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    The Joy of Spring Almonds An Easy Green Almond Recipe

    You'll occasionally score green almonds, those spring almonds that look like fuzzy uncured olives with a soft nut that you pop out to snack on, at the farmer's market this time of year. But rarely do farmers appear with the even younger version, those with merely a jelly-like idea of an almond so yo ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 11, 2010

    Straight Out of Sonoma: Dish, in Pasadena

    You'll occasionally score green almonds, those spring almonds that look like fuzzy uncured olives with a soft nut that you pop out to snack on, at the farmer's market this time of year. But rarely do farmers appear with the even younger version, those with merely a jelly-like idea of an almond so yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Aladdin Nuthouse Nuts

    I am a regular patron of Aladdin Nuthouse, one of the better Armenian nut vendors in town, a place with a half-dozen kinds of melon seeds, delicious sesame peanuts, and a way of roasting hazelnuts and almonds that not only brings out the full, round flavor of the nuts but leaves them rimed with salt ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 7, 2010

    Far From the Lebanese Crowd

    Mantee, via Beirut, on Ventura Boulevard

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    A Few Recipes From the Chef: Pastry Chef Jan Purdy's Holiday Cookies

    When we stopped by to visit Butter Tart bakery--which is set to reopen next month--the other day, pastry chef Jan Purdy was in the kitchen, baking holiday cookies. Purdy has been working with Butter Tart chef-owner Andre Guerrero since their days together at Linq (which is now the home of Christophe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Saving the Season: Canning at Surfas

    The test kitchen at Surfas in Culver City was filled with a standing room-only crowd on Saturday morning for their weekly free cooking demo. Behind the range was local food blogger Kevin West as well as Bettina Birch of BeeGreenFarm in the Three Rivers, California--a regular vendor at both Surfas an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Levi Johnston: Everyone's Favorite Pistachio Salesman. Your Nut Joke Here ________

    In a seriously random example of cashing in on notoriety, Levi Johnston, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's former almost-son-in-law and father of her grandson, is hawking pistachios. Johnston appears in this Wonderful pistachio ad with his bodyguard and manager Tank Jones. Jones is Johnston's pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Rosh Hashanah Catering: A Guide to Timely Ordering

    Photo Credit: Adam BakerCoconut Macaroons​While your internal clock may run on Jewish Standard Time, measuring by approximations instead of absolutes, restaurants don't. Making coconut macaroons and briskets for hundreds takes time and careful planning. So even though Rosh Hashanah is about a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    A Great Walnut Season: La Nogalera's New Batch of Walnut Oil A Recipe

    Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodLa Nogalera walnut stand​Between Buellton and Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, about 11 miles from the ocean on the inland side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, you'll find Rancho La Viña--and some of the best walnuts in this part of the country. This pleasant fact is ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 27, 2009

    Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

    Between a tweet and a truck

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Rainer Prohaska's Restaurant Transformable at the Mackey Apartments

    E.Z. WrightsonChef Transformable: Rainer Prohaska​The process of preparing, eating, and talking about food has become not just a spectator sport, but a viral topic of current culture. For Rainer Prohaska, the MAK Center's Austrian artist in residence, the making and eating of a meal is an imme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Pistachio-Rosewater Ice Cream Recipe: Exit National Ice Cream Month

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 10, 2008

    Samba Summer

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 20, 2005

    I Am Arak

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 29, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 22, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 18, 2003

    Kookoo for Coconuts

    Felicia Friesemashelled pistachios, mortar & pestle​"Baba gave us each a weekly allowance of ten Afghanis and we spent it on warm Coca-Cola and rosewater ice cream topped with crushed pistachios"--The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.With National Ice Cream Month about to vanish into our thighs ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 5, 2003

    Salty Prose: Judy Rodgers and the Art of the Cookbook

    The Zuni Cafe Cookbook

  • Eat+Drink

    January 30, 2003

    The Sound of One Hand Cooking

    The Zuni Cafe Cookbook

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 1998

    Salad

    And other womanly gifts

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