Recipes

Spork-Fed Vegan Cookbook A Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast Recipe

Amazon​Since the inception of vegan cooking company Spork Foods in 2008, and long before that, sisters Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg have been advocates of the meatless lifestyle. For their first cookbook, Spork-Fed: Super Fun and Flavorful Vegan Recipes from the Sisters of Spork Foods (St. ... More >>

A Recipe From Nickel Diner: Monica May's Pan Roast Pork Chop with Succotash and Pepper Jam

A. FrougNickel Diner's Pan Roast Pork Chop with Sweet Potato Tater Tots, Succotash, Fried Onions and Pepper Jam​In parts one and two of our interview with Nickel Diner's chef Monica May and general manager Kristen Trattner, they explained how they want you to feel like you're sitting on Trattn ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Pitfire Pizza's Heirloom Tomato Pizza

A. FrougHeirloom Tomato Pizza at Pitfire Pizza​ In parts one and two of our interview with Pitfire Pizza's owners Paul Hibler and David Sanfield, we learned about the design and recipe decision-making that allowed a 14 year-old restaurant chain to become a $10 million pizza behemoth. They make ... More >>

A Recipe For Freekeh Salad With Grilled Zucchini: A Freaking Good Salad

Jeanne Kelleyfreekeh and grilled zucchini salad​ Bulgur and farro are great, but have you tasted that other wheat grain, freekeh? Freekeh (also frike or frikeh) is a fire-roasted green wheat that's grown in Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. With a distinct green color and a smoky, nutty flavor, freek ... More >>

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 >>

Recipes for Tartines: Open-Faced Sandwiches Wine Pairings

Susan Parktartines and salad​ It's hot. So hot, that we can't bare to turn on the oven and we're more in the mood for shopping than cooking. We went to the Hollywood Farmers Market on Sunday to buy Japanese Momotaro tomatoes from Yasutomi farms and salad greens from Living Lettuce Farms for a ... More >>

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 >>

Cookbook Review: Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen Granny Foster's Fried Chicken Recipe

​There's something about summer that automatically revs up our food craving for fried okra, succotash, crispy slaws, picnic-worthy fried chicken and yeah, even those mayo-drenched Southern potato salads and pimiento cheese sandwiches. Or maybe it was flipping through Sara Foster's Southern Kit ... More >>

In Season Recipes: Pasta with Morels Cherry Frangipane Galette

Pascal from Flickr Morels​ When we think of morels, we think of Fricassée de volaille de Bresse aux Morilles. We grew up just ten miles north of Paul Bocuse's restaurant, near the Pont de Collonges, a place that is world renowned for Bresse chicken in cream sauce with morels. Bocuse is the gr ... More >>

Make Haste, Make Stew: A Recipe For Pork Stew with Olives, Green Beans and Herbes de Provence

Jeanne Kelleypork stew​ Make haste. Make stew? Summer is around the corner and very soon we'll be avoiding the stove, cooking everything from steaks to pizzas on the barbecue, and concocting cold salads for hot nights. Three-months-plus of nightly grilled and chilled entrees is not a bad thin ... More >>

Recipe: Birria de Borrego Estilo Sinoloa y Norte Africano

Medardo WinklerBirria de Borrego​ This birria de borrego, or lamb birria, comes from Test Kitchen Assistant and master of dried chile sauces, Medardo Winkler. His education in birria comes directly from his family, who run birria stands in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Winkler is also entrusted wi ... More >>

A Recipe for Pâte Sucrée Mother's Day Kitchen SOS

Patricia EscusaFrench Fruit Tart Prepared by Patrica Escusa, Test Kitchen Assistant​ Every year, during elementary school, we made something for Mother's Day as a class project. If your mother really did you love you, she probably still has a stash of butterfly and heart shaped cards as reminders ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Maida Heatter's Mexican Chocolate Sorbet

JGarbeeMaida's Chocolate Sorbet and Peanut Butter Cookie Dough​Amidst 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 >>

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 >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Eric Greenspan's "The Champ" Grilled Cheese

A. TrachtaThe sexiest damn grilled cheese you've ever seen.​Sure, there are quick and dirty versions of the grilled cheese. You can melt something yellow between two buttered buns in less than 5 minutes. But where's the payoff there? Let's take it slow. Make it worth our while. If we learned o ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese A Butterscotch Goat Milk Pudding Recipe

​Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, the prolific writing-cooking duo who brought us Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter last year, have just released their eighteenth (!) cookbook, Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese. Whether you love or hate Weinstein and Scarbrough's signature slapstick-tinged, ... More >>

A Recipe From the Burger King: Adam Fleischman's Pasta Rags with Marsala Sauce

A. ArmstrongAdam Fleischman's pasta with Marsala sauce​ As readers learned in the second part of Squid Ink's recent interview with Umami Burger's Adam Fleischman, the burger king (can we call him that?) likes to maintain a sense of adaptability in his projects. That adventure and experimen ... More >>

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 >>

Purim With a Shiksa Kosher Cosmo & Poppy Seed Cake Recipes

from Wonder Bread & ham to hummus and challah​Purim 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 >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Lidia Bastianich's Genovese Style Stuffed Vegetables

Lidia Cooks From The Heart Of ItalyStuffed Vegetables​If you've been following our 2-part interview with Lidia Bastianich -- a car chase, rather, as she dialed us up from a cab right after landing at LAX -- you've already heard the high priestess of Italian cuisine bless Sunday family suppers, ... More >>

8 Charlie Sheen Cocktail Recipes from L.A. Bartenders

Liza GershmanThe Bitter End cocktail.​The Charlie Sheen train wreck continues to disgust and fascinate us, inspiring Mad Libs, an online glossary, a gastronomic history and Twitter hashtags. But the oddest by-product of the Sheen meme has to be the cocktail recipes. You can thank the actor's t ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Yvonne and Nancy Boules' Cafe Dahab Koshari

K. RobbinsCafe Dahab's koshari​ When we sat down to interview Yvonne and Nancy Boules, the mother-daughter team behind Café Dahab, one dish kept coming up over and over - koshari. "[If] you put the koshari plate among kabob and other things," Yvonne told us, "It will be the first to go." A h ... More >>

Photo How-To: Making Pork Rillette with Chef Steven Mary A Recipe

In this second installment of our pictorial how-to series (in the first, we made kimchi with chef EJ Jeong of Cham Korean Bistro in Pasadena), we visit chef Steven Mary of Pinot Bistro, who teaches us to make the studio City's restaurant's recipe for rillette. Rillette isn't as scary as it sounds ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Winter Leeks Nickel Diner Recipe

Felicia FriesemaOrganic leeks at Finely Farms booth, Hollywood market.​ During the summer, allium family members, namely onions and shallots, dominate with pungency and volume, their gravid roundness an analogy for big season harvests. But in the winter, a slender, gentler cousin emerges. Le ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Dorie Greenspan's Gâteau Basque

Alan RichardsonGâteau Basque​ Earlier today award-winning cookbook writer, Dorie Greenspan, unraveled the mystery of Gâteau Basque. Here she walks you through the same process of making this traditional French dessert that is found in the pages of her latest book, Around My French Table: Mor ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Eric Ripert's Roasted Chicken with Za'atar Stuffing

WileyEric Ripert's roasted chicken with za'atar stuffing​ After we sat down at the Chateau Marmont for a 2-part interview with Eric Ripert, we asked the Le Bernardin chef for a recipe from his new book, Avec Eric. Sure, they're all good, but which one should we go home and make now -- and publ ... More >>

Q A With Cracker Barrel Cook Dan Keller (Part 2) His Meatloaf Recipe

Flickr user su-linMeatloaf Potatoes 3 (Pieces) of Vegetables = A Beautiful Southern Meal​In Part 1 of our Q A with Cracker Barrel line cook Dan Keller, we heard about life as a chef in the kitchen of a corporate diner (read: no chef degree required), Paula Deen's latest cash cow (casino ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Jamie Lauren's White Anchovy Bruschetta

A. Trachta​In our two part interview with Top Chef contestant Jamie Lauren, who recently took over as Executive Chef at Beechwood in Venice, told us in Part 1 of her interview how she changed everything on the menu upon arrival. (Except for the edamame and "those goddamn sweet potato fries.") ... More >>

The Twelve Days of Cookies: Blackmarket Bakery's Coconut Curry Mango Bar Recipe

Blackmarket BakeryCoconut Curry Mango Bars​As 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 >>

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 >>

The Twelve Days Of Cookies: Elizabeth Belkind's Mexican "Hot" Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Cake Monkey BakeryChocolate Chile de Arbol Cookies With Chipotle-Chocolate Ganache​If 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 >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Madhur Jaffrey's Salmon in Bengali Mustard Sauce

KnopfMadhur Jaffrey's salmon in Bengali mustard sauce​ If you read the many, many year-end best cookbooks of 2010 lists, you will doubtless be very familiar with Madhur Jaffrey's latest book, At Home With Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ... More >>

The Brothers Launch a Cookbook Their Filet Mignon Crispy Tacos Recipe

B. HansenMatt and Jeff Nichols, with their new book​Brothers Matt and Jeff Nichols weren't in the kitchen, and their popular restaurant, Brothers at Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos, was closed on a recent Sunday afternoon. Then why was it full of people eating great food and drinking local wines ... More >>

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 >>

The Twelve Days Of Cookies: An Italian Taralli Recipe From Evan Kleiman

Evan KleimanA Taralli Holiday Tree​On the first day of our Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes we brought you Alice Medrich's milk chocolate and hazelnut peanut butter meringue recipe. On the second day, we diverged slightly off the straight and narrow cookie path with a recipe for homemade peanut b ... More >>

10 Things You May Not Know About Korean Food a Recipe

B. Hansenpork with kimchi at Yongsusan​ Did you know that L.A.-style galbi is famous in South Korea? If the answer is no, then bone up (what better term) on this and other little known facts about Korean cuisine with a 10-point guide that will make you sound like an expert. 1. L.A.-style g ... More >>

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 >>

Underground Recipe: Orgasmo De La Boca's Cornmeal Pancakes With Lox And Coriander Creme Fraiche

When we last spoke with Alessandra Innamorato, an underground restaurant chef by way of Spain and owner of Orgasmo de la Boca smoked olives, we were contemplating the American obsession with food-based sexual references. But we are supposed to be talking about "the crack meets hot sex of olives" Twe ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Scott Conant's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Basil

Flickr user Sifu RenkaScarpetta's spaghetti with tomato and basil​ Spaghetti seems to elicit fairly strong opinions. Kids almost universally love it, while some adults seem to look down on it, as if it were a lower-class, or infantile pasta shape -- and far inferior to, say, pappardelle. But s ... More >>

Eatz Opens In December Recipe for Khoresh Fesenjan

Eatz​ Chef and founder Niki Tehranchi likes for an evening at Eatz to feel as much like a dinner party as it does a cooking class. After nearly two-and-a-half years of running her DIY cooking school out of her house, she'll be moving into new, professional digs on December 1st. The upgrade w ... More >>

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A Recipe From the Chef: Ming Tsai's Mom's Famous Vinegared Shrimp

Kyle BooksMing Tsai's mom's famous vinegared shrimp​ We may not all have mothers who make awesome vinegared shrimp, or grandfathers who grew their own chiles for sambal or made their own dumpling wrappers, as chef, cookbook author and television host Ming Tsai did. But hey, that's why people ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Alex Moreno's Turduckenizo Albondigas

courtesy of CASATurduckenizo Albondigas at CASA.​ As a huge football fan, CASA owner Mario del Pero and executive chef Alex Moreno were inspired by John Madden's annual turducken cookout to make a turducken of their own. Only this one is made in meatball form with a blend of Mexican spices. ... More >>

Cookbook Reviews: The Wicca Cookbook A Magikal Mushroom Recipe For Halloween

Wicca This Halloween Weekend?​And now, to dispel your wildest Halloween assumptions (sorry). "No hard and fast rules exist in Wicca," begins the Introduction to the second edition of The Wicca Cookbook: Recipes, Ritual and Lore by Jamie Wood and Tara Seefeldt. "It is not based on a degree or a ... More >>

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 >>

Cookbook Review: Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen A Roast Fingerling-Artichoke Recipe

​It's inevitable that many chef-scribed cookbooks start to taste the same after a while, even with all their unique cooking styles and flourishes. They're just not the sort of how-to-cook-everything cookbooks that can hold your attention over multiple weeknights. And so no matter how great the ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Mary Sue Milliken's Mexican Chopped Salad

Peter BarrettMexican chopped salad at Border Grill​ In our recent interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the Border Grill chef talked about all kinds of fun things, like stalking lamb in Mongolia and having a Hitchcock experience with raising pigeons in her back yard. She also discussed the Border ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Mary Sue Milliken's Tacos de Lengua

Peter Barretttacos de lengua ​ When we interviewed Mary Sue Milliken, chef-owner with her longtime business partner Susan Feniger of Border Grill, the second of which is now open in the former Ciudad space downtown, she talked about the fun she's been having chasing her food. Mongolian lamb, ... More >>

Twilight Cookbook Author Gina Meyers Defends Herself Against the Haters, Shares Recipe

​Gina Meyers wrote that Twilight cookbook, Love At First Bite. Some of you loved it. Some of you hated it. Here, she talks food, vampires and defends herself against the haters. And yes, she will be releasing a second Twilight cookbook. Have any people claiming to be vampires bought your book ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Martha Rose Shulman's Barley and Mushroom Salad

Martha Rose Shulman's barley and mushroom salad​In our interview with Martha Rose Shulman, cookbook author, New York Times columnist, cooking school teacher and Julia Child pen pal, Shulman points out that eating vegetarian isn't the political statement now that it was a few decades ago. This ... More >>