Salad Recipes

Betty [Crocker] Goes Vegan! The Cookbook "Her" Recipe For Vegan Bisquick

What happens when Betty Goes Vegan? Pull out the Aqua Net and your best pair of Silver Lake stilettos. Brooklyn-based authors Annie and Dan Shannon are serving up vegan bacon cheeseburger hash, Greek sliders (with vegan ground beef), "faux cassoulet" (beans, vegan beef broth, Tofurky sausages), spin ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: Your Quick Fix For Thanksgiving Side Dish Monotony His Sweet Potato "Guacamole" (!) Recipe

If you're feeling uninspired by the same Thanksgiving sides, you've still got time to order a copy of Fred Thompson's Southern Sides for express delivery before the turkey oven timer goes off. Sure, California is miles from the South, at least last we checked the election results. And the topic of ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Andrew Weil's True Food His Phoenix Via L.A. Umami Sauce Recipe

Full disclosure: we didn't expect to do much more than a quick flip through of Andrew Weil's just-released True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure cookbook. Something about those eponymous vitamin packs and the "Spontaneous Happiness" (for a fee) plugs on his website had taken their sales pi ... More >>

Beer Pairing: Boneyard Bistro Tomatoes Stone's Saison du Buff

If you're lucky enough to be growing your own, you know that tomato season is almost over. For this reason you should get yourself to Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks for the last few weeks of their seasonal tomato salad. With a beer uncanny in its pairing power, this is the perfect last hurrah for s ... More >>

Cooking With Artisans: Coldwater Canyons' Leftover Jam Tips Their OutKast-Inspired Marmalade Salad Dressing Recipe

In today's era of trendy compotes and 10-ingredient jellies, Coldwater Canyon Provisions takes a refreshingly old-school approach to their preserves and pickles that hint at simpler jam and jelly times. Flavors include watermelon jelly, raspberry and strawberry-rhubarb jam, and pickled okra, beets a ... More >>

A Recipe For Sardine-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers with Lemony Greens and Whole-Wheat Croutons

While the weather might be cooling off a little, it's still too hot to ignite the oven, stove and maybe even the barbecue. But it's never too warm for a nice meal. Especially when it's served with a cold beer. The trick is to make a satisfying, colorful and appetizing dish without cranking the heat, ... More >>

87: Egg Salad Sandwich at Euro Pane Bakery

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 87: Egg Salad Sandwich at Euro Pane. Egg salad is just egg salad, right? Something snatched from cold deli cases wrapped in cellophane or whipped up for a last ... More >>

A Recipe For Spinach Salad with Grilled Shrimp and Peppers What Are Mini Peppers Anyway

At first I was skeptical of the colorful mini peppers packaged in the clamshell at the grocery store. I can be wary of produce not sold from crates at farmers markets, and these glossy, firm, petite yellow, red and orange babies looked just too plastic-perfect and remarkably un-heirloom to be any go ... More >>

The New Era of (Good) Healthful Cookbooks, Starting With Hero Food And Salad for Dinner

Those low-fat, low-carb, low-trend-whatever cookbooks will likely always have a market. But yet another positive trickle-down effect of the current farmers market and backyard gardening era has been the really great "healthful" cookbooks we've been seeing recently, Hero Food: How Cooking With Delici ... More >>

What Has Betty Crocker Been Up To The Past 90 Years? A Big Book of Weeknight Dinners

At a moment in our culinary history when even our everyday weeknight dinner focus -- or fuss, depending on your recipe perspective -- is on (more) sustainable, farmers market-friendly, nose-to-tail cooking, we were curious what we might find among the pages of a modern Betty Crocker cookbook. Slow-c ... More >>

A Recipe For Foraged Green Salad with Goat Cheese A Foraged Greens Primer

You don't have to be a Nordic, Michelin starred-chef like Rene Redzepi to work wild-grown foods into your cooking. We can forage right here in Los Angeles County. Because of our summery winter, edible plants such as Lamb's Quarters, Miner's Lettuce, Nettles and Wood Sorrel, are flourishing now in ou ... More >>

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 >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Sean Ehland's Pennsylvania Summer Salad

​If you read Part 1 and Part 2 of our interview with Sean Ehland, the executive chef-turned-stagier who's not only worked at Noma but among the farms surrounding a rural Danish castle, you would have learned that the man loves foraging. To that end, he's created a recipe for a grilled summer s ... 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 >>

Fennel Avocado Salad: A Recipe from Sauce's Sassan Rostamian

A. Scattergoodfennel citrus avocado salad at Sauce​ In our interview with Sauce on Hampton's chef-owner Sassan Rostamian, the chef talked about the importance of the farmers markets, which have become the focal points and ad hoc meeting grounds for chefs and home cooks all over town. Rostamian ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Frisèe

Felicia FriesemaFrisee at the Hollywood market​ Anyone who is still avoiding French cuisine because they think its all heavy sauces draped over various seared meats (you've surely dropped your New Year's resolutions by now anyway, right?) needs to become friends with frisèe. Also known as cu ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Pea Tendrils

Felicia FriesemaPea tendrils from McGrath Family Farms at the Hollywood market.​ Most of the winter greens at the markets are the sturdy, cold-loving varieties that can take a firm hand on the stove: leathery kales and chards, crispy cabbages, tightly bound Brussels sprouts. But as the chill ... 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 >>

A Recipe From The Chef: Ray Garcia's Quinoa Salad With Orange Blossom Vinaigrette

starchefs.comQuinoa Salad At Fig​When we talked to Fig chef Ray Garcia earlier this week, he told us about cooking for small dogs in large handbags (not his handbags, or dogs for that matter) and the evolution of bacon-wrapped-bacon (get the recipe here). Lately Garcia has been focusing on t ... 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: Evan Kleiman's Peach-Tomato Salad With Burrata

A. Scattergoodpeach-tomato salad with burrata at Angeli Caffe​ After sitting down recently in the dining room of Angeli Caffé for a chat about this and that, Evan Kleiman was kind enough to give us the recipe for this peach-tomato salad with burrata, which is currently on the menu at her rest ... More >>

Perfect Pairings: Recipes From An Italian Summer, Pinot Grigio A Melon Salad Recipe

​While we are content to measure our summer vacations in single day increments (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day), Italians prefer to measure their holidays in months. Particularly in the summer, when everyone in Italy seems to be on the beach, craggy rocks and sunbathing crowds be damned. ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Collin Crannell's Lobster Salad

Chef Collin Crannel took over Santa Monica's seafood standby, The Lobster, just one month ago, and has already begun to infuse the menu with some surprising new dishes. Here is the recipe for one such dish, his lobster salad-- but as you can see from the photo below, it does not contain mayonnaise ( ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Salad Days: The Mathematics of a Good Vinaigrette

Given the triple-digit temperatures wilting much of Los Angeles and vicinity at the moment, the best thing to make for dinner is a dish that requires little time and less cooking. Preferably none. A salad, perhaps: either a riot of greens tossed into a bowl or an artful composition of ingredients. W ... More >>

Craig Strong's New Beachfront Kitchen, Wherein the Chef Demonstrates How to Stuff a Squid A Recipe

Chef Craig Strong left the kitchen of Pasadena's The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa at the end of May--after eight years and one Michelin star--and decamped for Laguna Beach, where he became executive chef of Studio at Montage in June. (Studio's previous chef, James Boyce, left for Alabama; Strong ... More >>

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