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This week's Culinary SOS: Nordstrom's chicken salad
This week's Culinary SOS request comes from Annette Farmer in Mar Vista: "I understand that the previous incarnation of the cafe at Nordstrom in the Westside Pavilion is now closed. They used to have a chicken salad that included chicken breast, green...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Pies and Tarts, Chicken Salad, Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicken
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Recipe: Joulu pipparkakor
Many years ago, a co-worker from Finland shared her family recipe for these best-ever gingery spice cookies (which she calls suomalaisat piparkakut). She made them and gave them to friends because, in the land of sunny Christmas mornings, they reminded...
Tags: Holidays, Coffee
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Test Kitchen video tip: Homemade hazelnut and almond pastes
A mixture of ground nuts -- such as hazelnut and almonds -- sugar and liquid (egg whites and perhaps a liqueur), nut pastes are frequently added to baked cakes, tarts and pastries for added richness and flavor. Although prepared almond and hazelnut...
Tags: Hazelnuts, Fruitcake, Sri Lanka
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Holiday project: Homemade eggnog and creative variations
You're handed a glass of a familiar holiday drink, and a deliciously unfamiliar aroma greets you: toasted coconut with hints of Tahitian vanilla, cinnamon and Jamaican allspice. You raise the glass to your lips and are surprised by the satiny texture --...
Tags: Whipping Cream, Holidays, Alcoholic Beverages, Egg Yolks, Cinnamon
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Holiday cookie recipe: Gingerbread macarons
What does one of the world’s best pastry chefs come up with when pressed for a holiday cookie? Sherry Yard, working with Sixto Pocasangre, took the oh-so-popular French macaron and scented it with an oh-so-Christmas-y touch of ginger, cinnamon and...
Tags: Holidays, Vanilla, Hanukkah, Vanilla Bean, Cinnamon
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Homemade holiday gift idea: Fig bars
Vanilla-scented fig bars are wonderfully sweet homemade gifts, and the recipe is a worthy addition to any cookie repertoire. RECIPES: 25 homemade holiday gift ideas! Fig bars are just one way to get crafty this holiday season with homemade gifts...
Tags: Holidays, Vanilla, Hanukkah, Vanilla Bean, Recipes
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Test Kitchen tips: Peeling chestnuts
You know the holidays are just around the corner when you start spotting fresh chestnuts in the market. Wonderful as they may be to eat, chestnuts can be tricky to peel, especially if you've never worked with them (or are feeling a bit rusty at the...
Tags: Russ Parsons, Chestnuts, Vanilla, Baking Powder, Cinnamon
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Holiday cookie recipe: Keeflees
Michele Yockey of Arroyo Grande was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these Keeflees: "This recipe has been in the family for at least 115 years," she wrote. "My grandmother came from what is now the Czech...
Tags: Holidays, Hanukkah, Cream Cheese, Walnuts, Czech Republic
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Test Kitchen tip: Food processor for pie dough
If you've never made a pie dough, or other quick doughs, in a food processor, I can't stress how wonderfully simple and easy the whole process is. Add the dry ingredients to the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Add the cold...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Butter, Salt, Recipes
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Recipe: Mini pumpkin chiffon pies
Total time: 1 hour, plus chilling time for the pies Servings: 12 Note: The filling is adapted from a recipe in "The Pie and Pastry Bible" by Rose Levy Beranbaum. The filling uses uncooked egg whites. 1/4 cup water 1/4 ounce (2¼ teaspoons)...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Pumpkin, Salt, Nutmeg, Arable Farming
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Recipe: Flourless chocolate cake
Flourless chocolate cake Total time: 1 hour, plus cooling time Servings: Makes 1 (8-inch-round) cake Note: From Na Young Ma of Proof Bakery in Atwater Village. 12 ounces 60% chocolate 4 ounces (1/2 cup, or 1 stick) butter 2 tablespoons cocoa powder...
Tags: Chocolate Cake
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The California Cook: Two cookies that go well with fruit
Los Angeles Times Food EditorStrolling the Santa Monica Saturday farmers market the other day, thinking about dinner. Five pounds of that thumb-thick jumbo asparagus from Zuckerman Farms? Of course! I already had carrots and favas from my garden. I'd ordered a leg of lamb. But what's...Tags: Macaroons, Salt, Almonds, Honey
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