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189 Recipes

By AnthonyPesce

Jan. 27, 2014

Olive oil in a cake? You bet, and whole ground oranges, too. Recipe: Dario's olive oil cake

Dario's olive oil cake

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 20 to 24 (2 cakes)

One of our top 10 recipes of the year. Recipe: Buttermilk biscuits and burnt orange honey butter

Buttermilk biscuits with burnt orange honey butter

1 hour 20 minutes

Makes about 1 dozen biscuits

Green papaya salad with rau ram, peanuts and crispy shallots

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 6

Sriracha-style hot sauce

25 minutes

Makes about 1 1/2 cups sauce

Clear Chowder

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 4

Recipe: Apple borsellini

Apple borsellini

2 hours 15 minutes

Serves 12

Rough puff pastry

3 hours 30 minutes

Makes a generous 4 1/2 pounds of puff pastry

Recipe: Euro Pane's pear spice cake

Euro Pane's pear spice cake

1 hour 45 minutes

Serves 12 to 16

Curried lamb hand pies

1 hour 40 minutes

Serves 12

Grilled brined halibut with vine-ripened tomato salad

Grilled brined halibut with vine-ripened tomato salad

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

A warm, freshly made English muffin has the subtle tang of yeast-risen dough and a golden-brown crust.

English muffins

50 minutes

Makes 1 dozen muffins

Korean galbi jjim pressure cooker-style.

Korean Galbi Jjim

2 hours

Serves 6 to 8

Kale salad with farro, dried fruit and blue cheese

1 hour

Serves 4 to 6

Thomas Keller's Creme caramel

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 8

Tart with grapefruit curd and Campari

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 8

Slow-rising pumpkin-thyme dinner rolls

30 minutes

Makes 12 cloverleaf or 18 dinner rolls

White beans with chorizo, clams and shrimp

1 hour

Serves 6 to 8

Soft pretzels

1 hour 20 minutes

Serves 12

Baklava

2 hours 30 minutes

Makes about 3 dozen pieces

Recipe: Crisp-skinned salmon with lentils, bacon and dandelion greens

Crisp-skinned salmon with lentils, bacon and dandelion greens

1 hour 35 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Spicy Moroccan carrot salad

Spicy Moroccan carrot salad

45 minutes

Serves 4

Nancy's basic focaccia dough

3 hours 30 minutes

Makes 2 (10-inch) focaccia dough rounds

Olive and rosemary focaccia

1 hour 30 minutes

Makes 1 focaccia; each focaccia yields 8 slices.

Chickpea salad with chorizo (Garbanzos alinados con chorizo)

10 minutes

Makes 6 tapas or 4 salad servings

Homemade, you can fill them with Nutella!. Recipe: Homemade Pop Tarts

Homemade pop tarts

2 hours

Makes 8 pop tarts

Frangipane filling for pop tarts

5 minutes

Makes about 1 cup, or enough for 8 pop tarts

Recipe: Italian sausage and kale gratin

Italian sausage and kale gratin

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Recipe: Huckleberry's whole-wheat apple butter cake

Huckleberry's whole-wheat apple butter cake

2 hours 20 minutes

Serves 16 to 20

This rich and creamy dessert delivers chocolate accented with a hint of port. Recipe: Frozen chocolate zabaglione

Frozen chocolate zabaglione

25 minutes

Serves 8

So good they were named one of our top 10 recipes of the year. Recipe: Paradise bars

Paradise bars

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 12 to 16

Quick and colorful. Recipe: Quesadillas with greens and feta

Quesadillas stuffed with greens and feta

30 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Jerez-style wedding asado (Asado de boda Jerezano)

3 hours

Serves 32

Tender baby back ribs are rubbed with a lightly sweet/lightly spicy dry rub and then smoked with hickory.

Hickory-smoked baby back ribs

2 hours 20 minutes

Serves 4

Julienne's graham cracker chewy bars. Recipe here.

Julienne's graham cracker chewy bars

45 minutes

Makes 24 bars

RECIPE: Sizzling shrimp with garlic and hot pepper

Sizzling shrimp with garlic and hot pepper

25 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 14, 2009. Neapolitan style Ragu with pasta was photographed at the Los Angeles Times photo studio on October 14, 2009. (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times

Neapolitan-style ragu

6 hours

Serves 6 to 8

Bright with flavor, the rice noodles also make this dish gluten-free. Recipe: Rice noodles with Chinese chives, shrimp, shrimp and pork

Rice noodles with Chinese chives, shrimp and pork (banh pho xao he)

35 minutes

Serves 2 to 3

Orange-flavored shortcakes with strawberries and cream

40 minutes

Serves 6

Basic pizza dough

40 minutes

Makes enough dough for 4 (10- to 12-inch) pizzas

Recipe: Pizza margherita

Pizza Margherita

35 minutes

Makes 2 (10- to 12-inch) pizzas, about 12 slices

Recipe: White chocolate bread pudding with whiskey caramel sauce

White-chocolate bread pudding with whiskey caramel sauce

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Cook the onions low and slow until they turn mahogany colored. Recipe: Potato gratin with caramelized onions and prosciutto

Potato gratin with caramelized onions and prosciutto

1 hour 45 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Try this combination of quinoa, meaty shiitake mushrooms, caramelized fennel and crunchy toasted cashews. Recipe: Quinoa salad with shiitakes, fennel and cashews

Quinoa salad with shiitakes, fennel and cashews

40 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Recipe: Roasted potato salad

Roasted potato salad

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Panforte with candied quince

3 hours 15 minutes

Makes 32 half-inch slices

Pumpkin seed stuffing with chorizo

1 hour 40 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Halibut and shimeji baked in parchment

Halibut and shimeji baked in parchment

40 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Made with a full pound of bacon and a half-pound of butter, former Times columnist S. Irene Virbila calls them "gloriously crumbly." Recipe: Maple bacon biscuits

Maple bacon biscuits

1 hour 15 minutes

Makes 2 dozen biscuits

Spaghetti with tuna and tomatoes.

Spaghetti with tuna and cherry tomatoes

30 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

These rich brownies combine no less than three types of chocolate. Recipe: Midnight chocolate brownies

Midnight Chocolate Brownie Bites

1 hour

Makes 25 brownies

Pork ribs are rubbed down with spices then smoked until the meat falls off the bone. Recipe: Ribs.

Naked ribs

2 hours

Serves 6 to 8

LOS ANGELES, CA. MAY 05, 2008: Roasted red-pepper Romesco sauce dipping with a grilled onion with Nora Peppers on May 07, 2008.

Basic romesco sauce

45 minutes

Makes about 2 cups

Romesco with grilled bread, spring onions and shrimp

45 minutes

Serves 4 to 8

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Dandelion green and Christmas lima bean tacos

2 hours 10 minutes

Makes 1 1/2 dozen tacos

Brown sugar pound cake with caramel glaze. Recipe here

Brown sugar pound cake with caramel glaze

45 minutes

Serves 10 to 12

Recipe: Cucumber paletas

Cucumber-chile paletas

30 minutes

Makes 9 (3-ounce) paletas

Braised zucchini with mint and lemon

Braised zucchini with mint and lemon

1 hour

Serves 4 to 6

Recipe: Shrimp tacos with pumpkin seed sauce

Shrimp tacos with pumpkin seed sauce

50 minutes

Serves 4

Recipe: Nectarine berry pie with black pepper crust

Nectarine-berry pie with black pepper crust

2 hours

Serves 8

Chipotle ribs

Total time: 3 to 4 hours, plus overnight marination

Serves 6 to 8

Recipe: Crostini with English pea puree and Greek yogurt

Crostini with English pea puree and Greek yogurt

30 minutes

Makes 16 crostini

RECIPE: Lemon upside-down cake Koenig, Glenn –– – 121261.FO.0301.food.8.GMK.March 1, 2007. Lemon upside–down cake.

Lemon upside-down cake

55 minutes

Serves 8

Delicate, creamy and simple to make. Recipe: Meyer lemon posset

Meyer lemon posset

25 minutes

Serves 2 (1/2 cup) portions

Sausage-stuffed squid braised with tomatoes and potatoes

Sausage-stuffed squid braised with tomatoes and potatoes

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Monkfish and clams with chorizo

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 6

Really the best ever Mac n cheese

Best-Ever Mac 'n' Cheese

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 12 to 16

Potato pancakes with apple-onion jam and horseradish creme fraiche

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 14 pancakes

Cold dinner-Chilled coffee roasted duck breast with green lentil and her salad.

Coffee-infused duck breast with French lentil salad

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 6

Open-faced manchego cheese and fig sandwich.

Open-faced manchego cheese and fig sandwich

1 hour

Serves 4

Arabic coffee pot de creme

1 hour 20 minutes

Serves 8

Bruschetta with burrata and radicchio marmalade

20 minutes

Serves 8

Grits-Grits with leek and shitakes

Grits with leek and shiitakes

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

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Roast chicken with truffles and truffle butter

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 4

Torsh kebab

Torsh kebab

30 minutes

Serves 6

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Slow-scrambled eggs with prosciutto

Total time: 20 to 30 minutes

Serves 4

Mushrooms bring out the earthy side of winter squash. Recipe: Mushroom and winter squash gratin

Mushroom and winter squash gratin

1 hour 40 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Aperitivo-Sage Risotto Bites

Sage risotto bites

45 minutes

Serves 12 to 16 (makes 64 bites)

Pear and cardamom upside-down cake

Pear and cardamom upside-down cake

1 hour

Serves 8

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Tortilla Espanola with shishitos

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Bombay-Bhel Puri

Bhel puri (Snack mix with vegetables)

55 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Recipe: Sugar snap pea soup with Parmesan cream

Sugar snap pea soup with Parmesan cream

1 hour

Serves 6

Los Angeles, CA. Cover. (step 3 of 4) Pulling apart roasted Porkchetta

Slow-roasted shoulder of pork

20 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Lentils. Lentil and Duck Salad with Hazelnut Dressing as photographed in the L.A. Times photo studio, Thursday afternoon in L.A.

Lentil and duck salad with hazelnut dressing

40 minutes

Serves 4

Recipe: Limoncello

Limoncello

30 minutes

Makes 9 1/4 cups limoncello

Fig and almond tart

1 hour 50 minutes

Serves 10 to 12

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Double-lemon cake

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 12 or more

Recipe: Crispy-skinned wild salmon with braised spring peas and mushrooms

Crispy-skinned wild salmon with braised spring peas and mushrooms

45 minutes

Serves 8

Shrimp albondigas with guajillo-chipotle sauce

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 8

Weekly studio food shoot. A-Roy lemongrass salad.

Yum takrai (lemon grass with dried shrimp and cashew)

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 4

Spring vegetable ragout

40 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

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Spinach and Parmesan tart

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 8 to 10

Click here for the recipe.

Artichokes braised with prosciutto and cream

35 minutes

Serves 2 to 4

Cider-braised pork with fennel

3 hours 30 minutes

Serves 8

One of our top recipes from 2003, these sweet rolls are lightly spiced with cardamom, then topped with a rich vanilla glaze and chopped hazelnuts.

Cardamom sweet rolls

50 minutes

Serves 12

Pear cobbler with hazelnut biscuits

40 minutes

Serves 8

Mushroom-braised short ribs

Mushroom braised short ribs

4 hours 30 minutes

Serves 6

Chile poblano polenta

30 minutes

Serves 6

Madeleine Kamman, in her book "In Madeleine's Kitchen", suggests roasting the legs under a coating of Dijon mustard and breadcrumbs. The crust keeps in the juices while the meat turns succulent. Recipe: Duck legs roasted with mustard

Duck legs roasted with mustard

Total time: 1 1/2 to 2 hours

Serves 2 to 4

A little anise to bring out the flavor. Recipe: Star anise and grapefruit granita

Star anise and grapefruit granita

20 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Water Grill cheesecake.

Water Grill cheesecake

1 hour 25 minutes

Serves 10 to 12

Everyone scores with jumbo chocolate chip cookies.

Touchdown cookies

35 minutes

Serves 24 (3 cookies)

Recipe: Chocolate sparkle cookies

Chocolate sparkle cookies

1 hour

Makes about 36 cookies

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Chicken Braised With Figs, Honey and Vinegar

Active work time: 15 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour, plus 12 hours chilling

Serves 4

Cover story about curries. Photo of Ingredients that are common to all the curries. curry 2.(LOS ANGELES TIMES PHOTO BY KEN HIVELY)

Chicken mangalorean

Active work time: 35 minutes Total preparation time: 1 1/2 hours

Serves 6

Our Office burger

Active work time: 45 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour, 5 minutes

Serves 4

The House macaroni and cheese

Active work time: 30 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour

Serves 6

De Pomiane's country tart

Active work time: 15 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour

Serves 8

Artichoke stew with pecorino Romano

40 minutes

Serves 6

023193.FO.0118.food6.AR Hazelnuts: Rusk with coffee

Hazelnut crisps

Active work time: 30 minutes Total preparation time: 45 minutes plus 1 hour chilling

Makes about 27 crisps

Isn't it always time for deviled eggs? Recipe: Sun-dried-tomato-stuffed eggs

Sun-dried-tomato-stuffed eggs

Active work time: 25 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Makes 24 eggs

A simple recipe for classic red enchiladas.

Classic red enchiladas

1 hour

Makes 10 enchiladas

Red chile sauce

1 hour 30 minutes

Makes about 3 to 4 cups

Heirloom tomato risotto

Heirloom tomato risotto

50 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Your guests might never guess this dish comes together in only 30 minutes. Recipe: Arroz con chorizo y camarones

Arroz con chorizo y camarones

Active work time: 10 minutes Total preparation time: 30 minutes

Serves 4

An almost mousse-like texture with a chocolate cookie crust. Recipe: Peanut butter cream pie

Peanut butter cream pie

30 minutes

Serves 8

Hurry-up slow-cooked strawberry preserves

Active work time: 20 minutes Total preparation time: 1 1/2 hours plus 3 hours standing

Makes 5 (8-ounce) jars

Recipe: Rhubarb and raspberry ice

Rhubarb and raspberry ice

40 minutes plus chilling

Serves 8

This recipe for chocolate cake includes a heavenly chocolate ganache filling.

Chocolate truffle cakes

Active work time: 25 minutes Total preparation time: 40 minutes plus 1 hour chilling

Serves 10

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Upside-down cranberry cake

Active work time: 20 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour

Serves 14 to 16

Party like you're at the Hollywood Bowl with these shrimp and avocado quesadillas.

Hollywood Bowl shrimp and avocado quesadillas

40 minutes

Serves 8

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Pork ribs (Dwaeji kalbi)

1 hour

Serves 6

Crisp-skinned salmon with summer succotash and creamed corn

25 minutes

Serves 4

Master pie shell

20 minutes

Makes 1 (9-inch) single-crust pie shell

Basic meringue

15 minutes

Makes enough meringue for 1 (9-inch) pie

The warm flavor of curry is the perfect complement to cauliflower. Recipe: Cauliflower curry

Cauliflower curry

25 minutes

Serves 4

Cucumber raita

5 minutes

Serves 4

Recipe: Roasted Artichokes

Roasted artichokes

Active work time: 30 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 4

Maria Amparo Escandon, author of Santitos, a novel that has been made into a film in Mexico. her novel is full of food references, some she prepared at her home, Feb. 29, 2000. Photo of Esperanza's chipotle chicken.

Esperanza's chipotle chicken

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 6

Thai chicken stock

Active work time: 10 minutes Total preparation time: 1 hour

Makes 6 cups

The combination of coconut milk, lime juice, fish sauce and lemon grass from the stock is sweet and fragrant. Recipe: Tom Kha Gai

Tom Kha Gai (Coconut Chicken Soup)

15 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Classic banana cream topped with fluffy meringue. Recipe: Banana cream pie

Banana cream pie

Active work time: 1 hour Total preparation time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 8

Chicken, green chile and chorizo hash. Recipe here.

Chicken, chorizo and green chile hash

45 minutes

Serves 6

Recipe: Hazelnut brown butter torte with bittersweet chocolate by Karen Hatfield

Hazelnut brown butter torte with bittersweet chocolate

1 hour

Serves 8 to 12

Nearly candied quince is fairly easy to make and can be used in a variety of dishes. Recipe: Nearly candied quince

Nearly candied quince

50 minutes

Serves 8 to 12

Recipe: Sunchoke and leek panna cotta

Sunchoke and leek panna cotta

1 hour

Serves 4

The Gonzalez family left El Salvador during civil war and daughter has kept history alive through her poetry. But now mother is getting older and wants to share family's history through recipes and daughter is not into cooking but wants to keep recipes alive. bonding together while cooking. (Doriane Raiman/Los Angeles Times)

Salvadoran chicken tamales

5 hours

Makes 3½ to 5 dozen tamales

Poblano sorbet is a spicy, icy and sweet treat involving peppers, sugar, tequila and lime juice. Recipe: Poblano sorbet

Poblano sorbet

20 minutes

Serves 6

A classic from Santa Monica's favorite Polish restaurant. Recipe: Warszawa's cold borscht

Warszawa's cold borscht

1 hour

Serves 4

Making Sichuan wontons is more fun with friends.

Sichuan wontons in chili oil sauce (hong you chao shou)

1 hour

Serves 4

The secret is the use of Atomic horseradish.

Suzanne Tracht's horseradish cream

8 minutes

Makes 2 cups

Rabbit stew with preserved pears with ginger

Rabbit stew with preserved pears with ginger

4 hours

Serves 4 to 8

Recipe: Fava bean salad with mint, burrata and pistachios

Fava bean salad with mint, burrata and pistachios

20 minutes

Serves 6

Recipe: The Wallace's grilled cauliflower

The Wallace's grilled cauliflower

40 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Peach and blackberry dumplings

Peach and blackberry dumplings

45 minutes

Serves 8 to 12

A doughnut muffin? Yes, please.

Sweet Butter’s coffee doughnut muffins

1 hour

Makes 2 dozen muffins

Farro salad with smoked chicken

45 minutes

Serves 6

Recipe: Bell pepper and corn slaw

Bell pepper and corn slaw

35 minutes

Serves 6 to 8

Nancy Silverton's burgers with blue cheese, cheddar and Gruyere.

Nancy's burgers

40 minutes

Serves 6

Recipe: Huckleberry's roasted carrots with avocado

Huckleberry’s roasted carrots with avocado

45 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Maple bacon cinnamon rolls

1 hour 40 minutes

Serves 12

Recipe: Pumpkin-spiced French toast

Pumpkin-spiced French toast

24 minutes

Serves 4

Michael Cimarusti's roasted fillet of white sea bass en escabeche.

Roasted fillet of white sea bass en escabeche

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 8

No overnight soaking required for this hearty winter warm-up.

Smoky black bean stew

2 hours

Serves 6 to 8

BEVERLY HILLS - CA - NOVEMBER 18, 2014 - Roast duck, braised red cabbage and GlŸhwein prepared by Chef Bernhard Mairinger of BierBeisl for a demonstration of an Austrian Christmas, at the home of Richard Sparks and Jenny Okun, November 18, 2014. (Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times)

Bread dumplings

1 hour

Makes about 1 1/2 dozen dumplings

Recipe: Sweet potato tacos with leeks and almond salsa

Sweet potato tacos with leeks and almond salsa

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Recipe: Roasted carrots with rosemary butter and black pepper creme fraiche

Connie and Ted’s roasted carrots with rosemary butter and black pepper crème fraîche

1 hour

Serves 4 to 6

Smokey gouda is perfect for this grilled cheese sandwich, stuffed with bright, herby marinated tomatoes. Food styling by Ben Mims, with Julie Giuffrida. Props by Nina Cueva at PropLink in downtown Los Angeles.

Grilled Cheese with Marinated Tomatoes

25 minutes

Serves 2 to 4

Tea-crusted Salmon. Get the recipe.

Tea-crusted salmon

15 minutes

Serves 2

Recipe: Perfecto Rocher's paella verda

Perfecto Rocher’s paella verda

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 4

Oatmeal cookies from Sycamore Kitchen, topped with coconut toffee. Get the recipe.

Sycamore Kitchen's oatmeal cookies

1 hour

Makes about 14 cookies

No. 8: Fishing with Dynamite's cute little Key lime pies

Cute little Key lime pies

1 hour

Serves 8

Homemade Panda Express-style orange chicken.

Homemade Panda Express orange chicken

55 minutes

Makes 4 to 8 servings

Potatoes are par-boiled then tossed in hot olive oil and roasted until super crisp and crunchy at the edges. Food styling by Ben Mims, with Julie Giuffrida. Props by Nidia Cueva at PropLink in downtown Los Angeles.

Super-Crisp Roasted Potatoes

1 hour 25 minutes

Serves 4 to 6

Thanksgiving apple sausage stuffing

Pork Apple Sausage Stuffing

1 hour 30 minutes

Serves 8 to 10.

Hoe cake from Barrel & Ashes

Barrel & Ashes hoe cake

45 minutes

Makes 3 to 4 cakes

Cooking with beer for the super bowl: stout mustard wings.

Stout beer and mustard wings

1 hour

Serves 8 to 12

Chicken tinola - free-range chicken simmered in aromatic ginger broth, young papaya, chili leaves and Milagros (rice).

Rice Bar's Tinola

2 hours

Serves 4

Atole, a masa milk and burnt strawberries drink.

Atole de fresas al rescoldo (maize and charred strawberry drink)

35 minutes

Serves 12

Cassia's Vietnamese coffee pudding

Cassia's Vietnamese coffee pudding

25 minutes

Serves 20

Dominick's spaghetti and meatballs.

Dominick's spaghetti and meatballs

4 hours

Serves 6

Roasted butternut squash with dukkah is served at Moruno.

Moruno's roasted butternut squash with dukkah

1 hour 20 minutes

Serves 4 to 8

The fried broccoli from Ramen Hood, the vegan ramen counter at Grand Central Market.

Ramen Hood's fried broccoli

20 minutes

Serves 2 to 4

Rye-caraway-cherry hand pies from pastry chef Sarah Lange.

Cherry rye hand pies

2 hours

Makes 12 hand pies.

Flame roasted eggplant spread with lemon and garlic

Flame-roasted eggplant spread with lemon and garlic

50 minutes

Makes about 2 cups

Salted caramel shortbread bars.

Salted caramel shortbread bars

45 minutes

Makes 16 to 24 bars

Recipe for orange-oregano roast chicken with olive gremolata from the book "Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors" by Diana Henry.

Orange-oregano roast chicken, olive gremolata

1 hour

Serves 6

Lasagna Bolognese recipe from Anthony Bourdain's “Appetites: A Cookbook.”

Anthony Bourdain's Lasagna Bolognese

4 hours

Serves 12 to 16

Classic elote from Casa Vega restaurant in Sherman Oaks.

Classic elotes

15 minutes

Serves 4

Lamb chops just out of the oven at Windrose Farm.

Windrose Farm lamb chops

40 minutes

Serves 4 to 8

Marinated lamb shoulder chops with minty egg noodles and pickled red onions.

Anchovy-Marinated Lamb Shoulder Chops With Minty Noodles

1 hour

Serves 4.

Fava beans combine with lemon, chile flakes, and wine for a vegetarian spin on scampi pasta.

Fava Bean Scampi

15 minutes

Serves 4.

Buckwheat Tahini Brownies, a menu item at Botanica restaurant in Silver Lake, can be made at home.

Gluten-Free Buckwheat Brownies With Tahini Whipped Cream

45 minutes

Makes 12 to 16 brownies

Canned chickpeas, baked in chicken broth with aromatics, are served up with bracing, crunchy watercress dressed with lemon.

Brothy Baked Chickpeas With Chilled Lemon Watercress

1 hour 10 minutes

Serves 4.

Whole carrots, lightly charred on the grill

Grilled Spring Carrots with Fresh Za’atar and Tahini Labneh

45 minutes

Serves 4 to 6.

Recipe: Momofuku Milk Bar's compost cookies.

Milk Bar's Compost Cookie

40 minutes

Makes 15 to 20 cookies.

This savory clafoutis transforms the traditional sweet baked custard dessert with whole cherries into a breakfast dish using cherry tomatoes instead. Food styling by Ben Mims, with Julie Giuffrida at PropLink in downtown Los Angeles.

Savory Cherry Tomato Clafoutis

35 minutes

Serves 4.

Cold chunks of cucumber are the perfect canvas for a sprinkling of crunchy, fried breadcrumbs flavored with ginger, garlic, peanuts and Szechuan pepper. Food styling by Ben Mims, with Julie Giuffrida at PropLink in downtown Los Angeles.

Chilled Cucumbers with Chile Crisp Breadcrumbs

25 minutes

Serves 6 to 8 as a side dish.

Red snapper fillets, blackened with Korean chile flake butter and served with pickled crunchy vegetables. Food styled by Ben Mims, with Julie Giuffrida at Proplink Tabletop Studio in downtown Los Angeles.

“Blackened” Snapper with Crunchy Pickle Salad

40 minutes

Serves 4 to 8.

Korean corn cheese makes the perfect filling for an overstuffed, late-summer grilled cheese sandwich.

Korean Corn Grilled Cheese

40 minutes

Serves 4

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