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Easy dinner recipes: Get grilling and other quick ideas

2013-05-24 09:30:00

Looking to take advantage of the warm summer weather for dinner tonight? Or this weekend? Then get grilling! From burgers to mahi-mahi to summer vegetables, we've got a bunch of recipe ideas to help you out. And speaking of burgers, have you thought about...

Easy dinner recipes: Breakfast for dinner and other quick ideas

2013-05-23 13:12:00

Breakfast for dinner. Sometimes nothing sounds better after a long day. And so often, it's easy to fix -- c'mon, we usually cook breakfast when we're barely awake, so you know the recipes can't be that challenging. Let us offer some suggestions, including...

Pistachio-cherry tart, mirin-sauced pork, granola bars

2013-05-23 17:36:00

DEAR SOS: El Tovar restaurant at the Grand Canyon National Park Lodges serves a wonderful cherry tart with pistachio nuts. I would love the recipe and hope you can get it for me. --KAREN DEAR KAREN: What an interesting tart this is--especially its...

UCLA students dig into the physics of food

2013-05-23 07:00:00

The three undergrads looked warily at the pulverized apples in their bowl. The would-be pastry chefs had planned to drop dollops of the mixture into a chemical bath, creating fruity spheres with a filmy skin and an oozing interior. Their early...

Recipe: Stonehill Tavern Kobe burger

2013-05-20 08:49:00

� Stonehill Tavern Kobe burger Total time: 3 hours, plus overnight standing time Serves: 4 Note: From chef-partner Michael Mina of Stonehill Tavern. You don't have to make all parts of this showstopping burger -- the buns, ketchup or mayonnaise can be...

Recipe: Our office burger

2013-05-20 08:49:00

� Total time: 1 hour, 5 minutes Servings: 4 Caramelized onions 4 slices applewood-smoked bacon 2 onions, sliced (about 4 cups) 1 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon ketchup 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 2-3 drops liquid...

Chocolate Chip Cookie Day: Celebrate with 5 recipes!

2013-05-15 07:00:00

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Whether you're more of a crisp and crumbly kind of fan, or you prefer yours soft and chewy, this all-inclusive celebration requires only one thing: a sweet tooth. Oh, and plenty of chocolate. Ever wonder how the...

Recipe: Mom's chocolate chip cookies

2013-05-15 17:47:00

Mom's chocolate chip cookies Total time: 45 minutes, plus cooling time Servings: Makes 2 dozen cookies. Note: This recipe comes from my mother, who was a home ec teacher. It's the one she taught me and my sister, and our friends from high school -- all...

English peas: A favorite way to prepare

2013-05-13 12:43:00

Even though so many of our traditional farmers market signals of spring have been converted to year-round production, there's one that has resisted all attempts -- the pea. Called English peas to differentiate them from snow peas or sugar snap peas, they...

Recipe: Duck and okra gumbo

2013-05-09 13:14:00

� Total time: 2 hours, 55 minutes Servings: 16 Note: From Terry Fortia, sous chef at Memphis. Bayou Magic Cajun Seasoning and Red Rooster hot sauce are widely available in supermarkets. Aidells makes an andouille sausage that is also widely available....

Recipe: Basque-style chicken

2013-05-09 13:14:00

� Chicken breasts have a bad reputation -- too often they're considered nothing but diet food, and dried-out diet food at that. But that's the fault of the cook, not the ingredient. The challenge of a chicken breast is that it's uneven, fat on one end...

Recipe: Game hens stuffed with kale, walnuts and cranberries

2013-05-09 13:14:00

Game hens stuffed with kale, walnuts and cranberries Total time: 1 hour Servings: 4 to 6 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) butter, divided 1 bunch kale (about 10 ounces), stems trimmed 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided 2 tablespoons dried...

Author and peanut butter connoisseur Jon Krampner will speak on "Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter" on Saturday.

2013-05-09 07:20:00

Get the coffee going

2013-05-07 00:00:00

And then she made garlic butter sprinkled with maple smoked salt. And THEN she made

2013-04-19 08:27:25