Pecans

Recipe: Carrot cake ice cream

2013-04-26 14:30:00

� Carrot cake ice cream Total time: 1 hour, plus chilling and freezing time -------------------- Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try this or any other recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen, please share it with us: Click here to upload pictures of...

Recipe: Salad of dandelion greens, blood oranges, goat cheese and pecans

2013-04-06 00:00:00

� 20 minutes. Serves 4 to 6 2 blood oranges 1 (1-pound) bunch dandelion greens, trimmed and torn 1 cup toasted pecan halves 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced 2/3 cup raisins 1/4 cup sherry vinegar 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons fruity olive oil...

From the recipe archive: 'Chocolate chewies' cookies

2013-03-18 18:12:00

I recently received a request from Mary in Torrance, asking for a recipe we ran a few years back: "I hope you will search your files for a recipe printed in the TIMES perhaps five or so years ago.� Torrance Bakery Chewy Walnut Cookies (or a title very...

It's almost Mardi Gras! Got king cake?

2013-02-08 10:00:00

Mardi Gras is next Tuesday -- got your king cake? At first sight, it may come across as, well, a little unusual. A large wreath-shaped cake bedazzled in vibrant shades of purple, green and gold — there's nothing subtle about it. It might be...

Christmas tradition: Pecan pie recipe

2012-12-23 12:00:00

In our latest Saturday section, Times Food staff shared our favorite Christmas dinner traditions. I wrote about pecan pie, describing the dessert that has become a tradition shared with my in-laws. As of this writing, I've already heard from a number of...

Dinner tonight! Watercress and Stilton soup

2013-01-23 12:04:00

Barely wilted watercress lends a wonderful shade of green to this soup, rich with Stilton cheese and garnished with toasted pecans. It makes a wonderful first course or light meal, and the whole dish comes together in about an hour. For more quick-fix...

Dinner tonight! Simple salad with chicken, goat cheese and pecans

2013-01-10 12:32:00

Sometimes you can't get any simpler than a salad for dinner. Take some greens, add a little of this or that, and get creative. You can pick up a few ingredients, like a roast or rotisserie chicken, from the store, or find ways to use the leftovers in...

Holiday cookie recipe: White chocolate turtle cookies

2012-11-30 08:00:00

Nicole Cleghorn, Minot Air Force Base, N.D., was one of the 10 winners of last year's Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these white chocolate turtle cookies: "The holidays are about spending time with the ones you love. For me, my...

The gift of Christmas dinner

2012-12-22 00:00:00

Christmas dinner is a meal with plenty of tradition, but it's not as hidebound as Thanksgiving. It's more a matter of choice than obligation. We tend to serve the same dishes year after year, but it's because we want to — because we love them and...

Christmas dinner: Sharing a pecan pie across generations

2012-12-22 00:00:00

"Where's the pie?" my grandmother-in-law would ask behind the screen door. She was a little woman, close to 90 when we first met, feisty and hunched over with age and needing a walker. She'd ask the same thing every time I showed up on her front porch...

Holiday cookie recipe: Bourbon balls

2012-11-28 08:00:00

Kate Wheeler of Pasadena was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these bourbon balls: "Something about the flavor of liquor in desserts just screams 'holiday' to me," she said. "Maybe it's a nod to fruitcake...

Test Kitchen video tip: Perfect whipped cream

2012-11-19 14:00:00

Homemade whipped cream. Try it just once and you'll never look at the store brands again. Nothing beats the flavor or texture, and the method is simple. Purists are right -- using a hand whisk is one of the best ways. But here's a secret: I think the food...

Get the coffee going

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Sometimes you can't get any simpler than a salad for dinner. Take some greens, add a little of this or that, and get creative. You can pick up a few ingredients, like a roast or rotisserie chicken, from the store, or find ways to use the leftovers in the fridge.

2013-05-06 15:12:01

Fun and sweet: A more modern deconstructed pecan pie, with candied pecans, brown-butter custard, malted chocolate stout sorbet and a torched squiggle of marshmallow.

2013-04-10 16:09:02