Walnuts

Recipe: Lamb burgers with Sephardic charoset

2013-05-20 08:49:00

Active work and total preparation time: 20 minutes 1 pound lean ground lamb 1 recipe Sephardic charoset Salt Freshly ground pepper 1 tablespoon oil * Combine lamb, charoset and salt and pepper to taste in large bowl. Knead into ball, divide into 8...

Recipe: Bulgur pudding with fruit, nuts and honey

2013-05-11 00:00:00

� 1 hour. Serves 6 2 1/2 cups water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups bulgur, medium-coarse (No. 3) or medium (No. 2) (about 8.25 ounces) 3 to 4 cups whole milk, more if needed 1/3 to � cup walnuts, divided 1/4 cup toasted almonds, divided 6...

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...

Forecast gives new hope in battling fires

2013-05-03 22:48:00

The second day of searing temperatures and unseasonably strong Santa Ana winds kept firefighters busy Friday battling blazes that threatened homes in Ventura County, Glendale and Walnut, but the day ended with hope that cooling conditions would ease the...

Walnut fire threatens homes in San Gabriel Valley

2013-05-03 16:38:00

A 2-acre brush fire was threatening homes in the San Gabriel Valley suburb of Walnut, just west of Diamond Bar, officials said. "It is very close to homes at this point," said Los Angeles County fire inspector Quvondo Johnson. "It started in the brush,...

Glendale fire nearly knocked down; Walnut fire out

2013-05-03 18:28:00

A 75-acre brush fire in Glendale that threatened homes has nearly been knocked out, while a separate fire in the San Gabriel Valley suburb of Walnut has been doused. Glendale officials credited the clearing of flammable brush and a decisive airborne...

California wildfires: 28,000 acres burned in Ventura County

2013-05-03 19:36:00

The wildfire burning through Ventura County has scorched 28,000 acres, and firefighters have only 20% of the blaze surrounded, officials said. The Ventura County Fire Department said the air attack would end at sunset and the Springs fire would be...

California wildfires: Better weather gives firefighters a chance

2013-05-03 22:32:00

As night fell, improving weather in Southern California was giving firefighters a chance to keep wildfires away from homes. By late Friday, firefighters had beaten back flames from an exclusive community of multimillion-dollar ranch homes in Ventura...

Live like a musketeer in French estate for $845,000

2013-04-30 07:00:00

A historic chateau in Bearn, a French province in the Pyrenees mountains, is on the market for 645,000 euros or roughly $845,000 at late April conversion rates. The location served as a watch tower in the 9th century and later belonged to the family...

Jonathan Gold | Restaurant review: On the M.A.K.E. for raw vegan cuisine

2013-04-13 00:00:00

If you are the kind of diner who gets hung up on first impressions, M.A.K.E., Matthew Kenney's raw-vegan restaurant in Santa Monica Place, may not be for you. It is not just on the dining deck but actually in the mall's food court, so to get to it you...

How to store fresh eggs

2013-03-26 07:00:00

Stocking up on eggs for Easter? Next time you run to the store for eggs, don't even think about storing them in the handy open plastic egg holder on the door of your refrigerator. Keep the eggs in their carton, on a shelf, toward the back of the fridge....

Undeclared walnuts prompt recall of coffee cake

2013-03-26 12:43:00

Chicago-based Gold Standard Baking has voluntarily recalled Sweet P’s Bake Shop branded Caramel Apple Danish Coffee Cake after discovering that it contained walnuts, but was distributed in packaging that did not state their presence, according to...

Gold Standard Baking of Chicago is recalling 1,134 cases of Sweet P's Bake Shop branded Caramel Apple Danish Coffee Cake because it contains undeclared walnuts, according to the FDA.

2013-03-26 12:30:37

Old-fashioned custard pies seem to have gone the way of Sunday suppers and country roads, but if you want to learn what you're missing, it takes only a piece of this fabulous walnut-raisin pie from Patty Pinner's cookbook "Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, With Pie.

2013-01-22 18:19:05

Plaques commemorating WWI soldiers were taken from New Britain's Walnut Hill Park.

2013-01-02 09:58:00