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Citrus Spotlight: Citrumelos

Edible flowers weren't the only remarkable finds at the Hollywood farmers' market last weekend; we also stumbled across these citrumelos from Mud Creek Ranch. Curious to find out why they're dubbed "m...

Recipe: Spicy-Cool Blood Orange-Jalapeño Margaritas
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

So what if it's just the 5th of March and not Cinco de Mayo. Why not toast the last days of winter (and the seasonal availability of tart and juicy blood oranges) with a spicy-cool spin on the Margari...

Recipe: Cream of Shallot Soup

Spring is just around the corner, but there's just enough time to squeeze this late-late-winter recipe into your cream soup arsenal before it arrives. The delicate bite of shallots is more subtle than...

Lovely Lemon: 9 Recipes To Brighten Winter's End
Recipe Roundup

Is winter over yet? We got a whiff of spring, and suddenly we can't wait for the garden, and fresh lettuce, and tender young growing things. One of our chief kitchen consolations, late in the winter...

How To Make French Onion Soup at Home

French onion soup is an utterly delicious thing. It is elemental in its goodness: It is made of just a few basic things (onions, broth, salt, pepper) and yet it transcends those simple building bloc...

Seasonal Spotlight: Napa Cabbage

We're visiting family in Texas this month and, thanks to CSA-style deliveries from Greenling, we have been inundated with Napa cabbage. What can one do with a head – or three – of this cri...

Dorie Greenspan's Applesauce Spice Bars
Recipe Review

By the time I got around to taking a photo of these bars, there were hardly any left. And this wasn't surprising: This is a luscious yet homey recipe, not too time-consuming, and so spicy and moist! T...

Deep-Winter Dishes: 5 Recipes to Reinvigorate Your Palate

At this point in the year, we're doing our best to eat locally as much as possible, but sometimes it's hard to get excited about it. We dug into our archives for some inspiring takes on classic deep...

Valentine's Breakfast in Bed Recipe: VS Mocha Café

What are you drinking on Valentine's? (Or, for that matter, Chinese New Year, President's Day, or Fat Tuesday?) A little later today we have a roundup for you of creative and delicious Valentine's Day...

From David Lebovitz: Truffle Pigs and French Markets

Have you been following David Lebovitz's truffle hunting escapades? It's fascinating! We've heard stories of truffle pigs snuffling around tree roots and the infamously chaotic markets where all the t...

Recipe: Apple and Parsnip Soup

We're in the throes of deep-winter eating and there are definitely some days when it's hard to find cooking inspiration in the produce section. This recipe, which was passed along by a friend, came ju...

What Would Be a Good Lunch for a Valentine's Ski Trip?
Good Questions

Q: What is a good lunch to pack for a Valentine's ski trip that requires an overnight stay in a hotel beforehand? We will have a camping cooler. I want it to be tasty since its our first trip to Tahoe...

Cozy Indoors: 5 Cooking Projects for Snow Days

Along with many of you, we stayed inside most of this past weekend watching the snow fall past our windows. As usually happens on such occasions, we eventually found ourselves in the kitchen flipping ...

Midwinter Craving: Smoky and Succulent BBQ Pulled Pork

Pulled pork is definitely a summer picnic kind of dish, but lately we've been craving it like mad. And it seems we're not alone! We've spotted several pulled pork recipes in the past few weeks that we...

Recipe: Sustainable Seafood Stew

Last weekend, as many of you know, it was absolutely freezing here in the Northeast. I wanted to cook something that would have me over the stove for a good stretch of time. A fish stew sounded good, ...

What Recipes Do You Want to Try This Month?
February 2010

Welcome to February! Last month we asked you what recipes were on your must-try-list, and then last week we followed up and asked you which of those made it into your kitchen after all. I got to one o...

Ingredient Spotlight: Watermelon Radish

It's the season for root vegetables, and one of my favorites is the colorful watermelon radish. Green on the outside and pink on the inside, it adds some color to my salads, is pretty to look at, and...

Recipe Template: How to Make Beef Stew

Rich, long-simmered stews are as satisfying to eat as they are to make. It's all about building layers of flavor and then stepping away from the stove to let the low heat gently do its magic. You don'...

Craving: Rosa Jackson's Lemon Curd Tart with Olive Oil

I'm a sucker for anything lemon, especially this time of year, when it's so dark and gray. Lemon's bright, mouth-puckering taste is a refreshing dose of sunshine, and I positively crave it in January....

Recipe: Dad's Authentic Ratatouille

This week has been a wet and dreary one in LA. So yesterday, in an effort to cheer up the kitchen and fill the fridge with something we could eat for a couple of days, we broke out dad's recipe for...

Try This! Spaghetti Squash Instead of Pasta

Whether you're making an effort to eat lighter this month or just want something a little different for dinner, you've got to try this. We're not sure why it took us so long to discover this buttery, ...

Mid-Winter Blues: 10 Sunny Recipes for Dreary Days

It's been grey and drizzly every day for the past week where we live and we're desperate for a little sun. We'll take it in food form if that's all we can get, so we've been piling on the citrus, pu...

Hollywood Farmers' Market: A Bright Spot in Winter
Hollywood, California

We truly wrestled with whether to share this report from Sunday's Hollywood farmers' market. On the one hand, we know many of our readers (and writers) live in colder climes than California, and str...

What Can I Cook With Daikon Radishes?
Good Questions

Q: We recently received some daikon radishes in our winter CSA box. We live in an area in which Asian ingredients are hard to come by and I don't especially like them raw on salads, etc. Do you ha...

Seriously Good: Quinoa-Avocado Salad from Fine Cooking

We could hardly wait to make the quinoa-avocado salad we spotted in the most recent issue of Fine Cooking. Eagle-eyed readers will note that the grain in our picture isn't exactly quinoa - craving ove...

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