Whether you celebrate Valentine's Day the weekend before or the day of–with your significant other or your best friends–L.A. restaurants are paying homage to love with prix-fixe menus and aphrodisiac foods and spirits to enhance the experience. Chaya: The Chaya restaurants — in Beverly Hills, downtown and Venice — are all offering special Valentine's Day [...]
Sturdy, strong and wonderfully non-stick, parchment paper is an invaluable tool in the kitchen, used in a variety of cooking and kitchen tasks. Kitchen parchment is paper that has been treated with sulfuric acid to strengthen it, making the paper grease- and moisture-proof. It's also highly heat resistant. A silicone coating makes the paper non-stick. [...]
Panel + soba: Common Grains will host a panel discussion at Atwater Crossing on Sunday, featuring grain miller and farmer Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills in South Carolina and Monica Spiller from the Whole Grain Connection, a nonprofit aiming to enhance the desirability of organic and sustainable grains. Other grain experts also will speak, and [...]
It's that time of year: time to start thinking about giving sweets to the sweet. Le Bon Garcon, the L.A. caramel maker founded by pastry chef Justin Chao, has Valentine's Day gift boxes featuring a new caramel flavor called Caramour that gets its subtle pink tinge from blood orange puree. Chao, who graduated from Ecole [...]
In Italian restaurants, you sometimes find dishes flavored with a red-amber sausage-like substance called bottarga. This is the salted eggs of the gray mullet, but it's nothing like caviar, which is preferably as fresh and lightly salted (malossol) as possible. These mullet fish eggs, still in the original egg sack, are salted, pressed and dried [...]
This week's Culinary SOS comes to us from Selby Blum in Los Angeles: Milk has the best molasses cookies I've ever had. My entire family adores them, and I would love to be able to make them for my dad on his 66th birthday. Please help? These cookies are out of this world. I need [...]
Today is National Chocolate Cake Day — as if we needed an excuse to indulge. To celebrate, we're sharing some of our favorite recipes for rich, satisfying chocolate cake: Nancy Silverton's bittersweet chocolate cake with hot fudge sauce and cioccolati perugini Classic flourless chocolate cake Mint chocolate cake Royal Sonesta double chocolate cake Old-fashioned milk [...]
Today is National Chocolate Cake Day — as if we needed an excuse to indulge. To celebrate, we're sharing some of our favorite recipes for rich, satisfying chocolate cake: Nancy Silverton's bittersweet chocolate cake with hot fudge sauce and cioccolati perugini Classic flourless chocolate cake Mint chocolate cake Royal Sonesta double chocolate cake Old-fashioned milk [...]
Eagle Rock Brewery is hosting its anniversary party at Verdugo Bar on Saturday to celebrate its second year as an L.A. brewery. Craft beer lovers can sip on all Eagle Rock's signature brews along with a few surprise beers to be revealed at the event. Grill 'Em All and Mandoline Grill food trucks will be [...]
Chips and dip, hot wings and plenty of beer tend to make their way onto the list of usual Super Bowl party suspects. This year, the Counter restaurant is mixing up the traditional Super Bowl game day fare with a custom burger bar. For $9.95 per person, the Counter will deliver a custom burger bar [...]
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