This week's L.A. Times Food recipes

All recipes that appear in the L.A. Times' weekly Food section are tested and perfected in our test kitchen before they're deemed fit to print. (That means you don't have to worry about a trial run before serving one of our recipes to company -- rest assured, it should work the first time out of the gate.)

Here's a look at this week's recipes:

Pan bagnat

Black bean and chorizo soup with cumin toasts and salsa verde

Pasta with broccoli and Italian sausage

Gordon Ramsay's Pineapple soufflé with Thai curry ice cream

Dandelion greens and goat cheese empanadas

And here's a look at our top recipes for 2008.

-- Rene Lynch

Photo caption: Flaky dandelion greens and goat cheese empanadas. Photo credit: Irfan Kahn / Los Angeles Times