Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

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.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog and occassionally in print. Upload your photos here. Below, you'll find this week's recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen, and you can keep tabs on what the Test Kitchen has been cooking up all year long at this photo gallery:

The butterscotch brownies served at Clementine's in Los Angeles

Huitlacoche quesadillas

Mexican lasagna

Zetas with garlic and Pasilla chiles

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Photo: Poblano chile strips and onions are the "meat" in this meatless Mexican lasagna. Credit: Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

 
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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here. Here are this week's recipes:

--The capellini al gamberetti on the menu at Napoli's in Loma Linda

--Ragout of spring vegetables

--Roasted buckwheat polenta with sage cream sauce

--Spring vegetables baked in parchment

--Whole-wheat pancakes

--Wheat-free muffins

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Photo: Artichokes, fennel and potatoes bake in a flavorful packet. Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

 
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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here. Here are this week's recipes:

--Baby artichoke gratin

--Caesar salad dressing with croutons

--Fresh fruit gratin

--Italian sausage and kale gratin

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Photo: Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

 
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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here. Here are this week's recipes:

--Greek walnut cake

--Pecan pie

--The curried slaw served at Mustards Grill in Napa

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Photo: Perfect pecan pie (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

 

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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here. Here are this week's recipes:

--Baked French toast

--Classic French toast

--Focaccia from Genoa

--Gorgonzola focaccia

--Savory stuffed French toast with bacon, dandelion green and Gruyere

--Turkey chili, served at Coast restaurant at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica

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Photo: Baked French toast. Credit: Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times

 

This week's recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here. Most of the recipes in this week's section come courtesy of our first holiday cookie bake-off and include Amanda's amazing sugar cookies, above. Here are the rest of the recipes in this week's section:

Apple pie

Banbury tarts

Bourbon balls

Grandma Chandler's Christmas cookie

Keeflees

Nana's Russian tea cookies

Peppermint pinwheels

Pie crust

Roasted salmon with red pepper hazelnut pesto, from Thyme Cafe & Market in Santa Monica

Silver bells

Sour cherry rugelach

The ultimate wedding cookie

--Rene Lynch
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Photo: Amanda's amazing sugar cookies. Credit: Ricardo DeAratahna / Los Angeles Times

This week's recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

Most of the recipes in this week's section were adapted from today's story about a baker's dozen worth of cookbooks to give -- and receive -- this holiday season.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog. Upload your photos here.

--Dr. George Washington Carver's sliced sweet potato pie adapted from "Southern Pies" by Nancie McDermott

--Duck breast and beer sandwich adapted from "Primal Cuts" by Marissa Guggiana

--Dutch baby adapted from "The Lost Art of Real Cooking" by Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger

--Everyday moong dal adapted from "At Home With Madhur Jaffrey"

--Gruyère and walnut bread adapted from "Bake!" by Nick Malgieri

--Kale Caesar adapted from "Tartine Bread" by Chad Robertson

--Lentils and pancetta adapted from "Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen"

--Long and slow apples adapted from "Around My French Table" by Dorie Greenspan

--Not Uncle Rocco's tuna adapted from Molly O'Neill's "One Big Table," from Cara Mia Constantine

--Polvorones (Mexican wedding cookies) adapted from "My Sweet Mexico" by Fany Gerson

--The seafood chowder served at Annabelle's Keg and Chowder House in Ketchikan, Alaska

--Slow-cooked carne adovada with hominy adapted from "Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys" by David Tanis

--Torta di Noci (Rosangela's flourless walnut cake) adapted from "My Calabria" by Rosetta Costantino

--Rene Lynch
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Photo: Mexican wedding cookies. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

 
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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish. Upload your photos here.

This week, lucky you, we answered two Culinary SOS requests for:

--The savory bread pudding served at Serpentine in San Francisco

and

--The warm sticky toffee cake served at the Westside Tavern in West L.A.

Want more? Here are more than a hundred more recipe requests we've been able to answer.

--Rene Lynch
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Photo: Warm sticky toffee cake. Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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This week's recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it and take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish. Upload your photos here.

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

--The avgolemono soup served at Taverna Tony in Malibu

--Bacon-wrapped pork belly

--Carrot cake with ginger icing

--Pumpkin soup

Want more? Check out our online recipe collection at www.latimes.com/recipes -- and bookmark it. We're constantly adding new dishes.

-- Rene Lynch
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Photo credit: Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times

Latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

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, they should work the first time out of the gate.

If you try one of our recipes, please let us know about it, so we can use it on the blog. Take a picture of the finished dish and send it to rene.lynch@latimes.com. Here's a look at this week's recipes:

Chilled avocado and watercress soup with shrimp served at Jake's Grill in Portland

Curry shortbread

Lime and black pepper cookies

Rosemary marshmallow squares

Spicy cherry chocolate brownies

Tangerine and thyme chocolate chip cookies

Want more? Check out our online recipe collection at www.latimes.com/recipes -- and bookmark it. We're constantly adding new dishes.

-- Rene Lynch
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Photo credit: Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times