Today's Eat Beat: Broccoli casserole

Today's "Eat Beat" recipe demonstration continues our Thanksgiving countdown, with a recipe for Andrea's broccoli casserole.

Catch our televised recipe demonstrations on KTLA Channel 5 every Wednesday and Friday toward the end of the 1 p.m. news hour; you can also watch the videos on Food's homepage.

Coming tomorrow: Sweet potato pie with pecan streusel topping.

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Today's Eat Beat: Braised kale

Today's "Eat Beat" recipe demonstration is for braised kale, from Food Editor Russ Parsons. The kale is a great dish on its own, and would make a perfect side for the Thanksgiving table. For the recipe, follow the jump below.

Catch our televised recipe demonstrations on KTLA channel 5 every Wednesday and Friday toward the end of the 1 p.m. news hour; you can also watch the videos on Food's homepage.

Coming Friday: Sweet potato pie with pecan streusel topping.

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-- Noelle Carter
Twitter/noellecarter

Video credit: KTLA.

Battle of the Burgers: The big winner? L.A. Times readers (Video)

 

Stop what you are doing and watch this video. It perfectly captures the Los Angeles Times' first ever Battle of the Burgers. In all, nearly 90 recipes were submitted. Readers voted online, and we tested the top vote getters to find our favorites. You can read all about it in today's L.A. Times Food section. (And get the recipes for your 4th of July grilling menu.) Congratulations to the top burgermeisters:

The red, white and blueberry burger by Brooks Walker of Folsom and the food blog Cakewalker. (He's on Twitter @cakewalkr.)

The Italian Caprese sliders by Susan Salerno of Henderson, Nev., and the food blog Simply Cooking 101. (She's on Twitter @simplycook101.)

The German Cuban burger by Robert Burmeister of Staten Island, N.Y. (For you social media types, he's on Twitter @sichefrob.)

The Southwest turkey burger by George Levinthal of Goleta.

And the Mexican cemita burger by Harold Cohen of Hollywood, Fla.

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Racing against the tide for dinner

 

Think running out to the grocery store to shop for dinner is a hassle? Check out this video from the BBC on people of Kangiqsujuaq going mussel-hunting under an ice field in Canada, timing the low tide. If they take a minute too long, it means death. Of course, it does make a nice break from their usual diet of seal meat.

-- Russ Parsons

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Video: Spring's best strawberry pie

   

Did you snap up some strawberries this weekend at the farmers market? Here's what you can do with them: Make strawberry pie. Watch the video above to see Times Test Kitchen manager Noelle Carter show you how. (With pie, there's always a crust issue. Do you buy one, or make your own? If you decide to go the D.I.Y. route, here's the recipe for a perfect, flaky crust.)

Here's the only think I ask in return: If you make this or any other recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen, please take a picture so we can use it on the Daily Dish blog and occasionally in print. Upload your photos here.

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Video: Oyster stew with leeks and prosciutto

 

Times Test Kitchen manager Noelle Carter says this recipe for seafood stew with leeks and prosciutto is perfect for entertaining: Most of the dish can be made in advance. Watch the video above to see Noelle walk you through making it.

--Rene Lynch
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The Project: Soup with winter greens and chickpeas

  Rain, rain, go away.

Hmmm. That didn't seem to work. But this might help you forget all about the rain that's ahead of us this wekend.

Each Friday, we post a recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen archives that's perfect for weekend cooking. And this recipe is perfect for rainy weekend cooking: A hearty soup made with winter greens and chickpeas.

Watch this video: Times Food Editor Russ Parsons shows you how easy it is to make. The total cooking time is about 90 minutes. But most of that is hands-off cooking as your soup simmers away on the stove. That means you can cuddle up on the couch with a furry blanket and rip through that backlog on the DVR.

If you try this recipe, we want to know about it. Upload your photos of the finished dish here

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Video: Mandarin parfait with candied ginger

   

Got mandarins?

Watch this video of Times Food editor Russ Parsons. He'll show you how to make this recipe for mandarin parfait with candied ginger. If you try this recipe, let us know how it turns out. And please take a picture of the finished dish. We'd love to see it. Share your photo online here:

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Video: Looking for a super E-Z dinner? How about pasta, broccoli and sausage?

    Check out this video: Times Food editor Russ Parsons shows you how to get dinner on the table -- pasta with broccoli and Italian sausage -- in about 25 minutes. Take that, Rachael Ray!

If you need further evidence that this is a recipe worth adding to your dinnertime repertoire: I get requests for it all the time from readers saying, "Help! I lost my recipe for that sausage-and-pasta dish ... "

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Creeptastic video: Japanese monkey waitress

Last week, we asked: Do you care if your bartender is a man or a woman?

Today, we ask: Do you care if you are served by a Japanese monkey waitress? As in, a monkey dressed up like a waitress and wearing a mask?  

You can either thank -- or blame -- Cathi Mims Yamaguchi (On Twitter @rainbowlite) for bringing this disturbing video to my attention.

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