Dungeness Crab Cake with Avocado & Chipotle Hollandaise / 59 L.A. Times Recipes / Moghrabieh

Recipe: Dungeness Crab Cake With Avocado and Chipotle Hollandaise

For the crab cakes, remove any shells from the crabmeat and place in a large mixing bowl. Add the mustard, mayonnaise, lime zest, cilantro, chives, pickles and 1/4 cup bread crumbs to the bowl and mix well. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Photographs & Recipes: What's hot: 59 of the latest recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

Whole-wheat pancakes ... Broiled eggplant salad with sautéed onions, garlic and tomatoes ... Creamy scrambled eggs with fines herbes ... Quick puff pastry ... Chickpea and noodle soup with spinach, Persian herbs and kashk topping ... Creamy rice pudding with cardamom and almonds ... Baby artichoke gratin ... Black Russian rye bread ... Fresh berry tart ...

Article & Recipe: Couscous with a Lebanese difference

Moghrabieh is a type of couscous that originates in Lebanon. It is similar in appearance to Israeli couscous, but is a little larger, and is made by forming pasta-like wheat dough into pea-sized balls. Moghrabieh is quite different from the finegrained couscous you'll see in most Canadian supermarkets ...

Heavenly spiced chicken stew with moghrabieh ... Moghrabieh and vegetable soup

Green Risotto / Burger Wrapped In Grape Leaves / Crab Innards

Blog Post & Recipe: Mrs Kennedy's Green Risotto

It's a simple risotto flavoured with puréed spinach. The latter turns it a lovely, vivid green colour.

Recipe: Burger Wrapped In Grape Leaves

The grape leaves provide the tangy taste that enhances the meat flavor. It is up to you to use any meat of your choice, minced lamb or beef mixed with parsley and onions, salt, black pepper and allspice

Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Crab Innards

Like the crab meat itself, the taste of what is inside varies depending on the type of crab. On blue claws the innards taste somewhat like caviar; on Dungeness, they are more abundant and custardy in texture, with a sweetness that reminds me of sea urchin.

Cucumbers. Wasabi Potatoes. The Dinner Dilemma.

Article & Recipes: Refresher course

A crisp, juicy cucumber is the very essence of a British summer, says Nigel Slater. It's also the number one ingredient for a warm-weather lunch

Cucumber mayonnaise for sandwiches ... Chilled crab and cucumber soup ... Potato salad with mustard and dill

Blog Post & Recipe: Wasabi Smashed Potatoes

Did you know that the bright green wasabi paste that you get of all Japanese restaurants is really horseradish with food coloring? Yeah. Don’t you feel duped? Real wasabi is pretty expensive and difficult to grow outside of Japan.

Blog Post & Recipe: helping to solve the dinner dilemma

Just as you power down your computer and begin to face the commute home, your thoughts turn to the eternal question - ‘What should we have for dinner?’ And inspiration just doesn’t strike. I hate when that happens.

warm salad of roast pumpkin (squash) & chickpeas

Celery Fritters. 50 Best Recipes.

Blog Post & Recipe: Twenty-one Years Later ...

Celery Fritters

8 celery stalks
1 cup of flour
2 beaten eggs ...

A series of three articles from the Guardian --

Article & Recipes: 50 best simple recipes: Mighty bites

Nobu's black cod ... Le Caprice's steak tartare ... Home-style chicken curry ... Marcella Hazan's risotto with globe artichokes ... The Ivy's salmon fishcakes with sorrel sauce ... Roast potatoes ... Scott's razor clams with chorizo and broad beans ... Claridge's Yorkshire pudding ... Grandma Jeanne's roast chicken ... Caroline Conran's devilled kidney's [sic] ... My grandmother's chocolate chip and walnut cookies ... Nigel Slater's crabcakes with pea purée ... Thai prawns with salt ... Smoked haddock chowder ... Joël Robuchon's mashed potato ... My nana's onion gravy ... Jean-Georges Vongerichten's ribbons of tuna, avocado, spicy radish and ginger marinade ... My grandmother's macaroni cheese ... Fergus Henderson's roast bone marrow and parsley salad ... Nigel Slater's roast chicken wings with lemon, maple syrup and cracked pepper ... Constance Spry's boiled ginger cake ... Welsh rarebit. Not finding these challenging enough? Test your culinary expertise with recipes 22-41, for medium-skilled cooks

Article & Recipes: 50 best easy to medium recipes: Go on, you know you want to ...

Chocolate mousse ... Elizabeth David's chocolate and almond cake ... J Sheekey's fish pie ... Richard Corrigan's Irish soda bread ... Potato pie with smoked bacon and cre ème fraîche ... Jellied eels ... Caroline Conran's fish and chips at home ... My father's Turkish delight ... Gennaro Contaldo's linguine with olives, capers and tomatoes ... Meatballs ... Anna del Conte's lemon risotto ... Claudia Roden's baba ghanoush ... Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume's coronation chicken ... Apple tatin ... Moro's broad bean and dill pilav ... Simon Hopkinson's southern-style fried chicken thighs ... Michel Roux's soufflé Suisesse ... Nigel Slater's grilled chicken with fresh herb sauce ... Pork with black bean sauce ... Nigel Slater's trifle. Feeling confident? Graduate to recipes 42-50, for masterchefs

Article & Recipes: Best difficult recipes: Trotters, truffles and faggots

Piere Koffman's stuffed pigs' trotters with morels ... Gordon Ramsay's Cappuccino of white beans with grated truffles ... Raymond Blanc's coq au vin ... August Escoffier's oxtail soup ... Jason Atherton's salt and pepper squid ... Dan Lepard's carrot cake ... Angela Hartnett's chocolate and vanilla semifreddo ... Giorgo Locatelli's white truffle risotto ... Larousse Gastronomique's Bresse chicken-liver terrine

No-fuss salads. Quick meals. Rice paper rolls.

Article/Recipe: Cut and Paste.

Includes recipes for rice paper rolls with crab; larb of fish with spicy salad; and blackened chilli.

Article/Recipe: 15-minute miracles.

Includes recipes for tuna, broccoli and chilli pasta; salmon spiced fillet with pumpkin mash, corn and peas; warm chicken salad; and prawn and tofu stir-fry.


Article/Recipe: No-fuss salads.

Includes recipes for potato salad with chorizo and chives; black-eyed peas and arugula salad; and mushroom salad with vinegar and coriander.

But what about those pesky sides? Do you worry that the fresh greens will wilt or the mayo in the potato salad turn rancid in the heat? Will the beans be cold even before that last game of bocce? Fret not. There are some super salads you can prepare that you can heat up or cool down as the day dictates.

Crab. Fourth of July Recipes.

Article/Recipe: Time to get cracking.
The article is accompanied by recipes for messy crab (chili-flavoured), and marinated strawberries.

Crab's deep flavour - it is often the very essence of the sea from which it came - is not easily hidden by hot, sharp or even spicy seasonings. If anything, they make the flavour more potent. Which is why only a few minutes ago it was sizzling in the wok with hot red chillies, fresh ginger and a splash of Vietnamese chilli sauce.

Article/Recipe: All-American favorite recipes for Fourth of July.

Recipes for baked beans, potato salad, and so on.

The Fourth of July is not a time for creating shocking new dishes. It is a time when people hanker instead for All-American favorites - hamburgers and hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, corn on the cob, ice cream.