Greens

  Total time: 45 minutes, plus 1 1/2 to 2 hours cooking time for the beans Note: Pimentón de la vera, smoked Spanish paprika, is available at select gourmet markets and cooking stores. Servings: 6 to 8 VIDEO: Click here to watch a video of this recipe...

  Total time: 1 1/2 hours Servings: 6 to 8 Note: Dandelion greens are available at well-stocked supermarkets and farmers markets. Use any high-quality wheat and country white bread, such as pain rustique. For the wheat and white breads, you will need...

These days, when Alexandra Panousis takes her girls out to cut weeds for dinner, she stays in the car, directing the action from the front seat of a new Jaguar. Not those, she tells her daughter, Elaine Panousis. You want the type with the yellow flowers....

Total time: 25 minutes Servings: 8 1 cup pecans 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided Salt 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano Freshly ground black pepper...

Just because the expense-account lunch is largely a thing of the past doesn't mean that you can't still enjoy the meal, even celebrate it. Instead of depending on the kindness of menus, use a little homespun imagination. Thinking outside the lunch box is...

Total time: 1 hour and 20 minutes Servings: 8 1 cup whole-wheat flour 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour Sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar 1 egg, separated Ice water...

COULD it be a conspiracy? Who (or what) is preventing Angelenos from being allowed to enjoy the lunch that better suits us than anything in the world? That lunch would be a salade composee. Think of it: a beautiful main course salad composed of...

BENEATH a thatch of wilted dandelion greens, the Christmas lima beans spill out, earthy and enticing, their pretty speckled markings still faintly visible after a few hours in the pot. This is the brilliant architecture of a taco so tasty that it might...

SUMMER is unraveling, the daylight hours shaved ever shorter. I'd just as soon kiss the long leisurely days goodbye over dinner at the beach, watching the rose-gold fade to dark from the windows of Catch, the new restaurant at Casa del Mar in Santa...

Total time: About 1 hour Servings: 6 to 8 Butter for pan 2 stalks green garlic, trimmed and finely chopped 1 1/2 pounds new potatoes, scrubbed 2 cups coarsely chopped dandelion greens Salt Freshly ground white pepper to taste 1 cup crème...

Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Servings: 4 Note: Mâche can be found at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, farmers markets and well-stocked supermarkets. 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 medium onion, finely chopped (about 2/3 cup) 1 clove garlic, minced...

  There are few combinations in cooking more natural and flexible than beans and greens. That's what staff writer Amy Scattergood found when exploring twists on these two fundamental ingredients. These inventive tacos were our favorites of several very...