Recipes

A cookie worth $25,000? Merry Graham of Santa Clarita has won $25,000 for her Margarita Moon Pie cookie recipe . Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker named Graham the winner of its Chocolate Adventure Contest 2012 sandwich cookie edition . The contest challenges bakers to develop a sandwich cookie using Scharffen Berger chocolate and at least one of 12 pre-selected " adventure ingredients. " So what's in this cookie that's worth a ridiculously big sum of money? Some lime, chocolate and a little booze, of course.

You know it's spring when asparagus starts showing up at the market. Actually a member of the lily family, asparagus is one of those eagerly awaited-for spring vegetables, traditionally available from February through June. Stalks harvested toward the start of the season are often the most prized, as they are the first stalks to shoot from the plant and tend to be the most tender; asparagus harvested late in the season or out of season (often shipped in from elsewhere) can be woody and flavorless.

Happy National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day! We're here to help you celebrate... with peanut butter and jelly recipes, of course! Sure, you can go out and buy the spreads, but why not get creative -- like, DIY creative -- and make your own? Believe it or not, homemade jams, jellies and nut butters aren't that difficult to do from scratch (if you want to make your own bread for a sandwich, well, that'll be a little more time-consuming). Check out the photo gallery above for recipes for 14 jams, jellies and preserves -- we include traditional options, such as strawberry, as well as more adventurous offerings (such as  the insanely good coconut jam from Susan Fenniger's Street)

Chiang Mai-style curry 6 1/2 hours. Serves 8 to 12. Housemade red curry 1 ounce (about 60) dried red chiles About 2 3/4 tablespoons (.8 ounce) white peppercorns About 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon (.55 ounce) whole cumin seeds About 3 1/2 tablespoons (.63 ounce) whole coriander seeds About 1 tablespoon plus 1/8 teaspoon (.4 ounce) brown mustard seeds About 18 cloves (2 1/2 ounces) garlic, minced About 3 inches root (2.2 ounces) fresh ginger, minced About 1 stalk (2.2 ounces)

"Game of Thrones" Season Three premieres Sunday. Have you planned the viewing party yet? We're here to help with some cocktails inspired by the series. Try The Winterfell. It's a beer-based cocktail, rounded out with apple  brandy, maple syrup and a touch of amaretto. Perfect for colder weather, even if you're not pondering guarding The Wall. Or go for Mother of Dragons. It may not look like much at first -- the scent of elderflower dominates --  but this concoction packs a punch.

In our latest Master Class, Sang Yoon shares his love for fish sauce : "My absolute favorite anchovy product is known simply as fish sauce. If you're a fan of southeast Asian cuisine, you know what I'm talking about. Fish sauce is a pretty basic ingredient. Anchovies fermented with salt and water. But the resulting liquid is a clear, amber-hued complex flavor bomb from heaven. Rich with natural glutamates, fish sauce transcends the humble ingredients from which it's made and becomes a versatile and important flavor-building block.

Thai vinaigrette 15 minutes. Makes about 1 cup vinaigrette Vinaigrette base 1/2 cup fish sauce, preferably Red Boat brand 1/4 cup light soy sauce 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons (1 ounce) shrimp paste 7 ounces coconut palm sugar, grated (about 1 1/3 cups) 6 dried red Chinese chiles Blend together the fish sauce, light soy sauce, shrimp paste, sugar and chiles to form the base. This makes a generous cup of vinaigrette base, more than is needed for the remainder of the recipe.

Marshmallow daisies! Pastel mints! Homemade Peeps! Chocolate-covered almond eggs! We've compiled nine recipes to help you and the kids celebrate Easter and all things spring in the kitchen. RECIPES: 9 kid-friendly treat recipes for Easter and Spring! We include a variety of treats that make great projects in the kitchen for kids of all ages -- whether you're looking to enlist little ones to help shape and decorate treats, are looking for a recipe you can work on together, or have kids that can tackle a project independently from start to finish.

In 92 years, See's Candies has never shied away from being old-fashioned. At the factory on La Cienega Boulevard, some octogenarian workers measure their decades of employment in hip replacements. Quaint floral details are still hand-piped onto chocolate eggs. An inexorable march of candies heads through tubes the length of a football field, where they're drenched in layers of chocolate - a traditional practice known as enrobing. Like cars merging out of highway toll lanes, they appear from cooling tunnels into employees' waiting hands.

It's a situation many of us face each Easter night: The Easter Bunny has come and gone, the egg hunt is over and the kids have overdosed on chocolate and jelly beans. You're cleaning up the last of the festivities when suddenly, reality in every shade of pastel seems to stare you down. What do you do with all those hard-boiled eggs? RECIPES: 22 recipes for hard-boiled eggs We did a story on creative ways to "repurpose" those leftover Easter eggs last year, including everything from deviled eggs and egg salad sandwiches to empanadas and appetizers.