Maria Hines likes to serve savory flans as appetizers. Here, sun-dried tomatoes make the custard taste especially luscious. Preheat the oven to 325°. Butter four 3-ounce ramekins. In a small saucepan, ...

To prepare the guttiau bread flans with red wine and apples, wash the apples and cut them into wedges (1), without removing the peel. Remove the stem and core, and cut the wedges in half again (2) to ...

To prepare the ricotta and artichoke flans recipe, first clean the vegetables thoroughly: remove the outer leaves (1), then cut off the toughest tips, quarter them, and remove the inner choke (2).

WHEN the retired carabiniere wedged next to me on the plane to Venice would not stop talking about the wild asparagus he forages in springtime, I figured I was on my way to the Easter promised land. A ...

Uncle Julio’s flans are one of their most-popular desserts and available in vanilla, chocolate and citrus. Pumpkin is offered around Thanksgiving. The generous individual portion is often shared by ...

DEAR DOROTHY: My recipe for flan calls for a caramel sauce made with 1 cup white sugar and 6 tablespoons water. But when I try to slip the chilled flan onto a serving dish there is always a hard sugar ...

Sometimes a great food idea seems to bubble up from several sources at once -- and why not? Culinary inspiration often comes when chefs are playing in the kitchen. They all have the same toys, after ...