Christmas recipes

Barbecue pork ribs Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes, plus marinating time.

Sweet rice Total time: 55 minutes, plus soaking time Servings: 6 Note: My grandma uses Sho-Chiku-Bai brand sweet rice.

Inspired by the famous roast chicken by chef Judy Rodgers of San Francisco’s Zuni Café, it’s simple as can be: Salt it, bag it and forget it.

Barbecued turkey Total time: 3 1/2 hours, plus 3 days brining time Servings: 14 to 16 Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try any of the L.A.

Total time: 2 hours, 50 minutes Servings: 11 to 15 Note: This is more a technique than a recipe.

If Thanksgiving is the classic American food holiday (or maybe it’s the only American food holiday?)

Total time: 1 hour, 30 minutes plus chilling time Servings: 8 Crust 2 cups flour, plus more for rolling 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup cold butter (1 1/2 sticks), cut up 4 tablespoons ice water 1.

There are two secrets to preparing this recipe by Russ Parsons.

Thelma Collins’ corn pudding Total time: 1 hour Servings: 8 to 10 Note: Shared by Thelma’s son, Marc.

Andrea’s broccoli casserole Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Servings: 12 to 16 Note: From Andrea Holbrook.

Sharon’s ambrosia Total time: 15 minutes Servings: 12 to 16 Note: From Sharon Rushing Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try any of the L.A.

Avis Hatheway’s wild rice dressing Total time: 1 1/2 hours Servings: 10 to 12 Note: Shared by Avis’ son, Ron.

Grandma Chandler’s Christmas cookies Submitted by Christy Cowell of Pasadena “These cookies will never win a beauty contest — they look kind of like potatoes!

Note: Active Work Time: 30 minutes * Total Preparation Time: 1 hour plus 3 hours for chilling This recipe was adapted from the 1951 edition of “Joy of Cooking” by Irma S.

“This was always my and my five siblings’ favorite Christmas cookie growing up.

“My mother, Wendy Johnson, had me brainwashed as a child.

“I started making these six or seven years ago.

“I found this recipe many years ago on the back of a bag of prunes.

“The holidays are about spending time with the ones you love.

“My dad was raised in a rural area of Texas called Garland [in Bowie County].

“When we traveled to visit my grandparents, we were 99% guaranteed that we would go home with a couple of coffee cans full of her baked delights.

“When I was a little girl, during the holidays we would go to my grandparents’ house in the countryside.

Pumpkin risotto Total time: 30 minutes Servings: 6 to 8 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice 1 large garlic clove, minced 1 1/2 cups Vialone Nano or Arborio rice 1/3 cup dry white wine 1 1/2 teaspoons minced rosemary 1 cup pumpkin puree 3 1/2 to 4 cups vegetable broth Salt and pepper 1/3 cup chopped toasted walnuts Walnut oil Grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 1.

Coq au vin Total time: 1 1/2 hours Servings: 6 to 8 3/4 cup diced bacon 4 pounds chicken thighs and drumsticks 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided 3/4 teaspoon pepper, divided 2 sliced onions (halved lengthwise and thinly sliced lengthwise) 3/4 teaspoon thyme 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 bay leaf 1/2 cup canned, chopped tomatoes 2 cups red wine, divided 1 1/2 cups chicken broth, divided 1 tablespoon oil 5 tablespoons butter, divided 24 pearl onions, peeled 1 pound mushrooms, quartered 3 tablespoons flour 1/4 cup chopped parsley 1.

Brandied applesauce Total time: 40 minutes, plus cooling and chilling time Servings: Makes about 5 cups 4 pounds Granny Smith apples, or other cooking apples 3/4 cup dark brown sugar 1/2 cup apple cider 1/3 cup brandy, preferably applejack 2 cinnamon sticks Pinch nutmeg Pinch ground cloves Pinch dried ginger Zest and juice of 1/2 lemon 1.