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 vegetable and cheese flans, start by cooking the potatoes with their skin in a pressure cooker for about 15 minutes (or 30/40 minutes boiling them in a regular pot) until they are ...

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).

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 ...