Recipe Sifter

This Moist Apple Carrot Cake is a delightful blend of sweet apples, earthy carrots, and crunchy walnuts, perfectly spiced with cinnamon. Easy to make and incredibly moist, this cake is ideal for any occasion, topped optionally with creamy cheese frosting.

Classic peanut butter cookies pressed with the signature crosshatch fork pattern, baked golden, and dipped in bittersweet chocolate. Crisp edges, tender centers, deeply nutty flavor.

Enjoy the decadence of this rich classic lightened up. This simple and easy French onion soup lets you enjoy without the guilt. Use any leftover bread you might have, it's extra filling using some toasty whole-wheat grain filled bread and it gives a nutritional boost.

An excellent breakfast bread that's made with whole wheat flour, white flour, oats, pumpkin, walnuts and chocolate chips. The cinnamon sugar is swirled into the bread brushed with melted butter. The aroma will fill up your entire house during the baking, and it gives you great flavor, texture and nutrient. Also it can be a very good gift that your friends or family will love for sure!

Creamy wild mushroom risotto made with shiitake and white mushrooms, Arborio rice, white wine, and finished with Mascarpone and Parmesan. Pure Italian comfort for two.

Blue pumpkin!? We got one from our local farm and came up with this recipe to give a try cooking with it. Regular pie pumpkin can be used but if you find yourself with a blue pumpkin here's a good way to use it.

Chef Paul Prudhomme's Barbecue Sauce: a smoky, sweet-tangy Cajun sauce built on bacon, pecans, honey, and citrus rinds. Pureed silky for chicken, pork, or ribs. Makes 5 cups.

Grand Marnier pound cake studded with mini chocolate chips and brushed with a warm orange-liqueur syrup. A buttery bundt with a tender crumb and a citrus-soaked crust that keeps the cake moist for days.

A quick and easy vegetarian pasta main dish with pizzazz. Fun farfalle pasta tossed with nutty almonds and asparagus in tangy buttery sauce.

Ginger-carrot bisque: silky pureed carrot soup with fresh ginger, orange zest, and coriander, finished with cream. The elegant first-course soup that converts vegetable skeptics.

Hearty barley soup with smoky diced ham, butter-sauteed mushrooms, carrots, celery, and a warm hint of allspice. A bowl of pure cold-weather comfort.

Gourmet chocolate chip cookies use both light and dark brown sugar with optional ground coriander for warm depth. Big quarter-cup-sized cookies with semi-sweet chips and walnuts. Makes 3 dozen.

Tender veal cutlets and sautéed mushrooms in a paprika-Marsala cream sauce, spooned over a nutty barley pilaf with shallots and zucchini. A complete one-hour dinner with serious depth.

A mixture of parsley, oregano, and scallions is added into the shredded potato, sprinkle the smoked cheddar on top at the last a few minutes. Use regular cheddar cheese if you don't have smoked cheddar.

Wholesome applesauce cake made from dried apples pureed at home, sweetened with honey, and built on whole wheat pastry flour. Naturally sweet and refined-sugar-free.

Almost caramelized onion never fails to add the flavor into dish, which is used in this recipe; steamed brussels sprouts were added at the end after onions were caramelized, which brought the tons of flavor into sprouts, toasted pistachios added some crunchiness and nutty taste. This has become one of our favorite ways to cook brussels sprouts.