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Rich and creamy baked spinach casserole made with cream cheese, butter, and onion soup mix, topped with crispy breadcrumbs. Only 5 ingredients and a holiday side dish crowd-pleaser.

Salmon tempura rolls wrapped in nori with mirin-glazed leeks inside, then flash-fried in rice flour batter. Restaurant-style Japanese crispy salmon roll that shatters into warm, silky salmon at the first bite.

Scottish Empire cookies: buttery shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam, topped with a thin sugar glaze and colored sprinkles. A classic tea-time biscuit.

A Southern-style gooey butter cake with a yellow cake mix crust and a rich cream cheese, egg, and powdered sugar filling. Cut into bars for the ultimate sweet treat.

A bread machine favorite, easy bread with a classic combination of bacon and cheddar. MMmmm.

A classy and delicious sauce made with chopped shallots, tarragon and white wine.

Lemon buttered cod fillets cooked in the microwave with butter, lemon juice, lemon pepper, and paprika. A fast weeknight fish dinner ready in under 15 minutes.

These SPAM breakfast burritos are stuffed with scrambled eggs, cubed SPAM, cheddar, and Monterey Jack, then baked until the cheese melts into golden, gooey goodness. Serve with salsa for a hearty morning meal.

Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies made extra tender with sour cream. Brown sugar, cinnamon, chopped nuts, and plump raisins in every bite. Makes about 4 and a half dozen.

Creamy broccoli and artichoke casserole loaded with cream cheese, butter, and a squeeze of lemon, topped with crunchy cracker crumbs. Ready in 45 minutes with just 6 ingredients.

Turkey saltimbocca pan-sears thin turkey cutlets in butter, then tops them with prosciutto, melted Muenster, and fresh sage. A 5-ingredient Italian-American classic ready in under 10 minutes.

Bert's homemade barbecue sauce: cider vinegar, ketchup, butter, real lemon and onion slices, mustard, and Worcestershire. A tangy-rich Southern-style sauce that simmers in twenty minutes.

Nutty apricot bars with a coconut-pecan crumble crust and jammy dried apricot filling. A layered fruit bar that's part cookie, part shortcake, chilled and sliced from the pan.

Pain au Sucre, Quebec sugar house maple toast: buttered whole wheat bread broiled with maple sugar until bubbling, topped with walnuts and cream. A 25-minute French-Canadian breakfast treat.

The following is a Sugar Pie recipe that came from Northern Indiana and is an old Amish recipe. It is very, very good - and different. This will not be a firm custard, so don't despair if it doesn't look like the custard pies you are accustomed to!

Cheesy macaroni and ham made from boxed mac and cheese mix with diced smoked ham and green bell pepper stirred in. A quick, kid-friendly upgrade to the blue box, ready in 30 minutes.