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Crispy bread-cup croustades filled with baby shrimp in a Swiss cheese sauce with lemon zest and Worcestershire. Makes 3 to 4 dozen freezer-friendly party bites.

This rich, chocolate snack is a tasty treat that everyone will enjoy. Just make sure to make enough!

Easy almond-topped bundt cake made with yellow cake mix and brown sugar. This impressive dessert bakes upside-down so the almond topping becomes a golden crust.

Make-ahead ham and cheddar breakfast casserole assembled overnight and baked in the morning. A mustardy egg custard soaks the bread layers, topped with buttered cornflakes for a satisfying crunch.

Pan-seared salmon in a vodka cream sauce with green peppercorns, lime juice, and chives over wilted spinach and caramelized onions. A restaurant-quality dinner at home.

Oysters Souvenir de Tahaa breads and pan-fries fresh-shucked oysters, then plates them around a silky cream-of-shallots sauce reduced with white wine, lemon and oyster liquor.

Gather round pound cake: a moist butterscotch-coffee bundt cake with melted butterscotch chips and instant coffee in the batter. The deep amber pound cake that smells like a coffee shop bakery.

Wheat-free Italian cream cake made with rice flour and buckwheat flour, loaded with coconut and nuts, topped with honey cream cheese frosting. A naturally sweetened, gluten-friendly Southern showstopper.

Cherry pie filling bread made with frozen dough or bread machine dough. Slits are filled with cherry pie filling, then the loaf is brushed with butter and cinnamon sugar before baking.

Tangy cream sorrel soup with leeks, potatoes, and fresh herbs, pureed silky smooth. A classic French potager soup with a bright, lemony bite that's ready in 40 minutes.

Lemon popcorn tossed with melted butter, fresh lemon juice, and lemon zest. Stovetop popped in corn oil for a tangy, buttery snack that's ready in 20 minutes.

Glossy velvet chocolate glaze made with melted unsweetened chocolate, butter, corn syrup, and powdered sugar. Pours smooth over brownies, cakes, and more in 15 minutes.

Traditional Ukrainian golubtsi cabbage rolls filled with millet, salt pork, sauteed carrots and onions, simmered in a sour cream and tomato sauce. Authentic Eastern European comfort food.

Southern catfish chili with chunky white fish fillets simmered in a tomato and kidney bean base with green peppers and garlic. Quick weeknight chili variation ready in 40 minutes.

Fillets of Flounder in Lemon Parsley Butter recipe

Elvis Presley's sweet potato pie sweetened with brown sugar and nutmeg, bound with evaporated milk and eggs, and built with a russet potato slipped into the mash for old-school Southern body.