428 blanco recipes

Quick and easy trout with lemon, butter and toasted almonds.

Dark Christmas cake is the real, old-fashioned fruitcake: dense with raisins, currants, figs, dates, and almonds, deepened with brown sugar, prune juice, and brandy, then aged in brandy-soaked cheesecloth. Make it now, slice it at Christmas.

Buttery shortbread dough studded with finely ground almonds bakes into tender, melt-in-your-mouth cookies where almond extract amplifies the nutty richness in every crumbly bite.

Glace baklava rolls candied fruit, ground almonds, and egg-bound sugar inside buttered phyllo, bakes until golden, then soaks in lemon-cinnamon syrup. A festive twist on classic Greek baklava.

"This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. I wish that I had that old crock."

Wow, love these biscotti. They are so chocolaty and the almonds add a layer of delicious nuttiness. Perfect to enjoy it with a cup of tea.

Baklava with shatter-crisp phyllo, ground walnuts and almonds, and honey syrup steeped with lemon and orange slices. The classic Greek pastry done properly, in shimmering diamond-cut squares.

Chocolate chip and almond biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies built for dunking. Toasted almonds, semi-sweet chips, and a splash of whiskey give these crisp logs serious depth.

Domatoules Glyko (Spicy Cherry Tomato Preserves) recipe

A different approach to classic German apple pancake, it tastes more sophisticated. Kids will find more fun from these rolled-up pancakes stuffed with applesauce and raisins, smothered in a custard-like creamy mixture.

Even goat cheese haters like these sandwiches when cut in half with cream cheese. The creamy cheeses match up perfectly with asparagus. Cut into triangles color of sandwich is so pretty. They are perfect food at the party!

Wow your guests with your own one of a kind cheesy nut mix. Easy recipe to mix and match nuts, herbs and adapt to spicy/sweet or just plain mixed up cheesy combos.

Indian gazpacho with hot green chiles, garlic, and dry red wine in a chilled tomato-based vegetable soup. The South Asian spin on Spanish gazpacho with a slow-burn heat.

Greek baklava with buttery cookie dough rolled around spiced nuts and phyllo, soaked in honey-lemon syrup for layers of crisp pastry and rich almond filling.

Very easy recipe that highlight the sweetness and crispness of sugar snap peas with combine perfectly with the salty ham.

Made this pasta with veggies for supper yesterday, and I was impressed. I wan't sure that if there would be enough flavor, and it actually came out quite tasty. I did add a bit hot chili sauce. A quick, easy and yummy one-pot meal.