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Homemade chocolate-glazed caramels with pecans, topped with melted milk chocolate. Cooked to firm-ball stage for a chewy, buttery candy that cuts into neat squares.

Mediterranean-style casserole layering brown rice, seasoned beef, crumbled feta, black olives, and dried mushrooms in a garlicky tomato sauce, topped with Parmesan and baked until bubbling.

Lemon cranberry pie layers ruby cranberry sauce under a creamy lemon icebox custard. A two-layer holiday pie with sweet-tart fireworks in every slice.

Hearty hamburger and pearl barley soup with cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes in a balsamic-spiked beef broth. A frugal, freezer-friendly one-pot meal that stretches a pound of beef across six bowls.

Moist chocolate zucchini cake with cocoa, buttermilk, allspice, and cinnamon topped with chocolate chips. A sneaky way to use up garden zucchini in dessert.

Old-fashioned hermit cookies spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, stuffed with raisins, dates, and walnuts. Soft and chewy from sour cream, topped with a whole walnut. A New England cookie jar staple.

Cherry date skillet cookies skip the oven entirely. Buttery dates and brown sugar bubble together in a skillet, then bind with rice cereal, coconut, and maraschino cherries into chewy, no-bake bites rolled in coconut.

Moist apple quickbread studded with tender fruit chunks, walnuts, and orange zest. Buttermilk keeps these loaves incredibly soft, while an overnight rest lets the flavors meld into breakfast heaven.

Hearty homemade soup mix with dried green peas, pearl barley, elbow macaroni, brown rice, and minced onion; builds into a thick beef-and-vegetable soup with carrots, celery, cabbage, and V8.

Crispy lemon oatmeal cookies made with egg whites, brown sugar, and rice cereal for extra crunch. No butter, no yolks. A lighter, citrus-bright cookie.

Arroz con pollo built on a hearty mix of brown and wild rice instead of white. Browned chicken simmered with tomatoes, white wine, almonds, peas and a Latin-style sofrito of onion, garlic and paprika.

Chewy oat bran raisin cookies made with egg whites instead of whole eggs and vegetable oil instead of butter. A lighter oatmeal cookie with nuts and fiber.

Crunchy drop cookies loaded with oats, crispy rice cereal, coconut, and nuts. These chewy-crispy TV cookies are the ultimate snack for movie night or after-school munching.

Bold, smoky homemade BBQ sauce with a whole head of garlic, brown sugar, orange juice, and cayenne heat. Simmers for 2 hours in a cast-iron Dutch oven.

Midnight muncher bars with a marbled chocolate and vanilla base, caramel pecan frosting filling, and a glossy chocolate ganache topping. Three decadent layers in one rich bar cookie.

Spiced applesauce bars studded with raisins and walnuts, topped with decorative walnut halves before baking into soft squares.