Recipes with butter

Cajun rice dressing with apples, raisins, pecans, and a cayenne-white pepper seasoning mix. Sweet-savory-spicy side dish cooked in stock until tender and fluffy.

Persimmon orange cookies made with persimmon pulp, orange juice, orange zest, warm spices, nuts, and raisins. Bake as drop cookies or cut into brownie-style bar squares.

Neapolitan mushroom soup with dried porcini and fresh mushrooms, plum tomatoes, marjoram, thyme, and an egg-yolk-Parmesan liaison thickener served over toasted Italian bread.

Chewy, buttery oatmeal raisin cookies loaded with cinnamon and brown sugar that vanish from the cookie jar before they cool. Quick 25-minute recipe the whole family will fight over.

Delicious strawberry bread is loaded with refreshing flavor from strawberries. Moist and fluffy, it is a wonderful snack with a cup of tea or coffee.

Quiche filled stuffed mushrooms with a bacon, Swiss cheese, and cream custard baked inside large mushroom caps. Individual crustless quiches that use the mushroom itself as the shell.

Old-fashioned seed cake with caraway, sesame, and coconut baked into a buttery vanilla sponge. A traditional British tea-time treat that comes together with pantry staples.

Pecan-Chocolate Chip Pie with Cream Cheese Crust recipe

Asian-style chicken in a creamy mushroom-teriyaki sauce with water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and fresh mushrooms. A quick skillet dinner served over rice with chow mein noodles for crunch.

Three pounds of shrimp broiled in garlic-lemon butter with a dusting of paprika. Serve with crusty French bread to soak up every drop of that buttery, garlicky pan sauce.

Mocha crumb cake built on a boxed cake mix spiked with cold coffee and warm spices, finished with a broiled brown sugar granola topping. A quick-to-mix sheet cake with bakery-style crunch.

Butter-browned chicken bakes for an hour in a tangy sour cream and sherry sauce with rosemary, thyme, mushrooms, and slivered almonds. Retro comfort food that never goes out of style.

Tart Granny Smith apples and whole cranberries under a buttery oat-brown sugar crumble topping. Baked low and slow until bubbling and golden, this cranberry apple pie is fall on a plate.

Flaky phyllo pie layered with spiced ground turkey, fresh spinach, and melted mozzarella creates an impressive Mediterranean main dish.

Patty Ann's cheese cake tarts: bite-size cream cheese pastry shells with two fillings, pecan and coconut. Muffin-tin desserts for holiday cookie trays.

Thick, creamy cheesy chicken chowder packed with tender potatoes, carrots, and celery in a rich cheddar-laced broth. This from-scratch soup warms you from the inside out on chilly evenings.