Peanut butter and jelly streusel bars with a brown sugar PB cookie base, strawberry jam middle, and oat-crumble topping. The lunchbox sandwich reinvented for the cookie tray.
Homemade English muffins cooked on a griddle, not baked. Soft yeasted dough with cornmeal-dusted tops and bottoms, full of nooks and crannies for catching melted butter.
No-bake iced coffee and chocolate pie with instant coffee, vanilla ice milk, and gelatin in a chocolate cookie crust. Blends together in minutes, sets in the fridge.
No-bake iced coffee and chocolate pie with instant coffee, vanilla ice milk, and gelatin in a chocolate cookie crust. Blends together in minutes, sets in the fridge.
Southern-style cheesy okra and crab casserole: fresh crabmeat baked with sliced okra, diced carrot and Tabasco in an egg custard, then topped with melted cheddar. A Gulf Coast main dish with Lowcountry roots.
Mimosa ice cream crepes drizzled with buttered honey: delicate custard ice cream infused with mimosa blossoms, folded into crisped crepes. A foraged spring dessert.
Old-fashioned custard pie with a lard-and-butter crust and a silky egg-milk filling dusted with nutmeg. Simple farmhouse dessert with a classic five-ingredient filling.
Homemade beef pot pie, Pennsylvania Dutch style: no baked crust, just handmade dough squares and cubed potatoes simmered with tender stewing beef in its own rich broth. Old-fashioned and hearty.
Frozen milk chocolate pie with a cream cheese base lightened by whipped topping. Six ingredients, four hours in the freezer, and a ready-made graham cracker crust deliver a slice of mellow chocolate in under 30 minutes of work.
Classic leek and potato soup that pulls double duty: hot with croutons or chilled with milk, chives, and Tabasco for homemade vichyssoise. French bistro basics, two ways.
This is an excellent holiday bread: very pretty and festive looking.
Brown paper sack apple pie, the old-fashioned trick of baking a Granny Smith pie with buttery crumb topping inside a grocery bag. The enclosed heat steams the apples tender and keeps the crust from burning.
Chewy molasses oatmeal cookies with pecans, raisins, cinnamon, and cloves, drizzled with melted chocolate. Three cups of oats give these a hearty, old-fashioned chew.
Nothing is better than the traditional eggnog, which can entertain guests or keep you warm during the holidays.
Triple chocolate chip cookies with semi-sweet chunks, white chocolate pieces, and milk chocolate chips plus crunchy walnuts. Chewy brown sugar cookies loaded with variety in every bite.
No bake chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies set up on the stovetop in 20 minutes. Crunchy peanut butter, cocoa, and quick oats give them fudgy centers and chewy edges.