Yum yum cake is a sour-cream chocolate layer cake with cocoa powder batter and melted chocolate chip frosting. Old-fashioned church-cookbook favorite with lunchbox simplicity.
Elegant chilled sour cherry soup with dry red wine, heavy cream, and cherry liqueur. Cinnamon-spiced fruit course served cold in summer with mint and sour cream.
Elegant chilled sour cherry soup with dry red wine, heavy cream, and cherry liqueur. Cinnamon-spiced fruit course served cold in summer with mint and sour cream.
Mocha mousse made with semi-sweet and unsweetened chocolate, brewed coffee, cocoa powder, and whipped cream. A triple-chocolate coffee dessert that's airy, rich, and intensely dark.
Mocha mousse made with semi-sweet and unsweetened chocolate, brewed coffee, cocoa powder, and whipped cream. A triple-chocolate coffee dessert that's airy, rich, and intensely dark.
Greek-style fried salt cod (bakaliaros) in a light flour batter, served with skordalia. Soaked overnight, boiled, battered, and pan-fried until golden.
This is a versatile dish, delicious warm, cold or at room temperature; with meat, poultry, pancakes, cottage cheese, or yogurt; as an appetizer, condiment, dessert or between-meal snack
Pennsylvania Dutch molasses pie with a crumb topping mixed into a foamy molasses filling. An old-fashioned shoofly-style pie that bakes in just 30 minutes.
Puffed pizza casserole with a seasoned ground beef and tomato sauce base topped with mozzarella and a golden egg batter crust. All the pizza flavor in a 9x13 pan.
Birnen, Bohnen und Speck: a traditional North German soup of whole pears, green beans, and bacon simmered in a savory broth. Served with boiled potatoes.
Spicy garbanzo bean soup with potatoes, tomatoes, saffron, turmeric, cumin, and ginger simmered for four hours from dried chickpeas. A Moroccan-inspired vegan soup finished with lemon and cilantro.
Veal fricassee with capers and dill: tender veal in a creamy white wine sauce enriched with egg yolks, brightened with briny capers and fresh dill.
Sauerkraut chocolate cake with a rich sour cream chocolate frosting. The sauerkraut adds surprising moisture and tang that no one will guess, topped with a creamy melted chip frosting.
Vegan oatburgers with mushrooms, soy sauce, nutritional yeast, and herbs. Baked until firm with a savory, meaty flavor. Makes a big batch of 20 to 25 patties.
Big-batch go-to pie crust: 5 pounds of flour and butter-flavored shortening yield 20 freezer-ready dough balls. Microwave-thaw any single ball in 30 seconds for pie any night.
Upside-down strawberry shortcake with marshmallows, frozen strawberries mixed with Jello, and white cake mix. Flip it over for a gooey pink topping that wows every time.