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Creamy no-cook shrimp dip made with cream cheese, cream of shrimp soup, lemon juice, and tiny shrimp. Just mix, chill overnight, and serve with crackers or veggies for an easy party appetizer everyone will crowd around.

Chinese-style basic stock made from chicken pieces and pork spareribs simmered with ginger, scallion knots, and rice wine. A clean, versatile broth for Asian cooking.

Orange tangerine beef, a Szechuan-style stir fry with flank steak, dried chili peppers, and fragrant dried orange peel for classic smoky citrus-spice heat.

Smoked pulled pork shoulder doused in a tangy apple cider vinegar marinade with chipotle peppers and garlic. Hickory smoke meets slow-burn chili heat, piled on soft rolls with slaw.

Cube steaks marinated overnight in seasoned salt and red wine, coated in Bisquick, pan-fried until crispy in butter and oil, then baked until tender. A two-step method for the crunchiest chicken fried steak.

Make your own Italian sausage from scratch: coarse-ground pork seasoned simply with fennel, pepper and dry red wine, stuffed into casings and cured two days. The plain, classic base sausage.

Pan-seared salmon on a bed of creamy leek fondue with a saffron butter sauce. A French-style restaurant dish with two distinct sauces built from wine, shallots, and cream.

Halibut baked in the microwave with orange juice, orange zest, lemon juice, butter, and a hint of nutmeg. A citrus-glazed fish dinner for two that cooks in about 10 minutes.

Halloween deviled eggs made to look like bloodshot eyeballs using cream cheese, pimento-stuffed olives, and red food coloring. Creepy, edible, and kid-approved.

Blue cheese cold souffle dip whips tangy blue cheese with cream cheese, butter, and Dijon into a billowy gelatin-set mousse. Serve with crackers and crudites for entertaining.

Smoky salmon and mackerel whipped with cream cheese, lemon, and horseradish into a silky pate. Ready in 10 minutes flat, spread it on crackers or crusty bread for a crowd-pleasing Canadian-style appetizer.

Creamy crab and artichoke hearts over a bed of sour cream spinach with a cayenne kick. This microwave casserole is on the table in 20 minutes flat.

Variations: Omit parsley, add tarragon or rosemary.

Rustic corn soup thickened with hard-boiled egg yolks from a 1936 Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook. Half the corn is grated for creamy base, half left whole for sweet bursts of texture.

Mouclade, the classic French Bordeaux mussel dish steamed with shallots, white wine, saffron, and cream. Like moules marière's richer, golden cousin.

Stuffed sole fillets with scallops, crab, shrimp and Monterey Jack cheese. Elegant seafood dish with hollandaise-style sauce baked in 25 minutes.