10,000 catering recipes

Delicately flavored orange cookie cups, topped with an orange, almond-paste filling.

Paris-Brest style cream puff pastry: piped pâte à choux rings baked with slivered almonds, split and filled with pastry cream, dusted with powdered sugar. A French patisserie classic at home.

Pickled beets and onions, a classic canning project with fresh beets and onions in a sweet pickling spice brine. Shelf-stable jars that brighten salads, sandwiches, and holiday plates.

Dead-simple homemade bread with just 5 ingredients: flour, water, yeast, salt, and honey. No kneading required. Mix it, ignore it, bake it. Fresh bread for people who think they can't bake bread.

Old-fashioned potato sourdough starter built on potato water, flour, sugar, and a pinch of yeast. The starches feed wild and added yeasts together for a tangy, vigorous base for breads, pancakes, and biscuits.

Microwave steamed lobster cooked in salted lemon water in just 12 minutes. A fast, no-fuss method for whole live lobster with tender, sweet meat.

A quick and delicious polenta recipe that's very easy to make and tastes great the next day! Best served with a bit of parmesan cheese.

Refreshing iced tea float with almond-flavored herbal tea and scoops of lemon or orange sherbet. Light, cooling beverage perfect for summer afternoons.

Basic Rice: a foolproof 3-ingredient method for fluffy white or brown rice. Classic 2:1 water-to-rice ratio, simmered low and covered. Two-cup yield, ready in 20 to 40 minutes.

Chocolate chip cookie dough on sticks, flattened into lollipop shapes and decorated before baking. Made with cookie mix for easy prep. Kids love shaping and decorating them. Makes 24 cookie pops in under 20 minutes.

Learn how to cook fluffy quinoa or nutty teff on the stovetop with just water and salt. A simple base recipe for grain bowls, soups, and side dishes.

Kalakaua is a Hawaiian-inspired pineapple Jello mold made right in the can. Lime gelatin poured over canned pineapple rings, chilled, and unmolded into a neat cylinder.

Candied cranberries slow-cooked in sugar syrup over a double boiler, then rolled in sugar until sparkling. A 3-ingredient holiday garnish or sweet snack.

Easy oil pie crust with just four ingredients and no butter to cut in. This no-chill pastry rolls out fast for any single-crust pie.

Homemade orecchiette pasta made without eggs using just semolina flour, all-purpose flour, and water. A simple 3-ingredient vegan pasta shaped by hand.

Homemade blue corn tortillas from just three ingredients: blue cornmeal, boiling water, and flour. Earthy, nutty flavor with a striking blue-purple color on a hot griddle.