10,000 fast food recipes

Spaghetti carbonara with bacon, beaten eggs, white wine, butter, and grated Italian cheese. The hot pasta cooks the eggs into a creamy, silky sauce right in the bowl.

Quick Italian garden saute with zucchini, corn, green pepper, and fresh tomatoes in butter with basil and oregano. A 15-minute summer vegetable side dish from skillet to table.

Chocolate diamond cookies with unsweetened chocolate, pecans, and vanilla. A fudgy, brownie-like holiday cookie baked in one pan and cut into festive diamond shapes.

Chocolate pan cake pours hot cocoa-butter liquid into a buttermilk batter, bakes in a 13x9 pan, and gets a warm cocoa glaze poured over while still hot. Southern Texas sheet cake classic.

Eggs baked in a spicy tomato-pepper sauce with chili and caramelized onions. The Mediterranean breakfast classic that inspired shakshuka and huevos rancheros.

Gourmet chili: a deeply spiced, meaty beef chili with a secret spoonful of unsweetened cocoa for mole-like richness, plus cumin, paprika, cayenne and green chilies. Beans simmer separately so you can keep them in or on the side.

Good, inexpensive hearty meal although I would spice it up a little more probably with garlic and more onion.

Chestnut-stuffed mushrooms on buttery whole-wheat croûtes: pan-fried mushroom caps filled with a chunky chestnut, onion, and nutmeg stuffing, grilled until bubbling. A festive vegetarian starter.

Chicken biryani with toasted rice, whole spices, turmeric, golden raisins, and crispy fried onion flakes. An aromatic one-pot Indian rice dish garnished with hard-boiled eggs and tomato.

Homemade yeasted rolls swirled with melted chocolate chips and pecans, baked upside-down on a buttery brown sugar caramel. Flip them out onto a platter and watch that sticky, glossy topping drip down the sides. Chocolate meets sticky buns.

Rolled sole fillets baked in white wine, nestled inside hollowed tomatoes stuffed with sauteed onions, and draped in a silky butter sauce with fresh herbs. A show-stopping French classic.

Veggie burgers in pita bread are homemade grain patties of barley, lentils, and rice with carrots, onion, and sunflower seeds, pan-fried golden and stuffed into warm pita pockets with lettuce and tomato.

Inland paella stretches the classic Spanish rice dish with chicken, hot Italian sausage, clams, and shrimp baked together with saffron-stained rice. A casserole-style take built to feed a crowd.

Cinnamon sherry biscochitos, the official state cookie of New Mexico, crisp anise-scented butter cookies with a splash of sherry and cinnamon sugar coating.

A smoky Punjabi roasted eggplant dish (baingan bharta) cooked with tomatoes, green chilies, cumin, and ghee, finished with fresh cilantro. Charred, spicy, and deeply savory.

Bizcochitos are the official state cookie of New Mexico: lard-based shortbread perfumed with anise and sweet wine, dusted in cinnamon sugar, and baked into delicate flaky rounds. The traditional Christmas and wedding cookie of the Southwest.