815 finger recipes

Old-fashioned spiced cake buns with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and raisins. Drop-style buttermilk buns with a sugar-crackled top, baked from a single mixing bowl in 35 minutes.

Curried tuna salad stuffs a hollowed-out red bell pepper with tuna, chickpeas, currants, almonds, and a yogurt-curry dressing. A bright Indian-spiced lunch that uses the pepper as both bowl and ingredient.

Sri Lankan mixed pickle (achcharu) with chiles, cauliflower, carrots, beans, and dates in a spiced malt vinegar brine. Sweet-hot relish that wakes up rice and curry plates.

A Jellie of Fyshe: a medieval-style aspic of cod, scallops, and shrimp suspended in a clear gelatin set with white wine, ginger, and vinegar. The historic seafood starter for special occasions.

Asian-style mushroom marinade combines hoisin, chili sauce, soy, ginger, and garlic to soak portobello caps for grilling or roasting. A vegan umami bomb ready in 5 minutes.

Pot sticker dipping sauce mixes soy sauce, rice vinegar, garlic, ginger, scallion, and chili flakes for a 5-minute Chinese restaurant-style dumpling dip. Salty, tangy, with a hum of heat.

Pepper poached pears simmer in white wine with black peppercorns, ginger, cinnamon and a whisper of chili heat, then chill in a syrup reduced from the poaching liquid. An elegant, lightly spiced dessert.

Grilled pork chops with a sticky hoisin-ketchup glaze and homemade pickled ginger on the side. An Asian-inspired weeknight dinner ready in 40 minutes.

Bean curd skin rolls wrap shredded mushrooms, dried tofu, celery, and carrot in fresh tofu sheets, then shallow-fry until crisp and golden. Drizzled with a chili-ginger dipping sauce.

Homemade kimchi with napa cabbage, daikon radish, scallions, garlic, ginger, pear, and cayenne pepper. Salt-brined and fermented for 3 days in a traditional crock method.

Pan-seared salmon steaks topped with crispy ginger and green onion matchsticks, served over peppery arugula with a sherry-soy pan sauce. Date-night dinner for two in under 30 minutes.

Thin beef slices wrapped around asparagus spears, enoki and shiitake mushrooms, and green onion, then braised in teriyaki sauce. Japanese-style negimaki for date night or dinner party.

Crispy beer battered shrimp served with a smoky chipotle dipping sauce spiked with soy, ginger, lime, and mirin. A bold fusion appetizer that's ready in 30 minutes.

Hearty oven-baked lentil stew loaded with Brussels sprouts, rutabaga, carrots, and fresh ginger. A cozy, plant-based one-dish meal with serious comfort-food warmth.

African spice and herb mixture. Classic Ethiopian style flavors to spice up your meals.

Try making your own ginger ale with this simple and easy to follow recipe that's stress free!