313 first recipes

Chicken and okra stew braises bone-in chicken with tomatoes, white wine, and a quiet pinch of cinnamon. The okra soaks in vinegar first to tame the slime before baking. Greek-style one-pot meal.

Hot olive cheese puffs wrap briny green olives in a sharp cheddar dough with butter, flour, and a hit of paprika. Make-ahead friendly, freezer-stable, and the kind of retro appetizer that always disappears first.

Dark cocoa cookies stuffed with two full cups of chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Makes 54 soft, fudgy drop cookies with a deep chocolate flavor that hits from the very first bite.

Roasted duck with a green peppercorn and star anise sauce made from homemade duck giblet broth. The duck is salt-poached first, then roasted until crispy. A refined French-inspired main course.

This frozen blackberry souffle is creamy, rich and fruity with the fluffy texture. When you have the first bite, it's going to be difficult to stop going back for more and more...

Carolines, French savory choux pastries split and filled with warm crab and asparagus spears, finished with a beurre blanc-style lemon dill butter sauce. An elegant first course or canapé for eight.

Red potato salad with bacon dresses skin-on baby reds in a vinegar-spiked mayo with crisp bacon, yellow onion, scallions, and hard-boiled eggs. The picnic side dish that disappears first.

Finnish summer soup (kesäkeitto): a creamy Nordic vegetable soup with new potatoes, baby carrots, peas, and green beans in a light half-and-half broth. Built to showcase the season's first harvest.

Danish leveropostej: a classic pork liver pate with anchovies, onion, allspice, and clove, wrapped in pork fat and baked in a water bath. Served sliced on smorrebrod or as a first course.

Pesto-topped baked salmon with crispy garlic pan-roasted potatoes, a 5-ingredient weeknight dinner ready in about 30 minutes. Microwave the spuds first, then sear them golden while the salmon bakes.

Fresh rhubarb pie with orange juice, orange zest, and nutmeg in a lattice-top crust. The filling gets cooked on the stovetop first for a set, glossy texture that won't make the bottom crust soggy.

Slow cooker short ribs Pacific style in a sweet and tangy sauce of ketchup, soy sauce, vinegar, and brown sugar. Broiled first to render fat, then braised 8 hours until fall-off-the-bone tender.

Costs about $10 to serve a family since adult can have 2 halfs with mashed potato and mini carrots etc and children can have 1. This is my first Recipe so here goes.

Fried rabbit simmered first in salted water with peppercorns and bay leaves until tender, then dredged in flour and pan-fried in butter until golden. A two-step method for crispy, juicy rabbit.

After he perfected his original he made a crispy recipe that was marinated first then fried the conventional way. This one is double dunked into the coating to give it its great taste.

This is a great first time pad thai recipe. You will need some special ingredients to get started but once you have added them to your pantry this makes a great weeknight meal.