546 flame recipes

These cookies are healthy enough to give for on the run breakfasts.

A rustic one-pot meal of ham hocks and sausages simmered with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and onions in a savory broth. Hearty, warming, and satisfying enough to be dinner all by itself.

Crispy, chewy, loaded cookies packed with oats, crushed cornflakes, shredded coconut, and chopped pecans. Flatten with a sugar-dipped glass for crackly edges. Makes 4 dozen in just 30 minutes.

A hearty and scrumptious casserole made with hash brown potatoes, cheddar cheese and sour cream.

Pasta primavera in a light evaporated milk sauce with mushrooms, bell peppers, and garlic sauteed in dry sherry. A low-fat vegetarian pasta with no butter or cream.

Kid-friendly curried vegetables with potatoes, carrots, and cauliflower in a mild tomato-spice sauce. A simple Indian-style vegetable curry that teaches real cooking skills.

Layered zucchini potato salad: creamy mashed-potato base stacked with crisp-tender zucchini, corn, and cherry tomatoes. A cool, make-ahead potluck salad that travels well and holds its layers.

Feijoada slow-cooks black beans with cubed ham, pork loin, Italian sausage, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and a hint of orange zest. Hearty Brazilian-style bean and meat stew.

Cilantro pesto pasta with macadamia nuts, ginger, lime, and chile. A punchy 15-minute Thai-leaning pasta that swaps the basil-pine-nut combo for something brighter and hotter.

Black bean chili with oranges, an unexpected Yucatan-style pairing. Whole spices, cardamom, allspice, and coriander simmer with dried beans. Topped with fresh orange slices, zest, and sour cream.

Safaid channe is a Pakistani white chickpea curry with ginger, coriander, cardamom, and tomatoes. A fragrant vegetarian dish served with puffy bread.

Grilled fruit kabobs brushed with maple syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, bitters, and red pepper flakes. Sweet, smoky, and spicy summer dessert ready in 30 minutes.

A set-it-and-forget-it slow cooker recipe with dried pinto beans, diced ham, carrots, celery, and a double-bouillon broth. Eight hours on low gives you thick, smoky, soul-warming beans.

Penne alla puttane d'Elba tosses hot pasta into a no-cook sauce of raw tomatoes, zucchini, capers, olives, basil, and chili. A sun-soaked Tuscan summer pasta from the island of Elba.

Pappa al pomodoro, a thick Tuscan bread and tomato soup with stale Italian bread, fresh and canned Roma tomatoes, garlic, leeks, basil, and olive oil. Rustic Italian comfort.

Cape Cod blueberry cake folds fresh blueberries and bran flakes cereal into a lightly spiced one-bowl batter. A New England farmhouse cake with a tender, fiber-rich crumb served warm with whipped topping.