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Banana nut bread made with whole wheat and white flours, ginger and mace, plus chopped pecans and dates folded in. A spiced, fruit-and-nut-loaded quick bread that's denser and more interesting than the standard.

Copycat KFC fried chicken with an Italian dressing seasoning paste and light pancake mix coating. Deep-fried then oven-finished for an extra-crispy, golden crust on every piece.

This Austrian homestyle vegetable soup starts with a butter-flour roux for body, then simmers potatoes, carrots, and broccoli in a savory broth. Thick, warming, and endlessly adaptable to whatever's in your fridge.

Microwave chicken livers with mushrooms in chicken giblet gravy, cooked in bacon fat with onion. A quick, savory offal dish ready in about 15 minutes using just the microwave.

Baked potato skins filled with chopped smoked salmon, sour cream, and topped with red or black caviar. An elegant four-ingredient appetizer that turns a humble potato into something luxurious.

Parlies are thin, crispy Scottish gingerbread cookies made with molasses, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon. Rolled paper-thin and baked until snappy.

Give your shrimp a unique taste with this simple recipe that your whole family will love!

Although this dessert is called a cake, the consistency is more similar to that of a pie.

Whole wheat cranberry bran bread folds chopped cranberries, raisin bran cereal, and orange juice into a moist, high-fiber quickbread loaf. Freezes well, perfect for breakfast or snacks.

Whole wheat banana bread with pecans and maple syrup, made entirely in a bread machine. Just load, press start, and let the machine do the work. Five minutes of active prep.

Quick herbed oatmeal bread, a no-yeast savory loaf with whole wheat, oats, buttermilk, caraway, and dried herbs. From bowl to oven in 10 minutes, no rising required.

Fish in a fish: a fish-shaped pastry wrapped around flaked salmon and parsley-rice filling, served with creamy shrimp-dill sauce. An impressive Russian-inspired kulebiaka style showpiece for special occasions.

Bulgur onion bread is an unleavened Middle Eastern flatbread of soaked bulgur, minced onion, and flour rolled paper-thin and baked on hot stones. No yeast, no rise. Five ingredients, naturally chewy with a faint onion fragrance.

Buttery almond cookies with crumbly texture bake up in 20 minutes. No chilling required for this simplified version with a whole almond pressed into each round.

Ukrainian cheesecake made with sieved cottage cheese, lemon zest and folded egg whites for a light, custardy crumb that lives somewhere between a New York cheesecake and a souffle. Old-world Eastern European baking.

Thin-pounded pork chops coated in Dijon mustard and ginger-flour, pan-seared and finished with a maple syrup and toasted pecan sauce. Quick weeknight dinner in 35 minutes.