227 fun fun recipes

Pork meatballs with shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts, and ginger, rolled in soaked rice and steamed until the grains turn translucent. A classic Chinese dim sum appetizer that's as fun to make as it is to eat.

Steamed shrimp cooked shell-on in a spiced broth with celery, peppers, scallion, and a kick of cayenne. Serve the peel-and-eat shrimp with the cooking liquid for dunking garlic bread. Messy, casual, and fun.

Crispy, light-as-air meringue cookies loaded with crunchy cereal flakes and melty chocolate chips. These easy drop cookies bake up golden in under 20 minutes, making them a fun, crowd-pleasing snack the whole family will love.

This is such a fun recipe. I made an entree Vol Au Vent for a recent garden party with this chicken filling, filled the small puff pastry baskets with it. Not only it looked nice and elegant, it also tasted amazingly delicious. A great pick!

These very chocolatey, chewy cookies are a favorite with my young nephews and nieces. When they come to visit we make them together and they have so much fun, just make sure you use an over-sized bowl so the ingredients don't go flying, the boys seem to be overly enthusiastic about stirring. LOL

A hearty, delicious stew and very filling as well. Served it with a homemade whole wheat bun, comfy and tasty.

Hamburgers on the halfshell, open-faced raw beef burgers broiled on a bun with tomato sauce, onions, pepper, and melted cheese. A pantry-clearing weeknight version of the classic burger.

Homemade sweet coconut bread tucks a filling of desiccated coconut simmered in coconut treacle and cinnamon inside soft, milk-enriched yeast buns. Sesame-topped, golden, and Sri Lankan to the core.

Super easy peasy and pucker baked carrots. This recipe is close to the one that Jamie Oliver prepared in Season 2 of his Naked Chef show, I think the episode was "A bun in the oven".

These lentil burgers are packed with flavor and goodness.They can be served on top of hamburger bun, with some chutney or whatever your favorite toppings; or just have these tasty burgers with some fresh vegetable salad to complete a meal.

A little bit of heat with a tangy sweet and sour taste. This cucumber soba salad for sure refreshes your taste buds while satisfies your tummy.

Traditional kolache fillings: ground walnut, dried apricot, coconut-pecan, and poppyseed. Four classic Czech and Eastern European pastry fillings for cookies and yeast buns.

A great rendition to crockpot-made beans that are best served with bread bowls or hamburger buns.

Caramel rolls made with frozen bread dough, butterscotch pudding mix, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon. A shortcut sticky bun with an overnight rise option.

Homemade siopao steamed dumplings stuffed with a savory shrimp, ground pork, and water chestnut filling. Makes 30 pillowy buns from scratch, street-food style.

Old-school fried brain sandwiches: pork brains soaked, battered with egg and flour, and griddle-fried until crispy. A Midwestern regional classic served on a bun.