Egg Recipes

Whole chickens stuffed with sausage dressing and smoked over charcoal for 5 hours with a wine-herb water pan. Louisiana-style backyard smoking at its finest. Serves 8.

Soft molasses cookies use sour cream and a generous pour of molasses for the pillow-soft texture grandmas swore by. Spiced with ginger and nutmeg, rolled and cut from a chilled dough.

Cuban-style black bean soup simmered with ham hock, scotch bonnet pepper, and a splash of dark rum stirred in just before serving. Rich, smoky, and deeply satisfying.

Elegant old-world broth soup with Parmesan-egg dumplings simmered in rich chicken and beef stock with nutmeg and butter. The cheese dough is boiled in cloth, sliced into cubes, and served piping hot.

Sour cream bundt cake with a hidden layer of cinnamon, brown sugar, and chopped pecans. Made with whole wheat flour for a heartier crumb. Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm for brunch.

Soft sour cream drop cookies with a pillowy, cakey crumb, topped with a thick chocolate frosting made from melted unsweetened chocolate. Chill the dough, bake, and frost. Makes 24.

Sour cream poppyseed tea loaf is a tender, almond-kissed bundt cake speckled with poppy seeds. Sour cream keeps the crumb moist for days, ideal alongside afternoon coffee or tea.

Old-fashioned Southern cream cookies made with sour cream, walnuts, and pressed flat with a cinnamon-sugar glass. Soft, cakey drop cookies that yield six dozen from one batch.

Sweet baked Southern praline grits with brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, and butter. A custard-like grits casserole that turns humble breakfast grits into a warm, spiced dessert.

Spanakopitta Me Avga (Spinach Pie with Eggs) recipe

German-style honey spice bars with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, ground almonds, and lemon zest, finished with a rum-almond glaze. These keep for weeks in a sealed container, making them ideal holiday baking.

Moist whole wheat apple bread loaded with grated Granny Smiths, chopped walnuts, and warm spices like cinnamon, ginger, and allspice. Sweetened with honey for a wholesome, no-refined-sugar loaf.

Spinach and crumbled bacon baked in a rich custard with pecans, cheddar cheese, and half-and-half. A Southern-leaning quiche with nutty crunch in every slice.

Cheesy Southwestern spoon bread with creamed corn, green chiles, and cheddar baked golden in one pan. This custardy cornbread side is somewhere between cornbread and a savory pudding, and it goes with everything.

Classic Spudnuts: fluffy potato doughnuts made with real mashed potatoes and yeast, fried golden and dipped in a powdered sugar glaze. This big-batch recipe makes about 100 doughnuts that freeze beautifully.

Starlight double-delight cake, the retro Pillsbury bake-off winner where a chocolate-peppermint cream cheese frosting doubles as part of the batter. Two moist mint-chocolate layers, frosted in the same blend.