Recipe Sifter

Homemade empanadas filled with spiced pumpkin, pecans, and raisins, sealed with a fork crimp and brushed with egg wash and cinnamon sugar. Golden, flaky, and warmly spiced.

Apple cider biscuits with a tender, flaky crumb and a sprinkle of cinnamon on top. Cider replaces buttermilk for an autumnal twist on a classic biscuit that pairs equally well with butter, jam, or pulled pork.

Mongolian lamb stir-fry with thin-sliced shoulder, soy sauce, garlic, scallions, and toasted sesame seeds. A quick wok dish with a glossy, savory-sweet sauce.

Homemade herbed breadsticks with basil, oregano, and garlic kneaded into a whole-wheat yeast dough, then rolled in butter and Parmesan for crisp golden edges. Perfect for dunking in marinara.

Chocolate chip orange muffins with bright orange zest and 12 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Bakery-style muffins with a citrus aroma and chocolate in every bite.

Buttery Southern biscuit muffins with a thick golden crust and cakelike center. Just six ingredients, hand-mixed, and baked until golden. The easiest biscuit you'll ever make.

Mango macadamia muffins: tropical breakfast bake studded with diced fresh mango and crowned with a buttery brown sugar nut streusel. Tender crumb, crackly top.

All-Season Quick Bread or Muffins: a flexible whole-wheat base recipe with six fruit and vegetable options (banana, zucchini, carrot, apple, orange, tomato). Loaves or muffins.

Fluffy homemade marshmallows from just gelatin, sugar, water, and vanilla, boiled to a syrup and whipped into pillowy clouds. No corn syrup, and far softer than anything from a bag.

Buttermilk blueberry scones bake up flaky and golden with juicy blueberries, orange zest, and a cinnamon-sugar cream glaze on top. Wedge-cut from one circle for a quick batch of 18.

Swedish breakfast pancakes (plattar): thin, tender little rounds cooked in a Swedish platter pan and served the traditional way with lingonberry jam and sour cream, or fresh berries and powdered sugar. Light, fast and barely sweet.

Authentic German apple strudel made the traditional way: hand-stretched dough pulled paper-thin, a poppy seed, sugar, and cinnamon filling, diced apples, and a soak of cream. Bakes up golden and flaky.

Overnight yeast waffles, the classic raised breakfast batter mixed the night before. Tangy, light, and crisp at the edges thanks to a slow yeast rise instead of baking powder.

Buttermilk pancakes for two with optional blueberries. A small-batch breakfast recipe with fluffy, tender pancakes ready in 20 minutes. No leftovers.

Buttermilk cranberry cornmeal muffins combine yellow cornmeal and whole wheat flour with tart fresh cranberries and orange zest. A heartier, more rustic muffin with a crisp top and tender, grainy crumb.

Homemade fortune cookies with custom paper messages folded inside crisp golden wafers. Five ingredients, butter-egg-white batter spread thin and shaped over a glass while still hot from the oven.