Recipe Sifter

Warm, gooey and delicious. Flaky croissants stuffed with ham, swiss cheese and creamy mushroom sauce.

Whole red snapper stuffed with shrimp, rice, ginger, and scallions, then draped in bacon and baked until flaky. Finished with a white wine pan sauce for a showpiece Caribbean dinner.

Try something different this summer with this scrumptious chicken dish that will have you licking your fingers.

A velvety lobster and shrimp bisque, sweet shellfish blended into a creamy, tomato-tinged base with a roux and half-and-half, finished with the gentle anise note of fresh tarragon. An elegant starter.

Pollo alla Cleopatra is an Italian restaurant classic: flour-dredged chicken breasts in a tarragon-caper cream sauce spiked with white wine and brandy. Rich, aromatic, and ready in under 30 minutes.

This is an authentic family recipe that my mother taught me in 1950 in New Orleans. It makes a great dinner party main dish. Like chinese food, it is long on chopping and assembling, but goes together and cooks rather quickly.

Crabmeat stuffed ravioli served with a sauce béchamel. Takes time to make but well worth the effort to impress our just tread yourself!

Brussels sprouts baked in a savory bacon and green onion sauce, topped with grated cheddar and golden breadcrumbs. The side dish that converts sprout skeptics.

Prysnac (Serbian broccoli casserole): a slow-cooker custard packed with broccoli, eggs, cottage cheese, and American cheese. Old-world Serbian comfort food made hands-off in the crockpot.

Creamy Creole peanut soup with crunchy peanut butter, fresh chilies, chicken, and heavy cream. Rich, nutty, and spicy with roots in Southern and African cooking.

Fusion pizza with homemade crust, hoisin-ketchup sauce, and stir-fried Chinese sausage, mushrooms, and vegetables. East meets West in this creative, flavor-packed pizza.

Crispy pan-fried chickpea burgers with oregano and cumin, tucked into warm pita with a creamy lemon-tahini yogurt sauce. Vegetarian, healthy, and done in 25 minutes.

Versatile crustless seafood quiche with a blender custard of sour cream, cottage cheese, and Parmesan. Choose shrimp, crab, or salmon as your filling for an easy, elegant main.

Indulge in Catfish Bienville: broiled catfish fillets topped with a creamy, shrimp-infused Bienville sauce, accented by bacon and sherry. A Southern classic, perfect for dinner parties. Ready in under 30 minutes!

Filipino okoy fritters made with shrimp, sliced bean curd, and mung bean sprouts in a crispy batter, served with a soy-garlic dipping sauce. A classic Filipino street food snack fried until golden and crunchy.

Kazakh gutap: deep-fried herb fritters with a thin laminated dough wrapped around dill, parsley, garlic, scallions, and butter. Served with a tangy sour cream sauce.