Recipe Sifter

Shrimp and scallions in a spanish style tortilla. In Spain a pancake is called a tortilla.

Savory Southwest corn muffins stuffed with diced ham, pepper jack cheese, green chiles, and red bell pepper. Hearty enough for a meal with a side salad.

Amish friendship bread starter ferments flour, sugar, and milk for five days to create the sweet, yeasty mother that fuels the famous chain-letter cinnamon quick bread.

Delicious! And simple to make in a large batch for appetizers. As made in Thrace, the soft-dough may be spread into a sheet and cut in squares before baking, or each shaped individually into daintly "bastounakia" (little canes or sticks). The word "trifti" identifies the texture - crisp and crumbly in the mouth.

The ultimate chocolate chip cookie with brown sugar, butter-flavored shortening, and pecans. Choose your style: bake 8 minutes for soft and chewy or 13 minutes for golden and crisp.

This is a really rich, flavorful stew and goes GREAT with the stuffed onions and some french bread

Traditional Polish holiday side dishes: golden fried cabbage with split peas, pearl barley, buckwheat, baked rice, breadcrumb-coated potatoes, and seasoned beans. A complete Wigilia spread.

Bite-sized wheat germ gem cookies rolled in toasted wheat germ for a nutty, crunchy coating. Brightened with orange zest and vanilla, these little rounds are a wholesome cookie jar staple.

Buttery thumbprint cookies with brown sugar and vanilla, filled with a dot of raspberry jam. A diabetic-friendly treat that's ready in 30 minutes with just 7 simple ingredients.

Whole wheat buttermilk pancakes with a quick blueberry-lemon sauce. Honey-sweetened, lighter on fat thanks to egg substitute, and finished with a glossy fresh blueberry pour. A 30-minute breakfast win.

No fat banana muffins use mashed banana, egg whites, and corn syrup instead of butter or oil for tender low-fat breakfast muffins flavored with cinnamon.

Homemade string hopper sweet rolls, delicate steamed rice-flour noodle disks wrapped around a sweet coconut treacle and cinnamon filling. A soft, lightly sweet Sri Lankan steamed treat for breakfast or tea.

Homemade pita bread that puffs into pockets on a hot baking sheet at 500 degrees. Four basic ingredients, no fat, freezes well, and makes 6 large or 12 small pitas.

Classic baking powder biscuits from scratch with just five pantry staples: flour, baking powder, salt, shortening and milk. Tender, flaky, and on the table in about 20 minutes. The plain, reliable biscuit recipe to memorize.

Classic homemade baking powder biscuits with five ingredients and just 35 minutes from start to finish. Tender, flaky, fresh-baked breakfast biscuits that beat any tube or boxed version.

Homemade soft bread, a puffed flatbread cooked on a griddle then ballooned over an open flame until light and golden. Soft yeast dough that tears into pillowy pieces for scooping up curry.