Recipe Sifter

Double chocolate chip cookies made with oil instead of butter for a soft, brownie-like crumb. Cocoa-rich dough studded with semi-sweet chips and ready in 35 minutes flat.

Cherry oatmeal muffins with sour cherries, orange juice concentrate, and oats. A naturally sweetened breakfast muffin with bright citrus and tart-fruit punch. No added sugar.

Nancy's pancakes: a 6-ingredient stovetop pancake recipe that produces tender, fluffy stacks every time. Diner-style flapjacks for any breakfast.

Dense, fudgy brownies with melted chocolate and cocoa in the batter plus mini chocolate chips throughout. Made with just one egg and canola oil for an intensely chocolatey, chewy center.

Oven-baked coconut shrimp with a triple-dip coating of egg, flour, and shredded coconut. Crispy outside, juicy inside, no deep frying required. Ready in 40 minutes.

A traditional Danish curried eel recipe where tender poached eel is draped in a rich curry-onion roux sauce. Simple, old-world Scandinavian cooking with just a handful of ingredients. Serve over steamed rice.

Red snapper a la Mexicaine with seared fillets baked in fresh tomatoes and herbs, finished with a creamy avocado sauce spiked with lime and Tabasco. French-Mexican fusion at its finest.

Classic ginger snap cookies with molasses, cinnamon, and cloves. Crispy edges with signature crinkled tops. Big batch recipe makes about 10 dozen small cookies.

Classic French chicken fricassee from the Poitou region. Golden-browned chicken braised on a bed of caramelized onions that melt into their own sauce.

Italian-style venison pot roast braised low and slow in red wine, tomato sauce, and oregano. A Dutch oven recipe that turns lean game meat fork-tender with rich gravy.

Cheese puffs made from choux pastry, light and airy bites packed with sharp cheddar, baked golden and crisp outside, tender within. A French gougere-style appetizer for any party.

Raisin orange polenta cookies fold Cointreau-soaked raisins, bright orange zest, and a scoop of cornmeal into a buttery Italian-style drop cookie. Golden, subtly crunchy, and citrus-bright.

Low-fat spiced bran muffins with molasses, honey, ginger, cloves, golden raisins, and walnuts. Made with egg whites and nonfat yogurt instead of butter and whole eggs.

Traditional English piccalilli with cauliflower, cucumber, pearl onions, and green tomatoes in a turmeric-mustard sauce. Homemade mustard pickle that improves with keeping.

Easy oxtail soup with onions, carrots, and turnip simmered together in one pot. The flour stirred in at the end gives the broth body without needing a roux or separate thickener.

Greek semolina honey cookies (melomakarona): torpedo-shaped orange and cinnamon cookies soaked in a warm honey-cinnamon syrup and dusted with sesame or walnuts. Traditional Christmas tradition.