Recipe Sifter

Fish Florentine with tender fillets poached in court bouillon, layered over creamed spinach, and topped with a Swiss cheese sauce broiled until golden.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

Chicken Marsala with sun-dried tomatoes and spinach.

Irish soda bread flavored cookies, enjoy irish soda bread in these tiny cookies!

Make-ahead bran muffin batter that keeps in the fridge for 6 weeks. Mix once, bake fresh muffins any morning with fruit bran cereal, sour milk, and warm cinnamon.

Tender buttermilk dumplings rolled out, cut into strips, and boiled in chicken broth until puffy and soft. Just 6 ingredients and 30 minutes for old-fashioned comfort from scratch.

Fresh corn blinis topped with smoked salmon and chive cream. Fluffy cornmeal pancakes flecked with fresh corn kernels, crowned with silky cold-smoked salmon and a dollop of tangy cream. Elegant bite-sized appetizer.

Buttermilk toaster pancakes are batch-cook breakfast magic: tangy buttermilk pancakes made ahead, frozen flat, and reheated in the toaster for fast weekday mornings. Better than store-bought.

Low-fat oatmeal raisin cookies built on applesauce instead of butter, with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and three warm spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom. The chewy holiday-leaning take on the classic. Four dozen per batch.

Honey orange muffins sweetened with pure honey and brightened with fresh orange juice. One-bowl batter, ready in 30 minutes for a tender, golden breakfast bake.

Chunky chocolate chip oatmeal cookies sweetened with honey instead of sugar and bulked out with puffed wheat cereal for extra crunch. Drops about 56 cookies with a craggy, chewy-crisp texture.

Instead of making a scheduled stop at Tim Horton's, try this simple recipe that you and your family will love!

This easy to make savory crust can be any kind of savory tart or pie you want to make, and you always omit the herbs, or use whatever your favorite herbs to give it a zing. The crust is flakey and tasty.

Fluffy blueberry ricotta pancakes with lemon zest and whole wheat flour. Healthy breakfast pancakes that stay light and tender with creamy ricotta in every bite.

Chocolate, butter and peanut butter make these cookies super delicious!