Recipe Sifter

Sawdust salad layered jello dessert with lemon-orange gelatin, pineapple custard, and cream cheese whipped topping. Vintage church potluck dish that’s sweet, light, and ready in stages.

A succulent dish made with savory pork, chopped onions and juicy tomatoes.

Tagalong cheesecake turns the peanut-butter-and-chocolate Girl Scout cookie into a dessert. A Tagalong cookie crust, peanut butter cream cheese filling, glossy chocolate ganache and crushed peanuts.

Traditional baked Christmas pudding with candied fruits, pecans, molasses, and warm spices, served with brandy sauce. A festive holiday dessert with an optional flambé presentation.

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.

This is a delicious apple pie, the brown sugar crumb topping is really good.

With toasted coconut and pecans, this cake will satisfy your family and white chocolate lovers everywhere!

Healthy whole wheat bread for the bread machine, layered with rolled oats, wheat germ, bran, sesame seeds, and a drizzle of molasses for deep flavor. Multi-grain texture and a tender, sliceable crumb. Set it and forget it.

Basic naan made from just four pantry ingredients: flour, yeast, salt, and water. The two-stage cook (griddle then broiler) gives you those signature blistered, charred spots without a tandoor.

These cute wicked cupcakes will definitely impress your kids and the friends, and they are delicious!

Packed with goodness and yumminess. This banana bread is perfect for breakfast, brunch or a healthy snack.

Soft, buttery sugar cookies with a hint of lemon zest, made with both butter and oil for a tender crumb. Cream of tartar keeps them pillowy. A holiday cookie jar classic.

Crispy fried eggplant: rounds salted to draw out any bitterness, then breaded in seasoned flour, egg and thyme-flecked crumbs and fried golden in butter and oil. Crisp outside, tender-not-mushy inside, finished with lemon.

Hot dogs and potatoes au gratin in a creamy Velveeta cheese sauce with peas and carrots. A budget-friendly kid-approved casserole with homemade white sauce baked until bubbly.

Herman starter, the friendship sourdough-style yeast and milk starter that bakers have been passing along for generations. Mix once, feed every five days, and share cups with friends or bake into coffee cakes and breads.

Herb-marinated snails dipped in a light egg-white batter and fried golden. A crispy French appetizer with tarragon, chervil, chives, and parsley.