Recipe Sifter

Peanut butter cookies made with vegetable oil instead of butter, brown sugar, and a single egg. Lower in saturated fat than classic versions, with the iconic fork-cross top.

Authentic Middle Eastern pita bread with tender pockets perfect for stuffing. This dough can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to a week of fresh-baked flatbreads.

Light currant bran muffins made with buttermilk, egg whites, molasses, and safflower oil. Drop-style batter chills 4 hours for a crispy edge and chewy center. Low-fat and fiber-rich.

Sage-rubbed bone-in pork loin roasted on chine bones with a silky cream gravy built from pan drippings, mirepoix, stock, milk, and roux. A professional-quality Sunday roast.

Orjaleves is a traditional Hungarian wedding soup made with beef bones, pork, saffron broth, root vegetables, and handmade spiral egg noodles. A rich, celebratory first course.

Beef rump roast stuffed with olives, garlic, and salt pork, then braised low and slow in crushed tomatoes with raisins and onions. A Sicilian Sunday dinner classic.

Maple pecan sticky buns bake an oat-enriched dough over a gooey maple-pecan syrup that turns into a glossy topping when inverted. Filled with cinnamon, raisins and pecans, they're a weekend brunch treat.

Rye bread with beer and orange, a bread machine loaf with rye flour, light beer, blackstrap molasses, orange zest, and wheat germ. Hearty, malty, with a citrus lift that cuts through the dense rye crumb.

Slow cooker ground turkey tacos with mushrooms, tomato paste, white wine, and pickling spices, topped with a homemade yogurt cream sauce with nutmeg.

Pheasant braised in spiced sour cream with Worcestershire, bay leaves, basil, and rosemary for several hours until fork-tender. A rich, creamy way to cook wild game bird.

Classic pot roast braises beef low and slow with potatoes and onions, then finishes with a tangy sour cream pan gravy made from the drippings. A Sunday-supper one-pot dinner.

Peppered London broil seared in a dry pan with a flour crust, served with lime-marinated red onions and a kick of Tabasco. A bold, no-oil steak dinner for two.

A double-crust caramel walnut pie: walnuts simmered into a reduced-cream caramel and sealed in a tender shortcrust, served a la mode with from-scratch vanilla bean ice cream. A restaurant-worthy dessert.

Louisiana courtbouillon with red snapper and oysters in a dark roux-thickened tomato sauce with the Creole holy trinity, mushrooms, and bay. Served over hot rice. A classic Cajun seafood stew.

Pizza dough made with five ingredients: flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and olive oil. A foolproof homemade base that rises in 1 to 2 hours and stretches into a chewy, blistered crust.

Pork stew with green chilies, jalapeno, and oregano slow-simmered until fork-tender. A New Mexican-style chile verde served rolled in warm flour tortillas.