Recipe Sifter

Chunky bittersweet chocolate cookies with hand-chopped chocolate bars and walnuts. Golden edges, soft centers, and pools of melted chocolate in every bite. Serve warm for maximum gooeyness.

Æbleskiver: Danish pancake balls with cardamom-spiced sour cream batter and folded egg whites for cloudlike puffs. Cook in the traditional pan, dust with powdered sugar, dip in tart jam.

Banana macaroon salad layers homemade coconut-oat macaroon crumbs with sliced bananas, pecans and whipped topping, then chills until everything melds. A retro potluck and picnic favorite.

Homestead salad with mixed vegetables and kidney beans in a cooked sweet vinegar dressing with mustard. Make a day ahead for the best flavor.

Chocolate mug cake for one, mixed and microwaved right in the mug in about 5 minutes. No oven, one dish, and a warm, fudgy chocolate cake whenever a craving hits.

Vegan cheese sauce made with nutritional yeast, flour, garlic powder, and margarine. A dairy-free nacho-style sauce that thickens on the stove in under 20 minutes from pantry staples.

Pureed green bean soup made in the microwave with onions, chicken broth, and milk. A smooth, creamy vegetable soup ready in about 20 minutes with minimal cleanup.

Say hello to this simple recipe that will help you make a succulent chicken dish everyone will remember.

Rich cookies made with leftover egg yolks from angel food cake: cream both sugars with shortening, roll in sugar, flatten with glass, and bake until golden for tender rounds.

Fluffy buttermilk dumplings loaded with fresh herbs and celery leaves. Butter cut into the dough gives them a tender, biscuit-like texture that soaks up stew beautifully.

Cindy Schweitzer of Muskego offered this cherry twist on melt-in-your-mouth finger cookies.

In the way the Italians make it is fast and easy try it !!!!

Quick pan-fried trout fillets in seasoned flour, crispy outside and tender inside. Ten minutes from stove to table, served over peppery watercress.

This simple sourdough starter recipe is easy to understand and is stress free!

Almond lace cookies, those delicate, paper-thin discs that roll into cigarettes or fans while warm. The classic French tuile-style cookie with ground almonds and orange zest.

Oatmeal snickerdoodles cross a chewy oatmeal cookie with a classic cinnamon-sugar snickerdoodle. Five dozen cookies, ten-minute bake, plenty for the cookie jar or to share.