Recipe Sifter

This delicious and refreshing pasta salad is easy to put together, and it's best served after being chilled, perfect on a hot summer day!

A Chicago style beef for your slow cooker. Super easy and tastes great.

Using sun-dried or oven-dried tomatoes and olives makes this delicious tapenade that can be spread over the sough dough bread, stuffed into bell peppers or chicken breast, or can be the replacement of mayonnaise when you prepare the sandwiches. Quick, easy and tasty!

Three homemade cold-smoked beef salami recipes: classic peppercorn, Southwestern chili-cumin, and Italian with basil and Parmesan. Cured, rolled, and smoked from scratch.

A succulent seafood dish that is sure to satisfy one's hunger and bring families together.

Hearty Italian bean soup with white kidney beans, ham, zucchini, spinach, and stewed tomatoes in chicken broth. Mashed beans thicken the broth for a creamy, rustic texture.

Chicken breasts stuffed with an orzo, anchovy, basil, and garlic filling, wrapped in their own skin and baked in Marsala and balsamic. A refined Italian dinner for adventurous home cooks.

Fennel, zucchini and tomato soup builds Mediterranean summer flavor from ripe tomatoes, sliced fennel bulbs, basil and white wine. A light, vegetarian first-course soup.

Creamy New England fish chowder loaded with tender haddock, sweet corn, and buttery potatoes in a rich evaporated milk broth with hints of basil.

Diabetic-friendly minestrone with extra-lean ground beef, kidney beans, kale, zucchini, cabbage, and just a half-cup of macaroni for controlled carbs. The classic Italian vegetable soup adapted for sugar control.

Kosher Creole seafood gumbo built on the holy trinity of onion, pepper and garlic, simmered with tomatoes, okra and tender fish fillets over rice. A shellfish-free gumbo that freezes beautifully.

Butter-sauteed shrimp deglazed with white wine, served over thin pasta with a slow-simmered Provencal tomato sauce rich with basil and oregano. Worth every minute of the long, lazy simmer.

Seafood burgers made from fresh cod, grilled and stacked on English muffins with grilled tomato and a zippy basil-caper tartar sauce. A light, fast fish burger that beats anything from the freezer aisle.

This was my lunch today, packed with goodness and yumminess. I only made 1 quesadilla for myself, so I quartered the recipe. It was delicious, loved the oozing cheese and the flavorsome veggies. A great combination on both flavor and texture. I broiled the top for a few minutes to make it nice, brown and crispy. Will be making this more often for sure.

This simplest of pesto recipes becomes an easy and delicious cracker spread by adding softened cream cheese.

Tender braised beef chuck roast with basil, garlic, and onions in savory pan drippings. Simple Dutch oven pot roast that simmers low and slow for 2.5 hours.