Recipe Sifter

Indian-style tomato date chutney slow-simmered with vinegar-soaked chilies, ginger, garlic, and warm whole spices. Sweet, tart, and lasts six weeks in the fridge.

Pumpkin puff pancakes are tiny silver-dollar pancakes built on Bisquick, canned pumpkin, eggs, and warm spices. Light, puffy, and ideal for fall brunch or holiday breakfast trays.

Make your own apple butter using your slow cooker.

Award-winning ginger cookies built on a cooked sugar-and-spice syrup base. Roll, cut, paint, or hand-mold this stiff gingerbread dough into any shape, then bake into crisp golden spice cookies.

Chinese spring rolls with ground pork, cabbage, bean sprouts, and bamboo shoots in crisp fried egg roll wrappers. A classic takeout starter you can pull off at home.

Kangaroo strips wok-tossed with baby bok choy in a chilli black bean sauce made with rice wine, soy sauce, ginger, and fish sauce. A fast Australian-Asian fusion stir-fry ready in 35 minutes.

Kentucky fried chicken copycat with paprika, ground mustard, thyme, basil, oregano, and Jamaica ginger. Fried golden then finished in foil for that takeout-style crisp crust.

Vegetarian keema made with TVP (texturized vegetable protein), ginger, garlic, curry powder, tomatoes, peas, and mushrooms. A plant-based riff on classic Indian keema matar, ready in 30 minutes.

Banana-Green Mango Chutney pairs ripe bananas with unripe mango, fresh ginger, serrano chile, and raisins in a tangy sweet-hot sauce. Ready in 30 minutes and keeps refrigerated for 2 weeks.

Pork potstickers with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, and sesame oil in wonton wrappers. Pan-fried then steamed in chicken broth with a soy-ginger dipping sauce.

Homemade deviled ham spread with warm spices, hot mustard, anchovy paste, and a whisper of sherry. Skip the canned stuff and make a version that actually tastes like something.

Bread machine brown breakfast bread, a whole-wheat quick bread sweetened with honey and molasses, studded with raisins, and warmed with ginger, cinnamon, and allspice. Hands-off breakfast loaf.

Pumpkin Frangelico cheesecake: a spiced pumpkin cheesecake on a gingersnap crust, spiked with hazelnut Frangelico liqueur and topped with a boozy sour cream layer. The Thanksgiving cheesecake adults reach for first.

Honey-sweetened bread machine loaf spiced with coriander, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and a hit of fresh orange zest. Dump, press start, and let your kitchen fill with warmth.

Joe Frogger cookies from Marblehead, Massachusetts with molasses, rum, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg. Oversized, crackle-topped New England cookies with maritime history.

This is a typical restaurant style curry. The basic curry forms the base and the variations show how it can easily be adapted.