Recipe Sifter

Cold weather chili simmers ground beef with sweet red peppers, plum tomatoes, kidney beans, and chunky picante salsa. A long-cooked, layered chili built for snowy nights when nothing else will do.

Inherited from Spain, this codfish dish is a favorite of the Mexicans.

Authentic Mexican birria with lamb, veal, and pork rubbed in a toasted ancho-guajillo-cascabel chili paste, marinated overnight, and slow-roasted until falling off the bone. Served with tomato broth, onion, and oregano.

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.

Add a new meaning to meatball soup with this dish full of flavor.

Country rigatoni tosses pasta with cannellini bean broth, chicken, Italian sausage, escarole, broccoli, and Parmesan. A rustic Tuscan-style pasta with soul-warming depth.

Rich and creamy Southwestern chicken con queso soup with jalapeños, cumin, cheddar cheese, and a silky roux-thickened broth. Restaurant-quality comfort in every spoonful.

Savory Italian-style quiche loaded with salami, mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, and green onions in a golden flaky crust. Ready in just over an hour for an easy brunch or weeknight dinner.

Homemade taco sauce simmers fresh peeled tomatoes with green chilies, onion, cumin, and oregano for 90 minutes, then water-bath cans into shelf-stable pints. A pantry stocker that beats anything in a jar at the grocery store.

Wyoming Sheepherder Chili is a no-bean ground beef chili with a heavy hand of cumin, chili powder, and worcestershire. Simmered low and slow until the meat goes velvety and the spice settles deep.

Pizza Uno's deep-dish Chicago-style pizza copycat: buttery cornmeal crust pressed up the sides of a 15-inch pan, loaded with mozzarella, Italian sausage, crushed tomatoes, and parmesan. The real-deal windy city experience at home.

Sliced SPAM simmered with zucchini, potatoes, carrots, and canned tomatoes seasoned with basil, oregano, and garlic in one skillet. A budget-friendly 40-minute dinner that feeds eight.

Chopped beef simmers with tomatoes, jalapeños, and beer for robust Southwestern chili that's better after resting an hour off the heat.

Mostaccioli layered with Italian sausage tomato sauce, cottage cheese-marjoram mixture, and mozzarella. Baked pasta comfort in an hour.

This soup was such a comfy dish that was just perfect on a cold winter day. The combination was so hearty and it was also very flavourful. Not too hard to make, and I will be making this soup again soon.

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!