Recipe Sifter

Slow cooker navy beans with pearl barley, millet, and bulgur wheat seasoned with rosemary, thyme, and oregano. Vegan, high-fiber, and as simple as it gets.

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.

An easy and lean chili that uses pork "the other white meat" instead of beef.

Slow cooker venison chili loaded with kidney beans, mushrooms, jalapenos, barbecue sauce, and six cloves of garlic. Thick, spicy, and built for long cooking.

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

Vegetarian tofu meatloaf with sauteed mushrooms, green pepper, mozzarella, and Parmesan baked under a tangy tomato paste glaze. Comfort food that'll fool the meat-eaters at the table.

Vegan lentil vegetable soup with mushrooms, potato, carrots, celery, and bell pepper, simmered in herbed broth. Half-pureed for body, lifted with fresh lemon juice.

Crispy pan-fried chickpea burgers with oregano and cumin, tucked into warm pita with a creamy lemon-tahini yogurt sauce. Vegetarian, healthy, and done in 25 minutes.

Sun-dried tomatoes, black olives and goat cheese give the already delicious roasted green beans another layers of tasty flavors. Quick, easy and scrumptious!

Roasted butternut squash with cooked seasoned pinta beans, stuffed into the warmed tocos, sprink some crumbled feta cheese on top, a perfect side dish or vegetarian main dish.

This goes wonderfully with mashed potatoes and your favorite vegetable! The leftovers taste good in a pita pocket.

A simple but delicious pasta dish that is perfect to make after a long, hard day at work.

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.

Vegetarian black bean chili made from scratch with dried beans, green chiles, and cumin, topped with a sharp red onion, tomato, and cilantro salsa. Slow-simmered for deep flavor.

Kahlua chili: ground beef chili spiked with coffee liqueur, served Cincinnati-style over spaghetti with cheddar and onion. The coffee-and-cocoa background note that makes it work.