Yam recipes

Shortcut quiche using condensed soup as the base, loaded with your choice of meat, cheese, and vegetables in a flaky pie crust. Endlessly customizable and on the table in about an hour.

Raspberry Queen of Puddings with a lemon breadcrumb custard base, a layer of raspberry jam, and golden meringue piped on top. A classic British baked pudding served hot.

Fruit and chocolate dream squares with a buttery shortbread crust, raspberry jam, milk chocolate chips, and a pecan streusel topping. Layered bar cookies baked until golden and crumbly.

Caldo Gallego: hearty Galician white bean stew with salt pork, ham bone, chorizo, potatoes, and collard greens. A slow-simmered Spanish comfort stew that warms you to the bone.

The original Derbyshire classic: flaky puff pastry spread with strawberry jam and topped with a soft, buttery almond egg custard. Not a tart. A proper Bakewell pudding.

Layered Austrian bar cookies with a buttery shortcrust, apricot preserves, a fluffy pecan meringue filling, and a lattice top. Old-world baking at its finest.

Buttery almond shortbread thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry jam and finished with an almond-scented glaze drizzle. Classic Christmas cookie that freezes for three months.

Homemade pop tarts with a tender egg pastry crimped around any fruit jam you like, then baked and finished with a sugar crust or icing. A from-scratch take on the toaster pastry, fully customizable.

Jewish rugelach with a flaky cottage cheese dough, apricot jam, cinnamon-sugar, walnuts, and currants rolled into golden crescents. A holiday cookie jar essential for Hanukkah or Christmas.

Rise and shine breakfast casserole with bread cubes, cheddar cheese, eggs, and milk assembled the night before and baked in the morning. A make-ahead strata with just 10 minutes of prep.

Pressure cooker black bean soup with smoked ham hock, leeks, and beef stock pureed silky smooth with a splash of dry sherry. Hearty, smoky, and ready in under an hour.

Ham balls with Hawaiian Punch sauce: ground ham and pork meatballs in a sweet-tangy sauce built on the nostalgic red fruit punch, mustard, and dark corn syrup. Retro potluck gold.

Tender sour cream pastry rolled with apricot jam, walnuts, and raisins into elegant strudel cookies. These make-ahead sweets are perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Tender smoked turkey breast baked low and slow, then glazed with a sweet-tangy homemade apricot mustard made from preserves, cider vinegar and coarse whole-grain mustard. Feeds a crowd.

Fresh peach tart with a buttery cinnamon shortcrust and glossy apricot glaze. Hand-creamed dough baked blind, then filled with ripe peach slices for an elegant French-style dessert.

Linzer Augen are Austria's almond shortbread sandwich cookies: two tender, nutty rounds glued with apricot jam, the top cut with a little window that frames the glistening preserves under a snowfall of powdered sugar. A Christmas cookie tin classic.