Recipe Sifter

This sauce has an intensely rich, woodsy flavor that works well on pasta, chicken, and pork.

Hazelnut and anisette biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies flavored with toasted hazelnuts, anise seed, lemon zest, and espresso powder. Crisp Christmas cookies for dunking in coffee.

Lencsefozelek is a traditional Hungarian buttered lentil dish simmered with carrot, cloves, and parsley, then finished with rich melted butter. Serves 6 and pairs beautifully with sausages or game.

Hungarian chocolate cream bars stack a cocoa sponge cake, rum-spiked mocha cream filling, and glossy chocolate glaze into decadent cafe-style squares. Dobos cake inspired and freezer-friendly.

Classic French pâte à choux with detailed instructions for cream puffs, eclairs, and a show-stopping cream puff ring. Just 5 ingredients and a bit of technique for bakery-worthy pastries.

A rustic whole wheat cake packed with apple chunks and walnuts, drenched in a warm apple cider glaze spiked with applejack brandy.

New Orleans-style bread pudding loaded with pecans, raisins, and apple, baked low and slow in spiced custard, then drenched in a rich bourbon butter sauce. Pure Southern indulgence.

Always a favorite for our family and great when company is coming. The chicken remains moist and the broccoli perfectly tender-crisp and everyone loves the cheesy sauce. Using a bechamel sauce instead of cream keeps it light.

French chocolate raspberry clafoutis with a cocoa custard batter, fresh raspberries, and chopped bittersweet chocolate. Blender-easy and on the table in just over an hour.

Buttery shortbread bars topped with pecans, dried cherries, mini chocolate chips, and orange marmalade. A two-step bake that turns simple cookies into festive holiday treats in about an hour.

Instead of pumpkin pie, try this coconut pumpkin tart.

Elodie's chocolate cake is a French-style dense bake with 10 oz bittersweet chocolate and just 5 tablespoons of flour - intensely fudgy, rich, and make-ahead friendly.

Try these mini pineapple bundt cakes, they are super moist and fluffy, loaded with flavor. These sweet treats will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth.

North Carolina-style pork ribs with a salt-pepper-red pepper rub and a tangy vinegar-butter basting sauce. Eastern NC barbecue flavor built on heat, acid, and smoke.

Sweet, rich and delicious...a decadent ending to a light meal or, just as a snack. The kiddies will love these.

Russian salmon coulibiac: flaked salmon, rice, mushrooms, hard-boiled eggs, and dill wrapped in flaky puff pastry. A showstopper main course with deep Russian roots.