Recipe Sifter

A creamy and hearty vegetable soup of leeks, carrots, broccoli and tomatoes that's thickened and seasoned with sesame paste (tahini).

Soft gumdrop cookies made with buttermilk and brown sugar. The gumdrops stay chewy while the cookies bake up tender with slightly crisp edges.

A succulent and tantalizing salmon dish made with garlic, horseradish and pure maple syrup.

Crockpot corned beef and cabbage braised low in beer with brown sugar and mustard, then the cabbage wedges go in at the end so they stay crisp-tender. The easy St. Patrick's Day classic.

Traditional English orange marmalade with oranges, grapefruit, and lemon. Bittersweet citrus preserve, perfect on toast or scones. Three-citrus old-world recipe.

Golden, slightly browned and puffed homemade lady fingers. Make your favorite desserts with them, you will not be disappointed.

Invite some European flavors into your kitchen with this classy and scrumptious dish.

Blueberry sour cherry jam made with crushed ripe blueberries, pitted sour cherries, sugar, and powdered fruit pectin. A small-batch homemade jam for canning with deep purple-red color and bright fruit flavor.

An easy rendition of a weekday ready pork chop dinner covered in a tangy cranberry and onion sauce.

I used fresh minced garlic and added some sliced green onion. I marinated skinless chicken breast cutlets for a few hours and grilled them briefly. Sprinkled with additiona sliced green onions and some toasted sesame seeds.

Truly the best ever old fashioned ginger snap cookies. Enjoy!

7-day sweet pickles made the old-fashioned canning way: five daily soaks in boiling water followed by a hot sugar-vinegar spiced brine. The slow process delivers shatteringly crisp, glassy-sweet bread-and-butter style pickles that put the supermarket jars to shame.

Store-bought bread can never compete with homemade fresh loaf. This heart healthy multigrain bread is full of goodness, an ideal sandwich bread. You can make round loaves, bake them in the loaf pan, or shape into whatever prefer. The bread comes out fluffy inside and crusty outside, and it tastes delicious!

Brooklyn bagels: chewy, shiny New York-style bagels made the real way, with a stiff high-gluten dough boiled in barley-malt water before baking. Hand-shaped, egg-washed, and seriously chewy.

Tender, fall-off-the-bone BBQ turkey thighs baked in a sweet and tangy chili sauce glaze with brown sugar and Worcestershire. Just 7 ingredients and one hour for sticky, smoky, finger-licking poultry.

Rhubarb banana jam made with just 3 ingredients and no pectin. Tart spring rhubarb meets ripe banana for a thick, tropical-leaning preserve perfect for toast or scones.