Recipe Sifter

Country-style pork ribs browned and braised in a bold sweet red wine sauce with honey, chili sauce, horseradish, and hot pepper. Falling-apart tender after 90 minutes in the oven.

Homemade hummus from dried chickpeas with tomato puree, garlic, lemon, cumin, and paprika. A tahini-free, tomato-tinged version with deeper bean-forward flavor.

Grilled chicken breasts marinated overnight in lemon juice, white wine, mild chili powder, nine cloves of garlic, shallots, honey, soy, and oregano. Big flavor, mild heat.

Sicilian caponata with eggplant, olives, capers, pine nuts, tomatoes, and a sweet-sour vinegar-sugar finish. Serve hot as a side or cold on bread as an appetizer.

Slightly creamy without being rich, the flavour was well balanced. I love using crock-pot, because it's easy and so convenient. Therefore this recipe has certainly won me over :)

Caramel chocolate chip cheesecake with an oat-walnut crust, dark brown sugar and corn syrup filling, and chocolate chips scattered on top. Rich, dense, and deeply caramelized.

Salt cod and potato casserole (bacalhau) baked in tomato-parsley broth. A traditional Portuguese-style dish with flaked cod, sliced potatoes, and olive oil.

A classic meatloaf shaped into a dome, glazed with ketchup and brown sugar, then wrapped in pappardelle pasta strips to look like a mummy. Mozzarella and olive eyes complete the spooky look.

Golden Apple custard pie with thinly sliced apples in a silky vanilla-cream custard, baked in a water bath until just set. Bistro-style French dessert with a golden top and fragrant nutmeg.

Kielbasa casserole with rice, whole plum tomatoes, green pepper, and onion baked together for 2 hours. A dump-and-bake one-dish Polish sausage dinner with just 5 ingredients.

Truffle fudge cheesecake with 24 ounces of melted chocolate chips blended into a triple cream cheese filling on a cocoa-vanilla wafer crust. A dense, intensely chocolatey no-crack cheesecake.

Pumpkin cheesecake with a praline pecan-graham cracker crust, brown sugar filling, and warm spices. A rich Thanksgiving dessert that chills overnight for clean slices.

Apple pie with a marshmallow meringue topping. Egg whites whipped with marshmallow creme spread cloud-soft across cinnamon-spiced apples and brown into golden peaks. A retro 1950s twist on classic apple pie.

Chocolate truffle cake à la Café de Paris: layered chocolate cake split and filled with a glossy chocolate-fondant-cream ganache, chilled overnight for clean truffle slices.

Louisiana shrimp gumbo with a dark bacon-dripping roux, smothered okra, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served over rice with cayenne heat and bay leaf depth.