Recipe Sifter

Classic Italian ziti tossed with tender steamed broccoli in a warm garlic, olive oil, and butter sauce finished with freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. Simple, satisfying, and on the table in 45 minutes.

Bonnie's blueberry muffins are tender, lightly spiced muffins loaded with two cups of fresh blueberries and finished with a melted butter brush and sugar sprinkle. Bakery-style with a delicate nutmeg twist.

No-bake peanut butter drops with puffed wheat cereal, walnuts, and coconut bound in a quick stovetop sugar syrup. 60 cookies from one pan, no oven required.

Aunt E.C.'s pound cake is a true four-ingredient pound cake: butter, sugar, eggs, flour. No leavener, no liquid, no flavorings, just pure creaming-method magic baked in a tube pan to a tall, golden, tender cake.

Indian apple chutney: apples, onion, raisins, and warm spices simmered in malt vinegar with cumin, ginger, and mustard. A sweet-tangy condiment that improves with age in the jar.

Beef and broccoli stir-fry with sirloin strips, broccoli, carrots, and onions in a light soy sauce, served over Asian noodles. Weeknight Chinese takeout at home in 35 minutes.

Flaky freezer biscuits: yeast and baking-powder hybrid biscuits with buttermilk and cold butter. Make a batch of 30, freeze raw, bake fresh whenever you want hot biscuits.

Bread machine classic white bread is a soft, sliceable sandwich loaf with tender crumb and golden crust. Bread flour, butter, and nonfat dry milk give it bakery-style structure and flavor.

Blueberry lovers muffins soak bran flakes cereal in milk for a tender, fiber-rich crumb dense with berries and warm spice. A lower-fat breakfast muffin with cinnamon and nutmeg punch.

Orange pumpkin bran muffins with raisins and a wheat germ topping. Healthy, lightly sweetened breakfast or snack muffins ready in 25 minutes, made in one bowl.

Pumpkin pie cognac with a silky custard of half-and-half, dark brown sugar, candied ginger, and a generous splash of brandy. The grown-up holiday pie that smells like Thanksgiving in a glass.

It's hard to resist this delicious and cheesy grilled cheese that's made with caramelized onion, basil pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and Swiss cheese.

This low-fat version blueberry cream cheese coffee cake tastes delicious and super moist. By using most whole wheat flour, some olive oil, apple sauce and a bit butter makes a much healthier cake that still has great flavor and texture.

This is a great cold salad. The basil and cherry tomatoes marry perfectly with a high-quality sweet balsamic vinegar along with tender-crisp green and yellow wax beans.

It's a simply delicious fresh vegetable salad with a light yet tasty maple vinaigrette.

Quick, easy and tasty. A great way to make green beans into a delicious side dish.