Recipe Sifter

Cassata Napoletana layers thin sponge cake with cherry preserves, rich Neapolitan custard, chopped walnuts, and candied fruit. A no-bake Italian celebration cake that chills to set.

Make your own Boboli-style pizza crust at home with a breadmaker. Garlic, Parmesan, and Italian seasoning bake into a golden shell you can freeze for quick weeknight pizza nights.

Low calorie Snickers pie is a no-bake frozen dessert with chocolate ice milk, sugar-free chocolate pudding, crunchy peanut butter, Cool Whip, and Grape-Nuts for that candy bar crunch. Five ingredients, no oven, ready after freezing.

This delicate soup, popular 100 years ago, is now unusual. On no account should it be liquidized at any stage, as that ruins the texture

Hearty baked bean soup with cannellini beans, stewed tomatoes, molasses, and chili powder. Thick, smoky, and on the table in 40 minutes. Vegan-friendly comfort food.

Simple Italian bread for the bread machine with just five ingredients: bread flour, water, yeast, salt, and sugar. A lean, crusty loaf with a chewy crumb and no fat added.

Guiltless brownies made with pureed bananas, cocoa, whole-wheat flour, and chopped nuts. A lighter brownie with no butter that still satisfies the chocolate craving.

Home-style vegetable soup loaded with zucchini, carrots, chickpeas, spinach, mushrooms, and pasta in a tomato broth with Italian herbs. A filling one-pot meal.

Giardiniera, the classic Italian pickled vegetable jar packed with carrots, celery, bell peppers, cauliflower, and pearl onions in a sweet-spiced vinegar brine. Sandwich topper, antipasto staple, condiment for everything.

Creamy Indian dahl soup blended silky smooth with split peas, mung beans, basmati rice, and vegetables. Spiced with garam masala, cumin, coriander, and a hit of asafetida.

Bread machine wheat bread with shredded carrots, ground ginger, toasted sesame seeds, and applesauce. Just load the machine and press start for a wholesome homemade loaf.

Butterflied shrimp pressed with a lemon-lime zest crust, seared with jalapeno and white pepper, then finished with sliced starfruit, fresh ginger, and a splash of rum. Tropical, bold, and ready in 40 minutes.

Traditional Scottish potted hough made from slow-simmered beef shin and marrow bones with allspice and bay leaves, set in its own natural jelly.

Pan-fried orange roughy fillets with crisp breadcrumb crust, finished with a bright pan sauce of garlic, white wine, lemon juice and parsley. Light, flaky and elegant in 40 minutes.

Coconut almond balls coated in milk chocolate with a whole almond on top. A homemade candy made with shredded coconut, corn syrup, and microwave melted chocolate.

Thin-pounded chicken breasts rolled around a savory mushroom, carrot, and tomato filling, then sliced into spirals and served over a light lemon-thyme pan sauce.