Recipe Sifter

This dish was pretty easy to prepare and turned out beautifully. The potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, and olives created a wonderful medley of flavors.

Fruit medley punch: a pink party bowl of puréed strawberries, apricot nectar, and citrus, fizzed up with ginger ale. Crowd-pleaser for showers, brunches, and holiday tables.

German Kalter Kartoffelsalat: cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, the starchy potato water creates a creamy emulsion.

Slow cooker navy bean soup with ham hocks or chicken, potatoes, carrots, celery, and thyme. A hearty crockpot bean soup that simmers all day and freezes well.

Whiskey grilling sauce with pineapple juice, soy sauce, fresh ginger, garlic, and a kick of bourbon. Five ingredients, 10 minutes, and ready to brush on chicken, steak, salmon, or pork.

A chilled Scandinavian-style fruit soup simmered with prunes, raisins, apples, cherries, and citrus, thickened with tapioca and finished with grape juice. Serve cold as a refreshing starter or light dessert.

Kaymakli kayisi, the Turkish cream-filled apricot dessert: dried apricots simmered in lemon syrup, then sandwiched around almond-flecked whipped cream and crowned with chopped pistachios.

New Orleans-style red bean gratin baked with cumin, coriander, cayenne, and red wine under a crispy breadcrumb-Parmesan topping. A vegetarian main dish with serious Cajun flavor.

Mother's Day baked apple-cinnamon French toast assembles overnight, then bakes into a puffed, custardy casserole with dried apples, raisins, and warm spices. Zero morning-of stress.

Old-fashioned vanilla fudge: a heritage recipe with sugar, corn syrup, milk, and butter cooked to soft-ball stage and beaten by hand until stiff. Add cocoa for chocolate fudge or fold in nuts and cherries.

This recipe is very simple to make, but it goes very well, you will know how satisfied it let you feel, great for your diet!

Cajun-meets-Asian pork chops braised in white wine with soy sauce, pineapple chunks, bell pepper, and cayenne. Served over rice with a sweet-savory pan sauce. One skillet, one hour.

Light blueberry lemon snack cake with an oat streusel topping drizzled with honey. A wholesome, low-fat baked treat with bright lemon and juicy berries in every bite.

Sheet-pan banana bread baked in a 9x13 pan for a thinner, crustier slice with soft, banana-packed crumb. Uses a sour milk trick for extra tenderness. Serves 6.

Truffle and ahi tuna drizzled with oil and vinegar.

Beef and barley vegetable soup made from scratch with soup bones, pearl barley, tomatoes, and fresh peas. A slow-simmered three-hour soup with old-fashioned depth.