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A simple and easy pie containing savory pork that is sure to have you speaking French after every bite.

This dump-and-bake chicken and rice casserole uses just 5 ingredients and one pan. Onion soup mix seasons everything while the rice absorbs all those savory juices as it bakes. Weeknight dinner, handled.

Orange Pork Tenderloin with Orange Marmalade Sauce recipe

Bobalky are traditional Slovak Christmas bread balls made from soft yeast dough, baked golden, doused in boiling water, then tossed with poppy seeds and melted butter. A cherished holiday tradition.

Pineapple delights are no-bake squares with a digestive biscuit base, butter icing, crushed pineapple, and fresh whipped cream. A retro tropical dessert from the British tea-table tradition.

Kolache cookies with a cream cheese pastry dough folded around fruit jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A three-ingredient Czech-style pastry that melts in your mouth.

Homemade Polish kielbasa recipe: spiced beef and pork sausage with sweet paprika, marjoram, and fresh garlic, ground and stuffed into casings. Authentic old-world sausage-making.

Vegan mushroom and barley miso soup simmers earthy mushrooms and chewy pearl barley in a savory miso-thyme broth. Hearty, low-fat, and full of umami.

A proper Irish chocolate cake made with Guinness stout, cocoa, and dark brown sugar, sandwiched with a bright orange buttercream. Rich, malty, and a wee bit boozy.

Crunchy dried cherry biscotti studded with ground almonds, twice-baked until crisp. A classic Italian dunking cookie with no butter or oil in the dough.

Sailor's duff: a steamed molasses pudding from the age-of-sail tradition. Moist, dense, and warmly spiced, traditionally served with hard sauce or vanilla cream.

Overnight breakfast strata layered with prosciutto, basil torta cheese, arugula, ripe tomatoes, and pesto-soaked French bread. Assemble the night before, bake until puffy and golden, and serve a crowd-worthy brunch.

This very dense chocolate cake is named after the famous California fault becaus it forms big cracks as it bakes and cools.

Applesauce Zucchini Raisin Bran Bread: a fat-free quick bread sweetened with applesauce and raisins, packed with shredded zucchini, bran, and cinnamon. Tender, moist, no oil required.

A layered no-bake blueberry pie with a creamy pineapple cream cheese base and a glossy blueberry-lemon topping. Chilled in a pre-baked shell and finished with whipped cream.

Cold green vegetable soup with poached fish. Source: Olga Gorechev, St. Petersburg, Russia