Recipe Sifter

Easy crockpot chili with cubed round steak, onion, chili powder, and a hit of ketchup. A six-ingredient slow cooker dump-and-go for cold weeknights when you want chili without browning meat.

Eggnog log cookies are festive holiday rolls flavored with rum and nutmeg, dipped in icing, and rolled in toasted pecans. The Christmas cookie tin classic with eggnog-inspired warmth.

Elegant tea cookies made from a slice-and-bake butter dough with cream and vanilla. Chill overnight, slice thin, and bake until crisp and golden.

Classic New York cheesecake with graham cracker crust and egg whites. Creamy engagement cheesecake baked for 3 hours with special cooling method.

Classic Eton mess with fresh strawberries macerated in Kirsch, whipped cream, and crushed meringue shells. A beloved British summer dessert that takes minutes to assemble.

Fanwood chow-chow is a classic Pennsylvania Dutch-style relish of tomatoes, onions, and apples simmered low with brown sugar, mustard, cinnamon, cloves, and celery seed for a sweet-tangy condiment.

French silk pie with a glossy whipped chocolate filling in a baked shell. Classic no-bake chocolate dessert with airy, mousse-like texture and chocolate curls on top.

Ice box cookies are make-ahead slice-and-bake walnut shortbread with deep brown sugar caramel flavor. Chill the dough log, slice thin, bake fast for 60 crisp golden cookies in batches as needed.

Joe Froggers, the giant New England molasses cookies. Spiked with rum, dark with molasses, warmed with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. Roll, cut big, bake.

Slow cooker chocolate steamed pudding cake with a tender, moist crumb thickened with fresh bread crumbs. Steamed in a sealed mold inside the crockpot for old-fashioned cake-and-sauce comfort.

Hearty vegetable stew piles soaked pinto beans, corn noodles, carrots, broccoli, peas, corn, and green beans into a tomato-sauce broth. A vegan, freezer-friendly stew with five-vegetable depth.

Lomi lomi salmon: a traditional Hawaiian luau side of diced salt-cured salmon, ripe tomatoes, sweet onion, and green onion, served ice cold in hollowed tomato shells.

Mango cream pie pulls together mango puree, sweetened condensed milk, lime juice, and optional rum into a gelatin-set filling poured over a baked crust. Whipped cream on top, mint to finish. A tropical no-cook treat.

Marble cheesecake swirls dark chocolate batter through a classic vanilla cream cheese filling on a graham cracker crust. A two-tone showstopper baked in a springform pan.

Mini cherry cheesecakes baked in a muffin tin over a vanilla wafer crust, topped with glossy cherry pie filling. Creamy individual portions, make-ahead, and no springform pan required.

New England-style steamed brown bread with graham flour, molasses, raisins, and a long 3-hour steam in a covered tin. Dense, dark, traditional companion to baked beans.