Yam recipes

Traditional turtle and ham soup simmered with cloves, bay leaf, thyme, garlic, and chopped lemon. A hearty Cajun-style wild game soup with deep, savory flavor.

Ham and broccoli casserole topped with homemade drop biscuits. Cubed ham, cheddar cheese, and cream of mushroom soup baked under a golden Bisquick biscuit crust.

Soft drop cookies loaded with apricot preserves, cream cheese, and pecans, topped with an apricot-spiked frosting for double fruit flavor.

Almond raspberry tassies are bite-size tarts with a cream cheese pastry shell, a hidden dot of raspberry jam, and a frangipane-style almond filling. Tea cookies that look fancy but mix in one bowl.

Phoenix Rolls (Banh Phuong Hoang): thin chicken breast slices wrapped around ham and a lemongrass shrimp paste, dusted in cornstarch, and pan-fried until golden. A crispy Vietnamese party bite.

Ham and Swiss appetizer pizza on a prebaked Italian bread shell with Dijon mustard and scallions. A 5-ingredient party snack that bakes in under 10 minutes and tastes like a hot ham and cheese sandwich in pizza form.

Old-fashioned chocolate pudding cake bakes with a cocoa batter on top and a brown sugar water layer that transforms into hot fudge sauce underneath. Drizzled with raspberry jam.

German-style sauerkraut salad with juicy blue grapes, julienned ham, and a creamy yogurt-honey dressing. Tangy, sweet, and savory all tossed together in 10 minutes.

Loaded Creole omelette with potatoes, ham, okra, red bell pepper, and cayenne, cooked in a skillet and puffed under the broiler. Brunch with a bayou kick.

Grilled ham and Swiss sandwich loaded with sweet caramelized onions, tart Granny Smith apple, and a brush of Dijon glaze on crusty sourdough. The contrast of sharp cheese, salty ham, and crisp apple makes every bite layered.

Crisp baked tortillas stuffed with a mixture of apricot and orange kissed cream cheese and ricotta enveloped with an apricot basting sauce. This breakfast fruit chimichanga recipe is a hit.

Grilled ham steaks with a brown sugar and whiskey pan sauce. Butter-brushed, grilled until charred, and served with a quick onion roux sauce spiked with whiskey.

Southwestern biscuits and gravy: fluffy masa buttermilk biscuits smothered in a smoky ham gravy loaded with fire-roasted green chiles. Classic Sunday brunch with a New Mexico accent.

Stuffed meatloaf rolled jelly-roll style with layers of capicola and pepper salami inside, finished with a white wine pan gravy. Italian deli meets comfort food.

Whole wheat muffins with a sweet plum jam center baked until golden. A simple from-scratch breakfast muffin with a fruity surprise in every bite.

Cream cheese crescent cookies filled with apricot preserves, rolled into crescent shapes, and dusted with powdered sugar. A flaky, buttery Eastern European-style pastry with just 5 ingredients.