Recipe Sifter

Hot green chili with chicken (or pork), four pounds of green chiles, tomatillos, and a long slow simmer. Southwest-style chile verde thick enough to ladle over enchiladas, eggs, or grilled steak.

Hsin-Min shrimp marinated in soy sauce, sherry, peanut oil, garlic, and lemon juice, then broiled until charred. A Chinese-style appetizer with bold umami flavor.

Hunter's minestrone with cubed beef, kidney beans, pasta shells, and red wine simmered for four hours in three stages. A hearty, meaty Italian soup built for cold weather.

Polish hunters stew (bigos) with sauerkraut, kielbasa, bacon, dried mushrooms, apples, and tomatoes. Simmered low and slow, best reheated the next day.

Iced blackberry yogurt swirls seedless blackberry puree with honey, brown sugar, banana, plain yogurt, and a beaten egg white into a light frozen dessert. A no-churn frozen yogurt for hot afternoons.

No-bake iced coffee and chocolate pie with instant coffee, vanilla ice milk, and gelatin in a chocolate cookie crust. Blends together in minutes, sets in the fridge.

Iced cucumber yogurt soup: a no-cook chilled soup blended with mint, scallion, lemon, and garlic, then enriched with sour cream and yogurt. The summer starter that cools the room as it cools the palate.

Chilled cucumber yogurt soup with diced kirbies, olive oil, mint, garlic, and a garnish of plumped raisins, walnuts, and chives. A cool Mediterranean hot-weather meal.

Indoor beef kebabs broiled right in your oven, no grill required. Sirloin cubes soak in a sesame-soy marinade with brown sugar and lemon, then skewer up with mushrooms, zucchini, pepper, and pearl onions.

Irish yeast bread mix prepares a shelf-stable allspice-and-lemon-scented dry blend that bakes into a sweet raisin-and-currant yeast loaf. Make the mix once, bake fresh loaves on demand or gift in a jar with instructions.

Spiced meringue cookies with crushed gingersnaps folded into whipped egg whites with cinnamon and ginger. Crisp, airy, and virtually fat-free with a snappy ginger crunch.

Italian Sausage and White Wine Spaghetti Sauce recipe

Layered chocolate mousse dessert with a buttery pecan crust, cream cheese layer, chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding with fresh strawberries, and whipped topping with chocolate shavings.

A delicious pie made with vanilla ice cream, candy corn and black licorice. Perfect for the kids to enjoy before going off on their hunt for candy!

Jalapeno basted beer can chicken. Grilled and smoked to perfection, juicy and moist barbecued chicken.

Jam-filled spice cookies with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves sandwiched with apricot or raspberry preserves. Buttery shortbread-style cutout cookies with a stained-glass window center.