Recipe Sifter

When you taste these homemade gingersnap cookies, you will fall in love with them, and never buy the store-bought bagged or boxed stuff any more. They are so delicious.

Hearty one-pot stew with rabbit, veal, or chicken simmered with pearl barley, leeks, garlic, and sage until the meat falls off the bone. No thickener needed.

Chocolate yogurt cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with semi-sweet chocolate in the filling and a glossy chocolate glaze on top. Baked in a water bath for a crack-free, silky texture.

A show-stopping Italian roast turkey rubbed with rosemary and bathed in white wine, stuffed with a Lombardy-style dressing of Italian sausage, chestnuts, pine nuts, apples, and Parmesan. The holiday centerpiece that changes everything.

Whole wheat hamburger buns are soft, sturdy homemade rolls made from a blend of whole wheat and bread flour. The kind of nutty, hearty buns that hold up to a juicy patty without going soggy.

Super rich Black Forest cheesecake: a dense chocolate cheesecake on a chocolate-cookie crust, topped with kirsch-soaked cherries and kirsch whipped cream. The German classic reborn as a decadent cheesecake.

Old-fashioned sugar cookies with a dual-sugar dough of granulated and powdered sugar, flattened with a sugar-dipped glass. Tender, crackly-topped, and buttery.

Make-ahead sausage, cheese and egg breakfast casserole built on herb croutons, sharp cheddar and bulk pork sausage. Assemble at night, bake in the morning. The brunch crowd-feeder.

No-cook butterscotch ice cream beats eggs, brown sugar, milk, butterscotch pudding mix and half-and-half into a custard-style base, then freezes with chopped pecans.

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Grandma Rose's blueberry cake folds flour-coated blueberries into a buttery sheet cake topped with cinnamon sugar. Old-fashioned family recipe that serves 24, perfect for potlucks.

Impossible beef and tomato pie: a crustless Bisquick-batter pie with cooked beef, tomatoes, onion, celery, and Swiss cheese. Bakes its own crust as it sets.

Potatoes and mushrooms, these two vegetables are both healthy and nutritional. Very nice combination.

Norwegian roast venison (dyresteg) seared in butter, roasted to pink perfection, and served with a velvety brown goat cheese, currant jelly, and sour cream sauce. Scandinavian comfort at its finest.

Classic Peruvian chupe de camarones with shrimp, flounder, potatoes, and corn in a creamy, spicy tomato broth finished with cream cheese and garnished with fresh mint.

No-bake white chocolate cake with a creamy white chocolate and cream cheese filling in a chocolate crumb crust. Chilled to perfection, served with fresh fruit sauce.