Recipe Sifter

Smooth, creamy avocado and raisin dip blended with lime juice in just 5 minutes. The raisins add a sweet chewiness that makes this a surprising twist on guacamole. Scoop it up with chips, crackers, or raw veggies.

Pepper-crusted beef tenderloin seared and served over crisp-tender bell peppers and scallions, all draped in a tangy balsamic-soy sauce. A fast steak and peppers dinner that's easily made gluten-free with tamari.

Homemade Indian dough incense: a hand-mixed blend of cinnamon, sandalwood, cloves, benzoin, curry, and jasmine essence, shaped into cones or sticks to dry and burn.

One-pan pepper steak and potatoes with thinly sliced flank steak, green peppers, and garlic pepper seasoning. A complete skillet dinner ready in 30 minutes.

Fruity chicken salad with blueberries, grapes, almonds, and a lemony ginger dressing, served in scooped cantaloupe halves. A light, gorgeous lunch that doubles as its own bowl.

Quick turkey pita stuffed with alfalfa sprouts, tomato, cucumber, and a drizzle of creamy ranch. A fresh, no-cook lunch ready in under 10 minutes.

If you want something cool for dessert, try this decadent and delicious ice cream pie that tastes amazing down to the last crumb.

Pan-fried fish fillets with brown butter and lemon sauce. Works with red snapper, grouper, or chicken breast. A classic French meuniere-style technique.

Thai broiled lobster in tamarind sauce with palm sugar, fish sauce, fried garlic, and crispy shallots. Sweet, sour, salty, and spicy in one stunning seafood dish.

This keeps well and is excellent for a morning coffee party.

Broiled Chicken Breast with Honey Mustard Sauce recipe

These cookies are very tasty and rich, not too sweet, but enough chocolate flavor.

Giant German pancakes cooked in butter, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and lemon juice, spread with berry jam, and rolled up. A traditional Pfannkuchen breakfast ready in 15 minutes.

Almond Coconut Twinkles (1953 Pillsbury Bake-Off Winner): coconut-and-almond drop cookies topped with double-boiler chocolate frosting. A senior-division winner that still delivers.

Copycat Orange Julius blender drink with fresh orange juice, dry milk powder, sugar, vanilla, and crushed ice. The frothy mall-court classic in 10 minutes from kitchen ingredients you already own.

Avocado chef salad piled with red leaf lettuce, watercress, mushrooms, hard-boiled eggs, Swiss cheese, julienned ham or turkey, cubed avocado, and a tangy vinaigrette. A protein-packed lunch in five minutes.