Cheese recipes

A smoky Mexican-style chicken soup with garbanzos, rice, and chipotle pepper, topped with creamy avocado and melted cheese. Warm, spicy, and ready in 30 minutes.

Hot sandwiches stuffed with SPAM, melted cheese, and crisp vegetables get wrapped in foil and baked until steaming for easy lunch boxes, camping trips, or retro comfort food.

A noodle crust filled with seasoned ground beef, cottage cheese, mozzarella, and pepperoni. Vermicelli pie is like lasagna and pizza had a baby, and the whole family will fight over seconds.

Chocolate amaretto torte with a fudgy chocolate-almond base topped with amaretto cream cheese mousse and whipped cream. A make-ahead dessert that chills overnight and freezes beautifully.

Classic stuffed bell peppers filled with ground round, rice, stewed tomatoes, and sharp cheddar. The retro American comfort dinner that fed a generation of weeknight families.

Baked red snapper topped with cumin, cilantro, Anaheim chile, mushrooms, tomato, and melted cheddar-jack cheese. Mexican-spiced fish on the table in 45 minutes.

Cheeseburger pizza on a biscuit dough crust topped with seasoned ground beef in cream of cheddar soup, mustard, tomatoes, mozzarella, and garnished with pickles and olives. Ready in 30 minutes.

Ditch the pastry and press herbed rice into your quiche pan instead. This gluten-free tuna quiche layers lemon-bright tuna, sliced mushrooms, and sharp cheddar in a dill-seasoned rice crust for a lighter, crispier spin on the classic.

Mussels steamed over a simmering tomato-white wine sauce with oregano and red pepper flakes, served on pasta and topped with crumbled feta cheese. A Greek-inspired seafood pasta dinner for two.

Tex-Mex rice and black bean casserole with corn, salsa, cumin, and pepper jack cheese. A vegetarian one-dish dinner baked with a melted cheese topping.

Heat wave spaghetti sauce is a no-cook tomato sauce with fresh basil, lemon verbena, garlic, and grated gouda. A summer pasta that uses the heat of cooked noodles to warm the marinated sauce.

Meat-za pie with a ground beef crust topped with tomato paste, cheddar, Parmesan, and optional pepperoni. A pizza-meets-meatloaf hybrid that's ready in 30 minutes flat.

Baked taco meatballs made with ground beef, rice, and pureed vegetables, smothered in taco sauce and cream of cheddar soup. A cheesy, Tex-Mex twist on classic meatballs the whole family will love.

Rice and Italian sausage stuffing with raisins, mustard greens, Parmesan, sage, thyme, and rosemary. A bread-free stuffing for a 10-12 pound turkey, make-ahead friendly.

Rich chocolate cake meets tangy cream cheese in marbled cupcakes studded with mini chocolate chips for a bakery-style treat that delivers two flavors in every bite.

Fire-roasted poblano chiles line a pie pan and cradle a creamy filling of Monterey Jack, eggs, garlic, and homemade crema fresca. A savory Mexican chile pie baked golden.