Christmas/40 recipes

Nothing is more fascinating and delicious than eating at the open- air street hawker centers in Asia, particularly in Singapore. Each stall serves a specialty, typically an honest, unpretentious, home-style dish for $1 to $3 a plate. This rice noodle dish is hawker food at its best. If done right, its fragrance will tell you how good it's going to be as soon as it arrives at your table.

Honey-Rum Balls recipe

Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe

Pecan Pie Bars recipe

Loaded with fruit, a classic version of Christmas fruitcake

Best Mincemeat recipe

Cold Oven Popovers recipe

Classic old favorite holiday treat

Kalyan made this for us while visiting for Christmas. He called it "paravannam."

Virginia Lane of Cudahy secured this recipe, with its nice complexity of flavors, in the late '50s or '60s when she lived in Iran.

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Kids love these peanut butter snowballs.

This delicious dish is made with dried fruit, sweet cherries, juicy apples and seedless grapes.