Cheese recipes

Cream cheese shortbread cookies crowned with a fresh strawberry half. Buttery, tender rounds with a jammy ruby center that bakes right into the dough. Pretty enough for tea, easy enough for a weeknight.

Bread machine focaccia topped with melted mozzarella for a pizza-bread hybrid. Five-ingredient hands-off Italian flatbread you can scale up with herbs, olives, or roasted vegetables.

Saucy Potatoes: frozen hash browns, stewed tomatoes, and Velveeta cooked in the microwave in 20 minutes flat. A simple 3-ingredient cheesy potato side dish that works for breakfast or dinner.

This is a wonderful and easy dip to make ahead and bring to parties.

Try something new for lunch with this quick and delicious dish your kids will enjoy down to the last bite!

This is an easy appetizer to make and can be frozen. From one of my best friends Barbara Smith

Smoked trout and grilled apple strudel wraps flaky phyllo around a savory filling of smoked trout, fire-charred Granny Smith apples, shallots and cream cheese. Restaurant-style appetizer.

Very nice salad, everytime let all of my family satisfied and happy, healthy and tasty.

Great with Greek salad...remember not to used frozen meat

Easy Italian seasoned broccoli. Boiled (or steamed) then tossed in aromatics.

Satisfy your family's hunger with this hearty casserole that doesn't take a lot of effort to make!

Pasta with Smoked Mozzarella, Asparagas and Dried Tomatoes recipe

This well endowed cheesy macaroni salad recipe is packed with flavor and sized to feed a crowd.

Layered vegetarian moussaka with sauteed eggplant, rich mushroom-tomato sauce with red wine, and creamy ricotta bechamel baked until golden. Greek comfort food, no lamb needed.

Sausage and raisin bread strata bakes cubed bread, breakfast sausage, cheddar, and green onions in a savory egg-and-evaporated-milk custard. The sweet raisin bread plays off the salty sausage in this make-ahead breakfast bake.

This is really a "mock" tiramisu as it is not made with Italian mascarpone cheese, which is traditional. This is, however, a lot quicker and easier (and less expensive).