10,000 maize recipes

Red hot sesame chicken marinates cutlets in sesame oil, sugar, and Tabasco, then pan-sears for a quick spicy weeknight dinner. Just five ingredients and ready in 30 minutes.

Breaded pork chops braised until tender, topped with a warm sour cherry sauce spiked with cinnamon, cloves, honey, and Madeira wine. An elegant but approachable dinner.

Pork chops baked on a bed of cornbread stuffing with golden corn soup, topped with a brown sugar mustard glaze. A one-dish weeknight dinner.

Crispy cornstarch-battered shrimp tossed in a sweet and spicy Peking-style sauce with garlic, sherry, scallions, and hot chili peppers. A Chinese restaurant classic at home.

Sweet and sour pork with vinegar-simmered pork shoulder, pineapple, peppers, and onions in a glossy honey-soy sauce. Restaurant takeout, recreated at home with tender meat.

This Southern-style Coca Cola basted ham gets slow-baked in cola, then coated with a brown sugar mustard glaze that caramelizes into a sticky, crackling crust. Feeds a crowd of 12 with bold, sweet-smoky flavor.

BBQ beef short ribs marinated in soy sauce, dry sherry, brown sugar, ginger, and five-spice powder, then grilled low and slow until fall-off-the-bone tender. Asian-inspired barbecue.

Sirloin beef strips and carrots in a creamy wine sauce.

Red onion pizza with a from-scratch soffritto tomato sauce and melted mozzarella on a crispy crust. Simple toppings, big flavor from slow-simmered sauce.

Cherry wood smoked duck marinated overnight in red wine, fresh ginger, and brown sugar, then grilled to crispy-skinned glory. A showstopper for your next backyard feast.

Broiled sirloin steak sliced thin and topped with fresh apricot relish simmered with red onion, rice vinegar, and Chinese five spice.

Molasses barbecued ribs get a salt-vinegar brine soak, then a grill basting of dark molasses sauce loaded with onion, pepper, celery, tomato, cloves and allspice. Smoky, tangy, sticky, and built for summer.

Pizza bianca: a white pizza with hand-stretched dough, olive oil pureed with shallot, garlic, and Italian herbs in place of red sauce, then blanketed in melted Gruyère. Crisp, nutty, no tomato.

Rosemary leg of lamb with roasted tomato compote: garlic-rosemary-crusted leg of lamb roasted medium-rare alongside tomatoes, onions, olives, and capers. A Mediterranean Sunday centerpiece for 8.

Pennsylvania Dutch sauerbraten with chuck roast bacon-larded, vinegar-marinated for days, then pot-roasted with cloves and allspice for an almost-black sweet-sour gravy.

Freezer-mix lasagna layers cottage cheese, mozzarella, Swiss, and Parmesan over a make-ahead beef-tomato sauce base. A retro time-saver dinner pulled from the freezer.