3,051 making recipes

Whole wheat French bread baguettes with a golden egg-wash crust. Hand-kneaded, naturally risen, and freezer-friendly. Four long loaves from one simple dough.

Curd cheese pastries with whole wheat shortcrust rectangles sandwiched around a filling of cottage cheese, pine nuts, raisins, sugar, and lemon. A medieval-inspired pastry snack.

Home-canned peach pie filling spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, with apple and golden raisins for body. Four pints from one canning session means peach pie any month of the year.

Chicken pox pancakes: pancake stacks decorated with banana eyes and mouth, strawberry chunk spots, and powdered sugar pus. Halloween or sick-day kids' breakfast.

Yeast ferment starter made with potato water, mashed potato, sugar, and dry yeast. Speeds up bread dough rising and adds soft texture to homemade yeast breads.

Yeasted anise biscotti from Genoa, made with a sponge starter for a lighter, bread-like crumb. Twice-baked with butter and aniseed, these are nothing like ordinary biscotti.

Making your own English muffins isn't hard, this version uses a sourdough starter for better flavor.

Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies made lighter with canola oil, egg whites and whole wheat pastry flour. Chewy, lower-fat cookies with all the chocolate and none of the heaviness.

Easy elephant ears cookies (palmiers) bake from rolled puff pastry, sugar, and egg wash into crisp golden hearts, dipped in melted chocolate. Four-ingredient bakery-style treats ready in 40 minutes.

Tastes delicious when filled with very lean beef cooked with a little green pepper, lean shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato, and a good shot of hot sauce. Of course a nice Mexican beer with it makes it extra good.

Savory onion bagels from your bread machine with onion powder baked into the dough and rehydrated onion flakes scattered on top. Boiled and baked chewy with a toasty onion crunch on the crust.

Garlic bagels with a double hit of garlic powder and fresh minced garlic baked right into the dough. Bread machine kneaded, boiled for chew, and baked golden. A garlic lover's breakfast dream.

Ritz crackers sandwiched with peanut butter and dipped in melted chocolate. A 3-ingredient no-bake treat that's salty, sweet, crunchy, and ridiculously addictive.

Cheese buns baked in a muffin tin with sharp cheddar spread kneaded right into the yeast dough. Golden, tangy, and quicker than most dinner rolls with only one rise.

Traditional Slovak pirohy (pierogi) with a tender egg dough boiled and bathed in browned butter. Choose from cottage cheese, dill potato, or sweet-savory cabbage filling.

Homemade English muffins griddle-cooked with cornmeal crust. A simple yeast dough rolled, cut into rounds, and browned slowly on a hot griddle for nooks-and-cranny texture.