9,650 mild recipes

That cherry stuff, the classic no-bake dessert salad with cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, sweetened condensed milk, whipped topping, and chopped nuts. Five-minute potluck classic.

Old-fashioned creamed spinach with bacon, onion, and a milk-based bechamel. The classic steakhouse side dish made from scratch in 30 minutes.

Pull-apart bubble cake (monkey bread) with soft yeast dough balls dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar with pecans. A sticky, irresistible treat baked in a tube pan.

Champ is served piled high on the dish, with a well of melted butter in the center. It is eaten with a spoon from the outside, each spoonful being dipped in the well of melted butter.

Breakfast pizza spreads apricot or peach preserves over a Bisquick crust and tops with breakfast sausage slices for a sweet-and-savory morning meal. Five ingredients, 38 minutes.

Potato cheese croquettes made from mashed potatoes and cheddar, double-breaded and pan-fried until golden. A crispy, cheesy way to use leftover mashed potatoes.

Add a European touch to your Christmas baking skills with these scrumptious snacks made with cream cheese, walnuts and dark rum.

Sicilian sesame seed cookies with a tender, crumbly interior coated in nutty toasted sesame. These Italian bakery favorites make 6 dozen and disappear twice as fast as you'd expect.

Magical fruit salad: pineapple, grapes, and banana tossed in a quick creamy dressing made from milk and instant pudding mix, no cooking or whipping. A 10-minute, kid-friendly potluck favorite.

Impossible blender coconut pie that forms its own crust while baking. Everything blended together and poured into a greased pie plate for a self-crusting coconut custard pie.

This delicious peanut butter cream pie is super creamy but without cream. The custard like base is made with milk, egg yolks and corn starch. Instead of whipped cream, use whipped egg whites as topping.

All-American clam chowder built on bacon fat, sweet onions, cubed potatoes, and canned clams thickened with cream of celery soup. A weeknight chowder that comes together in about 35 minutes.

Alligator stew simmers tender cubes of gator tail in a spiced broth of green chiles, tomato, garlic and cumin. A soak in salted water and milk first keeps the meat mild and tender. A true Cajun wild-game stew.

Peanut butter dressing stirs chunky peanut butter with dark corn syrup and milk into a thick, sweet drizzle for fresh fruit salads. Three ingredients, five minutes, kid-approved.

Overnight french toast soaks Italian bread in a vanilla-cinnamon custard while you sleep, then pan-fries up golden in minutes. Served with a homemade caramel-cinnamon syrup. Easy weekend brunch.

Monastery of Angels Brown Bread is a whole wheat yeast bread with carob powder and sesame seeds - deeply nutty, dense, and worth every minute of the double rise. Makes 2 loaves.