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Italian Bolognese pinwheel cookies filled with thick fruit jam, rolled jelly-roll style, and sliced into spirals. Use fig, sour cherry, quince, or apricot jam. Makes 4 rolls.

A big-batch chowder with chicken, pearl barley, crumbled bacon, potatoes, carrots, corn, and peas in a creamy evaporated milk broth. One pot, feeds a crowd, and warms you to the bone.

No-bake frozen peppermint cheesecake with a chocolate wafer crust, cream cheese filling, crushed candy canes, and whipped cream. A pink holiday showstopper.

Cheeseburger and pie can be enjoyed at the same time. You can find all the yumminess in the burger and pie in this cheeseburger pie.

New England-style clam chowder built on a butter-flour roux with milk, potatoes, celery, and a finishing splash of red wine vinegar for brightness. Hearty, creamy, eight-bowl batch.

Three-ingredient frozen lemonade pie with sweetened condensed milk, lemonade concentrate, and whipped topping in a graham cracker crust. No baking, no cooking.

Impossible quesadilla pie: a self-crusting Bisquick pie loaded with green chiles, cheddar, eggs, and milk. Blender-mixed, oven-baked, ready in under an hour. The retro Mexican-inspired weeknight dinner.

A smooth, puréed Norwegian cauliflower soup thickened with a light roux and skim milk, finished with white pepper and a dusting of nutmeg. Cozy, low-calorie comfort in a bowl.

A Halloween Waldorf salad shaped like a werewolf with carrot fangs, alfalfa sprout fur, and radish eyeballs. Crisp apples, walnuts, and raisins in a creamy dressing kids love.

City chicken made with cubed pork and beef, breaded with saltines and poultry seasoning, then braised in chicken broth. A Depression-era Midwestern classic with no actual chicken.

Southern-style pork chops simmered in a creamy peanut butter mushroom gravy until fork-tender. A comforting one-pan supper ready in just over an hour.

Rhubarb hickory nut bread with sugar-steeped rhubarb folded into a tender quick bread batter. A tart, nutty Midwestern loaf with a clever juice-extraction technique.

Cookies and cream cheesecake with a chocolate cookie crust, crumbled chocolate wafers folded into a creamy filling, and a tangy sour cream topping. Pure cookies-and-cream indulgence.

Coffee cake with a hidden filling of dried figs, walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon baked between layers of vanilla batter. A sweet surprise in every slice.

A simple and easy to make fudge recipe using only pantry staples.

Creamy puréed winter squash soup with nutmeg and sautéed carrots, topped with a ruby-red whole berry cranberry dollop. A stunning fall soup that's lighter than it looks thanks to skim evaporated milk.