4,750 night recipes

Cold brewed coffee blended with creme de cacao, white creme de menthe, and half-and-half until frothy. A boozy iced coffee that tastes like a chocolate-mint dream. Serves 4.

Stuffed meatloaf rolled jelly-roll style around ham and melted mozzarella, topped with more cheese. A ground sirloin meatloaf with a gooey surprise inside.

Grandma's oatmeal bread for the bread machine with rolled oats, honey, and dark molasses. Soft, slightly sweet, and full of old-fashioned oat flavor.

Old-school stuffed green peppers packed with seasoned ground pork, rice, crumbled bacon, and onion, then slow-simmered in a smoky paprika tomato sauce. Hearty, hands-off comfort food for six hungry folks.

Try something new for dinner with this savory beef wellington made with ground veal and crescent roll dough.

Pinto bean burgers made from scratch with dried beans, oats, green chiles, and ketchup, dredged in cornmeal and pan-fried crispy. A Southwestern-style vegetarian burger that holds together.

Flaky puff pastry tarts filled with flambéed Calvados apples and caramel sauce, crowned with puff pastry cutouts and served warm with caramel ice cream.

Khatte Channe, a tangy North Indian chickpea curry with tamarind, garam masala, cumin, and slow-fried onions. Vegetarian and full of sour-spicy depth. Serve with poori.

Rich mincemeat plum pudding with rum, orange, and walnuts using microwave speed for moist holiday desserts ready in 30 minutes instead of hours.

A light, low-calorie pasta salad with rotini, fresh vegetables, mozzarella cubes, and a tangy dill vinaigrette. Loaded with cherry tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, and red peppers for a colorful potluck side.

Ham crescent rolls stuff soft, buttery yeast dough with diced ham, rolled into crescents and baked golden. A Venezuelan-style homemade take on the supermarket classic.

Soft maple walnut oatmeal cookies with brown sugar and cinnamon, topped with maple-flavored frosting and a walnut half. Chewy, sweet, and warmly spiced.

Mock mincemeat without any meat, made with raisins, molasses, brown sugar, brandy, cracker crumbs, and warm spices. A vegetarian filling for holiday pies.

No-bake lemon chiffon cheesecake made light with blended cottage cheese, nonfat cream cheese and lemon gelatin, folded fluffy with whipped cream and crowned with cherry pie filling. A cool, airy dessert with no oven required.

Maple pecan balls are buttery brown sugar cookies infused with maple extract and rolled around chopped pecans, each topped with a toasted pecan half. Tender, nutty, and built for holiday tins.

Salmon baked in cream with bay leaf, cloves, thyme, and onion, then served with a silky cream sauce finished with lemon juice. An elegant old-school French-style fish dish with a rich, aromatic sauce.