10,000 reame recipes

Leg of lamb marinated in white wine, scored and stuffed with tarragon, then slow-roasted and finished with a velvety cream pan sauce. Sunday roast worthy of a standing ovation.

Asparagus sauce blends boiled asparagus tops with unsalted butter and infuses heavy cream with the woody ends, creating a silky verdant sauce ideal for pasta, fish, or grilled chicken. San Francisco chef's elegant green sauce.

Retro cream cheese and blue cheese log rolled in chopped pecans, with sweet pickle relish and dried onion for tangy bite. No-bake holiday and game-day appetizer that slices clean on a cracker.

Curried egg and artichoke dip, a quick chunky party dip with chopped hard-boiled eggs and artichoke hearts in a curry-spiced sour cream and mayo dressing. No-cook appetizer ready in 10 minutes.

Lady apple fruit wreath ringing a holiday roast with spiced crabapples frosted in tinted cream cheese and rolled in toasted pecans, set on a bed of parsley. A retro edible garnish for your festive platter.

Simple veggie quiche with grated zucchini, carrots, and Swiss cheese in a rich egg custard. Only seven ingredients for an easy crustless-optional brunch.

Easy Barley Mushroom Casserole with French Onion Topping recipe

A decadent and scrumptious pound cake made with strawberry jam and frozen blueberries.

Fattigmann (Norwegian poor man's cookies): crisp, cardamom-scented diamond pastries fried until pale gold and dusted with powdered sugar. A holiday tradition from Scandinavian baking.

Old-fashioned coconut fudge candy shaped into little haystacks. Brown sugar, butter, and shredded coconut cooked to soft-ball stage, then dropped onto wax paper. Makes about 60 pieces.

Maple creme brulee sweetened with pure maple syrup instead of granulated sugar. Rich, silky custard made with 10 egg yolks and a whole vanilla bean, baked in a water bath until set.

No-fail pound cake with butter, sugar, eggs, and flour, baked low and slow in a tube pan. Six ingredients, dense moist crumb, the kind of cake that makes you look like a pro.

A sweet, sipping chocolate, perfect on a cold winter day. I use 85% chocolate. The amount of sugar can be decreased, or the chocolate can be increased for a richer chocolate flavor.

Minute a la king with tuna and peas in a creamy mushroom sauce served over toast points. A quick, 4-ingredient pantry dinner ready in under 10 minutes.

A quick, easy, and inexpensive dish that got my kids through college.

It is a great appetizer, very nice cheese with asparagus, at New Year, always popular!