9,415 silk recipes

Challenge Winner, AJ Horst (Test Your Tastebuds, October 2011)

Granny's ham and potato gratin for a crowd layers parboiled potatoes, diced ham, and Swiss cheese with a mustard-garlic bechamel. Feeds 24, bakes in under an hour, and can be assembled a day ahead.

Hearty cinnamon buckwheat yeast bread with a dark golden crust and earthy, spiced crumb. Makes two loaves with a satisfying chew from bread flour and buckwheat.

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.

Traditional Mexican budin de elote: corn pureed with milk, folded into creamy butter and eggs, baked low and slow until golden and set. Simple, rich, and deeply corny.

Tom Kha Gai - Thai coconut chicken soup with lemongrass, galangal, and dried red chiles. A creamy, aromatic broth simmered from scratch and served with white rice.

Dandelion soup made with fresh dandelion flowers simmered in a buttery roux-based milk broth with thyme, celery seed, and bay leaf. A creamy, foraged flower soup with earthy herbal flavor.

Butterscotch banana bread loaded with mashed bananas, butterscotch chips, chopped nuts, and warm cinnamon-nutmeg spice. Makes two full loaves or four mini gift loaves.

Curried clam soup made with a creamy soup mix base, baby clams, curry powder, cumin, and a butter-flour roux for extra thickness. A quick, warming bowl in 30 minutes.

No-bake chocolate cream cheese candies studded with miniature marshmallows and rolled in shredded coconut. Retro confection ready in 2 hours for holiday platters.

A decadent coffee cake made with delicious strawberries and slivered almonds.

Carthusian dumplings (Kartaeuserkloesse) transform stale kaiser rolls into sweet, deep-fried dumplings soaked in lemony custard, breaded, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. A German classic.

Brook trout sauteed with mushrooms, finished with brown butter, lime juice, and fresh parsley. A French meuniere-style preparation with whole fish or fillets.

Bread machine pizza dough made with basic pantry ingredients. Let the machine knead, pull it before the bake cycle, and shape for homemade pizza night.

Jackie's spinach quiche: blended egg custard with cheddar, bacon bits, spinach, and evaporated milk baked in a quick Bisquick crust. A potluck-famous shortcut quiche.

Cheddar tuna au gratin with a paprika-spiked cheese sauce, cottage cheese for extra protein, and buttered bread crumb topping. Old-school pantry casserole that comes together with everything in the cupboard.