1,472 small recipes

This fresh strawberry pie is absolutely ultimate. It's loaded with strawberries, and packed with strawberry flavor. Best of all, you don't have to bake it. A perfect cool-fruity dessert for a hot summer day.

Triple strawberry cake: real strawberries three ways, reduced into the batter, folded into the cream cheese frosting, and layered fresh. A moist, intensely berry layer cake with no jello or fake flavor.

Crock pot sweet and sour chicken in a homemade sauce of brown sugar, vinegar, soy, and pineapple, thickened glossy and loaded with peppers and onion. A from-scratch slow cooker take on takeout.

Pasta e ceci, the classic Roman comfort dish. Ditalini and chickpeas in garlicky tomato-basil broth. Pure cucina povera, ready with seven pantry ingredients.

Horseradish salad is a retro Jello salad with lime and lemon gelatin, cream cheese, crushed pineapple, pimentos, and nuts. A tangy, creamy no-bake side for potlucks and holidays.

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Classic Italian minestrone soup with white beans, salt pork, leeks, cabbage, turnip, zucchini, and elbow macaroni. Slow-simmered farmhouse soup finished with grated parmesan.

Garden Special is a big-batch vegetable relish with green tomatoes, lima beans, cabbage, corn, cucumbers, and peppers in a sweet brown sugar and vinegar brine.

Elegant seafood Wellington with lobster, prawns, and scallops flamed in cognac, draped in a silky Nantua sauce, and served in golden puff pastry vol-au-vents.

Grandma's apple cake loaded with 4 cups of chopped apples and nuts in a moist, cinnamon-spiced oil batter. No mixer needed, baked in a tube pan and dusted with powdered sugar.

This a delightful dish is an innovative and economical way to serve a do-it-yourself-style appetizer or main-dish. It is usually presented in a special lacquered wood or china tray with the required number of compartments. It is just as effective served on a tray in small bowls or dishes

Crunchy raw broccoli slaw with crispy bacon, golden raisins, red onion, and a tangy honey-balsamic dressing. Ready in 15 minutes and gone even faster.

Sherry wine Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, French vanilla pudding mix, nutmeg, and chopped walnuts. Rich, moist, and warmly boozy with minimal effort.

Tender date loaf quick bread studded with plump dates and vanilla. This moist tea bread freezes wonderfully, slices like a dream, and tastes even better slathered with salted butter the next day.

Old-fashioned stone crock pickles made over 15 days with a salt brine, alum soak, spiced vinegar cure, and sugar layering. A heritage pickling method that produces crisp, sweet pickles that keep indefinitely.

Orange Jello salad with just cottage cheese and whipped topping. No boiling, no setting, no cooking at all. Dry Jello powder dissolves straight into the cottage cheese for a fluffy potluck side.