234 stuff recipes

Portuguese sauce blends ketchup, chili sauce, tomato juice, pickles, capers, olives, and Tabasco into a tangy zesty cocktail-style sauce. Five minutes in a blender, ready to spoon over shrimp, steak, or burgers.

Marji's fudgies: dense fudgy chocolate drop cookies with cocoa, powdered milk, and a stiff dough that bakes into a brownie-cookie hybrid. Foil-pan baking trick included.

Chocolate mocha mousse: a French-style chocolate mousse with strong coffee, butter, egg yolks, and clouds of whipped cream and stiff egg white. The classic dinner-party finale, made the proper way.

Frozen mocha mousse pie made with cultured cream, dark chocolate, cocoa powder, and brown sugar whipped to stiff peaks, set in pie crusts. A unique fermented chocolate dessert.

Neapolitan spaghetti sauce slow-simmered for 3 hours with ground beef, three forms of tomato, whole chili peppers, and sliced stuffed green olives. Rich, thick, and full of heat.

Lincoln almond cake: a tall white butter cake with chopped blanched almonds folded through, lifted by stiff-beaten egg whites and baked in a bundt pan. Tender, fragrant, snowy-white.

Pressure-cooker braised beef chuck with red wine, tomatoes, mushrooms, green olives, and a pinch of saffron. Sunday-style stew in 35 minutes instead of 3 hours.

A show-stopping 4-layer banana cake with stiff meringue folded into the batter, filled with vanilla custard, and frosted with a silky cooked flour-butter frosting laced with almond extract. This is banana cake at its most dramatic.

Pan-fried beef liver in a tangy gravy loaded with green olives, mushrooms, lemon juice, and Worcestershire for a quick weeknight dinner that proves liver doesn't have to be boring.

Cajun chicken sauce piquant with a dark roux, Chablis wine, tomato sauce, stuffed olives, and hot pepper sauce, slow-cooked for hours and served over spaghetti. Big-batch Cajun cooking.

Spice up your hamburger soup with this tasty recipe that uses canned mushrooms and red wine.

Italian baked clams on the half shell stuffed with herbed bread crumbs, garlic, Romano cheese, basil, oregano, and lemon juice, finished with a splash of white wine. A classic Italian-American appetizer.

A yeasted chocolate cake with an overnight rise, three layers, and a cooked white icing drizzled with melted chocolate and toasted coconut. Truly unlike any chocolate cake you've tried.

Monsters are quick yeast-raised donut holes dropped into hot oil and rolled in sugar. A fast, no-rise fried dough treat from a sticky batter, ready in 25 minutes.

Kodiak Casserole is a hearty ground beef and egg noodle bake loaded with green olives, barbecue sauce, picante, and melted cheddar for a bold one-pot dinner.

A loaded tamale pie with ground beef, bacon, corn, and green chiles in a cornmeal crust, topped with a melted Monterey Jack and egg layer. Tex-Mex comfort baked in a pie pan.