10,000 su gai recipes

Chocolate velvet cheesecake layers semi-sweet chocolate and amaretto-spiked cream cheese filling on a pecan-vanilla wafer crust, then crowns it with a tangy sour cream top. A three-tier baked cheesecake with serious chocolate depth.

Layered frozen dessert with pound cake, coffee ice cream, hot fudge, and crushed Heath bars, finished with piped whipped cream. Five ingredients, zero baking, all showmanship.

Sweet potato casserole with a crunchy pecan-coconut-brown sugar topping baked until golden. The holiday side dish everyone fights over at Thanksgiving.

Traditional German Christmas butter cookies (Weihnachtsplätzchen) with vanilla and almond extract, rolled and cut into festive shapes. Decorated with colored sugar, nuts, and candied cherries.

Crock-Pot ribs slow-cooked for 10 hours in barbecue sauce until the meat falls right off the bone. Just 3 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep for effortless, tender pork ribs.

A double-crust caramel walnut pie: walnuts simmered into a reduced-cream caramel and sealed in a tender shortcrust, served a la mode with from-scratch vanilla bean ice cream. A restaurant-worthy dessert.

Just one bite, you will totally be charmed by this super chocolaty, creamy and silky cheesecake!

They make great Christmas gifts for family and all the various people you give them to. Mailman, garbage man, paperboy, school teachers, your kids' friends. etc. I figure if the kids have to help me cut, they get some to give to their friends.

Walk to school cookies: buttery slice-and-bake shortbread with chopped pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. Make-ahead icebox cookies sturdy enough to survive a backpack and lunchbox.

Apricot squares with a buttery shortbread base and a chewy brown sugar layer studded with simmered apricots and chopped almonds. Dusted with powdered sugar for a classic finish.

Pork chops with dill cream gravy, simmered in white wine with mushrooms and scallions, then finished with sour cream. A one-skillet dinner served over rice.

Light carrot cake made with applesauce instead of oil and egg whites instead of whole eggs, studded with raisins and drizzled with a fresh orange glaze. Lower in fat but still full of flavor.

Blueberry crumb cake squares from a jelly roll pan with a rich butter batter, a full quart of blueberries, and a cinnamon-nutmeg brown sugar crumb topping. Makes 24 generous squares.

Thai-inspired beef and noodles with a sherry-soy-ginger marinade that doubles as the pan sauce. Quick sear on sirloin, fast cornstarch reduction, weeknight dinner ready.

Classic Chinese stir-fry of crunchy soybean sprouts with marinated pork and shrimp paste. Fast wok cooking keeps sprouts crisp-tender.

Oatmeal millet muffins with rolled oats softened in boiling water and toasty whole millet for crunch. The morning muffin with two grains, golden tops, and tender, rib-sticking crumb. Freezes well.