8 mind recipes

Flambed ice cream sauce of buttered green grapes, hot chiles, rum, honey, and warm spices. A sweet-heat dessert topping that takes 20 minutes and shocks the palate awake.

These little nests filled with colorful chocolate "eggs" are perfect for spring baking treats or your Easter party.

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.

M&M's cookies made from yellow cake mix for a soft, chewy base loaded with colorful candy. A four-ingredient shortcut cookie kids love to help make.

If you want enchiladas that, aren't really enchiladas, them this is it. Quick and Easy. Non nutritious, certainly delicious.

Chinese four-vegetable steamed platter with baby corn, straw mushrooms, bok choy, and tomato arranged like a flower and finished with a glossy chicken-fat sauce thickened with cornstarch.

Chicken divan: chicken and broccoli baked under a creamy, lightly curried sauce of mayo and cream of chicken soup. The retro comfort casserole, easy and ready for any weeknight.

An authentic basic salsa using dried chiles for use as a sauce for egg, Chilaquiles or Enchiladas. It also makes a nice spicy dip for tortilla chips.