10,000 walt recipes

Cranberry ring mold with apple pecan salad filling: a retro Thanksgiving centerpiece with tangy cranberry gelatin surrounding a creamy apple-pecan salad.

Cheese and chile souffle with cheddar, hot salsa, and a classic bechamel base. Make it ahead and refrigerate or freeze up to 2 months before baking.

A surprising vintage side dish: sliced cucumbers and Spanish onions layered with chili sauce and butter, baked until meltingly tender. Prove that cucumbers aren't just for salads.

Welsh prawn and cauliflower gratin with Caerphilly cheese bechamel sauce seasoned with turmeric, mustard, and ground bay leaf. A rich, golden-topped British seafood dish.

Baked barbecued oysters in a tangy sauce of tomato paste, chili sauce, horseradish, and Worcestershire, topped with cracker crumbs. A retro seafood appetizer.

Deep-fried Parmesan prawns with a crispy breadcrumb and Parmigiano-Reggiano coating over a light batter. Golden, crunchy, and done in 2 minutes flat.

Cheese-scalloped potatoes and carrots in a homemade sharp cheddar sauce with a hint of cayenne. A from-scratch layered casserole with a golden, bubbly top.

Homemade Italian cheese dressing blended with Parmesan, garlic, dry mustard, celery salt, and white pepper. A creamy vinaigrette made in the blender and chilled to serve.

Sour cream raisin pie is a Midwestern farmhouse classic with plump raisins suspended in a nutmeg-spiced sour cream custard. Includes a from-scratch flaky pie crust made with shortening for tender, sturdy bite.

Salt-and-pepper spicy shrimp: the classic Cantonese wok-fried shell-on shrimp tossed with garlic, ginger, scallions, chiles, and crunchy peppercorn-salt. Dinner on the table in 30 minutes.

This makes an excellent first course with dry white Demesticha or Samos wine.

Delicate sole fillets rolled around a buttery crab, chive, and parsley filling, baked in a creamy wine sauce and topped with melted Swiss cheese. Elegant seafood in 40 minutes.

New Orleans daube with a 4-5 pound beef roast braised low and slow with salt pork, sherry, cloves, and thyme, served sliced over spaghetti with pan juices.

A traditional Acadian blood pudding made from fresh pork blood, slow-simmered pork, heart, lung, and neck with onions, cloves, savory, and coriander. Served as a sauce or stuffed into natural casings.

Slow-simmered pinto beans with salt pork, red chili pepper, tomato paste, cumin, and chili powder. An old-school chuck wagon recipe that cooks all day and feeds eight hungry hands.

Boudin du pays is a traditional Quë©bécois blood pudding sauce made from fresh pork, lung, heart, and neck simmered with onions, cloves, savory, and coriander.