10,000 buttery recipes

Caramelized ripe plantains pan-fried in butter with a sprinkle of sugar until golden and sticky. Just 3 ingredients and 20 minutes for a sweet Caribbean-style side or dessert.

Buttery coconut shortbread squares dipped diagonally in semi-sweet chocolate. A crisp, sandy cookie with toasted coconut flakes baked low and slow.

Poached rainbow trout served on a rich, reduced cream sauce finished with butter and fresh herbs. A classic Irish fish dish with just 4 ingredients and 30 minutes of your time.

Fresh fig muffins with a tender crumb, chopped ripe figs folded into the batter, and a tall golden top. Late summer breakfast or brunch in 30 minutes.

Whole poached salmon served with a warm lobster butter sauce made from reduced shell stock and lemon. An elegant British-style centerpiece for special occasions.

Jan's 1940s apple pie heaped with McIntosh and Cortland apples, finished with a quick water-rinse trick on the top crust that produces an exceptionally flaky finish.

Irish hot buttered mussels: fresh mussels steamed open and topped with butter, chives, and their own briny juices. Served with crusty brown bread.

A simple and scrumptious casserole that doesn't take a lot to make with this stress-free recipe!

Crisp, wafer-thin cream cheese cookies studded with finely chopped walnuts. Just five ingredients and 10 minutes in the oven. A Hollywood legend's own recipe.

An quick and easy to make enriched Bechamel sauce that is excellent on fish or other broiled meats.

Miss Allie's chicken and rice casserole is an old-fashioned one-pot bake where chicken slow-cooks over onions, mushrooms, and butter, then rice steams in the rendered pan juices. Pure Sunday-supper comfort.

German chocolate cake mix topped with a melted Snickers and butter glaze and a sprinkle of flaked coconut. A four-ingredient potluck cake that comes together start to finish in under an hour.

Yeast crumb cake is the old-world German streuselkuchen style, with a soft yeasted cake base and thick cinnamon-sugar streusel topping. Brunch coffee cake worth the slow rise.

Alsatian apple cake with four pounds of Golden Delicious apples, honey, rum, and a caramelized egg-butter-brown sugar topping. A rustic French apple dessert.

Biersuppe is a classic German beer soup thickened with browned butter and flour, warmed with cinnamon, and enriched with egg yolks and milk. Served with toasted bread in 30 minutes flat.

Honey curry chicken wings: oven-baked, basted in a butter-honey-mustard-curry glaze that turns sticky and lacquered. A party platter staple with retro charm and serious flavor.