Pumpkin cheese tart with a gingersnap-oat crust and a marbled cream cheese-pumpkin filling, finished with warm caramel sauce. A lighter take on pumpkin pie that actually holds its own on the holiday table.
Spanish-style omelet filled with a slow-simmered onion and tomato sauce with red pepper heat. A diner-classic folded omelet that earns its flavor from patient sauce work.
Microwave pecan pie bars: shortbread base, chewy pecan filling, and a semi-sweet chocolate topping. 28 bars cooked entirely in the microwave, ready in 30 minutes.
Molded red pepper couscous ring filled with steamed vegetables and topped with a cool dill yogurt sauce. Stunning vegetarian buffet centerpiece that cuts like a savory cake.
State fair zucchini cake: a spiced sheet cake with shredded zucchini, walnuts, and golden raisins, topped with a lemon cream cheese frosting. Blue-ribbon classic.
Salmon couscous steamed over a spiced vegetable broth with garlic, caraway, chili pepper, zucchini, and carrots, served with canned red salmon and pumpkin seeds. A North African-inspired one-pot meal.
Hot chicken salad casserole with rice, mushrooms, water chestnuts, and buttery cornflake-almond topping. Creamy, crunchy, and loaded with rosemary for elevated comfort food.
Vegetarian Mexican loaf made with crumbled veggie burgers, cornmeal, green chiles, corn, and chili powder baked in a water bath. Sliceable, savory, and served with homemade tomato sauce.
No-bake peanut butter bars with a graham cracker crust, powdered sugar, and a thin chocolate topping. Tastes like a giant homemade Reese's cup in bar form.
No-bake peanut butter bars with a graham cracker crust, powdered sugar, and a thin chocolate topping. Tastes like a giant homemade Reese's cup in bar form.
Sorrel and haricot bean soup with a lemony, herbaceous flavor from fresh sorrel leaves, blended beans for body, and soy milk for creaminess. Vegan-friendly and deeply savory.
Grilled pork ribs basted with a tangy Florida-style barbecue sauce of butter, vinegar, ketchup, horseradish, and fresh lime juice. Bold, buttery, and deeply Southern.
Raisin and bran cookies bake up chewy with unprocessed bran, brown sugar, and warm cinnamon-nutmeg spice. Egg whites keep them lighter than the typical butter-yolk cookie.
Spaceship cake shapes a chocolate loaf cake into a rocket, studs it with slivered almonds for porthole windows, and pours warm hot fudge sauce over the top. Fun retro kids' birthday cake.
Low-fat cheesecake made with overnight-strained yogurt and blended cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. Dense, silky, and tangy on a graham cracker crust with no cream cheese at all.
Brown paper sack apple pie, the old-fashioned trick of baking a Granny Smith pie with buttery crumb topping inside a grocery bag. The enclosed heat steams the apples tender and keeps the crust from burning.