Recipes with salt

Black Forest chocolate fudge cake bakes the cherry-and-chocolate classic into a moist bundt, with dark sweet cherries and toasted walnuts running through a deep cocoa crumb. Prune puree keeps it fudgy and light.

Silky chocolate Bavarian cream pie with a crunchy chocolate wafer crust, billowy whipped cream, and a cloud-light custard set with gelatin. No-bake elegance for any occasion.

It's a basic vegetable soup that's loaded with vegetables and slowly simmering in beef broth. It's simply tasty.

Lavish Danish onion soup simmered with an entire bottle of dry champagne, Camembert cheese, and a silky port wine egg yolk liaison. Served over butter-fried bread. This is not your average onion soup.

Kukul mas is the classic Sri Lankan chicken curry. Chicken rubbed with tamarind, cardamom, and curry powder simmers in thick coconut milk with lemongrass and fenugreek until fall-off-the-bone tender.

Stir-fried chicken and tender-crisp broccoli tossed with penne in a creamy Dijon mustard sauce. A lighter weeknight pasta ready in 45 minutes with no heavy cream needed.

Kimmel soup, a traditional Jewish caraway seed soup with egg dumplings and a paprika roux base. Simple, warming, and deeply aromatic from toasted caraway.

Red snapper soup with sauteed potatoes, shredded carrots, arborio rice, and fish broth. An Italian-style fish soup finished with parsley and red pepper flakes.

Homemade sourdough bread with dried apricots, walnuts, and whole wheat flour. Makes 3 loaves with a tangy crumb and pockets of sweet fruit.

Heritage crystal pickles brined for 5 days, boiled with ginger and alum, then simmered in sweet pickling spice syrup until glass-clear. A Southern canning tradition worth the wait.

A dark, earthy bread machine pumpernickel made with rye flour, whole wheat, cocoa, molasses, and instant coffee. Dump the ingredients in and let the machine do the work.

A delicious, thick, creamy, crab soup from Scotland. Partan is the Gaelic word for crab and bree from brigh, which means broth.

Grilled chicken salad with blanched asparagus, sugar snaps, and snow peas over a fresh strawberry-balsamic dressing and toasted almonds. A springtime dinner salad that feels like a restaurant plate.

Try this different but tasty pasta salad made with mandarin oranges, pineapple and whipped topping.

A hearty soup made with red cabbage, salt pork and red wine that is sure to satisfy your hunger!

Grilled pork chops with a sticky hoisin-ketchup glaze and homemade pickled ginger on the side. An Asian-inspired weeknight dinner ready in 40 minutes.

City chicken made with cubed pork and beef, breaded with saltines and poultry seasoning, then braised in chicken broth. A Depression-era Midwestern classic with no actual chicken.

Homemade Danish pastry wreath with layers of buttery laminated dough, almond filling, and candied cherries. A holiday baking project that rewards patience with flaky, golden results.

Impossible crawfish pie is a crustless Cajun pie that makes its own crust: sweet crawfish tails and the trinity baked into a Swiss cheese custard with Bisquick batter. No pastry, no rolling, just pour and bake.

Beef and corn pie with seasoned ground beef, green peppers, and tomato sauce baked in a cornmeal crust and topped with melted cheddar. A homestyle savory pie for weeknight family dinners.

Dump-and-go crockpot chicken smothered in creamy mushroom-celery sauce with a hint of sherry. Set it in the morning, come home to fork-tender chicken and a house that smells incredible.

Easy home-made sloppy joe filling to feed a large crowd of about 50 people

Beef miroton is a classic French method for transforming leftover roast beef into a new meal. Sliced beef simmered in a tangy onion-vinegar sauce, topped with bread crumbs, and baked until crisp.

Assorted fresh garden vegetables, eggs and cream make this quiche tasty, refreshing and packed with flavors. Not only delicious, but also good for you.

This scrumptious Irish cake is so tasty, the boiled raisins and currants with butter give the cake great texture and flavor.

Old-fashioned Bishop's bread with brown sugar, buttermilk, cinnamon, and a buttery crumb topping. Tender, warm, and best served straight from the pan. Simple baking at its finest.

Tender beef chuck slow-braised with cinnamon, cumin, tomato paste, and pearl onions, then crowned with crumbled feta. This Greek stifado fills the kitchen with warm spice and Mediterranean soul.

This is a very healthy soup, with several kinds of vegetables and seasonings, nutritious and tasty.

Padre Kino's meatloaf blends ground beef with chorizo for a Southwestern twist, then bakes with cheddar, thyme, paprika, and allspice. Named for the Jesuit missionary of Sonora and Arizona.

This flaky pastry is great for almost all the pies, sweet pies such as pumpkin pies or apple pies, it is well used in savory pies as well, such as turkey pot pie or chicken pot pie... The buttery flavor and flaky texture will definitely satisfy your palate!

A creamy and delicious potato salad made with balsamic vinegar, celery and radishes.

Favorite hasenpfeffer marinates rabbit for three days in red wine, vinegar, and pickling spice, then braises slow with onions and finishes the gravy with sour cream. Old-world German classic.

Quinoa, leek and tofu casserole layers cooked quinoa with sautéed leeks, garlic, and pressed tofu in a whole wheat breadcrumb crust, baked with soy milk. Vegan, protein-rich main dish.

Butterscotch monkey bread: frozen dinner rolls layered with nuts, butterscotch pudding, and cinnamon-sugar butter, left to rise overnight, then baked into a gooey caramel pull-apart. An easy brunch treat.

Southern-style smothered okra and eggplant slow-cooked with tomatoes, bell pepper, and apple juice until meltingly tender. No oil needed in this hearty, no-fat vegetable dish.

Spelt soy milk bread is a dairy-free, vegan-friendly yeast loaf with one quick rise and ready start to finish in under an hour. Nutty spelt flour and warm soy milk make a tender crumb for sandwiches and toast.

Fudgy drop cookies packed with black walnuts and unsweetened chocolate, topped with a glossy homemade chocolate frosting. Old-fashioned, from-scratch baking that makes 2 dozen in under an hour.

Overnight sourdough biscuits with tangy starter fermented into fluffy, tender layers. Rise twice for light texture and deep sourdough flavor.

Old-fashioned peppernut cookies (pfeffernusse) with anise, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, dark corn syrup, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake holiday cookies, makes 4 dozen.

Quick oat bread made with whole wheat flour, rolled oats, and buttermilk. No yeast, no kneading, no rise time. A hearty no-yeast loaf with sesame seeds on top.

This is the best pineapple upside down cake I have ever had, and I eat a whole bunch of cake.

Austrian bread dumplings (Semmelknödel) turn stale bread, a single egg, and milk into pillowy poached dumplings flavored with fresh herbs. Drop them into broth or serve alongside roasts and stews to soak up gravy.

Pork medallions marinated in red wine, ginger, honey, balsamic vinegar, and thyme, pan-seared and finished with a reduced wine-shallot butter sauce. A French bistro-style pork dish.

Berlin Doughnuts (Bismarks) are classic German jam-filled yeasted doughnuts with rum extract and orange juice in the dough, deep-fried and sugared. Makes 12 pillowy doughnuts.

Pozole is a New Mexican holiday stew of pork shoulder simmered until tender with hominy and mild chili powder. The long cooking produces a rich broth and meat that falls into silky shreds. Serve it with warm corn tortillas for Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

Pot-roasted veal marinated in rosemary and shallots, seared and braised low and slow in white wine and lemon juice with a butter-finished pan sauce.

Yeast doughnuts made in the bread machine: a simple bread-flour dough hand-shaped, proofed, and deep-fried, then finished with chocolate, almonds, powdered sugar, whipped cream, or cinnamon sugar.

Parkin is a variety of gingerbread, good warming stuff to eat out of doors in cold weather. When I was a child, it was always a firm favourite for the firework party on Bonfire Night each year. This is adapted from my mother's recipe.