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Potluck chicken casserole layers cooked chicken and rice with a creamy mushroom-mayo sauce under a crunchy cornflake topping. Feeds a crowd from one baking dish.

Pan-fried crab cakes with scallions, celery, and lemon, coated in garlicky breadcrumbs and served with homemade dill mayonnaise made from scratch in the blender.

Classic quiche Lorraine with bacon, Swiss cheese, and thyme-sauteed onions in a homemade butter crust. Five whole eggs plus two yolks create an extra-rich, silky custard filling.

A retro potluck casserole made with canned green beans, cream of celery soup, chow mein vegetables, and chopped almonds, topped with crunchy French fried onions. Comfort food ready in 40 minutes.

Italian osso buco with veal shanks braised in white wine, French onion soup, tomato, and lemon, served with potatoes and carrots. Northern Italian comfort with melt-off-the-bone tenderness.

Pan-fried red snapper fillets in a brown butter sauce with garlic, lemon juice, and parsley. Restaurant-quality fish dinner ready in under 25 minutes.

Fettuccine tossed with a quick chunky tomato-chile sauce, cubed avocado, cilantro, and lime juice. Mexican-leaning pasta with a fresh, no-cook avocado finish.

Spiced tofu burgers with chili sauce, cumin, garlic, and ground hazelnuts. Vegan, smoky-flavored grillable patties that hold their shape on the BBQ.

Crunchy crab nuggets: hollow bread cubes brushed with butter, baked crisp, then filled with sharp cheddar and crab and baked again until hot and bubbly. A vintage party appetizer worth bringing back.

Pressure cooker Swiss steak braises chuck cubes with tomatoes, onion, garlic, celery, and bell pepper into fork-tender beef in a rich tomato gravy. Ready in 30 minutes instead of 3 hours.

Reuben quiche with corned beef, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese in a toasted rye bread crumb crust, topped with Thousand Island dressing. All the classic sandwich flavors in pie form.

Salmon steaks baked en papillote with fresh ginger, served on a pool of white wine and lime cream sauce. An elegant foil-packet dinner with restaurant presentation.

Open-faced appetizer bites with Hungarian salami, hard-boiled egg, feta, dill pickles, kalamata olives, and shredded Jarlsberg on buttered bread. A no-cook Eastern European party platter ready in 20 minutes.

Individual chicken pot pies with rosemary-infused cream sauce, sugar snap peas, carrots, and pearl onions under a puffed golden pastry lid. Dinner party-worthy comfort food.

Slow cooker Swiss steak with mustard-flour coated round steak, sauteed vegetables, tomatoes, and Worcestershire sauce. Fork-tender after 6 to 8 hours on low.

A scrumptious variation of the casserole made with bean and bacon soup, celery and biscuits.