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Forget the store-bought cookie dough and learn how to make cookies from scratch—it's simple.

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

Consistently exceptional and easy fresh pasta dough recipe. This makes especially great homemade linguine or ravioli either cut by hand or using a manual pasta machine.

Master cheesecake filling formula with cream cheese, powdered sugar, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Learn the ratios for dense, fluffy, chocolate, fruit, or liqueur-spiked variations.

Three-ingredient honey jelly made with just honey, water, and liquid fruit pectin. Boil, jar, and enjoy pure honey flavor in spreadable form. Makes 6 jars.

Homemade balti sauce with onions, ginger, garlic, tomato, and warming spices blended smooth. Your base for any balti curry, ready in 45 minutes. Endlessly customizable.

Homemade fish stock from trimmings simmered with white wine, lemon juice, onion, celery, and fresh herbs. Makes 3 quarts that freeze beautifully for up to six months.

Quick lamb balti stir-fried in ghee with balti masala paste, garlic, garam masala, and fresh coriander. Tender, fragrant, and on the table in 45 minutes. Serve with warm naan.

Buttery candy fondant base for homemade chocolate-dipped truffles and cream centers. One batch makes vanilla, mint, chocolate, peanut butter, coconut, or cherry cordial variations.

This is a very simple recipe for roast chicken. Serve with roast vegetables and/or salad. If you opt for grains, choose whole grains such as brown rice instead of white, or mix brown and white rice together to increase the fiber content.

A great rendition to crockpot-made beans that are best served with bread bowls or hamburger buns.

Basic Green Sauce blends spinach, green chili, tomato, garlic, and oregano into a smooth base, then finishes with sour cream for a creamy Mexican-style green sauce. Ready in 30 minutes.

How to prepare fiddlehead ferns: clean, simmer until tender, and serve with butter and lemon. Works for bracken, ostrich, and cinnamon fern varieties.

Basic butter cookies with just 5 ingredients: flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar, butter, and walnuts. Melt-in-your-mouth shortbread-style cookies baked low and slow.

Homemade vegetable stock from celery, onions, carrots, and parsley, simmered 30 minutes and strained smooth. Freezes for up to 3 months. A clean, versatile base for soups and sauces.

Chewy, crusty homemade bagels made the traditional way with boiling and baking. Just flour, yeast, water, and salt for that authentic New York bagel shop texture.