10,000 butter recipes

Scalone seafood patties combining ground abalone and sea scallops, pan-fried in butter and oil. A West Coast specialty that stretches expensive abalone into family dinner.

Lyonnaise oyster stew blends pureed leek and potato soup with cream, nutmeg, and fresh oysters, served with golden croutons and shredded Gruyere on the side.

Amy Scherber's bakery-quality pecan sticky buns. Soft yeasted dough with autolyse rest, caramel-pecan bottom, cinnamon swirl. The classic NYC bread shop sticky bun at home.

Pisang goreng: Indonesian sauteed bananas, two ingredients and ten minutes. Bananas split lengthwise, browned in butter until caramelized and tender. Side dish or quick dessert.

I got this recipe out of McCall’s magazine about 35 – 40 yrs ago from the pages of the McCall’s Cooking School and have made it a number of times since.

Buttery carrot souffle pureed until silky and baked with a crunchy brown sugar corn flake topping. Sweet, savory, and the side dish everyone fights over at holiday dinners.

Tender roast pheasant cooks slowly with frequent basting in a buttery chicken-bouillon sauce, turning halfway through to keep the lean game bird moist. Pan juices thicken into rich gravy.

This scrumptious dish is made with potatoes, kale and succulent smoked sausage.

Very good with a dollop of plain yogurt or sour cream on each patty.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

Homemade blueberry cinnamon rolls with a soft yeast dough, brown sugar and cinnamon filling, fresh blueberries, and a powdered sugar glaze. From scratch and worth every minute.

A delicious cake is also easy to make, no wonder Queen Elizabeth even liked it.

Three-layer cappuccino squares with buttery coffee shortbread, silky cooked custard, and white chocolate ganache swirled with dark chocolate for elegant coffee-lover treats.

Impossible coconut pie blends Bisquick, milk, eggs, sugar, butter, and flaked coconut in one shot, then bakes into a self-crusting pie with a custard middle and toasted coconut top. Blender to oven, no rolling pin required.

Buttery thumbprint cookies with a gross-out Halloween twist: pale, tender shortbread rounds dimpled and filled with dark blackberry jam that looks like a 'blackhead.' Easy, funny, and good enough to disappear fast.

Whole wheat cream cheese pastry gives these mini pecan tarts a nutty edge, while vanilla-spiked filling adds aromatic warmth to the classic brown sugar and pecan combo.