10,000 buttery recipes

Greek kadaifi pastry with shredded dough layered around a cinnamon-almond filling, baked golden and soaked in honey-lemon syrup. A baklava cousin.

Turtle cheesecake with a caramel-pecan bottom layer and a rich chocolate cream cheese top on a vanilla wafer crust. Three layers of indulgence, classic candy-shop flavors.

Copycat Red Lobster cheddar biscuits made with Bisquick, shredded cheddar cheese, and cold water, brushed with garlic-herb butter. Just 20 minutes from bowl to table.

Creamy curry sauce for turkey or chicken with sauteed apple, onion, garlic, and curry powder in a chicken broth and cream base. A quick British-style curry sauce ready in 20 minutes.

Southern turnip green soup with cubed turnip roots, wilted and pureed greens, half-and-half, and a spoonful of cooked grits for body. Florida-style cream soup rooted in soul food.

Festive raisin tarts with a brown sugar, walnut, and orange juice filling in mini pastry shells. Bite-sized holiday treats similar to butter tarts, topped with whipped cream.

Pan-seared veal cutlets with a woodsy sauce of shiitake mushrooms, spring fiddleheads, crispy pancetta, and sherry. A restaurant-style spring main that comes together in under 30 minutes.

Beef pie freezes four 8x8 pans at once, layering diced cooked beef, peas, and onions in a butter-flour gravy under a poppy seed-dusted pastry. Batch-cook dinner for the freezer.

Ham and cheese calzones fry yeasted dough pockets stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, and chopped ham until puffed and golden. A handheld Italian-American classic, crispy outside and molten in the middle.

Old-fashioned white holiday fudge loaded with brazil nuts, pecans, walnuts, candied cherries, and pineapple. A cooked cream fudge that chills overnight and makes over 100 pieces for holiday gift giving.

Mock duck made from pounded round steak stuffed with a savory mushroom and breadcrumb filling, rolled up, browned, and braised in beef stock until fork-tender. A hearty old-fashioned comfort dish.

Fudgy bonbons: Hershey's Kiss-stuffed chocolate truffle cookies with chopped nuts, drizzled with white chocolate. A Pillsbury Bake-Off winner that still knocks cookie exchanges out of the park.

Grandma's chocolate layer cake: a classic two-layer butter cake with melted chocolate and a tender crumb. An old-fashioned scratch cake for birthdays and celebrations.

Potato, onion, and rosemary casserole layered with buttery caramelized onions, sliced russets, and half-and-half. Baked until golden and creamy, cut into wedges to serve.

Shrimp with golden lemon rice flavored with turmeric, mustard seeds, white wine, and pimentos. The shrimp sautes first, then the rice bakes in the buttery shrimp drippings for deep, layered flavor.

Caramel almond apple pie is a single-crust apple pie with sliced tart apples under a bubbling brown-butter caramel and sliced almond topping. Scratch oil-crust, one hour bake.