Raspberry gratin with fresh raspberries, framboise, and a souffle-style egg batter that bakes into puffed golden mounds. The 10-minute French summer dessert that drinks above its weight class.
Cookie dough brownies layered three ways: a fudgy cocoa brownie base, a thick egg-free cookie dough filling, and a glossy chocolate glaze finished with chopped walnuts. Bakery-style bars done at home.
Homemade Purim ravioli with a tender spinach and chicken filling, sealed between paper-thin sheets of pasta and boiled, then served with marinara or meat sauce. An Italian-Jewish holiday labor of love.
Dense bittersweet chocolate walnut torte with a glossy rum glaze poured over the top. Ground walnuts and whipped egg whites replace most of the flour for a rich, fudgy center.
Maple pecan pumpkin pie layers spiced pumpkin custard with raisins and chopped pecans, topped with maple-scented whipped cream and toasted pecan halves. A Thanksgiving upgrade on the classic.
Pumpkin tunnel cake bakes a brown sugar buttermilk-bran bundt with a hidden ring of spiced pumpkin filling running through the center. Lower-fat with egg whites and oil.
A moist, old-fashioned cake made with a whole unpeeled orange, banana, and raisins chopped in the food processor, baked with buttermilk and cinnamon. Rustic, fruity, and deeply satisfying.
Light, tender coconut cookies with almond extract and egg whites. Golden drop cookies that bake up delicate and crisp in just 12 minutes.
Soft, chewy banana cookies loaded with chopped pecans and a hint of molasses and cinnamon. This drop cookie recipe makes 3 dozen and disappears even faster.
Shrimp tossed in curry powder, cayenne, and flour then sauteed in olive oil until golden and crisp. Five ingredients, 15 minutes, zero leftovers. A spicy, quick weeknight dinner or appetizer.
Granny Smith apple pie with a flaky homemade crust and a buttery brown sugar crumble topping spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. From-scratch apple pie the way it should be.
Three-layer cranberry cheese bars with a buttery oat crumble crust, tangy cream cheese filling, and whole berry cranberry sauce on top. Makes 24 bars for holiday baking trays.
Chilled raspberry bisque, a cold fruit soup made with fresh raspberries stirred into a butter-flour cream sauce with lemon juice. Elegant and refreshing.
Traditional yeast-raised kolachky filled with spiced prune lekvar, folded at the corners so the filling peeks through, then dusted with powdered sugar. An old-world Polish and Czech holiday pastry.
The classic Kentucky Hot Brown: open-faced turkey-or-chicken sandwich smothered in cheesy Mornay sauce, topped with bacon, broiled until bubbly. A Louisville Brown Hotel original from 1926.
Saffron bread for the bread machine, a fragrant Scandinavian-style golden yeast loaf with bloomed saffron, sweet currants, lemon zest, and warm nutmeg.