These individual danish pastries are filled with raisins and topped with a delicious graze.
Buttery slow-roasted pecan halves toasted low and slow at 275°F for one hour, crispy golden snack with optional sea salt finish
Three-ingredient primavera cream sauce with heavy cream, butter, and Parmesan melted into a silky coating for pasta or spring vegetables. Quick Italian-style white sauce ready in 10 minutes.
Baked Vidalia onions stuffed with brown sugar and butter, roasted until soft and caramelized. A simple 4-ingredient side dish that works in the oven, toaster oven, or on the grill.
Butter-fried cinnamon potatoes with onions, a surprisingly warm and fragrant breakfast side. Just five ingredients and 30 minutes for something totally different.
Sweet yeast crust dough makes a tender, slightly sweet base for fruit tarts, kuchen, or kolache. Two rises, one egg-and-butter enriched dough, ready for any filling.
A silky cooked vanilla sauce to spoon over plain cake, made from sugar, milk, butter, and a touch of flour to thicken. This old-fashioned dessert topping turns a simple slice into something special.
Nut thins are crisp, buttery drop cookies loaded with chopped nuts and vanilla. A simple, vintage cookie that bakes thin and shatter-crisp at low heat. A handful of pantry ingredients, no mixer needed.
Kolachky cream cheese dough, the rich, flaky pastry base for these Eastern European cookies. Just flour, butter, cream cheese and egg, chilled overnight, rolled on sugar and filled with prune, apricot, walnut or poppy seed.
Honey drops candy boils pure honey with butter and a splash of lemon to hard ball stage, then pulls into chewy white taffy with a porous, melt-on-the-tongue texture.
Homemade mac and cheese from scratch with real cheddar, butter roux, and elbow pasta. Creamy stovetop recipe ready in 30 minutes, no box needed.
Buttery toasted breadcrumb topping with parsley for casseroles. Three ingredients, five minutes, and every baked dish gets a golden crunchy crust.
Sunday chicken revisited folds whole chicken breasts skin-out and skewers them into bundles for even roasting, finished with a pan-drippings gravy.
Simple boiled chunk potatoes with butter, salt, and black pepper. Easy side dish with brown potatoes cooked tender in 25 minutes.
Baked French toast sticks with whole wheat bread, butternut squash, and cinnamon. Make-ahead breakfast for busy mornings, freezer-friendly.
Homemade rosemary focaccia brushed with olive oil and topped with coarse salt, dried rosemary, and Parmesan. Two large sheet pan loaves with a soft, dimpled crumb.