Recipes with milk

Golden chicken and noodles made in the slow cooker with broccoli cheese soup, milk, and basil. A creamy, hands-off comfort dinner that cooks all day while you're away.

These are almost like a "candy" as well as a wheat-free cookie.

Low-fat chocolate mousse skips the cream and yolks, using skim milk, cocoa, gelatin, and whipped egg whites for an airy diet-friendly dessert. Sugar or sweetener, your choice.

Buttermilk chicken fried steak dredges cube steak in seasoned flour, dips it in a tangy buttermilk batter, and fries to crackling golden brown. Texas truck-stop comfort on a plate.

Hot fried chicken salad drops crisp breadcrumb-coated chicken nuggets over a cold spinach salad with red onion, carrots, and honey-Dijon vinaigrette. Classic temperature-contrast dinner.

Golden onion and zucchini lasagna with slow-cooked onions, sauteed zucchini, nutmeg bechamel, and Parmesan. A refined vegetarian lasagna with no-boil noodles.

Hearty ground beef chili with kidney beans and tomatoes baked under a golden cornmeal crust. A satisfying one-dish meal that feeds six with bold, homestyle flavor.

Dad's chicken fried steak, minute steaks pounded thin, breaded crisp and pan-fried, then smothered in a creamy milk gravy built right from the pan drippings. A down-home Southern supper.

Pounded round steak breaded in seasoned flour, pan-fried in butter until golden, and smothered in a slow-simmered cream gravy with bay leaf and clove. The real-deal Southern classic, done right.

Tender chicken breasts layer with roasted Anaheim chilies in a creamy sour cream sauce, then bake under melted cheddar cheese for an elegant Mexican casserole that's perfect over fluffy white rice.

Pull-apart breakfast bread with frozen dough, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and pudding mix for a caramel-sticky glaze. An easy monkey bread-style brunch treat.

New Year's Eve chocolate clock cake stacks three layers of egg-white sponge with stovetop chocolate cream filling and Hungarian chocolate frosting, then iced with a clock face for the midnight countdown.

Blender chocolate chip cupcakes mix the entire batter in a blender for one-bowl convenience. Tender vanilla cupcakes studded with semisweet chocolate chips. Mix, pour, bake. Done in 45 minutes.

Lemon Ice-Box Pie (For Non-Weight Watchers) recipe

Vegan Irish stew that swaps lamb for frozen-then-thawed tofu, the trick that gives it a chewy, meaty bite. Topped with whole-wheat soy-milk dumplings and baked into a hearty one-dish supper.

Creamy baked mac and cheese with sauteed peppers and onions in a velvety cheese sauce. A 30-minute comfort food classic the whole family will devour.