1,538 classic recipes

Hearty Italian minestrone packed with beans, eggplant, zucchini, spinach, cabbage, and pasta, topped with a bright homemade basil pesto. A one-pot vegetable soup that eats like a meal.

A vegetable-loaded Italian minestrone with eggplant, beans, spinach, cabbage, and pasta, finished with a swirl of homemade pesto alla Genovese. Rustic, hearty, and full of garden-fresh flavor.

Authentic Mexican refried beans cooked with caramelized onions and garlic, mashed to a creamy puree and topped with crumbled queso fresco. A 30-minute side dish that belongs next to every taco night.

Literally means "white food". Blancmange is a delicate, quivering snow-white pudding that goes back to the 16th century that was extremely popular in the Victorian age.

Traditional French baguettes made with just four basic ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. Bake in your bread machine or shape by hand for authentic crusty loaves.

Homemade French bread: a no-knead, food-processor dough that rises in the fridge overnight, then bakes into crusty baguettes with a chewy interior and crackling crust. Bakery quality at home.

Bread machine French bread: crusty golden loaves with chewy interior, slashed and brushed with egg wash. Two long baguettes from one easy bread machine cycle.

A straight up French Bechamel sauce from Woman's Day magazine.

Sauce Aurore (Aurora sauce) made from a silky bechamel base with tomato paste stirred in for a blush-pink French classic. Seven ingredients, one saucepan, about 15 minutes.

French market soup simmers a medley of dried beans with a smoky ham hock until tender, then brightens the pot with tomatoes and a finishing splash of lemon. A hearty, economical bean soup made from a colorful bean mix.

Authentic French onion soup built on a homemade veal-and-chicken stock and deeply caramelized onions, ladled over toasted croutons and broiled under a blanket of melted Gruyere. The real, from-scratch classic.

An quick and easy to make enriched Bechamel sauce that is excellent on fish or other broiled meats.

Classic French onion soup slow-caramelizes pounds of sliced onions in butter, then simmers them with beef stock, Cognac, and dry vermouth. Top with toasted bread and Swiss for the gratiné finish.

A curried Bechamel sauce works very well as a topping for many steamed or cooked vegetables.

A stone-baked three cheese pizza loaded with mozzarella, Swiss, and Parmesan over fresh tomato pulp and herbs. Includes step-by-step dough shaping for a crispy, bubbly, pizzeria-quality pie at home.

My slightly sweet version of a classic.