Recipe Sifter

Monkfish stir fry with flour-dredged fish cubes, celery, zucchini, red pepper, and mushrooms tossed in soy sauce and sherry. A quick wok dinner with meaty fish and crisp vegetables.

Old-school pickled pigs' feet simmered in vinegar brine with whole cloves, peppercorns, and bay. Gelatinous, tangy, and served cold in their own aspic, Pennsylvania Dutch style.

Pumpkin dump cake with a spiced pumpkin custard base, white cake mix topping, melted butter, and pecans. No mixing required for the cake layer, just sprinkle, drizzle, and bake.

Hearty buttermilk rye bread for the bread machine with caraway seeds, brown sugar, and vital wheat gluten. Dump it all in, press start, and enjoy a fresh-baked loaf.

Northern-style lasagna with bacon, ground beef, ricotta, and a cream of mushroom layer alongside the meat sauce. Creamy, meaty, and bubbling hot.

Homemade sour cream cinnamon rolls with a soft yeasted dough, brown sugar cinnamon filling, and vanilla confectioners sugar icing. The sour cream makes them impossibly tender. Makes 12.

Any fruit coffee cake layers a tender butter cake with cooked fresh fruit (apples, peaches, apricots or blueberries) and a walnut crumb top. Endlessly adaptable bakery-style coffee cake.

A rich vegan stew simmered in coconut milk and tangy tamarind with cauliflower, chickpeas, mushrooms, and warming spices. Deeply layered and satisfying.

Tiger slaw: crisp cabbage, carrot, and daikon with sweet apple and mango, tossed in a bright lemongrass vinaigrette of ginger, lime leaf, and chili. A fresh, no-cook Asian-style slaw.

Ground beef and eggplant casserole layers browned beef, tomatoes, and tender eggplant slices over rice. A budget-friendly Mediterranean-style bake that feeds six on a weeknight.

Fresh coconut cream pie layers a silky stovetop coconut custard under a cloud of golden meringue, finished with a shower of toasted coconut. An old-fashioned, made-from-scratch pie with tender custard and crisp-tipped peaks.

Jello ice cream pie: a no-bake summer pie made from Jello powder dissolved with vanilla ice cream and frozen fruit, set in a pie shell. Four ingredients, no oven, retro and refreshing.

Armenian lavash cracker bread made with whole wheat and all-purpose flour, rolled paper-thin and baked until crisp and blistered. Topped with sesame seeds for a nutty crunch.

Crustless pepperoni pie with chopped pepperoni, cubed mozzarella, eggs, milk, and flour baked into a savory custard. A 5-ingredient appetizer or main course ready in 35 minutes.

Gluten free rice batter bread: a quick eight-ingredient loaf using brown rice flour and potato starch, leavened with baking powder. No yeast, no kneading, ready in under an hour.

Pickled cauliflower with pearl onions in a tangy mustard-seed brine. Crunchy, bright, and fiery from a single red chili. A classic canning recipe perfect for antipasto plates.