504 shell recipes

Pecan tarts with caramel sauce: flaky homemade pastry shells filled with a brown-butter pecan filling, baked golden, then drizzled with silky amber caramel. Individual holiday tartlets worth the effort.

Chocolate Scotch truffles wrap toasted hazelnuts in a whiskey-spiked dark chocolate ganache, then double-dip them in melted chocolate and roll in cocoa powder. A grown-up holiday confection with three textures in every bite.

A quick, easy and delicious stir-fry, serve it over a bed of rice, yum!

Elegant creamy pumpkin soup from fresh roasted pumpkin, enriched with cream and served in a hollowed pumpkin shell for impressive fall entertaining.

Bakery-style blueberry muffins with a cinnamon streusel crumb topping. Two cups of berries pack each muffin while the pea-sized streusel bakes into a crackly sweet shell.

Open face apple tart with overlapping Golden Delicious slices, apricot glaze, and a buttery pastry shell. The classic French tarte aux pommes done simply at home.

No fuss pecan pie: just six pantry ingredients stirred together and poured into a pie shell. Sticky, gooey, toasty-pecan classic with a perfect set every time. The holiday dessert that bakes itself.

This is really good and so easy. I liked the addition of the jicama. Never used it in stir-fry before, but will from now on!

Twice-baked almond cookie shells filled with a chewy caramel-nut center. Tiny tartlet-style sweets with crisp edges and a sticky-sweet filling, baked in muffin tins for a cookie-meets-tart hybrid.

Alaskan-inspired bouillabaisse loaded with halibut, clams in the shell, shrimp, and crab in a garlicky tomato-wine broth seasoned with thyme, marjoram, and hot sauce.

Quite tasty. The tahini dressing made the whole dish sing. We used arugula instead of spinach. Delicious!

A simple salad with big health credentials: avocados are an excellent source of good fats, and more recently have been shown to also inhibit inflammation when eaten in combination with foods that typically trigger it. They are also a rich source of potassium (which balances sodium to keep blood pressure levels stable) and vitamin E, an important antioxidant.

Chocolate chiffon pie in a homemade chocolate pastry shell. Chocolate chips melted with coffee, set with gelatin and whipped egg whites for a mousse-like filling.

Vietnamese stir-fried blue crabs with lemongrass, garlic, ginger, serrano chiles and scallions. Mama Lan's famous fiery seafood feast served in crispy fried shells.

Pecan breaded oysters sauteed golden and served on the half shell with a vanilla bean, cucumber, and tomato cream sauce. A refined seafood appetizer with Southern elegance.

Super easy to make, and it tastes delicious. A perfect one-pan meal on a busy week day!