This flourless chocolate-vanilla marble cake has a texture between fudge and cheesecake. The chocolate marbles between the vanilla for a gorgeous look.

These Kahlua truffle triangles are great bar cookies. Rich Kahlua truffle tops a vanilla crumb bottom. Serve these cookies as a snack or an elegant desert.

This Portuguese orange-olive oil cake smacks of intense orange flavor and is very moist, thanks to the olive oil. Use navel oranges and a fruity olive oil.

Grasshopper pie, the minty ice cream pie, is reworked. This version of the pie is made with homemade ice cream, less creme de menthe, and chocolate crust. You have to love it.

Beef goulash, the Austro-Hungarian dish, is a simple meal. Beef is seared and simmered with the goulash ingredients. Beef goulash is a great autumn dish.

Clams casino, the classic American dish, get a facelift here. The clams get the casino treatment with big shards of bacon, parsley, and garlic.

This steamed cranberry pudding is moist, and bright with bits of berries, and the mild, buttery sauce provides balancing richness and sweetness.

Uova in Purgatorio
by Gianni Scappin and Vincenzo Lauria
from A Tavola: Recipes and Reflections on Traditional Italian Home Cooking
(Lebhar-Friedman Books, 2009)
Serves 4
This simple dish, called eggs in purgatory because the sauce the eggs float in bubbles …

Spaghetti al Vino Rosso
by Gianni Scappin and Vincenzo Lauria
from A Tavola: Recipes and Reflections on Traditional Italian Home Cooking
(Lebhar-Friedman Books, 2009)
Serves 4
This unusual spaghetti dish from Umbria is cooked more like a risotto than a …

Coniglio all’Ischitana
by Gianni Scappin and Vincenzo Lauria
from A Tavola: Recipes and Reflections on Traditional Italian Home Cooking
(Lebhar-Friedman Books, 2009)
Serves 6
Ischia Island is currently a hot culinary destination, but for much of its history, the island …

by Jill O’Connor
from Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey, Treats for Kids
(Chronicle Books, 2009)
Serves 8
Do you nibble around the edges first? Do you swallow it quickly in two big bites? If you can tell me in vivid …