David Leite

A little spicy, salty, and sweet and altogether satisfying. A weeknight salvation when you need dinner pronto but you want something that's not predictable or boring.

These peanut butter cookies are filled with a creamy milk chocolate filling for a taste that takes you back to childhood. The cookies are easy to make and can be filled later.

Paula Wolfert, the reigning monarch of the Mediterranean, fesses up her culinary secrets when it comes to making France's classic beef stew, called a daube.

Inspired by classic tandoori chicken, these wraps meld warming spices with a cooling mint-yogurt dip for an altogether enticing Middle Eastern-inspired creation.

This warm-from-the-oven nosh is the ideal melding of sweet, spicy, and savory. An ideal pre-Thanksgiving-dinner nosh.

Can't face turkey or ham this holiday season? Consider Cornish game hens. They offer variety, impress guests, and allow for culinary customization. Plus they won't knock you into a tryptophan stupor.

A classic. Bread stuffing filled with celery, onion, thyme, basil, and parsley that's synonymous with Thanksgiving (though honestly, it's equally welcome any time with roast chicken).

This iconic roast turkey is, we sorta have to admit, perfect to behold. And it ought to be after being brined, stuffed with chestnut stuffing, and all but smothered in a ridiculously rich, real-deal gravy.

This oyster stew, rich with cream and plump with oysters, is a classic and consummate first course for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Mashed potatoes collide with root vegetables to create a deeply flavored yet satisfyingly healthy side dish.

This bread stuffing with bacon, apples, and onions is classic Thanksgiving fare and can be cooked inside or outside the turkey.

What are jammers? They're biscuits with jam spilling from their centers. The biscuits cradle the jam, so there's jam and biscuit in every bite.

These bread pudding muffins are just bread pudding baked in muffin tins for creamy, custardy, crisp-topped results.

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

This pumpkin soup gets a boost from apples and a bite from a cupful of Irish cider. The soup, with its intense pumpkin flavor, makes for great fall fare.

Not just a hit with kids, this chocolate and peanut butter pudding is rich, creamy, and pretty darn irresistible.

Linguine pasta, clams, mussels, langoustines, and shrimp are tossed in a light tomato-garlic sauce spiked with pepper flakes. A simple quick dinner.

More savory than sweet, these shortbread go magnificently with booze of any sorts, from the most genteel of cocktails to your go-to wine from the corner store.

Bread crumbs. Garlic. Parsley. Olive oil. And a damn hot oven. You can understand why it's a classic.

Fresh baked pretzels are irresistible. This recipe shows you how to make plain pretzels, cheese pretzels, caraway pretzels, bacon pretzels, mini-pretzels.