Make-Ahead

This rice pilaf with cherries and pistachios is a perfect side dish for poultry. The pistachios add a bit of crunch and the cherries add sweetness.

Chock-full of crunchy nuts and moist dried fruit, this cake is a taste sensation. May we suggest a choice of apricots, plums, pears, or peaches?

It's time to melt some chocolate, toast some nuts, and cross some names off your holiday gift list.

One of the Silver Palate's most cherished recipes, this has been a mainstay in the dinner rotation of home cooks for decades. Perhaps it's time you give it a try.

This dreamy and creamy alternative to pumpkin pie has won us over. We think it'll woo you, too.

What's with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.

An exceptionally, deeply chocolate dessert that feels light and cool. It makes an elegant finish on a warm summer night.

A most gratifying use for a gangly gourd, this silken butternut squash soup all but defines autumn.

A late-summer classic, this corn chowder is replete with corn, potatoes, onion, and bacon. Mmmm good.