Dried Fruit and Nut Cake

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?

1 hr 20 mins

Roast Turkey with Stuffing and Vegetables

This roast turkey is served with roasted vegetables and gravy. Served the turkey any time—not just Thanksgiving. The turkey can be made ahead and used all week. The gravy, too.

5 hrs 30 mins

Yellow Pea and Coconut Milk Soup

With its layers of textures and colors, this soupy stewy concoction is far more enticing than the name would have you believe.

1 hr 45 mins

Baked Fontina with Garlic and Thyme

A fondue without the pot, Fontina cheese is broiled with garlic, olive oil, and thyme until it's melted and bubbles. Scoop it up with hunks of bread.

25 mins

Smoked Salmon Pizza with Red Onion

Wanna outclass every other appetizer you know how to make? Try this little number. Deceptively simple. Impressive and infallible.

35 mins

Chocolate Cream Pie with Oreo Crust

First you make an Oreo cookie crust. Then you smother it with a bittersweet and semisweet chocolate custard. The final flourish is whipped cream infused with vanilla. Sigh.

4 hrs

Chicken Marbella

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.

3 hrs

Pastéis de Nata ~ Portuguese Custard Tarts

Not Portuguese? Not a problem. It won't lessen your appreciation for these little lovelies with the shatteringly crisp pastry cradling ridiculously creamy custard.

2 hrs 30 mins

Portuguese Deep-Fried Green Beans

In Portugal, deep-frying beans is a long-standing tradition. Serve these peixinhos da horta as a starter, snack, or, as the Portuguese do, a side dish.

45 mins

Banana Bread by Cook’s Illustrated

A superlative version of the classic American quick bread that everyone loves. And that everyone pretty much always has the ingredients for on hand.

1 hr 30 mins

Panettone

Panettone, which makes its traditional Italian Christmas appearance, is gussied up here with any dried fruit you fancy. An ever so slight twist on a classic.

5 hrs

Mushroom Strudel

Crackly phyllo that's crisp as autumn leaves give way to tender wild mushrooms in this simple, sumptuous savory strudel.

45 mins

The Pan Snob

David Leite faces his phobia of pans with a hole in them, as he refers to Bundt pans, when he's elected to bake an Ina Garten cake for a Hollywood party.

The Franco-American Butter Wars

At onetime French butter ruled in just about every pastry kitchen of note. But over the past decade, new American butters have been storming the gates.