All Food
- Turkey, pumpkin, and white bean chili with cranberry relish
Classic tuxedo chili gets a Halloween and Thanksgiving flavor treatment with added pumpkin, turkey, and a finish of cranberry relish.
- Spiced pumpkin bread
This bread is fragrantly spiced with just the right amount of sweetness. Try it toasted with a little butter and a sprinkle of salt.
- Midnight brownies
You bought extra Halloween chocolate, right? Because you'll need them for these decadent brownies.
- Beef stroganoff with a modern upgrade
Beef Stroganoff was invented in mid-19th-century Russia and embraced in America in the 1950s. Here, this comfort food favorite gets a welcome update/upgrade.
- Sweet potato buttermilk chess pie
A classic Southern chess pie meets a sweet potato pie on a buttermilk crust.
- Toffee pecan shortbread cookies
These cookies are the perfect size and shape for an afternoon tea. Or, if you are already holiday planning, they would also make a great holiday cookie for a cookie swap.
- Basic banana bread
A simple banana bread recipe is a quick way to make a new kitchen smell like home.
- Fried polenta with caramelized onions, mozzarella, and jam
Fried rounds of store-bought polenta are topped with fresh mozzarella, caramelized onions and apricot jam for lunch on a busy Sunday.
- Pumpkin ginger pie
Grated ginger amps up the flavor of this prize-winning pumpkin pie.
- Chicken and yam bake
This one pan bake is so simple a traditional recipe isn't really needed. Sometimes that's the best answer for a weeknight meal.
- Apple cake with vanilla custard
A Swedish waitress on a gloomy day in London shared some secret tips for making her mother's favorite apple cake.
- Presidential Cookie Poll 2016: The results are in!
The Monitor newsroom did a blind taste test of Melania Trump's star-shaped cookies and the Clinton Family's chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. The results were unanimous.
- Butternut squash sweet potato bisque
Two favorite flavors of fall combine into one creamy delicious soup topped with savory, buttered chanterelles.
- German sauerbraten: marinated roast beef with gingersnap gravy
Sauerbraten is a classic German dish. The meat is tangy, with a hint of pickling spice, while the gingersnaps add just the right sweetness and spice to the rich gravy.
- Coconut frosted cake
A coconut cake with cream cheese frosting that's not too sweet.
- Easy apple cobbler
The hardest part about making an apple cobbler is peeling the apples. Served with vanilla ice cream it's a winner every time.
- 15 apple dessert recipes Either as a classic apple pie, an easy apple crumble, or even just baked apples stuffed with spices and dried fruit you'll never get a refusal when you serve up a warm apple dessert.
- First LookWill this be the last harvest for Michelle Obama's White House garden?
The garden has symbolized the first lady's effort to promote nutrition and healthy living, but it will be up to the next president to either keep the garden going or plough it under.
- Autumn dessert: cinnamon sugar apple cake
This is a quick and easy coffee cake with delicious flavors from in-season apples.
- Turkish-style red lentil soup with chard
Sweet Hungarian paprika, garlic, cayenne pepper, sumac, diced tomatoes with green chilies and just a bit of lamb make Turkish-style red lentil soup with chard a lively, healthy, robust meal in a bowl.