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These strawberry pancakes are light, fluffy, and packed with flavor. The vanilla makes this breakfast seem like dessert! Serve with butter and real maple syrup.

Chicken saltimbocca is quick, easy, and so delicious! Saltimbocca is a traditional Italian dish made with veal, but I prefer to use chicken cutlets. Once you taste the mouthwatering combination of chicken, sage, and prosciutto in a buttery sauce, you'll know why Italians love it so much.

This lobster scampi is a simple recipe that uses pre-cooked lobster. It's quick and delicious! You can substitute shrimp or scallops for the lobster. This recipe is really suited to your tastes, which is why so many of the measurements are approximate. I have made this often and never measure anything, and it comes out delicious every time! Serve over your choice of cooked pasta.

These red velvet cheesecake brownies are moist, delicious, and absolutely beautiful! Perfect for red velvet cake lovers; adds a different twist to the traditional cake. A great dessert for Valentine's Day and can be made ahead.

Homemade chocolate that melts in your mouth! This wholesome chocolate recipe is made without artificial ingredients or waxes and is ideal for health-conscious individuals who enjoy an indulgent treat. The sweetness can be tweaked to taste, and add-in ingredients and combinations are endless. Enjoy!

This lobster risotto is deliciously rich and creamy. It's made with cooked lobster, Arborio rice, caramelized onions, white wine, and Parmesan cheese for a seafood dish that is sure to impress!

Bacon-wrapped scallops are an easy appetizer to make and extremely delicious!

A nice change from lemon meringue. A unique flavor.

Simple and easy shortbread crust you'll love. Especially wonderful if your planning to make a peach pie.

It's tough making dessert for someone cutting back on gluten and dairy. Luckily, pavlovas are gluten free and really easy. The toppings are easy to customize - I made the lemon curd dairy free and served whipped cream on the side.

West African fufu is a mixture of boiled cassava root and plantains that are cooked until soft, then mashed until smooth. It's often rounded into balls and served with hot groundnut soup ladled over top.

A simple, but delicious recipe for poached pears in red wine. You only need a handful of ingredients. You can eat the pears as a dessert, warm or cold, but in the Netherlands we traditionally eat stewed pears as a side dish for Christmas. I prefer them cold.

This ground beef and cabbage recipe was my mother's. She was a country cook, plain and simple. But as I have traveled and worked and experienced foods from around the world, I look back and realize that many of the dishes she prepared, while simple, were perfect for that moment. Sometimes we have to put emotion and love in a dish to make it extra-special.

This game-day queso dip with Velveeta and Rotel tomatoes is famous for a reason — not only is it a creamy, delicious appetizer, but it may also be one of the best reasons for football to exist! Serve with assorted cut-up fresh vegetables and tortilla chips.

Serve these crispy fried green tomatoes outside with a glass of iced tea on a warm summer night and enjoy the sunset with someone you love!

I grew up with this chicken and rice casserole recipe. My Grandmother got it from a lady from church at a pot luck a long time ago! She passed it down to my mom and it's always been a family favorite. Quick and easy for school nights, and the leftovers are just as good! You can use less butter on top of course, my Momma and Mamaw always put the full stick on top (gotta love Southern ladies and their butter!)

This old-fashioned peach cobbler recipe uses fresh peaches and a buttery cobbler topping that's made form scratch. It's a delicious summer dessert I've perfected over the years!

This sweet potato pie recipe was shared with me by a special friend in Atlanta, GA. It has long been a favorite, and everyone who tastes it says it is the best they've ever had!

Apricot and peach fried pies have the best flavor of any fried pie I've ever eaten. My family loves these great pies. My grandmother made this up years ago. I have made this delicious fried pie for over 40 years. Enjoy!

Created by a Texas rancher as a way to beat the heat, this simple cocktail is mixed right in the bottle - perfect for cookouts or any outdoor activity. Use Topo Chico for the most authentic flavor and bubbly taste. Make sure your mineral water is ice cold for best results!

This corned beef roast is easy to prepare for the oven and wonderful to eat. Plan to roast for about one hour per pound.

Homemade Cajun seasoning and butter are the main stars in this simple dish. Serve with rice or grits drizzled with the pan sauce, or serve as an appetizer. Also delicious tossed with buttered noodles.

This down-home smothered cabbage dish is a family favorite. The addition of a ham hock and pork shank adds richness and a depth of flavor that can't be beat. It's perfect for a holiday side or everyday meal, and the leftovers freeze well.

These plump little almond cookies are easy to make and call for ground peanuts, corn flour, and vegetable oil.

A traditional Chinese New Year favorite, this classic dish can also be enjoyed throughout the year. This is my adaptation of my grandmother's recipe. This recipe is absolutely delicious! Serve immediately plain, or with hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, or chili sauce.

A Chinese New Year specialty, steamed pork buns for good luck!

This is a sweeter rice dish, with lychees and raisins adding a pleasant and refreshing sweetness, balanced with salty cashew nuts. Maggi sauce is a German savory sauce popular in Thailand.

Crispy rolled wonton wrappers filled with an Oriental spiced beef and sausage filling, fried to perfection. Delicious dipped in Oriental sweet chile sauce.

This traditional Chinese cake is so moist and indulgent. You can substitute adzuki beans with mung beans, lotus seeds, chestnuts, mixed nuts, dried fruits, etc. Once cool, these are ready to be served or wrapped as gift. They will be even more moist if you leave them at room temperature for 2 days. For a more authentic shape, press the cakes into a mooncake mold, small cake tins, cookie cutters, even muffins tins after they have been rolled in flour.

A Chinese take on the holiday roast turkey. The sauce is a sweet and spicy flavorful glaze on the crispy skin of the turkey with a hint of orange and cranberry. The whole red peppers with green onions on the side add a festive touch. The dressing is a savory rice dressing with cranberries and nuts. Sure to become a year-round favorite. Garnish with whole dried red peppers and green onions along the side.

Pineapple baked rice uses a pineapple skin as a bowl, stuffing it with fried rice. After you bake it for 15 minutes, the pineapple flavor will go into the rice and your whole house will be filled with pineapple aroma! This is great for kids. It has vegetables and a light, sweet taste . You may add cheese on top of the rice if you like. I personally don't like to add cheese, I want to keep the dish simple and original. I serve it as a main course for Chinese New Year.

These almond cookies are what you would typically find in Chinese dim sum restaurants in Hawaii. A lot of these neighborhood dim sum stores/restaurants have closed down recently, so it's nice to be able to still enjoy these cookies from your own kitchen. If you enjoy the flavor of almonds, you'll love these cookies. This is a simple recipe and is a favorite in my family. Give it a try!

This tofu-pork meatball soup is an easy addition to your Lunar New Year celebration. Traditionally, round meatballs or sweet dumplings ("wan" and "tang yuan" in Chinese) symbolize unity and togetherness. This reflects the expression "He Jia Tuan Yuan," meaning "the whole family together," with "yuan" also meaning "circle" or "round," reinforcing the idea of the circle of family and unity.

This recipe for Chinese pork belly is named after an ancient Chinese statesman, poet, and gourmand of the Song Dynasty. The pork is cooked three different ways, rendering the meat succulent, tender, and very flavorful. If you can't find pork belly, ask the butcher; it is what bacon is before it is cured and sliced.

These lion's head meatballs really are melt-in-your-mouth. Serve this soup as-is or with noodles added to the bowl. Some people think the name comes from their large size, while others believe eating these gives you the strength of a lion, but the actual answer is not quite as mythical. The look of this crinkled-up napa cabbage in the rich broth reminded the inventors of this dish of a lion's mane.

Bánh tét and bánh chung (the square cake version) are available year-round and are traditional for the Lunar New Year in Vietnam. It's a sticky rice cake with various fillings, some are sweet and some are savory. Mung beans, pork, and sticky rice are the core ingredients in this recipe. Raffia string is usually used to tie the cakes but I've used kitchen twine. Also, traditionally these are more elaborately trussed than tied as I did here to simplify. I wrapped the cakes in foil, that's Andrea Nguyen's move. Once the cakes are cooked you can wrap them in gold or red plastic ribbon for luck in the new year.