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Sweet Pastry Dough

This recipe originally accompanied epi:recipeLink="101888"Plum Pine-Nut Tart</epi:recipeLink>.

Nam Jeem Guy Yang

(Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce)<P> This sauce is also delicious with grilled pork or lamb.<P> This recipe was created to accompany <epi:recipeLink ="14426">Thai Grilled Chicken</epi:recipeLink>.<P> Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Three-Herb Pesto

This recipe was created to accompany <epi:recipelink id="11837 ">Sliced Tomatoes and Mozzarella with Three Herb Pesto</epi:recipelink>. Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Snickers Cake

For convenience, you can use the mini candy bars available in one-pound bags.

German Apple Cake (Versunkener Apfelkuchen)

This is one of the many types of apple cake popular throughout central Europe. I have seen apple cakes, a traditional Rosh Hashannah dessert, served on Sabbath and holiday tables from Israel to Australia.

Pastel de Tres Leches

Pastel de tres leches is a traditional Nicaraguan Celebration Cake usually reserved for the holiday season. In this recipe we preserve the traditional presentation, and add some typical American holiday flavors. The cake is composed of four components: Sponge Cake, Rum Milk Syrup, Meringue, and Cranberry Compote.

Asian-Style Corn, Avocado, and Sesame Salsa

Spoon this Asian-inspired salsa over grilled tuna, swordfish, or salmon.

Mother's Everyday Pimento Cheese

If you really want to make this pimento cheese the way my mother does, and you happen to own a hand-crank meat grinder, run the two cheeses once through the fine blade of the grinder into a mixing bowl. Mother simply used to grind the pimentos with the cheeses, but now she prefers to mash them with a heavy fork on a plate until they break up into tiny pieces. She uses homemade mayonnaise but also endorses Hellmann's (a.k.a. Best Foods).

White Chocolate and Strawberry Terrine with Dark Chocolate Sauce

Alternating layers of strawberry and white chocolate mousses form stripes in this creamy frozen dessert.

Candied Holiday Fruitcake

Langues-de-Chat

The name, literally translated as "cats' tongues," refers to the shape of these cookies.

Wild Rice Salad

Jalapeño adds spiciness to this side dish.

Fresh Tangerine Sorbet

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less, but requires additional unattended time.

Red Pepper Vinaigrette

This recipe was created to accompany Blue Cheese and Walnut Soufflés with Red Pepper Vinaigrette . Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Ham Biscuits

There is hardly a wedding or garden party in the Lowcountry without these yeast biscuits. They are small, only about an inch in diameter, and they are split to hold slivers of salty country ham tempered with dollops of chutney or mustard. One ham provides enough meat for 200 to 250 biscuits. These doubly lightened breads — really yeast rolls — are also called "angel biscuits" and "bride's biscuits." Bill Neal has suggested that the "bride" is the inexperienced cook who needs the insurance policy of the double leavening.
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