Recipes

Chewy, soft ginger cookies with cinnamon, cloves, and molasses — rolled in sugar and perfectly spiced for the holidays.

Flour tortillas filled with crumbled Maytag blue cheese and sliced Brie, pan-fried until golden, served with a warm brown sugar-pear compote and cinnamon-spiced walnuts.

Layered dessert bars with a chocolate wafer crust, a spiced butternut squash custard with Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate, and a cream cheese swirl on top.

Spiced flour-coated chicken breasts slow-cooked over sweet potato slices in an orange juice sauce with cream of chicken soup, mushrooms, and a hint of nutmeg and cinnamon.

Crispy oven-baked potato wedges coated in chili powder, garlic, onion, mustard, and cayenne — a spiced-up alternative to regular fries.

A rich, golden quiche in a from-scratch cayenne-spiced crust, filled with crawfish tails, sauteed trinity, heavy cream custard, and a blend of three cheeses.

Velvety peanut butter soup with chicken stock, celery, and cream — quick, light, and subtly spiced with cayenne.

Spiced rib-eye steak with creole white beans.

Whole blue crabs boiled in a spiced court-bouillon, served chilled with a silky green onion and chicken stock dipping sauce.

Shrimp cooked in a spiced court-bouillon with crab boil, served with a classic New Orleans remoulade sauce of mustard, horseradish, and celery.

A layered parfait of pound cake, spiced pear coulis, pastry cream, and whipped cream, topped with toasted pecans — assembled in parfait glasses.

Sliced cooking pears caramelized in butter and sugar, then dramatically flambéed with Pear William Brandy and spooned over pound cake ice cream sandwiches with spiced pecans.

A smooth, spiced apple puree with cane syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, and cloves — a versatile sauce for pork, poultry, or desserts.

A simply spiced slow cooker beef and vegetable stew seasoned with Old Bay, with chunks of chuck, potatoes, carrots, and onion.

A Carolina mountain recipe for Honey Spiced BBQ Sauce.

Traditional spiced sweet buns with currants, topped with a white icing cross — a classic Easter treat.

A robust Szechuan hot and sour soup with shredded pork, mushrooms, tofu, tree ears, tiger lily buds, and a tangy spiced broth thickened with cornstarch.

Crockpot hot spiced cranberry punch

Homemade Italian sausage spiced with crushed red pepper, fennel, paprika, and garlic — made with fresh pork.

A quick stovetop Mexican-spiced ground beef and macaroni dish in tomato juice with chili powder, garlic, and green pepper.

Scandinavian-spiced meatballs made with beef, pork, mashed potatoes, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg, broiled until golden and served in a rich cream sauce.

A Carolina mountain recipe for Pheasant in Spiced Sour Cream.

Copycat Popeye's extra-crispy spiced fried chicken — coated in a seasoned breading of self-rising flour, cornstarch, spaghetti sauce mix, and crushed cornflakes, then fried and finished in the oven.

Silky pumpkin cheesecake with graham cracker crust, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Top with whipped cream.