Sweet potatoes, Italian sausage, and red bell peppers make spicy, savory and easy main dish. All you need is a green salad for a quick meal. 

A delicious savory tart made with ratatouille. This is a good way to use up leftover ratatouille in place of this vegetable mixture. 

Every town in Mexico has someone selling this fabulously refreshing drink. Try experimenting with other fruit! 

Fun to make, traditional pretzels are great with a nice mug of beer! 

This flavorful dish is perfect for entertaining. 

Shredded sweet potato is mixed with sweet onion and maple syrup before being pan-fried in this recipe that also makes a yogurt sauce for topping. 

This tasty mulled-wine is a German Christmas specialty. It is the signature drink at Christmas markets across Germany and it warms you from the inside out! 

Macaroni and potatoes are baked with Gruyere cheese in a creamy sauce, a traditional Swiss dish served on the slopes of the Alps. Try topping it with chunky apple sauce and crunchy onions to serve. 

This original, easy recipe from North China uses white cabbage, which in the United States, is referred to as bok choy. The recipe is for everyone who likes it hot! To be authentic, serve the dish with unsalted Chinese or Japanese rice. 

This is a microwave recipe for small cuts of pork loin (1 to 2 lbs). This is a great recipe for college students who don't have a regular oven in their rooms. 

You'll want plum butter to make these rolls that use toasted almonds and fresh plums seasoned with cinnamon and sugar for a delightful breakfast or brunch option. 

Pan-fried tuna steaks are served with a fresh melon salsa with hot chilies, basil, and lime juice for a delightful way to serve fresh tuna. 

These German meat patties use both ground beef and ground pork seasoned with marjoram, parsley, onion, and garlic and are fried in butter. 

Figs are stuffed with a bourbon and honey goat cheese, then dipped in nuts before arranging on a platter to serve. These are one of my favorite things to make. They are fun to make, look beautiful for dinner parties especially if arranged with grapes or mint leaves, are also wonderful as bite size snack and are dangerously tasty. 

Mixed baby greens in a balsamic dressing are 'massaged' with cucumbers, garlic, cherry tomatoes, and Feta cheese to make a refreshing, Mediterranean-flavored salad. 

Worcestershire sauce and harissa give this bolognese sauce a unique tangy spicy flavor, and the mascarpone gives an incredibly creamy finish to the sauce. Serve over your favorite pasta sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. 

This straight Kentucky sour mash bourbon marinade is perfect for grilling beef, chicken and pork. It's great for boneless chicken breasts, steaks, chops, smoked ribs, brisket or pork roast. Adding a little smoke with hickory, mesquite or apple wood compliments the flavor nicely. 

This is a simple, Asian-style side dish of stir fried bok choy, red pepper, and baby corn. 

This is my version of a sweet and spicy soup I had recently at a wok restaurant in Eindhoven, Holland. Beef broth, tomato juice, and applesauce are simmered with spices and garnished with shrimp chips. 

Garlic, lemon and butter are the co-stars in this prawn production! You will want to have some of your favorite bread on hand to sop up the sauce once the prawns have been eaten.