Apple

Active time: 40 min Start to finish: 40 min

Although it's a perfect complement to pork, this chutney would also be tasty served with other roasted meats. This recipe is an accompaniment for Roast Pork Tenderloin with Creamed Corn and Apple-Raisin Chutney .

This easy-to-make dessert tastes like pumpkin spice cake and apple crisp baked together.

The gravy is a refined, delicious sauce in this duo from Barbara Shinn and David Page, co-owners of Home restaurant in New York and co-authors of Recipes from Home.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Toasted pecans and shaved Parmesan accent this lovely starter.

Apples and apple cider lend a pleasant sweetness to this beautiful soup.

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

If you don't have a spice mill, you can crush the whole spices in a heavy plastic bag, then grind them finely in the blender.

Oats, brown sugar and walnuts team up with cinnamon and cloves in the terrific streusel topping for this homespun treat.

Setting the skillet that contains the caramel onto a larger skillet of ice cubes is a clever way to prevent the caramel from burning.

The lingonberry, a relative of the cranberry, grows wild in the Scandinavian mountains. It adds tartness to the following traditional Danish sweet.

A good cut of meat for this recipe is the butt portion of a bone-in, water-added ham. For optimum flavor, I like to prebake the ham, then simply slice away what I need from the bone.

Steamed green beans and a rice or pasta salad from the deli go nicely with this entrée inspired by the Pacific Northwest. End with a simple but sophisticated dessert of coffee ice cream drizzled with brandy and sprinkled with toasted hazelnuts. Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

If mention of "pinto" brings to mind pink beans, think again this time: The following "pinto" bread pudding contains none of those beans beloved of chili fans but is named for the distinctive calico splotches that pattern the West's pinto pony.