Recipes

Copycat Pizza Hut Cavatini — assorted pasta baked with pepperoni, Italian sausage, hamburger, and Prego sauce, topped with mozzarella cheese.

Easy weeknight casserole combining Italian-flavored ground beef, Ragu spaghetti sauce, egg noodles and mozzarella cheese — all the flavors of pizza in a baked pasta dish.

Homemade copycat Pop Tarts — buttery pastry filled with fruit preserves, baked until golden, and drizzled with vanilla frosting.

Classic layered pork chop casserole with potatoes, onions and cream of mushroom soup. Slow-baked until the chops are fork-tender and the potatoes are creamy.

Browned pork chops baked over seasoned rice with onion soup mix, mushrooms and their liquid — a simple one-dish wonder where the rice absorbs all the savory pork juices.

Slow-baked pork tenderloin casserole layered with noodles, onion and bell pepper in tomato soup, sealed tight and cooked until the pork is fall-apart tender.

A Portuguese-inspired orange custard baked in individual caramel-lined cups — silky, bright, and elegantly simple.

Colorful red and green bell peppers filled with a creamy quiche-style filling of ham, feta cheese, eggs and half-and-half, microwave-baked until just set. Elegant and quick.

Old-fashioned three-ingredient salmon casserole layered with soda crackers and butter, saturated with milk and baked until set. Simple Depression-era comfort food.

Rich Western-style beef chili baked in the oven in stages for deep flavor — beef cubes browned in bacon fat, then slow-cooked with onions, garlic, tomato sauce and kidney beans.

Sweet and savory cowboy-style baked beans with ground beef, pork and pinto beans, brown sugar, mustard and Worcestershire. Baked in a cast iron skillet until bubbly.

Copycat Red Lobster restaurant cheesecake with a buttery shortbread cookie crust and a smooth cream cheese filling — baked until set and topped with more cookie crumbs.

Copycat Red Lobster baked crab casserole — crabmeat in a rich sherry cream sauce topped with cheddar cheese and buttered cracker crumbs.

Copycat Red Lobster crab stuffed mushrooms — large mushroom caps filled with a savory crab and cheddar stuffing seasoned with Old Bay, then baked and crowned with white cheddar.

Copycat Red Lobster shrimp in a fiery BBQ-hot sauce butter glaze — shrimp soaked in milk overnight, then baked at high heat in spicy sauce.

Tart fresh rhubarb pie with a sweet egg custard filling in an unbaked shell, topped with a brown sugar crumble. Makes 2 pies.

A Carolina mountain recipe for Roast Goose with Baked Apples.

Browned pork chops arranged over uncooked rice with fresh mushrooms, thyme, and chicken broth, then baked covered until the rice absorbs all the savory juices.

Layers of fluffy mashed potatoes and flaked salmon in a creamy cheese sauce, topped with buttered bread crumbs and baked until golden.

A velvety baked salmon loaf with broccoli, capers, dill, and cream — extremely moist and impressive.

Plump baked calzones filled with Italian sausage, julienned sweet peppers, and a trio of ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses—golden and bubbling.

Copycat Sbarro baked ziti — pasta tossed with ricotta, Romano, and tomato sauce, topped with a thick blanket of mozzarella and baked until melted.

Classic baked scampi — jumbo shrimp bathed in garlic butter with lemon, parsley, and cayenne, covered and baked to perfection.