Roasted sweet potato soup with sorghum brown butter and country ham

Basted roasted harissa chicken

Old-fashioned apple pudding, with Calvados sauce.

Peanut butter and Concord grape jelly sandwich cookies, large and small

Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch: pawpaw ice cream.

Not exactly shrimp and grits

Blueberry lemon shortcake

Blanquette of pork with spring vegetables

A dark pecan tart.

Elvis Cake: banana cake with peanut butter filling, chocolate icing and salty peanut brittle.

Blood orange tart with pistachios. Act quickly before the blood oranges are gone for the year.

Tasty little birds: quail braised with dried figs.

Beef Carbonnade. With gingersnaps and orange marmalade.

Rosemary grapefruit tart. Sunshine in tart form.

Harira soup with mini merguez meatballs

One-pot Chinese chicken and rice

Salty caramel ice cream and roasted pears

Oxtail Ragout with Olives. Serve on grits (or polenta, if you prefer).

Bourbon Praline Pound Cake that even a bourbon-hater will love.

Pot roast with watermelon radishes and miso.

Dried Cherry Oatmeal Cookies. Fine for Santa. But no holiday required.

Leftover Lamb Pilaf