5 Ingredients or Fewer

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Variants: Hot Brandy Toddy, Hot Rum Toddy

These grapes make for both an elegant winter centerpiece and a sweet treat for the holidays. Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 2 1/2 hr

This recipe is an accompaniment for Pistachio Blancmanges . Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 1 hr

We highly recommend using California apricots for this recipe —their intense flavor and color give this frozen yogurt a real boost that's missing when it's made with the Turkish variety.

Active time: 1 hr Start to finish: 1 1/2 hr Don't use water-packed tuna for this recipe — it's too bland for the filling. Tuna packed in olive oil, however, will make for empanaditas that taste genuine. Especially with a glass of Fino Sherry.

Active time: 25 min Start to finish: 25 min

Blood oranges have red flesh and sweet-tart juice. They're available at farmers' markets and, increasingly, at supermarkets. This syrup would also be good over waffles.

Surprise — a bit of ketchup helps the sweet and tart flavors blend. Make this up to three days ahead.

Active time: 10 min Start to finish: 1 1/4 hr

A delicious side dish from Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue in Raleigh, North Carolina.

For ice pops without alcohol, use pineapple juice instead of rum.

For this clever riff on the "frozen" Margarita, try to use natural lime pops (sold at natural and specialty foods stores) rather than artificially colored and flavored varieties.

This recipe is an accompaniment for Old-Fashioned Potato Salad.

This soft polenta is good topped with parmesan and fresh thyme and rosemary.

This is one of the never-absent standard-bearers of the Greek meze table, a classic dish found from one corner of the country to the other, on almost every taverna and meze menu.