Here we are careening to the close of 2025, already in November!
So let’s share our favorite NEW recipes of the year.
The qualifier for this thread is that the recipe was new to you this year, you loved it and made it more than once, enjoyed it enough that it’s made it into your permanent store, and are happy to recommend it.
I personally tend to add both actual recipes and techniques, so feel free to include things that have quickly become a part of your repertoire even it’s with some riffing.
(Let’s save the “bookmarking” or “this sounds good” recipes for other places, and keep this thread for ones that have already been tried and tested and loved!)
I learned to make some Chinese cold salads at home this year, and have been enjoying them on repeat. I vary the vinegar and the spice from time to time.
Another new salad favorite is Vinegret Salad, which can be found from Central Asia through Eastern Europe and the countries of the former USSR. The combination of flavors and textures is fantastic. I skip the pickles and sauerkraut (the restaurant version I first ate did not include these), but always include beets, potatoes, carrots, onions, and sometimes scallions too.
On the baking front, @MunchkinRedux posted a Scandinavian Tiger Cake (Tigerkaka) cake last year that I finally got around to this year, and it became a fast favorite. Two recipes, I think I slightly preferred the Alice Medrich one to the version from True North, but it might have been splitting hairs.
I made that as well. We liked it overall but I was grumpy because my foolish self baked in the spring form pan which leaks unless you set it perfectly. Which I didn’t . . .
