• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
• Season chicken with spices and place in a baking dish
• Pour in broth and apple juice and bake uncovered for 25 minutes
• Pour honey over chicken, spread prunes and apricots around the chicken
• Bake an additional 15 minutes until done
• Cook chicken to 165 degrees F

• Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Optional: lightly grease 12 muffin tins.
• In a medium bowl, mix together gruyere, parmesan, thyme, salt, and garlic.
• In a second large bowl, coat the sliced potatoes with melted butter (I usually just use my clean hands to make sure all the potato slices are coated as evenly as possible).
• In a regular-sized (12) muffin tin, layer 4 potato slices and then approximately 1/2 teaspoon of the cheese mixture. Continue this pattern of 4 potato slices, then cheese, until the potatoes are taller than the tin (they will shrink when they cook). You'll have 4-5 layers total, ending with cheese on top.
• Cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake for an additional 25-30 minutes until golden brown and bubbly. How thinly you sliced your potatoes and how high you stacked will affect the bake time, you want them to be fork-tender with the tops and sides golden brown. Remove potato stacks with a spoon (I "scoop" them out) and serve with additional thyme as desired.

• Start with a large board or platter. Place your cheeses around the board with cheese knives.Place the small bowls/ramekins with the olives, red peppers, cornichons around the board. Place the fig jam near the brie. Next arrange the meats by folding some of them for variety and fan out others flat on the board. Place the crackers in a few spots, then place clusters of grapes. Finish filling in bare spots with the dried apricots and almonds, and lastly garnish with fresh rosemary if desired.

• Preheat oven at 375 degrees, prepare a sheet pan lined with parchment paper
• Slice the dates lengthwise on one side to create an opening. Remove the pit. Using a spoon, stuff a small amount of goat cheese into the cavity of each date and press the sides together to close.
• Crack fresh pepper over the dates.
• Cut the bacon slices in half. Wrap each date with a slice of bacon and secure with a toothpick.
• Arrange evenly on a baking sheet with raised edges (otherwise grease will get everywhere) and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the dates and use the toothpick to turn each one so it’s laying on its side. Bake for another 5-8 minutes, until browned to your liking, and turn the dates to the other side and repeat. For a thicker bacon, bake longer. Remove from the oven, place on a paper towel lined plate, and let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
• Having issues with cooking the bacon? Usually, the bacon pieces wrap around the dates 1.5 times. If it’s wrapping more than twice around the date, trim your bacon slices so they’re a little shorter. If that bacon layer is too thick, it won’t cook.
• Let cool on a cookie cooling rack, drizzle any choice of honey or balsamic glaze, sprinkle with flaky sea salt and serve warm.

• Preheat your oven to 325. Lightly grease an 8" springform cake tin with butter.

Cheesecake Filling

• In a large bowl, combine the softened cream cheese with sugar.
• Then add in the eggs and Greek yogurt.
• Whisk in the flour, vanilla extract, and rose water. Keep this aside while you prepare the crust.

Cheesecake Crust

• Dry roast halved walnuts and shelled and whole pistachios separately until fragrant.
• Take them off the heat, and cool. Chop very very finely. You can also use a food processor, just ensure that they don't turn into a powder.
• Carefully place one sheet of phyllo in the pan. Add another one on top. Let the pastry hang over the edges of the pan.
• Brush liberally with the butter. Sprinkle a fourth of the chopped nuts evenly on top.
• Cover the nuts with 2 sheets of phyllo. Brush with butter. Sprinkle another fourth of the nuts on top. Repeat this process 2 more times.
• Cover the nuts with the remaining 2 sheets of phyllo.
• Pour the cheesecake filling into this prepared crust.
• Trim the overhanging pastry sheets with a pair of scissors. Leave about 1"- 2" of the crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60-75 minutes at 325F, or until the cake is golden and has the slightest of the wobble n the center. My cake took 75 minutes.
• Switch off the oven and leave the cake in the oven for 15-20 with the oven door slightly ajar.

Syrup

• Meanwhile, get the syrup ready by boiling water with sugar, a cinnamon stick, lemon juice, and honey. Once it comes to a boil, lower the heat and let it simmer on low for about 10 minutes.
• We are looking at a thickish, syrupy consistency for the syrup.
• Take out the cinnamon stick and let the syrup cool a bit. Add the rosewater.
• Take your cheesecake out of the oven and very carefully remove the ring from the cake tin. Pour or ladle the syrup around the edges of the cheesecake (while it is still hot) where the baked phyllo sheets are, so they absorb it.
• You can pour some syrup on the cheesecake too. But the pastry crust needs it most!
• Let the cheesecake sit at room temperature for 2 -3 hours (allowing the syrup to get soaked in), then refrigerate it overnight.
• Garnish with chopped pistachios and dried rose petals. Slice and serve. Enjoy!