New Years

This recipe was created to accompany other canapés: Cheese Canapés , Pickled Herring Canapés and Smoked Mackerel Canapés .

This recipe originally accompanied Flourless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Glaze .

Domestic golden whitefish roe, much of which comes from the Great Lakes region, can also be used.

Hoppin' John is a traditional southern dish of black-eyed peas and salt pork served with rice. Here, it's a risotto dotted with black-eyed peas and flavored with bacon and pancetta. This is an unconventional method for making risotto — rather than slowly adding hot stock to the rice, Rollins adds it, unheated, in just 2 batches. This will allow you more time for preparing the chops that go along with it.

Serve these pancakes immediately, since they do not keep well in a warm oven.

The creation of chef Monique Barbeau of Fullers at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers. Serve the terrine as an appetizer with toasted bread, or as a cheese course accompanied with a glass of Port.

Here's a modern spin on blini, the buckwheat pancakes that are a classic for caviar. Also topping them with smoked salmon is a delightful way to gild the lily.

This is quick, easy and delicious - the perfect addition to a holiday buffet.

By the seventies, Julia Child, through her books and television shows, had made French food accessible, and the Cuisinart, introduced in 1973, made many of the cuisine’s more complicated techniques quick and simple. As a result, pâté became increasingly popular, and remains so today.

Celebrate with a bottle of Champagne.

Also known as a Champagne Cocktail.

The bright green of the fried asparagus with the yellow egg sauce and the orange salmon roe topping makes a colorful display.

This pâté is neither easy nor inexpensive, but when you are looking for a tour de force, it is a gorgeous thing. If you feel the urge to simplify, omit the topping, but frankly, the pâté won't be quite as impressive without it, and you also won't have the exquisite contrast of the parsley and the crunchy almonds.