TABLE OF CONTENT: COCKTAIL | STARTERS

Valentine’s Day Cocktails

  • Rose Royale
  • Pomegranate Mojito
  • Anno 1960

Drinks | Spirits

  • Mexican Gin and Tonic
  • Tom Collins
  • Singapore Sling
  • French 75
  • Ramos Gin Fizz
  • Dry Martini
  • Valencia
  • Southside
  • Aviation 

Signature Cocktails

  • Pear Melba Martini
  • Pomegranate Champagne
  • Mint Syrup
  • Frozen White Sangria
  • Raspberry Martini
  • Orange Cloud
  • Latin Lover

Campari Splash

3 Great Sangrias

  • Wine Francesco
  • Sangria Flora
  • Brewsky Sangria

Watermelon Chiller

Summer Cocktails

  •  Patrón Pomegranate
  • Patrón Grapefruit
  • Patrón Pineapple 

 Bloody Marys

Ruby Red Pamplemousse Paloma 

S T A R T E R S

Pull-apart Pigs in Blankets

Queso

Salmon Tartare

Four-Layer Caviar Dip

Parmesan Tuiles with Herloom Tomato Salad

Mixed Bean Crudité with Olive-Anchovy Aioli

Hors D’oeuvre

  • Shredded Potato Pancakes w Caviar or Smoked Salmon
  • Salmon Tartare w minced sweet red onions on Crostini
  • Ballat-Savarin Cheese w quince jam & candied walnuts
  • Goat Cheese dollop wrapped zucchini ribbon
  • White Bean Mix or Puree
  • Walnut bread w assorted cheeses
  • Chips with assorted salsas

Best, Fast Recipes

  • Wine Bar Nut Mix
  • Smoked Bluefish Pâté

Tomato and Cheese Tart & How to Riff

Smoked Trout, Crispy Bagel, and Avocado Salad

Asparagus & Ricotta Tarts

Bruschetta

Avocado Toast

Dorie Greenspan’s Cheese Gougéres

Sizzling Satés

Dumplings

Jiaozi

Wontons

  • Traditional
  • Scalloped
  • Mexican Wonton Bites

Tea Sandwiches

Wild Mushroom Cakes with Avocado Pesto

Mushroom Duxelles on Bruschetta

Crispy Polenta Bites with Arugula Tapenade

Warm Feta with Sautéed Greens

Antipasto Party

  • Pesto Risotto Spread
  • Stuffed Olives
  • Margherita Skewers
  • White Bean-Artichoke Dip
  • Olive Spread with Walnuts
  • Bruschetta with Parma ham or Parmigiano Reggiano shavings

Mushroom Pâté (Sally Schneider)

Hors d’oeuvres by the dozen

Fish Sticks for Grown-ups

Byte Sized

  • Low-cal Dip
  • Spicy Nuts
  • Cheese Spread

White Bean and Chickpea Spread

Porcini and Pecan Pâté

SSF | Crostini (Australian Vogue: Entertaining) many ways

  • Spicy Pickled Onions
  • Pan Bagnat
  • Classic Cocktail Sandwiches
  • Open Sandwiches
  • Smørrebrod With Blue Cheese

Healthy Italian Hors d’Oeuvres

  • Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Bread Crumbs
  • Broccoli Rabe Pesto Bruschetta
  • Lemony Chickpea Bruschetta
  • Mustard Green and Sweet Onion Frittata

Chickpea Nibble

Mini Mac and Cheese

Party Portions

Caviar

Olives

  • Mixed Olive Salad
  • Potato Torta With Olives
  • Warm Goat Cheese Salad
  • Oven Cured Tomatoes
  • Chicken Stew With Green Olives and Apricots
  • Warm Pasta Niçoise
  • Olive Bread
  • Rough Tapenade
  • Nyons Olives With Toasted Rosemary

Flaky Bread

Cheesy Sesame Phyllo Bites

Mezze Menu

  • Couscous Salad
  • Lamb Kofta
  • Yogurt Mint Sauce
  • Tomatoes A La Grecque
  • Crisped Haloumi Cheese
  • Dressed Feta Cheese
  • Baba Ghanoush
  • Hummus Rose-Water Sherbet

Seedy Oat Crackers

Greek Yogurt

Deviled Eggs

Parsnip Skordalia

Black Seed Bread

Antipasto Salad

Tomato Toast w Chives and Sesame Seeds

Fiery Green Tahini Sauce

Hot-Smoked Salmon w Salted Yogurt and Fennel

Peach Lassi Sorbet w Crushed Blackberries

Rhubarb-Fennel Gin Cocktail

Garlic-Herb Naan

Flatbread w Smoked Trout, Radishes, and Herbs

Flatbread w Fava Beans, Cucumbers, and Burrata

C H E E S E

Quite A Spread

  • Lunch In Suffolk
  • All-American Midnight Snack
  • Modern Smorgasbord
  • Mediterranean Breakfast

A Cheese Course

Rob’s Ultimate Cheese Plate

  • Fresh Cheese
  • Bloomy-Rind Cheese
  • Semi-Soft Cheese
  • Hard Cheese
  • Blue Cheese
  • Accompaniments
  • Crackers

Southern Comfort

Northern Exposure

Fail-Proof Cheese Fondue

  • The Classic
  • The Crowd-Pleaser
  • The Stinker

Olive Tapenade

American Cheese Course

  • Shape
  • Age, Rind, Texture, Color
  • Goat Cheese
  • French
  • Dessert
  • Six Essential Cheeses
  • The Great American Cheese Plate

Best American Cheeses

  • Fresh Cheeses (Basket-Molded Chèvre ○ Cottage Cheese ○ Fresh Mozzarella)
  • Semisoft Cheeses (Crescenza ○ Franklin’s Teleme ○ Farmstead Creamy Havarti)
  • Soft-Ripened Cheeses (Green Hill ○ Pee Wee Pyramid ○ Seastack)
  • Surface-Ripen Cheeses (Bijou ○ Fleur-De-Lis ○ Pyramid)

Ideal Summer Cheese Plate

  • Pickled Grapes with Walnuts
  • Lemon-Fennel Compote

The Fluffiest Cheese Soufflé

Art of the Canapé

25 One-Bite Appetizers

SAUCES

Anachoïade: A Robust Anchovy Dip

Tyler Florence’s Salsa

Salsas

  • Salsa con Camarón Seco
  • Sikil P’ak
  • Salsa Roja
  • Salsa de Piña
  • Salsa de Cacahuate y Chile de Árbol
  • Salsa Verde

Sauces

  • Master Hot Sauce Recipe
  • Walnut And Parsley Pasta Sauce
  • Herb and Chile Oil
  • Potato Skordalia
  • Tapenade
  • Aioli
  • Pistachio Sauce
  • Lemon Confit
  • Garlic Confit
  • Charmoula
  • Pesto

Simple Sauces

  • Green Harissa
  • Romesco Sauce
  • Avocado-Lime Sauce Vierge
  • Kimchi Relish
  • Charred Lemon-Shallot Chutney

Salsa Reconsidered

  • Salsa Verde
  • Salsa Negra
  • Salsa Roja

Fit To Eat

  • Caramelized-Onion Dip With Vegetables
  • Spicy Yogurt And Cucumber Dip With Pappadams
  • Green Goddess Dip With Endive
  • Caponata With Flatbread
  • Smashed Chickpea, Basil, And Radish Dip With Pita Chips

Roasted Baby Potatoes With Romesco Sauce

Tuna Pate

Pork Cooked With Red Wine, Honey, and Spices

Roast Potatoes, Parsnips, Onions, and Apples

Polenta Butter Cake

Sweetened Ricotta

Yoghurt And Feta Herb Dip

Whipped Feta with Cucumbers

Handwritten Clippings

  • Peanut Sauce
  • Oven Baked Buffalo Mozzarella With Prosciutto And Aubergines
  • Lemony Chickpea-and-Tuna Spread
  • Tofu Mayo
  • Speedy Asian Sauces
  • Bean Salad
  • Avocado With Grapefruit and Sweet Onion Salsa
  • Red Wine Marinade
  • Peanut-Mustard Dressing
  • Tomato Sauce For Salmon
  • Homemade Curry Powder

Fish/Chicken Marinade

Asian Marinade

7 Minutes

  • For Chicken: Chipotle-Maple Sauce
  • For Ribs: Cheater’s Chutney
  • For Shrimp: Spicy Peanut Sauce
  • For Lamb: Harissa Vinaigrette
  • For Fish: Lemon-Caper Aioli

Oil Primer

Sauces and Toppers

  • Green Olive Sauce’
  • Horseradish Cream Sauce
  • Carmelized Onion Relish
  • Fragrant Chicken Jus

Marinades/Rubs

  • Garlic-Rosemary
  • Balsamic-Soy
  • Maple
  • Curried Yogurt
  • Coconut
  • Hunan
  • Cilantro-Mustard Seed
  • Tamarind Ketchup Glaze
  • Five-Spice Rub
  • Latin-Style Rub

Summer Sauces

  • Chunky Tomato Sauce
  • Green-Herb Sauce
  • Avocado=Mango Sauce
  • Red-Pepper Sauce
  • Ginger-Plum Sauce

Bold Marinades

  • Spicy Thai Marinade w Basil and Cilantro
  • Citrus and Soy Marinade
  • Korean Barbecue Marinade
  • Chinese Black Bean and Brandy Marinade
  • Sweet-and-Spicy Marinade
  • Puerto Rican-Style Marinade

The Greenest Tahini Sauce

Sesame-Miso Vinaigrette

Pan-American Express (Cooking Fast)

  • Ecuadoran Peanut Sauce
  • Zafra’s Salsa Verde
  • Grilled Skirt Steak w Hot Chilean Salsa
  • Cuban Mojo
  • Grilled Vegetable Salad w Cuban Mayo
  • Passion Fruit and Ginger Sauce
  • Passion Fruit and Ginger Glazed Pork Tenderloin
  • Brown Sugar Syrup

Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

Seasonal Cooks: Best-Dressed Salad

  • Canal House Classic Vinaigrette
  • Simplest Asian Dressing
  • Canal House Green Goddess Dressing

Fresh Chiles

Miso

Salsa Verde

Tomatillo Salsa

Quick Purple Tomatillo Sauce

White Bean and Roasted

Garlic Pitas

Classic Vinaigrette

Guacamole

Skillet Cornbread with Chives Just a Spoonful

  • Rouille
  • Vinaigrette
  • Aioli
  • PistouTapenade

Dressed for the Occasion

  • Green Olive-Orange Dressing
  • Carrot, Miso, and Ginger Salad Dressing
  • Greek Style Feta Dressing
  • Dead-Simple Balsamic Vinaigrette
  • No-Fat Ginger-Soy Dressing
  • Sweet Peanut Dressing
  • Creamy Parmesan, Basil, and Pine Nut Dressing

Grapefruit and Mint Vinaigrette

Rosemary Bread

Well-Dressed

  • Classic Vinaigrette
  • Asian-Style Dressing
  • Traditional Caesar Salad Dressing
  • Joan Campbell’s ‘Bloody Delicious’ Vinaigrette
  • Hazelnut Dressing

France’s Best Pistou

Fast Rubs

  • Moroccan Spice Rub
  • Lemongrass Wet Rub
  • Creole Spice Paste
  • Red Curry-Peanut Sauce
  • Mint Pesto
  • Spicy Scallion Paste
  • Ginger-Miso Paste
  • Garlicky Olivada

No-Cook Sauces

  • Italian Salsa Verde
  • Roasted Garlic-Balsamic Steak Sauce
  • Hazelnut, Ricotta, and Lemon Paste

Beyond Tomato Purée

  • Herbed Yogurt Sauce
  • “Fake” Pesto
  • Fermented Carrot, Chile, and Tomato Sauce

Perfect Gravy

111 Words on A Bubbly, Cheesy, Oniony Dip

Ingredient Substitutions