New Year’s Eve

Fresh tuna smothered with blackening spices and, if desired, dressed with an Asian influenced soy sauce-based beurre blanc. Sigh.

An elegant yet uncomplicated chicken dish that seems much fancier and fussier than it actually is when it comes to making it. Lucky you.

An exceptionally, deeply chocolate dessert that feels light and cool. It makes an elegant finish on a warm summer night.

A favorite holiday dish, beef Wellington is beef fillet slathered with pate, covered in a dice of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked.

Sometimes called a volcano cake, this much ballyhooed molten dessert is, quite literally, bursting--er, oozing--with chocolate.