For this easy, impressive hors d'oeuvre, Jacques Pépin tops roasted fingerling potatoes with sour cream and slender diamonds of pressed caviar. Boiled, sliced red potatoes also work.
Skillet-fried using minimal oil, our country steak has all the makings of its artery-clogging contemporaries with a fraction of the fat. Serve it swathed in mushroom gravy.
Thomas Keller’s Over-the-Top Mushroom Quiche recipe combines silky egg custard with sautéed mushrooms and cheese—and rises several dramatic inches. It just might be the best quiche recipe ever.
These toasts are best slightly warm, so hold off on toasting the bread until just before serving. You can use cremini mushrooms if you can’t find the exotic varieties listed below.
