7 perfect party recipes

Recipes

• Spinach, Ham and Cheese Pies

  A lively filling is tucked into a rich dough for these small empanada-like pies you can eat out of hand.

• Duck Rillettes

  Rillettes are a classical French preparation of rich and tasty fatty meats – usually pork, duck or goose – that originated...

• Portuguese "Pissaladière"

  Pissaladière, an onion, anchovy and olive pie, is a specialty of Nice, France. My version is inspired by the original, but...

• Vegetable Crudités Stuffed with Two Feta Spreads

  Each spread makes enough for about 60 assorted vegetable pieces. Use the spreads to stuff vegetable crudités, such as the...

• Steamed Mini Shrimp and Cabbage Rolls

  I like to think of these tasty treats as "Swedish Siumai" a Scandinavian variation of the favourite Cantonese dim sum...

• Porcini-Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers

  Small sweet peppers are stuffed with a fabulously fragrant rice and mushroom mixture. Using Asian glutinous rice (also...

• Butter Pecan Birthday Cake

  This birthday cake is inspired by my favourite ice cream flavour, butter pecan. For the best flavour, use cultured unsalted...