Snack

This dip is similar to the original green goddess dressing, which was created in the 1920s at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. Here, sour cream stands in for mayo.

All-butter puff pastry is available at some specialty foods stores.

This dessert is a pecan pie-apple pie hybrid.

Apple juice and dried blueberries bring subtle sweetness to the filling. Like your desserts sweeter? Add one or two tablespoons of sugar.

In an intriguing play on the combination of chocolate and chiles, this rich mousse gets its faint tingle from Sichuan peppercorns.

An incredible frozen treat that doesn't require an ice cream maker. Serve with crisp butter cookies.

Roast the wedges with points facing up to brown all sides.

A homespun look meets exotic flavor.

A Syrian roasted-pepper and walnut spread, muhammara is a great alternative to hummus. 1 12-ounce jar roasted red bell peppers in olive oil with garlic, drained.

These warm, pudding-like individual desserts are the perfect use for those last-of-the-season plums. If you'd like, sift some powdered sugar over the clafoutis before serving.

A Sicilian combination—artichokes and beans—becomes another creative variation on crostini at Cinghiale.

Mint gives delicious lift to the coconut flavors in this cake, which gets moistness from sweetened condensed milk and coconut cream.

Not a fin in sight here—just a light, sweet finish to a healthy meal.

Polynesian-Style Hors d’Oeuvres A blend of crisp, soft, and chewy textures combined with a parade of flavors—sweet, salty, beefy—makes this playful platter an irresistible hit at parties.

This shrimp appetizer almost has the iron of steak but far fewer calories.

The trees of Hansel and Gretel's forest surely had bark like this, sparkling with sugar crystals and tasting of sylvan honey. Though the biscuits pair wonderfully with blueberries in gin syrup, they also make an excellent accompaniment to a cheese course—particularly with a nice triple-crème.

A double layer of bread crumbs is the key to these extra-crispy homemade bar snacks.