New Year's

Nam prik is a delicious chile-based dip found all over Thailand. Here's our healthyish take on it.

These ham-and-cheese bites are the perfect cocktail party appetizer.

The only thing more crowd-pleasing than cheese is marinated cheese.

The highly addictive, melt-in-your-mouth cheddar cracker is all grown up thanks to a little heat from the cayenne and a hint of sweet pepper from the pimento.

This party-ready dish hits all the right notes—bready, fatty, pickle-y—in a single bite-sized portion, delivering maximum satisfaction with the least amount of friction.

If you're not the kind of person who keeps canned fish in your pantry at all times, this is the recipe that will convert you.

You can now make the famous dirty rice from Commander's Palace in New Orleans at home. Bring your own Mardi Gras beads.

We follow the three tenets of traditional Southern cornbread: No sugar added, no flour, and baked in a cast-iron skillet.

Keep a log stashed in your freezer AT ALL TIMES.

On New Year's Day, Julia Sullivan makes these collard greens with a side of black-eyed peas for good luck.

For a simple, just-the-right-amount-of-salty appetizer, doctor up a tin of anchovies. The acid, heat, and olive oil mellow the anchovies’ flavor, and serving them with a seedy loaf of bread and butter rounds the recipe.

You can replace some of the cilantro or parsley with other tender herbs—basil, dill, chives. Just make sure to include the tarragon; it gives the dip an anise-y, bittersweet punch.

Nduja is traditionally made with pork, but because salmon is a fatty fish, it works well too.

Prepare your pita chips.

If you don’t want or didn’t have time to soak the black-eyed peas overnight, just power-soak them.

These crackers are gluten-free, Paleo, vegan.....and Whole30.

These cheesy bites puff in the oven and taste like gougères, aka fancy French cheese puffs, but this recipe makes them way easier.

Starting with store-bought puff pastry for this recipe means these crispy, buttery, savory palmiers only look hard.

Sadly, you’re not going to be able to waltz down to the corner store and pick up escargots and shells. But this recipe is still worth the effort.

Not feeling the squares in this phyllo bites recipe? Use a pizza cutter to cut crackers into any shape you like!

A homemade cranberry simple syrup puts this sparkling cocktail recipe into fancy party-worthy status. Use leftover Campari to make your very own Negroni or Americano.

Skip the $$$ vintage bubbly for this cocktail recipe. Go with an affordable Champagne, cava, Prosecco, or other dry sparkler for this spritz recipe.

Ah, Babybel cheese, the fancy French chef’s secret weapon for fondue—it keeps the molten mixture from separating, and its unassuming flavor lets the Gruyère shine.

Mint julep + bubbly? This cocktail recipe combines the two delicious classics and is the ultimate way to celebrate.