Try recreating some items from Dorsia's menu

Coke-a-vin!

OP here. Thanks for all of the inspiration—great ideas (as always)!

I went with the curried chicken salad on endives—it was a big hit! I also brought - batch version of the Southside cocktail. Another friend brought millionaire bars.

But now I may need to make lemon tarts, as well as a baked brie dish! And perhaps put the little caviar potatoes on my shortlist for NYE…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Flushing, Queens and what I recall is chopped liver and Ritz crackers, along with celery and carrot sticks and a Lipton onion dip.

The fancy folks called it pate.

We were not at all fancy. We bought our chopped liver in a plastic container.

I stood next to somebody the other day who bought it at the Parkway Deli. Yum.

hot crab dip
oysters rockefeller
clams casino
shrimp cocktail

Anonymous wrote:And for dessert: lemon tarts. if you ready the book, you would know why!

Oh, that’s a great idea!

Knorr spinach dip served in a bread bowl (knorr soup has the recipe on the package if they still make it)
Quiche/mini quiche
potato skins ( stuffed with cheese/bacon/chives)

And for dessert: lemon tarts. if you ready the book, you would know why!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Flushing, Queens and what I recall is chopped liver and Ritz crackers, along with celery and carrot sticks and a Lipton onion dip.

The fancy folks called it pate.

We were not at all fancy. We bought our chopped liver in a plastic container.

All duplicates, I think: Halved baby potatoes with creme fraiche or sour cream topped with black caviar; stuffed mushrooms;
bagel chips with cream cheese, lox and capers, and/or whitefish salad. Hummus with pita chips and veggies that can be dipped; stuffed mushrooms; asparagus wrapped in prosciutto. For sweets: flourless chocolate cake; mini cheesecakes; strawberries or a fruit platter; assorted rugelach.

I realized only as I wrote this that except for the prosciutto, all of these could easily be kosher — and many of the most chi chi events that I went to back then as a grad student would have tried to have spreads that were kosher enough.

In contrast, during the same time period, when I came home to DC, the spreads would have been more likely to include individual baby back ribs; miniature crab cakes; shrimp cocktail; and maybe chicken wings with different sauces; with fancy brownies for sweets.