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Serve these versatile biscuits with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast or brunch or as an accompaniment to almost any dinner. Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

(Buckwheat Yeast Pancakes with Three Caviars)

Chef Boulud prefers guinea hens for this recipe, but we found free-range chicken to be a worthy substitute.

This very typical Lao dish may also be made with fish, pork, beef, or, in Southeast Asian tradition, water buffalo meat. While laap is often made with raw meat or fish, our chicken-based rendition is stir-fried, as it was when Lao cooks served it to us. A powder made from toasted glutinous rice subtly flavors the dish.

"These cookies have been baked by my mother, by me, and now by my daughters at Christmastime," writes Suzanne Perry of Columbus, Ohio. "The recipe was given to my mother by a Swedish friend." Active time: 1 1/2 hr Start to finish: 2 1/2 hr

A berry dessert that's a great finish to the spiced chicken breast meal.

These beets would be a great way to liven up simple roasted meats such as pork and chicken.