Specials - Festive recipes Page 2

Seafood centerpieces and holiday menus for holidays, dinner parties and other occasions worth planning around. The seafood leads here: Salmon Wellington in flaky puff pastry, Italian Lobster Tail Pastry with Orange Ricotta Cream, Spanish paella with socarrat, and a King Crab Seafood Boil built for sharing.

Alongside them sit celebration menus such as Thanksgiving pescatarian dinners and Holiday Seafood Platters, plus a few non-seafood showpieces like Baked Alaska, cornish game hens and roast turkey for a mixed table. Expect longer prep than weeknight cooking: pastry work, a seared crust, a slow-built rice or a make-ahead platter.

Check the timing before you commit, and choose a recipe that suits your guest count, since boils and platters scale up easily while wellingtons and pastries suit smaller tables.