New Year’s Treats

Smoked Salmon Toasts and Asparagus and Goat Cheese in Puff Pastry  (BOB CAREY / Los Angeles Times)

Oysters Delmonico are one of many classic American oyster dishes.  (AL SEIB / Los Angeles Times)

Oyster Rarebit from the original Fanny Farmer cookbook (1896).  (AL SEIB / Los Angeles Times)

Mont-Blanc is a classic dessert that only looks like an all-day project.  (BOB CAREY / Los Angeles Times)