It's almost Kentucky Derby time again. Try a Bourbon Ball Trifle.

Oxtail and ramen soup, with spinach, black beans and shiitakes

"Vintage" burnt sugar cake with maple cream cheese frosting and salty chocolate ganache

Ham, celeriac and leek pie

Sorry, no pumpkin spice here. Walnut-Apple-Caramel-Calvados Cake.

Guinea hen with cabbage.

Peach ginger rosemary brown betty with mascarpone ice cream.

Vanilla ice cream with a delightful swirl of blueberry, in a gingersnap crust.

No need to decide whether you are a Mounds or an Almond Joy person: these dark chocolate almond coconut bars cover all the bases.

Thai duck curry with sweet potatoes, broccolini and cracklings

Pecan kumquat tarts

Guinness and dried cherry pot roast sandwich, with slaw.

Lentil, cabbage and bacon salad.

Shortbread topped with raspberry jam topped with fudgy brownies.

Single-serving leek tarts

Potée Sarthoise, a French rabbit, sausage, beef, ham and vegetable soup.

Salted peanut brownies with peanut butter icing and bittersweet chocolate ganache

Dan dan noodles

Dark chocolate and salty caramel candy cookies.

Black-eyed pea garbure: a dip into Southern superstition, by way of SW France

Roasted sweet potato soup with sorghum brown butter and country ham

Old-fashioned apple pudding, with Calvados sauce.

Peanut butter and Concord grape jelly sandwich cookies, large and small

Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch: pawpaw ice cream.