The Secret Ingredient (Honey): Creamy Honey Mustard for Seafood

The ultimate Florida-inspired honey-mustard sauce for seafood. Perfect cold for dipping crab claws and shrimp, or hot, spooned over chargrilled salmon. Simple deliciousness.

Anchoïade

Anchoïade is a quirky alternative to tapenade made from just four ingredients: anchovies, garlic, olive oil, and vinegar. Serve it as a dip for crudités or as a spread for bread, all with a glass of white wine or rosé.

Black Olive Tapenade With Garlic, Capers, and Anchovies

This famed olive spread from Provence is made from black olives, capers, anchovies, herbs, and garlic.

Traditional Provençal Tapenade With Capers, Anchovies, and Tuna

Unlike the modern version of tapenade, which features the olive more prominently than the other ingredients, this recipe is based on the original, created by a chef named Meynier at the Marseilles restaurant La Maison Dorée in 1880. It's made with equal parts olive, caper, and briny fish, like anchovies and oil-packed tuna—hence the fact that tapenade takes its name from capers (tapeno in Provençal) and not olives.

Halibut à la Nage (Poached in Broth) With Clams, Dill, and White Wine

This easy one-pot dish features halibut and clams gently poached in an aromatic broth with fennel, white wine, dill, and celery.

Artichoke and Green Olive Pantry Tapenade

This unorthodox tapenade is made from artichokes and green olives for a mild, creamy, Mediterranean spread that works on bread, on fish, in sandwiches, and even on steak. Plus, every ingredient can sit in your pantry, waiting for you when you come home.

Lemon-Marinated Halibut

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Pasta Burro e Alici (Pasta With Creamy Anchovy-Butter Sauce)

Butter, anchovies, and starchy cooking water come together to make a super-savory, creamy pasta sauce.

Anchovy, Basil, and Tomato Sandwiches With Aioli

Rustic Italian bread slathered with garlic aioli and layered with fresh basil, sliced tomatoes, and a sprinkling of capers all make for a great match with anchovy fillets—almost like a Provencal BLT of sorts with the salty anchovies subbing in for the bacon, and basil in place of the lettuce.

Dinner Tonight: Pan-Roasted Whole Fish with Olives

I turned to Mario Batali for this recipe from his book Molto Mario. The sauce is marvelous: black olives, capers, white, and lemon zest are spooned into the skillet after the fish gets a thorough searing over high heat. In the oven, it practically melts with the pan juices.