Apartment Therapy: Holidays

Look! Ana's Easter Breakfast

Kitchn reader Ana wrote us a note sharing her family's Easter traditions and a few pictures of her successful Easter breakfast. Take a look!...

Recipe Review: Ina Garten's Lemon Cake

Easter is one time of year when I am seized with the desire to bake a pretty cake. I always feel that the Easter meal should be one of the most special of the year, and what's more special than a lovi...

How to Use Up Hard Boiled Eggs

The surplus of hard boiled eggs left after Easter weekend can feel like a blessing or a curse depending on your particular outlook on eggs and how long they've been lingering in your fridge! Here's a ...

Happy Dyngus Day! Try Some Polish Food.

We just learned about Dyngus Day yesterday, and man have we been missing out. All those years we could have woken up to boys throwing buckets of water over our heads or hitting our legs with willow br...

Eggs and More: Treats for Easter and Passover

Do you have any sweet and special Easter treats planned? How about rice Krispie eggs, DIY Peeps, or golden chocolate Easter eggs? Or maybe you're celebrating Passover and you want to make huevos hamin...

Good Question: How Do I Choose an Easter Ham?

We noticed this good question from reader rosebud in the current Open Thread, and we wanted to bump it up for everyone to see. She writes: I really want to make a ham for Easter but wonder if it is fo...

How to Make Onion-Skin Easter Eggs

It's Easter egg time at our house. Last year we brought you the story of Huevos Haminados, a Passover tradition of dying eggs with onion skins. This year, I decided to try it with both yellow and red ...

Recipe: Simplest Cinnamon Lamb Stew

It's Passover and Easter this week, so I can't not give you a lamb recipe. Here's a really easy one. I took the concept of Marge Piercy's Cinnamon Lamb in her book, Pesach for the Rest of Us, and app...

How To Make Hollow Sugar Easter Eggs

Wow! We always thought that these hollow sugar Easter eggs were only made by trained craftsmen or elaborate machinery. Who knew that you could make them at home? Did you ever get one of these for East...

Look! Egg Cups as Flower Vases

We just saw these photos at Martha Stewart, and they reminded us of this post last year where Chris used his cute egg cup collection as decoration for his Easter table. He put egg-shaped candles in...

Recipe: Rice Krispie Easter Eggs from Bouchon Bakery

Here's a very special treat for spring and Easter from Bouchon Bakery! They sent us these gorgeous yet easy eggs made from Rice Krispies, rolled in bright, pretty colors and flavors. Read on for recip...

More Easter Lamb: 5 Easy Recipes for Your First Time

Are you planning lamb for Easter lunch? Are you considering it but feeling nervous because you've never cooked it before? Braising a lamb shank or cooking some lamb chops in a fry pan is really no mor...

What Are Your Favorite Easter Recipes?

Easter Sunday is this weekend, April 12th, and the Orthodox church's Easter Sunday (often called Pascha) is next Sunday, April 19th. That means there is going to be a lot of good food on tables this w...

Recipe: Windowsill Herb Garden Lamb and Potatoes

Are you making lamb for Easter or Passover? This traditional meat is very easy to prepare; its rich taste and tender texture almost always come through. It's certainly easier than the Thanksgiving tu...

How To Make a Butter Lamb for Easter

Take a look at this butter lamb, sent to us by reader Ron. A butter lamb on the Easter table is an old Polish Catholic tradition. Usually people make a butter lamb using a mold, but Ron says that this...

Wine: Great Picks for Passover and Easter

It is April already; Spring is almost in the air and important holidays like Easter and Passover are upon us next week. As ever, these holidays are times for special family gatherings, laughing and fe...

How Marshmallow Peeps Are Made

Take a look at these little guys — do they look familiar? They should! ...

What Are You Cooking for Passover and Easter?

Two big spring celebrations with lots of good food traditions are fast approaching: Passover, which begins at sundown a week from today, April 8, and Easter, celebrated Sunday April 12. Here's a pos...

Spring Sweets: Very Pretty Spring and Easter Cookies

We have been noticing an explosion of color across the internet in the form of brilliantly colored sugar cookies. Glittering sugar, colored glazes, and pretty designs seem to be everywhere. Here are a...

Fish on Fridays: Seafood Recipes for Lent

We know a lot of you are giving up something for Lent. Maybe it's sweets or alcohol, or maybe you're going full-on vegetarian. More common is the Catholic tradition of eating fish on Fridays. For ...

Survey: Did You Give Up a Food or Drink for Lent?

Every year, Max and I make a nod to our shared Irish Catholic heritage and give up something for Lent. This year it's a biggie: alcohol. For a food writer who usually drinks wine with almost every mea...

Good Question: Recipes for Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras?

It's quite appropriate that Top Chef filmed its finale in New Orleans, because we've got Mardi Gras on the brain (it's this Tuesday). So do many of you, it turns out. We've had a few requests for F...

Would You Serve Asparagus in December?

I have a bone to pick with Mark Bittman. I read his Minimalist column in the NY Times every week and usually love it. His recipes are smart and easy. Everyone here at the office loves him: his No Kn...

Tip: Warm The Plates

With Thanksgiving nipping at our heels, it's a good time to remember all the things that help make a meal a great meal. Here's one I learned from both my mother and my husband: warm plates make a hug...

Holiday Tools: Multi-Tier Oven Rack

Now here's a handy tool for Thanksgiving and the other holidays swiftly approaching. We don't know about you, but there never seems to be enough room in our oven on the day itself. There are squash ca...

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