Easter
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Classic Sugar Cookies
Everyone needs a good sugar cookie recipe. If you can master the very simple technique behind this one dough, you have several variations at your disposal, most likely without a trip to the grocery store.
Sedgemoor Easter Biscuits
These Easter cakes are from Sedgemoor in Somerset, in the southwest of England. A kind of cross between a scone and shortbread, and liberally studded with currants, they are meant to be nibbled alongside chocolate Easter eggs. And whether they are made at home or bought in a bakery, tradition has it that they should be bundled in threes and tied with ribbon, to represent the Holy Trinity.
Orange Butter Cookies
The most common mistakes made by home bakers, professionals say, have to do with the care and handling of one ingredient: butter. Creaming butter correctly, keeping butter doughs cold, and starting with fresh, good-tasting butter are vital details that professionals take for granted, and home bakers often miss.
Crown Roast of Lamb
The crown rib roast is one of the most festive and serviceable cuts of meat, beautifully proportioned and wieldy, with luscious, lean red meat at the chop end tapering off into rustic, fatty and crispy rib bits at the bone end, with a built-in handle to facilitate gnawing. Domestic lamb is more than suitable for crown roast and with its slightly firmer texture seems to stand up better on the plate than the incredibly supple lamb from Australia and New Zealand. The local lamb is also a good deal.
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Shrimp Deviled Eggs
“Deviling” an egg usually refers to seasoning the cooked yolk with mustard or anything else that is spicy but not necessarily hot. Then you add your favored flavorings. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be the deviled egg with shrimp. In this preparation, a fairly basic combo is jazzed up with chopped shrimp and olives; I like green, sometimes even pimiento-stuffed, for this.
Banana Chocolate-Chip Tea Cake
Agwah (Egyptian date filling)
Napoleon Of Salmon Mousse
Gluten-Free Apple-Almond Tart
This tart is inspired by a recipe by Jacquy Pfeiffer, from his cookbook “The Art of French Pastry.” The apples are caramelized first with sugar and spices, then spread in the pastry, topped with an almond, egg white and sugar topping, and baked.
Maria Rosa’s Italian Easter Soup
Spring Lamb Shanks, Braised
Roasted Coconut Carrots
Carrots don’t have to be boring or lackluster. Roasting, which captures the carrots’ natural sweetness, is emphasized here with the aromatic sweetness of coconut oil. Cilantro, mint, jalapeño and lime ensure there nothing one-dimensional about this dish at all. Chop the herbs just before serving for the freshest flavor.
Toast With New York State Goat Cheese
Lamb With Parsnip And Pancetta Mash And Pinot Noir Sauce
Wild Salmon Stewed With Morels And Red Wine
Lamb With Anchovy And Garlic
Blueberry-Nectarine Summer Pudding
Portuguese Egg Custard Tarts
These diminutive egg tarts — pasteis de nata — a specialty all over Portugal, have a cinnamon flavored custard nestled in a flaky puff pastry crust. The trick here is to bake them in a very hot oven, which causes the custard to puff and the pastry to turn brown and crunchy. You can make the crust and filling ahead, but don’t bake them more than an hour or two before serving. They’re at their best still warm.
Tourta Kritiki (Cretan Easter Lamb Pie)
Goat Cheese With Shallot-Cassis Marmalade
Ginger Semifreddo
Lapin saute aux pruneaux (Sauteed rabbit with prunes)
Butter-Stewed Radishes
Though we think of them as part of a crisp raw crudité platter, radishes are delicious cooked. Cooked radishes taste like young turnips, which makes sense, since they are related botanically. Simple to cook, they should be quickly simmered in a small amount of water with a knob of good butter and a little salt. Red radishes turn a dainty pink.