Easter

Arugula & Feta Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette

Nifer — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:26:26 +0000

Arugula & Feta Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette

This fresh arugula and feta salad recipe is dressed with a tangy strawberry vinaigrette made from a base of fresh pureed strawberries. If you can't find the sweetest strawberries, don’t worry—strawberries with a little more pucker are wonderfully suited to salads, salad dressings and vinaigrette recipes, as we use them here.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Erin McCormick — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:29:25 +0000

Strawberry-Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

This strawberry and rhubarb upside-down cake recipe highlights how delicious strawberries and rhubarb taste together. If you can’t find rhubarb, substitute an equal amount of any kind of berry or even fresh figs. This upside-down cake still tastes great the next day when the juiciness of the fruit has had time to marry with the moist olive oil cake.

Pecan-Berry Coffee Cake

Nifer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:16 +0000

Pecan-Berry Coffee Cake

This scrumptious coffee cake recipe has a crumbly pecan topping and is speckled with blueberries or raspberries. You’ll never guess there’s apple in the berry coffee cake: it replaces some of the butter found in most coffee cakes and adds a decidedly sweet taste and moist crumb. This is a great recipe to serve at brunch and can be made the day before.

Pistachio Breakfast Sausage Patties

Nifer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:22:16 +0000

Pistachio Breakfast Sausage Patties

This breakfast sausage patty recipe transforms plain breakfast sausage into something special with a few simple additions. The surprise ingredient: pistachios! Plenty of black pepper and a big pinch of cayenne make this breakfast sausage pleasantly spicy—use less if you prefer. The recipe, which can be made ahead and refrigerated or frozen, yields 8 small sausage patties, but can easily be doubled and cooked in two batches.

Very Berry Fruit Salad

Nifer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:08:27 +0000

Very Berry Fruit Salad

This easy fruit salad recipe is a dazzler: a large bowl of colorful berries served with a cool lemon curd sauce. Use room-temperature fruit in this berry salad (or if you are taking the berries out of the refrigerator, set them in an oven that’s recently been on to gently warm them). The flavor of warm or room-temperature berries is so much better, as if they’re fresh-picked and still hold the warmth of the sun.

Sunrise Bellini

Nifer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:46:47 +0000

Sunrise Bellini

This slightly tart fruity Bellini recipe will zing you awake. It’s the prettiest color imaginable and it makes a brunch instantly fun! You can serve the Bellinis in champagne flutes or in simple Mason jars—be creative!

Vanilla Strawberries with Lemon Ricotta

Erin McCormick — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:40:14 +0000

Vanilla Strawberries with Lemon Ricotta

Simple and perfect, this strawberry-and-ricotta dessert recipe dresses up the basic combination of strawberries and ricotta just a bit, but it’s still quite unadorned, so make it when you have great strawberries. Part-skim ricotta is used to keep calories and saturated fat in check in this easy dessert, but for a real indulgence try it with whole-milk ricotta.

Yellow Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:19:33 +0000

Yellow Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Try this easy egg dye recipe to make a natural dye for coloring Easter eggs. Egg coloring made from turmeric dyes white eggs a beautifully vibrant yellow. For best results, be sure to soak your eggs in the dye for at least 4 hours, but not longer than 24 hours.

Orange Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:15:03 +0000

Orange Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Try this easy egg dye recipe to make a natural dye for coloring Easter eggs. Egg coloring made from yellow onion skins dyes white eggs an amazing shade of orange. For best results, be sure to soak your eggs in the dye for at least 4 hours, but not longer than 24 hours.

Khaki Green Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:06:41 +0000

Khaki Green Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Try this easy egg dye recipe to make a natural dye for coloring Easter eggs. Egg coloring made from red onion skin dyes white eggs a gorgeous khaki green, which deepens in color as it dries. For best results, be sure to soak your eggs in the dye for at least 4 hours, but not longer than 24 hours.

Blue Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:58:51 +0000

Blue Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Try this easy egg dye recipe to make a natural dye for coloring Easter eggs. Egg coloring made from red cabbage dyes white eggs a gorgeous shade of blue. For best results, be sure to soak your eggs in the dye for at least 4 hours, but not longer than 24 hours.

Violet Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Sarah Hoff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:49:14 +0000

Violet Natural Egg Dye & Egg Coloring

Try this easy egg dye recipe to make a natural dye for coloring Easter eggs. Egg coloring made with beets dyes white eggs a gorgeous shade of soft violet. For best results, be sure to soak your eggs in the dye for at least 4 hours, but not longer than 24 hours.

Roasted Garlic & Asparagus Salad

Sarah Hoff — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:17:22 +0000

Roasted Garlic & Asparagus Salad

The dressing for this roasted asparagus salad recipe uses fresh garlic scapes—available in spring from farmers’ markets or gardeners. Use chopped fresh garlic in the dressing if you can’t find garlic scapes.

Snap Pea & Quinoa Salad

Sarah Hoff — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:33:59 +0000

Snap Pea & Quinoa Salad

Snap peas and mushrooms are combined with the fresh flavor of lemon in this pretty, healthy quinoa salad recipe. If you can make it ahead of time, do—this quinoa salad is even better the next day, after the dressing has soaked into the mushrooms and quinoa. (Adapted from “Quinoa Revolution” by Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming; Pintail Books, 2012.)

Slow-Cooker Lamb Stew with Artichokes & White Beans

Erin McCormick — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:43:40 +0000

Slow-Cooker Lamb Stew with Artichokes & White Beans

Fresh dill, lemon, escarole and artichokes give this healthy slow-cooker lamb stew recipe a decidedly springtime flavor. Dried white beans are perfect in this healthy crock pot recipe, but you could also add frozen lima beans at the end.