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Homemade Chrain recipe

Homemade Chrain

What’s chrain, you ask? It’s a heck of a traditional condiment with a bite to it. And it’s coming to a holiday table near you.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H
  • 27
Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Dubbed Company’s Comin’ Coconut Cake, this beauty will have you dreaming up excuses to invite guests for dinner—and dessert.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 20 M
  • 4
Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake

Sweet as nectar. That’s what we think of this Southern classic, a charming stack of pineapple, coconut, bananas, and pecans aplenty.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H
  • 18
Easter Eggs

Eggs and Other Easter Oddities

Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to take a hard look at those things we never stop to consider. Jennifer Thompson Trainer takes on an Easter essential.

Coconut Angel Food Cake

Coconut Angel Food Cake

Not just the stuff of sweet memories, angel food cake is still in fashion–and still fashionably simple to whip up. Truly heaven sent.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 16
Asparagus and Asiago Gratin

Spring Asparagus and Asiago Gratin

Here’s an easy, elegant way to coax stalky asparagus to goodness, with cheese and bread crumbs concealing all manner of out-of-season vegetal sins.

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  • 30 M
  • 16
Dyed Easter Eggs

Dyed Easter Eggs

Little hands, ginormous expectations. Makes us want to ditch the fizzy little tablets loaded with artificial dyes for something more natural. Hello, kitchen scraps.

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  • 45 M
  • 5
Sugar, Sugar

Angel White Icing

Never before has a cake been smothered in such cloudlike perfection, er, confection as this billowy white icing and its graceful swoop and swirls.

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  • 25 M
  • 35 M
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Candied Carrots

Candied Carrots

Sometimes carrots aren’t quite as sweet as we’d like them to be. This kid-tested tactic takes care of that occasional oops on the part of Mother Nature.

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  • 15 M
  • 13
Pickled Spring Vegetables

Pickled Spring Vegetables With Mustard-Seed Vinaigrette

This quick refrigerator pickle melds old-fashioned crunch via new-fangled ease.

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  • 20 M
  • 8 H
  • 2
Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake

Flaunting an ever-practical, always-stunning, goes-with-anything white, this froufrou coconut cake livens up holidays, dinner parties, bridal showers, weddings, birthdays, and Tuesday nights.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 28
Trio of Deviled Eggs

A Trio of Deviled Eggs

Lovely. That’s all we can think to say of this array of deviled eggs, which come in classic, smoked salmon, and lightly truffled. Our favorite? Nope, we’re not going there.

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  • 40 M
  • 5
Herbed Ricotta with Vegetables

Herbed Ricotta Dip with Vegetables

True story: This luscious little number inspired one toddler to dip and dunk his way through an entire bag of baby carrots. An entire bag. Behold, the power of the dipper!

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  • 20 M
  • 20 M
  • 6
Minted Fresh Peas Recipe

Minted Fresh Peas

Clap of hands. Is there anything that screams spring more than these lightly buttered peas with a wee bit of cooling mint on top? We think not.

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  • 10 M
  • 15 M
  • 9
Rabbit Confit

Rabbit Confit

Fear not. This Bugs Bunny rabbit confit is so delicious, so falling-off-the-bone tender, you’ll soon forget the cartoon. But, please, never forget your manners.

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  • 30 M
  • 3 H, 30 M
  • 6
Asparagus Tart

Asparagus Tart

If spring had a taste, we dare say it’d be this simple yet sophisticated tart with its cheese custard, shatteringly crisp phyllo crust, and row after row of spring spears.

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  • 1 H
  • 4
Spring Lamb with Rosemary

Spring Lamb with Rosemary

The perfect dish to usher in warm weather. Nothing but rosemary, garlic, salt, pepper, and a tour of duty in the oven.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 7
Trio of Deviled Eggs

Easter Recipes

Easter recipes for 2011 include ham, lamb, and rabbit, as well as table buckling starters, sides, and desserts. What’s your favorite?

Brioche

Brioche

Sure, you could traipse to a bakery and buy brioche rather than make them yourself. But where’s the satisfaction in that?

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  • 4 H, 30 M
  • 8
Roasted Asparagus with Bay Leaves and Capers

Roasted Asparagus with Bay Leaves and Crispy Capers

For this radically simple recipe, stalks of spring-green asparagus, bay leaves, and capers are tossed in olive oil and blasted in the oven. Gotta love it.

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  • 5 M
  • 15 M
  • 10
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