2025 Easter Recipes
9 Impressive Easter Lamb Recipes
Impressive lamb recipes for your Easter dinner that are guaranteed to elicit oohs and ahhs. Find your favorite new way to prepare lamb chops, shoulder, or leg of lamb.
Baked Asparagus with Parmesan and Balsamic Vinegar
These spring spears, buried beneath a behemoth of Parmesan, is making converts of even the most reticent veggie eaters.
30 mins
Velvet Mashed Potatoes
No mere mash, this creamy potato purée owes its uber velvetiness to truly indecent amounts of butter and cream. And we mean that in the best possible way.
35 mins
Fresh Peas with Mint
Is there anything that screams spring more than lightly buttered peas with a wee bit of mint on top? We think not.
15 mins
Old-Fashioned Coconut Cake
Layers of vanilla cake take turns with oodles of coconut filling and the whole shebang is slathered with fluffy white icing. Uh, yes please!
2 hrs
Newest Recipes
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Soon to be known as “what’s for dessert tonight” in your house, this old-fashioned dessert made from everyday ingredients takes its name from a simple glaze that makes the cake.
35 mins
Lamb Chops with Mint Sauce and Cilantro
These lamb chops have a nifty marinade that doubles as a finishing sauce. It’s your newest trick at putting dinner on the table pronto.
50 mins
Classic Shrimp Scampi
A garlicky, buttery shrimp scampi recipe with extra sauce for bread-dipping or tossing with pasta. Made with shell-on shrimp for ultimate flavor.
20 mins
Chocolate Guinness Cake
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this Guinness-infused chocolate cake that’s smothered in swirls of browned butter cream cheese frosting.
3 hrs 10 mins
7 Holiday Ham Recipes
Because nothing says Easter like ham. Here, options both classic and unconventional to see you through the holiday.
Braised Carrots with Orange and Rosemary
Everyday carrots turn shyly sophisticated when infused with flavor and coaxed to tenderness in this no-hassle side dish.
30 mins
Scalloped Potatoes
Essentially creamy easy cheesy side dish awesomeness., these are as welcome on weeknights as they are on holidays.
1 hr 5 mins
Herbed Ricotta Dip with Spring 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!
20 mins
Old-Fashioned Coconut Cake
Layers of vanilla cake take turns with oodles of coconut filling and the whole shebang is slathered with fluffy white icing. Uh, yes please!
2 hrs
Passover Recipes
11 Passover Recipes
Unleavened recipes—sweet and savory, solemn and spirited—to see you through each and every day of Pesach.
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I’m a three-time James Beard Award-winning food writer, cookbook author, memoirist, podcast host, and publisher. I created this site in 1999 to help you find simple, quick, and wicked flavorful recipes. For the past 24 years, I’ve been cooking, teaching, and writing about all types of food, including those from my Portuguese heritage. Let’s eat! Vamos comer!
Portuguese Recipes
Bacalhau a Gomes de Sa
Marcel Proust had his madeleine. David Leite has his Portuguese salt cod, potato, and egg casserole.
2 hrs 10 mins
Portuguese Deep-Fried Green Beans
In Portugal, deep-frying beans is a long-standing tradition. Serve these peixinhos da horta as a starter, snack, or, as the Portuguese do, a side dish.
45 mins
Pastel de Nata ~ Portuguese Custard Tarts
Not Portuguese? Not a problem. It won’t lessen your appreciation for these little lovelies with the shatteringly crisp pastry cradling ridiculously creamy custard.
2 hrs 30 mins
Most Beloved Recipes
These are the most popular, most loved, and most made dishes over the past 25 years.
Roast Pork Butt in the Oven
This roast pork butt, coated in a simple rub of brown sugar, paprika, cumin, and red pepper flakes, is an incredibly easy recipe to make and yields enough pulled pork to feed a small army.
10 hrs 50 mins
Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese Sauce
Is anything more soothing than standing before a burbling pot of Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce? (Hint: Our answer is absolutely not.)
6 hrs
Batter-Fried Chicken
Proof that it doesn’t take buttermilk or an insufferably long overnight brine to make insanely tender, crazily crisp, gosh darn perfect fried chicken.
1 hr 30 mins
Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread
Behold, the no-knead bread recipe that incited an insurrection among home bakers everywhere.
15 hrs 30 mins
