Happy weekend! It's Easter, Passover, and spring all at once. What are you cooking? Surely you're cooking something splendid this weekend! We have plans for spring asparagus, fresh boiled eggs, a leg of tender, succulent lamb rubbed with cracked spices, and a tangy lemon cake. What about you? What are you cooking? Here are a few ideas from The Kitchn to get you thinking.
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Thank you for reading, and thank you for all of your interesting, helpful, and wonderful comments this week. Have a great weekend!
Image: Czech houska bread for Easter a couple years ago. Recipe is here:
• Recipe: Houska (Czech Easter Bread)
(Image: Faith Durand)
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Comments (11)
Easter dinner at a relatives and my contribution: Garlic-roasted garlic leg of lamb, recipe from Cooks Illustrated. I was thinking of lamb loin chops, but $14.99 a pound killed that idea (the bone is so proportionally big in a lamb chop). I've cooked this before, and it is good. Just going with a ham was too easy.
The market trimmed the leg up too so no knife play and a prettier cut of meat. I just need to smear a roasted garlic/parsley paste on the inside of the pieces, and re-tie it as a roast.
The lamb above sounds delish. My mother in law is cooking the meat portion of our meal. I wonder what it will be? In any case I'm making mashed potates and bringing those along with salad greens, caesar salad dressing and white wine.
I am making a carrot cake and curing some salmon. I should probably bake a loaf of bread too.
Sunday brunch will be spinach frittatas, cooked apples, mint ricotta spread on toast, and leftover kumquat tart. Oh, and bloody marys.
going to braise some kale tonight, maybe make some korean potato salad. I am making the switch from omivore to (lacto ovo) veggie, so I need to find some vegetarian main dishes.
As a last hurrah, I am making burgers for some friends on monday - I don't want to make a potato side dish though. Any suggestions? I would prefer something fresh, but not as light as a salad and pairs will with bacon/mushroom burgers. Also, no macaroni (we had that last week).
chusmabilly:
Have you tried the www.101cookbooks.com blog? She offers many veggie and vegan recipes on her blog, and some have been featured on thekitchn. If you are already aware of it, cool.
As far as your side, I like the wine-braised cabbage dish that was featured here a couple of weeks ago. Cabbage is good for you and the dish is easy. Since you braise it in wine, well, you'd hate to see the rest of the bottle go to waste ;-)
How about tabbouleh with your burgers, a bit more substantial than a salad, but still light and fresh.
I made gougeres for the first time last night and they were delicious. Over the course of the evening we devoured the entire batch (good thing I halved the recipe) and they were so easy, I plan to make them again. Making a asparagus and leek quiche for Easter morning and fava beans with tarragon for an easter side dish to accompany the ham.
I'll be making bread pudding tomorrow morning!
chusmabilly:
a tropical fruit salad will go great with your mushroom/bacon burgers. cut up fresh pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, black grapes, an orange, blueberries and cantalope. this is my thanksgiving show stopper and always goes over terrifically. it's spendy to put together but the freshness tastes wonderful.
I spent all of Friday baking and cooking for easter.
My boyfriend and I made 5 loaves of Paska (ukrainian easter bread), 4 dozen Pyrohy, and 2 dozen Nalysnyky (Crepes filled with cottage cheese and dill)
It was a long day, but we celebrated by cooking dinner together too!
4 pounds of fresh Mussles steamed in white wine and cream, 4 giant sea scallops wrapped in bacon accompanied by a fresh green salad and some nice crusty bread
It was a delicious weekend.