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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

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.

40 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

Newest Recipes

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

Basque Cheesecake with Pomegranate Molasses

This rich, caramelized Basque cheesecake gets a bold twist with pomegranate molasses, adding a tangy depth to its creamy interior. Easy, foolproof, and irresistible!

3 hrs

Passover Recipes

11 Passover Recipes

Unleavened recipes—sweet and savory, solemn and spirited—to see you through each and every day of Pesach.

Hey, I’m David Leite

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

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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

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These are the most popular, most loved, and most made dishes over the past 25 years.

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