Traditional Southern Easter Dinner Recipes - rutherfordsource.com

Traditional Southern Easter Dinner Recipes - rutherfordsource.com
21 Easy Easter Dinner Recipes - The New York Times
Vegan Tech Startup Clever Cashew Launches Platform to Simplify Finding New Recipes - VEGWORLD Magazine
Easy Easter brunch recipes: Quiche, asparagus tart, sweet bread - TODAY
Soulful Easter recipes: Cola-glazed ham and bacon mac and cheese - TODAY

Posted: 02 Apr 2021 03:00 AM PDT

If you've lived in the South for any length of time, you know that we take our holidays seriously. We take our holiday dinner menus even more seriously. We want our holiday dinners to have aesthetic appeal, be full of flavor and provide the ability to create long-lasting memories. We have gathered some of the best traditional Easter dinner recipes from the Southern culinary repertoire of the internet for you to try this year.

1Sweet Iced Tea

You can't say Sweet Iced Tea and not automatically think of the South. This Southern classic is at every holiday meal. Try this easy recipe from Add a Pinch to bring this essential drink to your Easter Table.

2Fresh Lemonade

With spring in the air it's time to taste the sun. The best way to serve a sip of a bright, clean flavor is by making homemade lemonade for your guests. The Spruce Eats has a simple, classic recipe for you to follow that will add a refreshing element to your dinner table.

Appetizers

3Deviled Eggs

Deviled Eggs have grown to be elaborate in garnish and flavor profiles over the years but the classic deviled egg is still a Southern favorite. Try out this recipe from Deep South Dish.

4Pimento Cheese Dip (Southern Living)

Since moving to The South, I have discovered how sacred pimento cheese is. From pimento chicken salad to pimento cheese beignets, if there is a way to make it, Southerners have discovered it. Easter dinner is time consuming enough so making this crowd-pleasing Pimento Dip from The Recipe Critic is sure to keep everyone satisfied while they wait for their big meal.

Side Dishes

5Butter Steamed Potatoes

Butter Steamed Potatoes from Deep South Dish create an indulgent, carb-cheat day delight for everyone. Cooked in butter with fresh herbs, this side dish is a simple but tasty accent to your main course.

6Home-Style Green Bean Casserole

Anyone can look on the back of a soup can to get a recipe for green bean casserole, but a true Southern cook will take joy in making this Home-Style Green Bean Casserole from Southern Living. Whip the sauce, vegetables and crunchy topping up from scratch and bake it all in under an hour! Everyone will surely taste a difference from the generic and be impressed by your efforts.

7Homemade Mac and Cheese

Mac and Cheese is another traditional Southern staple. Don't you dare forget it at your holiday table – whether it be Thanksgiving or Easter. This Southern Mac and Cheese from Dinner at the Zoo will be a new favorite due to the ease of essentially "dumping" all the ingredients into one pan to bake. Nobody will truly know how easy this recipe is if they're never told.

8Buttermilk Biscuits

Rich, buttery and flaky – what every Southerner dreams of when it comes to their biscuits. Biscuits are a must-have at almost every meal. In fact, we have restaurants around Nashville dedicated to creating menus with all of the ways to use a biscuit for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jenn Segal from Once Upon a Chef provides a classic Buttermilk Biscuit recipe you can master in 30 minutes.

Main Course

9Bourbon Glazed Ham

A touch of Bourbon and a touch of Creole is what you'll find in this delicious main course. A hearty and flavorful centerpiece for Easter dinner, My Recipe's Honey Bourbon Glazed Ham will wow your guests.

10Easter Lamb Shanks

Lamb and Easter go hand-in-hand just like turkey and Thanksgiving. So many can be so easily intimidated by lamb but with Love and Duck Fat's easy Easter Lamb Shanks recipe you can walk boldly into your holiday kitchen. With flavors of onions, bay leaf, rosemary and classic red wine it will be difficult for anyone to walk away disappointed.

Dessert

11Southern Ambrosia

Ambrosia means "food of the gods" according to Merriam-Webster, and the people of The South generally agree. Made up from fruit, frozen whipped topping and a few fixins' for garnish it will be a light, sweet finish to your big meal. Try this Southern Ambrosia for Southern Bite.

12Sweet Potato Praline Casserole

Photo: Taste of Home

We close out our meal with another Southern staple: the sweet potato. Mix a sweet potato with a casserole and you have a Southern dream. Kathy G. has created a Sweet Potato Praline Casserole recipe that will top off your Easter celebration in the most unforgettable of ways.

21 Easy Easter Dinner Recipes - The New York Times

Posted: 31 Mar 2021 10:31 AM PDT

After cooking three meals day after day for an entire year, no one feels like spending hours in the kitchen whipping up an Easter feast, but eating handfuls of chocolate eggs and jelly beans doesn't feel quite right either. These easy Easter dinner recipes, most of which come together in an hour or less, are for those of us who are tired of cooking, but still want to celebrate the day with a delicious meal.

This 15-minute salmon dish from Kay Chun is like a breezy spring afternoon on a plate. As the salmon roasts, the peas and radishes simmer on the stovetop in a light sauce of brown butter, capers, miso and mustard. And readers love it: "This is the most delicious meal I've cooked since the stay at home order, and that's saying a lot since I've cooked every meal."

Leave your mixer in the cabinet: This tangy, moist carrot cake from Yossy Arefi comes together in a single bowl. Some readers have added chopped crystallized ginger and ground ginger for a bit of a kick, and, if you're running low on carrots, you can even substitute in grated apple or sweet potato for some of the carrots.

Recipe: Carrot Loaf Cake With Tangy Lemon Glaze

If roast lamb typically graces your Easter table, but you're looking for a more casual recipe this year, this beautiful pasta dish from Kay Chun is an impressive option. It combines ground lamb with spinach, peas and lemon for a springtime version of Bolognese bianco, or white Bolognese.

Recipe: Spring Pasta Bolognese With Lamb and Peas

Great news: This stunning vegetarian tart from Sue Li is made with store-bought puff pastry, so it comes together in one hour. This recipe calls for carrots — use rainbow carrots if you can find them — but it works just as well with onions, parsnips, beets, zucchini or pumpkin.

Raise your glass to spring with this refreshing five-ingredient wine cooler — remember those? — from Rebekah Peppler. All you need is a bottle of rosé, lime juice, soda water and fresh thyme sprigs. One reader made a batch of these in a pitcher, allowing the thyme sprigs to sit in the mixture for a few minutes before straining them out, and it was such a hit she had to make a second batch.

Recipe: Rosé Cooler

Here's another simple option for those in the must-have-lamb-for-Easter camp: This Alison Roman recipe involves searing quick-cooking chops with plenty of black pepper and fennel seed, then serving them with a cold and crunchy cucumber, fennel and shallot salad. Serve alongside roasted potatoes for a hearty meal.

Recipe: Spiced Lamb Chops With Fennel and Cucumber

Hetty McKinnon adds charred scallions and green beans to a pile of unassuming ramen noodles, transforming them into a meal that is holiday-worthy. If you can get your hands on ramps, use those in place of the scallions; they're a lovely nod to the season.

Recipe: Vegan Ramen With Charred Scallions, Green Beans and Chile Oil

Scalloped potatoes look fancy, but this Mark Bittman dish is decidedly not, and it's a fine accompaniment to ham, lamb or pork. You can use either Yukon Gold or russet, but stick with one or the other because the mixture won't cook evenly otherwise. Feel free to tuck fresh or dried thyme or rosemary between the layers of potatoes if you have them.

Recipe: Potatoes au Gratin

This Colu Henry recipe takes roast chicken to another level with minimal effort. Just whisk together grapefruit juice, honey, curry powder and thyme, then spoon the mixture over the chicken before sliding it in to the oven. One reader smartly added fingerling potatoes and whole garlic cloves to the pan during the last 30 minutes of cooking for a smart side dish.

Recipe: Curried Roast Chicken With Grapefruit, Honey and Thyme

Kalbi jjim is a Korean long-braised, salty-sweet short rib and vegetable dish that is traditionally made for special occasions, but in this version from Kay Chun, an electric pressure cooker makes it possible in just over an hour. Make a pot of rice, and you've got a spectacular meal.

Recipe: Pressure Cooker Kalbi Jjim

Ali Slagle's lemony orzo with asparagus has more than 2,000 five-star ratings, so you know it's going to be good. Serve it as vegetarian main or as a side dish for roast chicken, pork or lamb.

It's the season for rhubarb, and Mark Bittman's dead-simple crisp is a great way to cook with it. You can substitute strawberries for some of the rhubarb if you're a fan of that traditional combination.

Recipe: Rhubarb Crisp

"Lawdalmighty, this was delicious!" wrote one reader about these 25-minute salty-sweet pork chops from Samantha Seneviratne. What more is there to say? Serve it over creamy polenta and alongside something crisp and green like steamed asparagus or snap peas.

Recipe: Skillet Pork Chops With Blistered Grapes

Eggs may be the only thing that make it Easter-worthy, but, for the truly exhausted, we present Mark Bittman's spaghetti with fried eggs. All you need is spaghetti, four eggs, olive oil, garlic and Parmesan. Sprinkle with fresh spring herbs for a little color.

Recipe: Spaghetti and Fried Eggs

This warm vegetarian bean salad from Colu Henry is, as one reader put it, "a perfect spring dish." The creamy beans, the salty miso, the zingy radish and arugula and the tangy citrus work together for a perfectly balanced party on a plate. You can also make it with chickpeas if that's what you have on hand.

Recipe: White Beans With Radishes, Miso and Greens

This ridiculously easy citrus custard and Saltine cracker crust pie is named for a lazy beach town on the barrier islands of North Carolina. I adapted it from Bill Smith — the chef at Crook's Corner, a Chapel Hill, N.C., restaurant that specializes in Southern comfort food — and it's a big reader favorite. Ritz crackers work for the crust, too.

Recipe: Atlantic Beach Pie

With more than 9,000 five-star ratings, this one-pan, egg-tomato-red pepper dish from Melissa Clark is a sure thing. Serve it for brunch or as a vegetarian dinner, and always with good bread.

Recipe: Shakshuka With Feta

This 15-minute vegan chocolate pudding from Ali Slagle is inspired by a recipe from the cookbook author Alice Medrich, in which she uses both cocoa powder and chocolate to create deep flavor. Sprinkle the finished puddings with flaky sea salt, cinnamon or chili powder, or top with a swirl of nondairy whipped topping and colorful sprinkles.

A classic French potato salad is delicious served at any temperature, and this one from William Norwich makes quite the sidekick to any roast meat or chicken. Bonus: The flavors get better and more complex with time, so this is the ideal make-ahead side.

Recipe: Potato Salad With Dijon Vinaigrette

The mild bitterness of thyme and oregano complement the sweetness of the carrots in this super easy, five-ingredient recipe from Martha Rose Shulman. If washing sticky, caked-on sheet pans makes you angry, line it with aluminum foil or parchment.

Recipe: Roasted Carrots

This recipe from Martha Rose Shulman calls for making a simple shrimp broth, but skip it if you don't have the time, and substitute with chicken or vegetable broth. If you use frozen peas, skip the simmering in Step 3, and just add them in Step 4 as per the instructions. Serve over piles of fluffy white rice.

Recipe: Garlic Shrimp With Peas

"Husband says this is the best pot roast he's ever had!" one reader wrote. This takes a good eight hours to cook, but the prep is minimal and the lengthy braise is done in a slow cooker, so you can leave the house to enjoy the warmer weather. When you return, sun-kissed and windblown, dinner will be ready.

Recipe: Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Get more recommendations in our collection of Easy Easter Dinner Recipes and Easter Recipes.

Vegan Tech Startup Clever Cashew Launches Platform to Simplify Finding New Recipes - VEGWORLD Magazine

Posted: 02 Apr 2021 05:50 PM PDT

Clever Cashew provides an ad-free subscription platform for discovering vegan recipes without the affiliate links and long narratives found on many blog pages.

April 2, 2021 – Clever Cashew aims to change the process of discovering new vegan recipes. Searching for new recipes typically lands you on blog pages with countless pop-up ads, affiliate links, slow load times, and long narratives unrelated to the recipe.

"When I became vegan, I found it incredibly difficult to locate easy recipes because the blogs created such a frustrating user experience. I wanted to create an easier way to help other people trying a vegan or plant-based diet find recipes," co-founder Andrew Fullen says, whose background in software development led him to create the 'vegan meets tech' platform.

Because most recipe blogs rely on search traffic to click ads and affiliate links, they aim to improve search engine placement by including long stories with keywords on the page. These stories are typically superfluous narratives unrelated to actually cooking the recipe. Unfortunately, this creates a sub-par user experience. Before finding the actual recipe, a user must sift through paragraphs of irrelevant text from the author all while dodging pop-up video ads, comment sections, and slow load times.

Clever Cashew is the first of its kind vegan recipe platform simplifying recipe discovery. Members have unlimited access to the chef-curated collection of healthy & simple vegan recipes – without ads, narratives, affiliate links, or comment sections. The company's mission is to eliminate the distractions and frustrations commonly found on recipe blogs and ultimately revolutionize online recipe discovery. Each recipe page contains a photo of the completed recipe, the necessary ingredients, and a concise set of instructions, often under ten steps.

The company's recipes are created by in-house chef, Stephanie Mosely – a long time vegan and author of her own cookbook series, CookingSumthnGood. With a variety of breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert recipes, vegans of all experience levels will enjoy the ease of finding new simple-to-make recipes without the clutter found on other platforms.

A free 14-day trial is available for all new users. The platform boosts a no-commitment, cancel anytime policy so members can use the service when it's right for them.

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Easy Easter brunch recipes: Quiche, asparagus tart, sweet bread - TODAY

Posted: 02 Apr 2021 05:32 AM PDT

YouTube sensation Laura Vitale is joining TODAY to share a few of her easy Easter entertaining recipes. She shows us how to make a veggie-and-cheese quiche with a hash-brown crust, a cheesy asparagus tart and sweet, braided Easter bread.

Laura Vitale

I love this recipe for its versatility. It also happens to combine two of my favorite recipes in one: crispy hash browns and baked frittata. It's a nice update to the classic quiche, and I'd much rather have crispy potatoes as a base than soggy pie crust.

Laura Vitale

This recipe is fantastic for a make-ahead brunch. Assemble the night before, cover, store in the fridge and bake at the last minute before serving. So, not only is it delicious, it's also very entertaining-friendly!

Laura Vitale

This is one of our family's favorite recipes. It wouldn't be Easter without sweet bread to dip into coffee first thing Easter morning and stirred into chamomile last thing on Easter night.

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Soulful Easter recipes: Cola-glazed ham and bacon mac and cheese - TODAY

Posted: 02 Apr 2021 02:45 PM PDT

Chef, author and restaurateur Deborah VanTrece is joining TODAY to share a few of her favorite Easter entertaining recipes from her new cookbook, "The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors." She shows us how to make a cola and kumquat glazed ham and macaroni and cheese with bacon and pecans.

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Nathan Congleton / TODAY

My travels through Asia exposed me to ways to broaden the use of ham hocks that I wasn't familiar with. At a friend's home I experienced ham hocks braised in a sweet sticky sauce. It was quite amazing, and when I returned to Atlanta, I came up with this recipe to create those flavors. The richness of the smoked pork hock marries well with the spices, and the cola reduces to a syrupy sauce that accents the pork perfectly.

Nathan Congleton / TODAY

Although I have tasted versions of this dish all over the world, with cheeses produce by artisans, it still doesn't compare to what I've tasted in the most humble of kitchens. The women of my family were well versed in turning commodity cheese into a liquid gold that produced the best macaroni and cheese. It was a cheap dish that could feed a lot of people. This updated version puts a fun twist on this historic dish and is great for serving large groups, or for a potluck supper.

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