Wishing you a Happy Easter!
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The holidays are underway and the Easter weekend is imminent. If you are catering for a houseful and would like some breakfast ideas, take a look at our cookbook showcase for Making Breakfast or Brunch Memorable. A batch of Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes should keep everybody happy and well fuelled.
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One of the joys of having little ones around is some kitchen time. Have a go at making those all-important Easter eggs yourselves with this recipe for Chocolate Eggs & Sweet Fillings. Or bake that seasonal classic: Simnel Cake, and have a slice ready for allcomers.
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If you have had enough of the sweet stuff, try these individual, savory, vegetable-filled Easter Egg Pies.
And if you still haven’t decided how you want to serve your Easter Sunday lamb, take a look at these 10 Ways with Lamb. |
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Pictured above: Easter Egg Pies from The Thrifty Veggie by Nicola Graimes
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A spotlight on Michaela Vais
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Vegetarian from the age of six, Michaela Vais transitioned to fully vegan in 2011 and has not looked back. In our new author profile of Michaela Vais, she talks us through why she is such a staunch advocate for a plant-based diet, what she offers the over one million followers of her @elavegan Instagram account, and how much she loves a curry.
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For more plant-based ideas and recipes read our Author Profile: Ashley Madden.
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Newly published: The Organised Cook by Amelia Freer
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Ingredient spotlight: eggs
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The culinary powerhouse that is the humble egg is both one of the easiest things to cook – boil or fry an egg for a near-instant meal – and one of the essentials of the complex art of patisserie. Where would the pastry chef be without the yolks for crème pâtissier, or the whites for meringues, marshmallow, macaron?
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When we refer to eggs we usually mean hen’s eggs, and they are also, along with the fluffy chicks that emerge from them, a universal symbol of spring. But duck, quail and goose eggs are all worth eating.
For ideas to make a meal of an egg beyond the entirely acceptable boiled egg and soldiers, try something from our 12 Ways with Eggs collection. Try Baked Eggs with Fresh Chives or these very seductive Sexy Scrambled Eggs.
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If you want more eggs, chef Grant MacPherson's book, Egg & Chicken, explores a world of possibilities of flavors with eggs (and chickens). His achievable recipes are full of playfulness and humor and captured stylishly by photographer Bill Milne.
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6 of the best coffee cakes
It is National Coffee Cake Day April 7. Not that we need an excuse to bake this perennial favorite. Here are 6 recipes worth getting your wooden spoon out for.
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