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Recipes for Easter Brunch

34 impressive and delicious dishes to help you celebrate Easter, from classic (glazed ham, pictured) to modern (smoked salmon potato skins) to nondenominational (challah French toast) to boozy (mimosa). BROWSE RECIPE SLIDESHOW

Celebrate Easter with Scotch Eggs

Scotch Eggs

Most Easter eggs are dyed, chocolate, or plastic and filled with jelly beans, but we took the Easter egg idea in a different direction: Scotch eggs. READ MORE

Easter Dessert Recipes

26 sweets for your Easter celebration, including a pavlova (pictured), vanilla pound cake, lemon meringue pie, cheesecake, cupcakes, shortcake, and an easy cobbler. BROWSE RECIPE SLIDESHOW

3 Leg of Lamb Menus for Easter

Easter Leg of Lamb menus Next to ham, lamb is the go-to centerpiece for Easter dinner. The CHOW Test Kitchen has put together menus featuring our three favorite leg of lamb recipes plus seasonal sides, to make planning your holiday meal easy. READ MORE

St. Patrick’s Day Recipes

Celebrate the Irish in you with corned beef, Irish coffee, chocolate-whiskey cake, and more. BROWSE RECIPE SLIDESHOW

Crazy DIY Flavored Nuts for March Madness

March Madness Trashy Flavors Spicy Nuts Is it possible to make better-tasting versions of commercial snack-food flavors like ranch and nacho cheese? With March Madness looming, the CHOW.com Test Kitchen took the challenge. READ MORE

Elegant Snacks and Drinks for Your Oscars Cocktail Party

Cocktails and finger food for a classy Academy Awards party. BROWSE RECIPE SLIDESHOW

Game Meat Recipes for the Big Game

Game Recipes for the Big Game The National Football League is notorious for enforcing its trademark on the term Super Bowl, so everyone, including us, gets stuck calling it "The Big Game" when we promote anything related to it. This year, the verbal hamstringing inspired us. We've created six riffs on classic sports bar food using actual game meats like elk, venison, and duck. READ MORE

Epic Christmas Feast: Lost Recipes of the Grand Hotels

Epic Christmas Feast: Lost Recipes from the Grand Hotels When you think of Christmas dinner, there's fantasy and reality. Reality is: You'll have a mishmash of spiral-sliced ham and the three-hummus dip tray from Trader Joe's. Fantasy is ... well, this was ours: an epic feast from the turn of the century. We wanted food from an Edith Wharton novel, like grand roasts and a seafood course, all served on a table with lots of silver and gold-rimmed china. So we dug up dozens of hotel menus from library archives and chose the most evocative dishes we could find. Then our test kitchen brought them back to life. READ MORE

Crazy-Easy Christmas Cookies

Crazy-Easy Christmas Cookies December calendars are packed with parties and travel, so it can be hard to bake one batch of cookies, let alone the requisite assortment for a cookie plate. CHOW to the rescue! We developed five cookie recipes (and two candy recipes) that had to fit three criteria: supereasy, delicious, and beautiful. READ MORE