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A Peeps cocktail for Easter. Photo courtesy XBar | Hyatt Regency | Los Angeles. This idea came to us from X Bar at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles. They use a Pink Lady cocktail, but you can use other pink cocktail recipes, including two different pink Martinis. The first step is to…
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Homemade hot cross buns. Photo courtesy Hot Bread Kitchen. With Easter a week away, you can start baking the seasonal treat, hot cross buns. The first recorded use of the term “hot cross bun” appears in 1733. A sweet yeast bun made with raisins or currants, the cross on top was originally made with…
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Hopster Bunnies, a gourmet preference over buttercream-filled eggs. Photo courtesy Recchiuti Confections. As a child, we yearned for a three-foot-tall chocolate Easter rabbit. As a teen, we couldn’t get enough buttercream-filled chocolate Easter eggs. These days, as a far-more experienced chocolate eater, we want Easter candy with a gourmet touch. Recchiuti Confections is happy…
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Ham doesn’t get any better than this Kurobuta. Photo courtesy Snake River Farms. If you’ve been thinking about a juicy Easter ham gracing your table next week, there’s still time to order the best. In our opinion, that’s a Kurobuta (koo-row-BOO-tuh) ham from Snake River Farms. We’ve order at least one each year, and…
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People who love to put out a good spread typically go whole-hog on the hors d’oeuvre. The problem, in advance of a big feast, is that those who have been holding back on eating in anticipation of the big meal may go overboard with the pre-meal tidbits. Guests may have eaten very lightly that day…
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