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A little retro and a whole lot of fun, cream cheese mints are the perfect way to keep little hands busy during Easter dinner preparations.

How do you make pound cake even more buttery and delicious? Easy! Pan-sear slices of it with butter and sugar. If you know how to make a grilled cheese, you can make this dessert, which is a perfect ending to an Easter — or any springtime — dinner.

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Foxglove Farm on Saltspring Island has been selected as one of the top cooking schools in the world by Travel and Leisure magazine in its April edition.

The classic Easter or spring lamb often is served with mint jelly. And that's fine, assuming you want to play it safe. We decided to flip things around. Actually, we didn't so much as flip the dish as turn it inside out.

I love lamb, in every way and every cut. But I don't eat it very often because of the same thing that tends to make it so very delicious — its fattiness. Still, all bets are off during Easter, when I happily bow to tradition.

LONDON, Ont. - Lamb is a staple for millions of families around the world and is as traditional for Easter, other religious celebrations and special occasions as turkey is at Thanksgiving for many Canadians. But here, it's almost the forgotten meat.

Easter dinner isn't generally the sort of meal we try to rush. The whole point is to savour the meal, not sprint through it the way we do most weeknights. But that doesn't mean we don't appreciate the easy, time-saving trick here and there.

When it comes to matzo, Chicago chef Laura Frankel says hers is a love-hate relationship. "Matzo and I are frenemies," she says of the unleavened cracker-like bread traditionally eaten during Jewish Passover celebrations.

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