A lamb dinner for Easter celebrations

Easter: Sicilian pasta with lamb and peas sauce

If you’d like to celebrate Easter, or simply the appearance of spring with lamb, why not make this traditional Sicilian pasta sauce of lamb and peas?

The tripe is the star of traditional appetizers at the Easter table, but it can also be eaten as a main course on the holiday menu. It is prepared mainly from lamb organs, such as the heart, liver and lungs, minced…

A lamb dinner for Easter celebrations

Lamb is traditionally on the menu on Easter. The consumption of lamb on this holiday can be traced back to the first Passover seder. However, Christians also adopted lamb for their holy day, likely as a representation and remembrance of…

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Stuffed and rolled Easter lamb leg

This recipe uses a simple but highly effective roasting method called reverse-searing to achieve edge-to-edge blushing pink lamb. The meat is slow-cooked first then the surface is browned quickly at the end, the reverse of what's usually done. If you are not confident with your knife skills, ask your butcher to debone and "butterfly" the lamb leg for you so it lies flat, ready for you to add a spiral of mushroomy-nutty-herby goodness.

Nailing the Greek Easter feast with the perfect lamb or goat

Much as we love spit-roasting, it does, admittedly, require a lot of space, a lot of effort and a big group of guests. Roasting, in contrast, is a faster and much easier way to prepare the lamb or goat for your Greek Orthodox Easter feast.

Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right

My mother died on Halloween, 2008. We left vigil at the house around eleven to put our then two-year-old down for the night. Dad called around eleven fifteen. The next day confounded me. Two of her brothers were in town, sensing rightly that time was running out. She had refused to see them, not out of spite or anything silly like that. There was no schism. They were her little brothers and she preferred they remember her as she was rather than …