Easter: Menus

Promised to cook lunch over the Easter holiday?

Mix and match our 9 recipes to make up your own three-course menu.

The Delia Online Cookery School: All nine recipes here can be mixed and matched to make up a three course meal. If you make Russian Eggs, you can watch how to make homemade mayonnaise in our video. Just click the image to play.

English Potted Crab

It's sometimes a real treat to take a break from modern global cooking and return to something purely and s...

It's sometimes a real treat to take a break from modern global cooking and return to something purely and simply British or, in this case, English. For centuries in...

Foil-baked Whole Salmon

The way I cook a salmon is extremely slowly, wrapped in foil in the oven. I cannot recommend this method...

The way I cook a salmon is extremely slowly, wrapped in foil in the oven. I cannot recommend this method highly enough. With skin and bones, head and tail intact th...

1 hour 30 minutes - 3 hours

to cook

Fresh Asparagus with Foaming Hollandaise

The marriage of asparagus and hollandaise was quite definitely made in heaven, and it seems sad to me that ...

The marriage of asparagus and hollandaise was quite definitely made in heaven, and it seems sad to me that 'health' issues should bring about a divorce. There...

Vegetarian

Refrigerator Cake

Don't forget to start the night before you want it. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to zest l...

Don't forget to start the night before you want it. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to zest lemons in our video - just click on the image to play.

Vegetarian

Old-fashioned Rhubarb Trifle

Old-fashioned because when I was a child – a very long time ago – I used to love jelly trifles, and my moth...

Old-fashioned because when I was a child – a very long time ago – I used to love jelly trifles, and my mother would always make one for my birthday. This is a much ...

Roast Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary

This recipe for roast lamb can be served with gravy or Rosemary and Onion Sauce, which is also good with la...

This recipe for roast lamb can be served with gravy or Rosemary and Onion Sauce, which is also good with lamb chops, or served with bangers and mash. The Delia Onli...

2 hours

to cook

Russian Eggs

Not the kind you get in help-yourself salad bars and cafes - this is the real thing. Eggs, boiled...

Not the kind you get in help-yourself salad bars and cafes - this is the real thing. Eggs, boiled - not hard, but with a bit of squidge at the centre - anoin...

Roast Chicken with Stuffing and Gravy

This is a family roast chicken, moist and succulent for Sunday lunch, with lots of crispy bacon, real chick...

This is a family roast chicken, moist and succulent for Sunday lunch, with lots of crispy bacon, real chicken-flavoured gravy, some very savoury stuffing and a sauce. ...

1 hour 50 minutes - 2 hours 20 minutes

to cook

Tropical Fruit Jellies

This is a cheat's recipe. The tropical fruit juice comes freshly squeezed – in a bottle from the superma...

This is a cheat's recipe. The tropical fruit juice comes freshly squeezed – in a bottle from the supermarket. And, what's more, this really beautiful dessert contai...