Skip to Main Content

Holidays

Expecting a house full of guests for the holidays? From make-ahead meals, to easy finger food recipes, and crowd-pleasing seasonal favorites—holiday cookies included!—celebrate the season with these holiday delights.

Narrow Your Search:

Brioche buns on a baking sheet.

The Best, Easiest No-Knead Brioche Buns

I have made this strawberry mascarpone tart several times with a lemony, sweetened mascarpone topped with fresh berries. This is the only pastry crust I will make all summer long in my hot kitchen, on my unforgiving countertops, with my warm, clammy hands. Sayonara rolling pin, see you in the fall. // alexandracooks.com

Strawberry Mascarpone Tart

Just baked strawberry-rhubarb crisp.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

A tray of popovers in the oven.

Lofty Popovers (Yorkshire Pudding)

Bowls of blueberry cobbler with ice cream on a table.

Lemon Blueberry Cobbler

The best brioche buns.

July Fourth Recipes

Overhead close-up of buttermilk breakfast cake fresh from the oven.

Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake

A carved brown sugar glazed ham on a platter.

Favorite Easter Recipes: Simple Baked Ham, Best Mustard Sauce, Hot Cross Buns, Lemon-Ricotta Cheesecake and More

A montage of images of Mother's Day gift ideas.

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean, egg yolks — it would have been a serious let down if these pots de creme hadn't been anything but spectacular, which they were, tasting like untorched crème brulée, but better, with the smoothest, most velvety texture, perfectly sweet, deeply satisfying in every which way. // alexandracooks.com

Vanilla Bean Pots de Crème

A montage of Father's Day gift ideas.

Father’s Day Gift Guide: 9 Ideas

A jar of Greek salad dressing on a countertop.

5-Ingredient Greek Salad Dressing Recipe

A gratin dish filled with Lemon-Blueberry Crisp.

Easy Lemon Blueberry Crisp

A tray of cupcakes decorated as owls.

One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

This rich chocolate Easter egg nest cake is festive and fun, puffing way up when it bakes and sinking when it cools, a crackly meringue-like layer forming a perfect base to house dozens of colorful candy eggs. // alexandracooks.com

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Cinnamon pull-apart bread on a board.

Cinnamon and Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

This simple pasta salad is particularly good warm, when the just-boiled shells melt the cheese, just slightly cook the tomatoes and soak up all the flavors of the olive oil and lemon juice. It can also be prepared ahead and served at room temperature — it tastes better the longer it sits in fact. // alexandracooks.com

Kristina’s Simple Pasta Salad

A pan-seared burger with secret sauce, pickled onions, and tomato on homemade brioche.

Cast Iron Skillet Burgers with Roasted Green Peppers

Lemon-Buttermilk Cake

How to Make Tiramisu

Tiramisu

A plate of chips and tomato salsa.

Moosewood Tomato Salsa

36 Favorite Summer Salads

A bowl of white bean and orange salsa.

White Bean and Orange Salsa

In this campanelle dish, a warm anchovy-caper-olive oil sauce dresses the pasta first; then a splash of lemon juice and reserved cooking liquid thin out the sauce ensuring it coats the pasta nicely; finally chopped hard-boiled eggs and greens complete the dish to make an impromptu, deeply satisfying dinner. // alexandracooks.com

Campanelle with Hard-Boiled Eggs, Capers & Watercress

Lemony herby chickpea salad in a large bowl.

A glass bowl filled with watermelon gazpacho.

A bowl of roasted broccoli with lemon, garlic and parmesan.

A pot of curried chickpeas with cauliflower and coconut milk.

I have used this quick-pickle method for carrots, watermelon radishes, and now pickled kohlrabi — so easy and so good! // alexandracooks.com

More Vegetarian Recipes