Easter Recipe Round-up
For many families, due to the current circumstances around the world, Easter is going to look much different this year. When planning your Easter dinner, it’s more important than ever to support the local producers and businesses in our communities.
This Easter, follow our recipe round up of a few seasonal recipes to ensure your dinner has a fresh and local spread!
To make getting your hands on local a little bit easier, we’ve included a local source guide with each recipe to highlight who produces each main ingredient and where to find them.
1. Garden Party Cocktail
Start your meal off with this light and aromatic cocktail. Made with Compass Distillers‘ ‘ Summer GiNS, this Garden Party Cocktail is sure to encourage spring on its way.
Local Source Guide:
- Compass Distillers Summer GiNS: Purchase this product directly from the distillery or their online store.
2. Roasted Carrot Salad
This Roasted Carrot Salad is the perfect combination of savoury and sweet and is sure to please even the pickiest of palettes at Easter dinner! Made with fresh local produce, this beautiful dish can be served as an appetizer or a main.
Local Source Guide:
- Produce: Noggins Corner Farm Market, Stirling Fruit Farms, Masstown Market or one of the many other Farmers’ Markets of Nova Scotia – currently operating via their online store.
- Yogurt: Fox Hill Cheese House
3. Just Us! Savoury Morning Buns
If your Easter dinner is going to be a brunch these Just Us! Savoury Morning Buns are a menu must have. Warm, flaky and filled with cheese from Fox Hill Cheese House, this delicious recipe from Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op is exactly what you’ll want to wake up to each day.
Local Source Guide:
- Milk & cheese: Fox Hill Cheese House
- Organic Fair Trade Sugar: Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op
4. Apple, Maple & Mustard Caramelized Ham
If local ham is on your menu this Easter, make sure to try this Apple, Maple, and Mustard Caramelized Ham recipe from Meadowbrook Meat Market. Home of the “Jimmie Lamb Ham”, visit them in either Somerset or their location in Alderney landing to choose from their fully cooked boneless hams (either natural wood smoked, maple ham) or a ham that requires roasting (old-fashioned ham or picnic ham).
Local Source Guide:
- Local Apples:
- Noggins Corner Farm Market: Purchase directly from their several market store locations.
- Stirling Fruit Farms: Purchase directly from their several market store locations.
- Scotian Gold; Purchase directly from their several market store locations or find their apples at Sobeys stores and some Atlantic Super Stores in Nova Scotia.
- Maple syrup:
- Acadian Maple: Purchase via their online shop, the retail store in Tantallon, or by visiting your local Sobeys and Atlantic Super Store.
- Sugar Moon Farm: Available via their online shop.
- Local ham: Meadowbrook Meat Market Somerset or Alderney Landing location.
5. Maple Bundt Cake
Easter dinner wouldn’t be complete without dessert. This Maple Bundt Cake recipe, complete with streusel and a maple cream cheese glaze, is sure to be a hit. Maple sweetness and pure bliss!
Local Source Guide:
- Maple syrup:
- Acadian Maple: Purchase via their online shop, the retail store in Tantallon, or by visiting your local Sobeys and Atlantic Super Store.
- Sugar Moon Farm: Available via their online shop.
- Milk: Fox Hill Cheese House Halifax or Port Williams location, or suppliers such as Noggins Corner Farm Market.
BONUS! Nova Scotia Wine
No dinner is complete without a local Nova Scotia wine pairing! We suggest L’Acadie Vineyards, Avondale Sky, Benjamin Bridge, Luckett Vineyards, Planters Ridge Winery, Blomidon Estate, Grand Pre Winery, Gaspereau Vineyards, St. Famille Wines, Muwin Estate Winery, Lightfoot & Wolfville, Lunenburg County Winery, Mercator Vineyards, Casa Nova Fine Beverages, Petite Riviere Vineyards, or Jost Vineyards.
Visit their websites for complete details on online orders, curb side pick-ups and retail store hours.
Wine not your beverage? In Nova Scotia, we’re lucky to have an abundance of fantastic local cideries, breweries and distilleries from one end of the province to the other. Visit our Taste of Nova Scotia member page for a complete list.
Easter Take-Out
Not able to cook your Easter dinner this year? No problem! Kitchen Door is offering Easter Dinner to go. The take-out dinner features a salad with maple dressing, a local ham from the Pork Shop, local vegetables and a Nova Scotia Apple Cranberry Crisp for dessert!
Orders must be placed by Tuesday, April 7 at 5 p.m. Pick up takes place Saturday, April 11 at Kitchen Door. Delivery is available for an additional fee.
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