Another batch of questions answered! If I didn’t get to your question here, I’ll tackle it in the next dispatch! And the picture above has nothing to do with anything but that enormous arrangement literally left me swooning
In a dream world, I’d stow all of your little queries, hand-written, in a little tray on a console in a fabulous entryway like this. A girl can dream?! Q: What’s on your Easter dinner menu? A: First comes Saint Patrick’s day, and Mr. Magpie is corning his own beef and I’ll be making Martha Stewart’s caraway-seed-studded soda bread (delicious slathered with Kerrygold butter). So we’ve been talking about that and deferring conversations about Easter. But most likely leg of lamb! (We made ham last year.) We love Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc cookbook for major meals like this — a food blogger wrote about the Ad Hoc roasted leg of lamb here in case you want a preview. He also...