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Got a lot a pretty colored Easter eggs? Make egg salad. Try this tasty, quick recipe on toasted artisan bread or served over a bed of fresh greens. For extra zest, try this amazing (and gluten free) Miso Mayo--either the regular or the red pepper.

Cilantro Dijon Egg Salad

Just a reminder to all flower lovers that the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is going on right now and ends April 30th. If you get a chance I highly recommend going to see the tulip fields. It is an amazing experience of color and we are so lucky to have such beautiful tulips in our backyard. Buying locally is very important and all of our tulips are purchased from local farmers.

Easter, Mother's Day, and graduations seem to all happen in the spring. Spring flowers are beautiful and fragrant. Changing seasons have a profound effect on the flowers and truly bring out the best in them. Whether you'll be entertaining for a special event this season such as Easter, having guests over for an intimate meal, or enjoying the warmer weather, you'll love the fresh and cheery look that wonderful spring flowers can bring to your home.

The featured bouquet for Easter is the Pastel Parade Bouquet. It is a combination of lite pink roses, tulips, and asters, magenta stock, and purple statice. It is a great value and combines seasonal spring flowers with spring colors. The other bouquet hopping into your cart is the Bunny Hop Bouquet. It is a bright bouquet with a combination of jewel tones. Flowers include gerber daisies, tiger lilies, and green sizzle pom poms that create a fun and fresh floral look.

Use our springy bouquet ideas to inspire a fresh look for the new season. The bouquets are quick to cut and drop in a vase. You and your guest will enjoy the fresh look of spring grown locally.

Cheers!
Sharon

This year I was able to source a limited amount of Hempler's Spiral Sliced Bone in Ham. This ham is made in Ferndale, Washington by the Hempler's Food Group, a family business that has been in operation for 75 years. These hams are honey cured ham and spiral sliced around the bone for ease of carving. Hempler's still uses the old family recipe passed down through the generations. These hams are a natural juice ham and have had no water pumped into them during the curing process. The slices are sliced at 3/8" thick which is thicker than most. (This is to prevent the ham from drying out when you heat the ham.)

To warm the ham, place in a roasting pan, add 1 cup of water and cover pan with lid or with a sheet of aluminum foil tightly wrapped to keep the moisture in. Place the roasting pan in a preheated oven at 325 degrees. Heat for 70-80 minutes (10 minutes per pound x 7-8 lbs) or until the internal temperature reaches 145 degrees, as oven temperatures may vary. After the cooking time has elapsed, turn oven to 400 degrees, remove lid or foil and let brown for 5 minutes. Pull ham from oven and let ham stand 10-15 minutes on counter top before serving. Since the ham is pre-sliced, all you need to do to remove the slices is slide the knife along the top of bone from front to back, and then run the knife around the sides and bottom of the bone to remove the remaining slices.

This ham comes with a glaze packet-- a brown sugar and powered honey mixture. Mix the glaze packet with 1/3 cup of water and spread over ham before placing in the oven. Baste the ham 2-3 times during the heating process. Baste one more time after removing the lid. The glaze will caramelize the last 5 minutes of cooking.

I have used a couple of other glazes over the years that I would like to share with you.
1) Instead of placing a cup of water in the roasting pan use 1/2 cup of real maple syrup and 1/2 cup of water. Baste 2-3 times during the heating process and one more time after removing the lid.
2) Mix together 3/4 cup apricot jam, 1/2 cup of brown sugar and 2 tbsp of ground mustard. Spread over the top of the ham. Baste the ham 2-3 times during the heating process and one more time after removing the lid.