Hannah Agran

Make your Easter menu taste like pure sunshine with these recipes for both savory and sweet dishes. It's the moment for crowd-pleasing casseroles like Spinach-Artichoke Strata, classics such as glossy Cherry-Glazed Ham, and colorful desserts like Strawberry Charlotte.

These vegetarian main course recipes are all easy enough to make on a weeknight; they whip up in less than an hour. The recipes include a few quick meatless pizzas, pastas, salads, a frittata, and a sheet-pan dinner.

We're baking the fresh springtime flavors of lemon, lime, rhubarb, raspberry, and more into our favorite dessert recipes: panna cotta, cheesecake, bar cookies, cream puffs, pavlovas, shortbread, angel food cake, and more.

These easy, retro recipes are perfect for any party. They have a throwback feel—but updated. Try favorites like deviled eggs, cheese balls, cranberry punch, glazed pecans, pigs in a blanket, and more.

Michigan mom and daughter Beth Sinclair and Lexi Harrison have drawn millions of followers to Crowded Kitchen with their fresh, seasonal cooking. We chatted with them about their new cookbook and tried three recipes from the book—Citrus-Herb Chicken Kebabs; Berry, Avocado, and Spinach Salad; and Loaded Potato Wedge Nachos.

Got a lot of zucchini this season? These recipes can help you work through your harvest. Whether you’re in the mood for something grilled, sweet, or savory, we’ve got you covered. Recipes include breads, cakes, brownies, frittatas, fresh salads, soups, and casseroles.

To toast a decade of Midwest Living’s Road Rally, we set sail on an 8-day Viking cruise from Milwaukee to Toronto, tallying two countries, two states, four Great Lakes, and endless shades of blue. Here’s everywhere we went, including Mackinac Island, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and Niagara Falls.

You may be surprised to learn you can take a world-class, luxury cruise right here in the Midwest. We took a Great Lakes voyage from Milwaukee to Toronto, Canada, on Viking Octantis and discovered the pleasure is all in the details, like heated bathroom floors in the state rooms and curated art everywhere.

Viking has two expedition ships that ply the Great Lakes, Polaris and Octantis, and both have working science labs built right onto the ship. While sailing across Lake Erie on board Octantis, we chatted with the ship’s chief scientist, Kimberly Galvez, about what makes Viking’s science program so unique.

Northfield, Minnesota, rightly touts itself as one of the cutest college towns around, with both Carleton College and St. Olaf College. Swing by on a weekend when school is in session for peak fall vibes, and check out sites such as Carleton’s Cowling Arboretum as well as restaurants, shops, and local orchards.