How's this for an Easter Sunday dinner...

Turkey & fixings
mashed pots
green beans
asparagas
Baked ham
scalloped pots
mac& cheese
pies
pies
pies.

I have to take a nap already.
What are you having?

Sounds like a terrific menu!

We're having ham, asparagus, green beans, some type of potatoes, caesar salad homemade bread and lemon pie.

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...except tavern ham for sandwiches or omelets, I would LOVE
an Easter turkey. Never happened though.
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One time, my sister (the finest home gourmet cook I know --
who couldn't boil hot dogs when she got married) made whole
deviled lobsters for Christmas dinner. AMAZING!!!
.
MiddleFingerMomMom, when she called, was certain that all of
us heathens were headed straight to hell for not having ham
or turkey.
.
That tasty, tasty road straight to hell.
.

People are weird.

:)

We're having easter breakfast. Ham & eggs. Toast. Coffee. Maybe a little OJ for Mrs. V.

Or - wait a minute - maybe ham & french toast. :9

But ham definitely. I will always link the resurrection of Christ - a fantasy within a fantasy - with leg o' Porky.

of nature's rebirth in springtime. It's too bad that it's been co-opted in the way that it has. It's very symbolic when you think about it.




As for food, I don't eat ham, so i don't know what we are having yet. My family used to always go out for dinner on Easter.

We're having:

Ham
Fresh Kielbasa
cheesy potatoes
green beans
corn casserole
broccoli/rice casserole
veggie tray and dill dip
deviled eggs

Peanut butter pie and a Spring cake.

going to do a bike ride around the capital first..

LOL.

We're having spiral sliced ham, green beans with bacon and feta, scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes for the less adventurous Midlets, and key lime pie.

Shrimp and a cheese platter to start.

W/ red potatoes, asparagus, and nice French red wine.

Very dark chocolate and Vintage Port for dessert... cigars and cognac are also available.

because Mr. t-t loves it, and it's just the two of us this year. The times I cooked elaborate Easter / Christmas dinners for a dozen people are over, but in so many ways I miss them. I loved watching my family enjoy the meals I planned and prepared.

Perhaps a bowl of caramel ice cream with chocolate sauce, some wafers and whipped cream a little later? Espresso with some Vecchia Romagna...? This is beginning to sound good. I may have to make another trip to the grocery store!

We're having
salmon
rice
asparagus with hollandaise sauce (from a mix)
corn (for the daughter's boyfriend who doesn't eat any other vegetables)
a tossed salad
dinner rolls
Sunshine Cake

Sunshine Cake recipe:
1 box yellow cake mix
11 0z can mandarin orange slices
4 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil.

Preheat over to 350.
Grease and lightly flour two 8-inch cake pans, or one bundt cake pan.
Beat eggs, add oil, then cake mix. Add mandarin oranges with the liquid.
Beat with mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.

Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes (longer for bundt cake)
When done, allow to cool completely.

Frosting:
20 oz can crushed pineapple (DRAINED)
8 oz Cool Whip
3.5 oz box of instant vanilla pudding

Mix everything with mixer for 2 minutes on low speed.
Frost the cooled cake and refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.

When my kids were little, I put an upside down paper cup inside the bundt cake, frosted over it and topped it with shredded coconut tinted green with food coloring. Then I added jelly beans and maybe some Peeps or small chocolate bunnies. Now my teeth ache just thinking about it.

I have to try it, and I'm even going for the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies. Thanks for posting!

maybe some cole slaw, etc. The lamb rack will be served like lollipops with a currant sauce, and roasted potatoes.

We are having: ham, kielbasa, 4-cheese potatoes, rice pilaf, asparagus, layered salad, rolls, paska bread, nut roll and for dessert-- bunny cake!

Roasted turkey breast
Glazed ham (peach preserves & schapps - YUM!)
procuitto wrapped asparagus
green beans
mixed fruit salad
potato salad
au gratin potatoes
coconut cake
apple pie

Happy eating, y'all!

Pen and paper are ready...!

Enjoy your dinner :fistbump:

Happy Easter to you! :toast:

Sweet potatoes just GO with ham.
Roasted asparagus, Mustard Mold*, green salad, deviled eggs, and strawberry shortcake.

*Miz t.'s Mustard Mold

4 EGGS
1/1/2 TPS DRY MUSTARD
¼ CUP WATER
1 ENVELOPE KNOX GELATIN
¾ CUP SUGAR
¼ TSP SALT
½ CUP CIDER VINEGAR
½ PINT WHIPPING CREAM


Mix the sugar with the gelatin that has been soaked in the ¼ cup of water, add the mustard and salt & ½ cup cider vinegar.

Beat eggs in the double boiler then add the mustard mixture. Cook over double boiler until the custard coats the back of a spoon. Cool

Whip cream then fold in the cooled mustard mixture.

Chill until set.

I've gotten quite good at turkey and ham. Without boasting, I now make both better than my mother did.

My mother was an amazing cook, and I took care starting in my teens to learn her recipes. I've improved on a few but not others; I still make green bean casserole her way. With canned french-cut green beans, and Campbells' cream of mushroom soup.

Anyway, tomorrow's menu involves for breakfast fresh polish sausage and hard boiled eggs for breakfast. I'm also toying with making a loaf of Pillsbury Italian bread. This is actually much better than it sounds; if one bakes anything from Pillsbury it has that "Pillsbury quality" to it; you can always taste that it's Pillsbury! But this italian bread they have, I brush it with melted butter and bedizen the exterior with oregano and basil, and the result is fresh-baked crusty herb bread, and it tastes REALLY good - for only a buck and a quarter! One can do the same thing with the Pillsbury breadsticks, except in that case I add a little parmesan to the sticks. I haven't finalized the breakfast plans, though; heaven knows we'll be eating enough food tomorrow so I may skip the bread.

For lunch/dinner (since the meal will probably fall between traditional lunchtime and dinnertime), we're going to my mother-in-law's for "corned beef and beef tenderloin" (so the wife tells me). She's an immigrant, Hungarian-American, and she was for many years married to an Austrian-American. Needless to say, her cooking is very European in style; I expect that beef tenderloin will be cooked in beer and something will be served with dill sauce. Spaetzel is a given. No ham this year; not a big deal since I bought one to make at home (probably next week).

We're having...

Ham

Collard Greens...made with bacon

Black eyed peas

Potato salad

Corn bread

Mac & Cheese..

Pig pickin' cake...

Which is made just like "Sunshine cake" (post #9)

Wild rice

Green Salad

Steamed Carrots

Potato cakes with a mango chutney

Wine, and more wine

Vegan brownies.

I just made a coconut cream cake with fresh strawberries.

Dinnner will probably be ham.

Yours sounds wonderful!

Leg of lamb with mint jelly
Roasted potatoes and carrots
Rolls
Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies

I might have left something out; I forget.

followed by some blackberries and green tea

:)