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Spiral sliced ham (picked up at Costco for $1.99 a pound today)
Chicken cordon bleu
Rice Pilaf
Corn bread pudding
Cauliflower Au gratin
Fresh green beans with lemon and garlic.
Biscuits or rolls with butter
Tossed salad.
I am sure other guests will bring food. I'll let my niece handle dessert since she went to culinary school for that.
just getting ready to leave for granddauthers house. I think she is doing a ham. I am taking cheese and sausages for appetizers. One of the cheeses is new at Sam's. It is a brei/ blue cheese and addictive to say the least.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Kielbasa. Even the non Polish people around here are eating it on Easter. Although usually along side something else like spiral ham.
Some of the local meat companies here make special "Easter kielbasa" blends every year.
just getting ready to leave for granddauthers house. I think she is doing a ham. I am taking cheese and sausages for appetizers. One of the cheeses is new at Sam's. It is a brei/ blue cheese and addictive to say the least.
I know my menu looked big and there were nine of us but I made extra so we can have leftovers.
I just came across this thread...for us and many people we know, our meal (and many to follow...) come from traditional Eastern European (religious based) customs that change very little over the years. There are many descriptions of this on the Internet, here is one: (other than Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak as the article is titled many other ethnicities including Rusyn and Polish ... and probably many others follow similar customs...including assembling an Easter basket withe the feast items, carried to church to be blessed after services). Since many in this thread seem to not follow similar customs, some folks might find this interesting:
This year, as in every year I can recall, we had ham, beet/horseradish combo, "p a s ka" bread, homemade Hrudka (an egg cheese made with milk), lots of kielbasi, hard boiled eggs (dyed red/brown using onion skins), butter, and more. Local and ethnic variations and extensions of more items tend to come in around these basic building blocks. Lots of leftovers often remain to be eaten during the week, typically on sandwiches combining the meats and cheese on the special bread.
Many of these people would have fasted from meat (and some dairy too) for all of the Lenten weeks preceding Easter (Pascha) and thus the celebration is all the richer.
For those that celebrate Easter Sunday what's on the menu?
I decided not to go with my usual chicken cordon bleu, spiral ham dinner. Getting tired of both. I making an Italian feast.
Baked Ziti
Homemade meat sauce with sausage and meatballs cooked in the sauce
Garlic bread
Tossed salad with homemade vinaigrette dressing
Fresh green beans with garlic and oil.
Mini cannoli cups (uses Pillsbury pie crust) if I feel like it.
whatever dessert my In laws bring.
This year it's only 6 of us. it's usually 11 but one niece has to work (she's pastry chef), the other niece lives in buffalo and isn't coming down and my other BIL and SIL are going to her family's for dinner.
It's just me, so no need to do anything special. But I recently found that my local Whole Foods sells some fresh gluten free hawaiian rolls, so I'm looking forward to enjoying them with a small pack of Honeybaked Ham and a nice salad.
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Easter dinner 2018
