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As for traditional Easter dinner, I am not sure there is such a thing except as individual family's see it and this depends, obviously where you live.
For us: as a child we always had leg of lamb.
After marriage we switched to ham.
There was a time when we went to our "then" favorite buffet at a place in So. Ca, east of Los Angeles named Griswalds. I am not sure if they are still there even. They were in Claremont I think.
Now, our family is rather large so we do ham for our entree. There are between 13 and 16 of us. Every family brings something. I furnish the ham veggie side dish and potato salad. If our oldest granddaughter is here I have to have chicken for her as she does not like ham. She and hubby will be on cruise this year.
With the ham will be
green beans but not green bean casserole. If we are going to have it at all we do that for Thanksgiving
If I don't do the beans I will do asparagus
DD is bringing her famous deviled eggs. What Easter is complete without them.
She is also bringing squash casserole
Our younger granddaughter will do her outstanding carrot cake.
our good friends, in fact she like my 3rd daughter is bringing a wonder fruit salad and bread.
Of course there will be plenty of scotch for the guys and plenty of wine for us gals and for the kids a fun Easter egg hunt.
Mom, best friend (framily) and sister-in-law all have birthdays on 18, 20 and 22 April. So we're taking Mom to her favorite restaurant on her birthday. On friend's birthday, we're having fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, salad, Mom's favorite cake (coconut lemon pudding), and friend's favorite cake (German chocolate). Sister's got health issues -- we asked what she could eat and this is the menu. Easter Sunday, friend is hosting the meal (don't know what it is, yet, but we're taking the leftover cakes along), then SIL has to fly home.
Not the least bit Jewish here, (even though all the neighbors on our street thought we were), but I love Jewish foods.
My mom used to clean the apartments of the widowed Jewish ladies on the Country Club Plaza, KCMO-when I was a child. I would go along and help when I could.
Mom ended up cooking quite a lot of the Jewish foods. As well as we had a delicious deli we could walk to.
We have been invited to my aunt's house for Easter lunch. I don't know what she's serving, but it will be plentiful and good.
None of my Jewish side of the family live in our city so there's no seder to be invited to, darn it. Maybe when the baby is a little older I can muster up my own seder, but we're really not very religious. When my grandfather was still alive, we used a haggadah that was meant for children to run our seder meal, and he would still sometimes say "let's skip this part." I still had to find the matzoh when I was 25 years old as I was still the youngest in the family!
My very favorite part of a Passover meal is the charoset, which I make the Ashkenazi way with apples, cinnamon, walnuts, honey, and a splash of red wine (not Manischewitz, god help me).
Maybe I should volunteer to bring this delicious treat to the Easter lunch - would that be too weird?
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I still had to find the matzoh when I was 25 years old as I was still the youngest in the family!