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We are having a late brunch with a smoked Gouda/ham and corkscrew pasta casserole, a cheesy egg boat, fresh mixed fruit, roasted Brussels sprouts, homemade hot cross buns and Mimosas. Our son, DIL and two grandkids will be coming over to join us.
We will have three guests this year, which is much better than the empty house and Chinese take-out we had last Easter.
Still not sure of the main dish, but here are my sides. - New England corn pudding with Vermont Cheddar, sweet potatoes, and carrots baked with apricots and topped with toasted pecans, slightly chilled Hungarian style potato salad (I adapted this recipe from one given to me by a friend whose husband is Hungarian) asparagus - not sure how I am preparing it. A huge crispy spring salad with baby spinach, chopped celery, carrots, multi-colored grape tomatoes, green onions, and snap peas. I am making a very tasty buttermilk-based Herb Rach that is out of this world.
My son's fiance and he will be making a dessert, and the three of us are making a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
When DD was still home we used to have roasted lamb dinner. Is only her dad and me, so same decision for appetizers for Easter. Devilled eggs 3 types, small sandwiches: cucumber & dill, chicken and 2 others. Small potato salad. Small green salad. Individual trifle made in ice cream coupes.
Second easter day is leftovers and a soup.
Breakfast just coffee/tea and easter bread,it is similar to stollen.
A Roast Lamb dinner is traditional on Easter Sunday in the UK.
Hot Cross buns, Easter Eggs and Morris Dancing are other Easter traditions.
In the UK, Easter is a national holiday, and includes Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, so is basically a four day national holiday for most working people, which is great if you get some nice spring weather.
When I was a kid, my mom would boil a couple of dozen eggs and we kids decorated them. Then, they would sit out in a bowl on the kitchen table until they were all eaten, which could take up to a week.
That would be a big NO! NO! today and we would all die of food poisoning.
I'm not a big boiled egg fan so when I had my own family, I would start a few weeks before Easter blowing out the eggs I used in recipes. Then we colored the empty shells. The advantage of this method is that if some of the eggs are specially nice, you can save them and bring them out again next year.
We're hosting the family, so we're smoking pork loin. Also serving sauteed cabbage, green beans almondine, sangria berry gelatin, and cheesecake, iced tea and wine. I doubt there will be leftovers.
Weather looking good enough to serve al fresco on our huge deck table.
When I was a kid, my mom would boil a couple of dozen eggs and we kids decorated them. Then, they would sit out in a bowl on the kitchen table until they were all eaten, which could take up to a week.
That would be a big NO! NO! today and we would all die of food poisoning.
I'm not a big boiled egg fan so when I had my own family, I would start a few weeks before Easter blowing out the eggs I used in recipes. Then we colored the empty shells. The advantage of this method is that if some of the eggs are specially nice, you can save them and bring them out again next year.
We usually just dyed and decorated a dozen eggs. Since there 6 of us, they didn't last for long. We also used to hide the eggs for each other to find. My one older brother used to hide eggs in crazy places and one would always be missing at the end of the day. We'd finally find it when it started to stink.
I remember the pysanky eggs the the Ukrainian women made to sell at the church fundraiser.
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