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Post by ajsweetpea on Mar 23, 2024 20:02:12 GMT
I can't believe Easter is only a week away. What are you serving?
On the menu here will be:
-Ham
-Potatoes Au Gratin
-Sweet potatoes with the marshmallow topping
-Glazed carrots
-Roasted asparagus
-Bread made in the bread machine
And for dessert, I am planning to try a Pioneer Woman recipe and make a rustic strawberry tart. Looks pretty simple so I'm going to give it a try!
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Post by Linda on Mar 23, 2024 20:03:51 GMT
I'm not sure yet - hopefully lamb but Aldi didn't have the small lamb roasts in stock and Publix only had whole leg of lamb and that's both too much and too expensive.
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Post by pilcas on Mar 23, 2024 20:13:41 GMT
I’m Catholic but I don5 do anything special for Easter.
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Post by pantsonfire on Mar 23, 2024 20:16:45 GMT
Braised chicken with apricot sauce
Green beans
Roasted potatoes with lemon sauce
Pasta salad
Fruit salad
Blackberry cobbler (dessert)
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Post by snyder on Mar 23, 2024 20:17:28 GMT
We are going non-traditional and having BBQ catered.
Brisket
Pulled Pork
Sausages
Baked Beans
Cole Slaw
Potato Salad
Garden Salad
Veggie Tray
Dinner Rolls
Banana Pudding
Cherry Cobbler
Various drinks
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 23, 2024 20:20:00 GMT
Just me and dh. I'm working on Easter so you'd better believe I'm not cooking much when I get home. We'll probably get take-out. Someone gave me a gift card for Uber Eats so we'll use that to get something different. We're in a Thai rut when it comes to take out so we are determined to get something different. lol
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Post by katiekaty on Mar 23, 2024 21:09:35 GMT
Small ham and small turkey breast
Twice baked potatoes
Tomato and cucumber salad
Maybe rice dressing
Green beans
Rolls
Small lemon Bundt cake and a small chocolate Bundt cake (both of these make about 4-6 servings each)
Fairly healthy as far as it goes compared to previous years as I have made some changes to my old recipes. We aren’t doing candy this year. There will be just four of us. Hopefully there will be minimal leftovers, enough for one or two lunch servings. It’s time to cut way back on these large holiday meals and struggle with leftovers for days later!
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Post by Tearisci on Mar 23, 2024 21:33:55 GMT
I’m Catholic but I don5 do anything special for Easter. This is interesting to me. Do Catholics not do anything for easter with Jesus themed? |
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Post by stampnscrap1128 on Mar 23, 2024 22:03:40 GMT
I doubt I'll be making much of anything plus I won't be off my driving restriction by then (I had really bad right shoulder/bicep surgery 4 weeks ago). My right arm and shoulder, bicep are especially painful. I'm not a huge Easter dinner fan so anything would be ok with me.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 23, 2024 22:05:40 GMT
We have brunch at my dad's house. Dad will cook bacon and eggs on the BBQ. Stepmum will make a pancetta and quail egg tart (my favourite) and a cheese and spinach cheesecake. Oh, and hot cross buns of course.
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Post by Merge on Mar 23, 2024 22:07:33 GMT
Lemon chicken, risotto with peas and asparagus, key lime pie. It’s just the four of us so we’re not getting fancy.
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Post by bethany102399 on Mar 23, 2024 22:11:13 GMT
We are going non-traditional and having BBQ catered Can I come over for dinner? I'll leave everyone else at home. I love BBQ, but no one else in my house does so I rarely get it. I suspect we'll have ham, a cheesy potato side and I'm trying to find my mom's carrot cake recipe. I have several of her cookbooks as well as her cookbook card box but I cannot find it. Unfortunately prayer isn't working either - she died in 2019. She had a couple of recipes that I truly miss and her carrot cake is one of them. |
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Post by snyder on Mar 23, 2024 22:19:35 GMT
We are going non-traditional and having BBQ catered Can I come over for dinner? I'll leave everyone else at home. I love BBQ, but no one else in my house does so I rarely get it. I suspect we'll have ham, a cheesy potato side and I'm trying to find my mom's carrot cake recipe. I have several of her cookbooks as well as her cookbook card box but I cannot find it. Unfortunately prayer isn't working either - she died in 2019. She had a couple of recipes that I truly miss and her carrot cake is one of them. Sure, always room for one more.
I did buy a spirial ham to prepare later. Gotta have some ham too. We might to that for Mother's Day.
Sorry about the loss of your mother. Mine is 93 and I often think what it will be like without her. I sure will be lost. Carrot cake is my son's favotire cake. If you ever find the recipe, you will have to post. Did she put raisins in it. My son's babysitter over did him on raisins for snacks and he doesn't care for them, so I do leave them out. {{{Hugs}}}
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Post by quinlove on Mar 23, 2024 22:36:29 GMT
I’m Catholic but I don5 do anything special for Easter. This is interesting to me. Do Catholics not do anything for easter with Jesus themed? I’m Catholic. My family celebrates Easter as a *bigger* religious holiday, holy day, than Christmas. I can only speak for myself, of course. In fact, oddly though it may be, I have always had deep feelings for Good Friday. And everything it entails. I try real hard to attend the Stations of the Cross. Palm Sunday is also important to our family. Again, only speaking about how me and my immediate family feel/act about Easter. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 23, 2024 22:44:58 GMT
It's just the four of us this year. I have been thinking about just going out to eat but DH didn't seem too excited about that idea. He wants ham, cheesy potatoes, rolls, etc. We will see what we end up with.
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Post by Merge on Mar 23, 2024 22:56:34 GMT
This is interesting to me. Do Catholics not do anything for easter with Jesus themed? I’m Catholic. My family celebrates Easter as a *bigger* religious holiday, holy day, than Christmas. I can only speak for myself, of course. In fact, oddly though it may be, I have always had deep feelings for Good Friday. And everything it entails. I try real hard to attend the Stations of the Cross. Palm Sunday is also important to our family. Again, only speaking about how me and my immediate family feel/act about Easter. Growing up in a conservative Catholic family, we basically spent half of Holy Week in church. Good Thursday service with foot washing, Good Friday service and stations of the cross, Holy Saturday we usually went to the Easter vigil, which lasted forever, and then mass again on Sunday, obviously. Once I got involved in church music there was all of that plus multiple services on Sunday. Dinner that day was a major afterthought. Mom did Easter baskets but they were small. |
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Post by quinlove on Mar 23, 2024 23:11:12 GMT
Same here Merge. I didn’t get a lot of new clothes as a kid ( school uniforms ), but I always got a new Easter Sunday church outfit. Everyone I knew did.
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Post by iluvpink on Mar 23, 2024 23:26:37 GMT
We are doing Easter breakfast on Saturday. Nothing fancy. Our household is agnostic/atheist. But my mom and sister are. We don't care about celebrating Easter but they do. For us, it's just another day now that dd is grown and we don't do egg hunts and all that. I do get her basket still though.
Spiral Ham from Costco
Breakfast Casserole
Sausage
Waffles
Fresh Fruit
Mimosas
Coffee
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Post by quiltz on Mar 24, 2024 0:47:53 GMT
A brunch buffet at an upscale restaurant. Reservations have been made.
Easter is the most important religious celebration for me. There is Maundy Thursday (celebration of the Last Supper), Good Friday (Crucifixion of Christ), Easter Sunday Sunrise Service (Resurrection of Christ) and then regular morning church service. I'm grateful that I live in Ontario, Canada as Good Friday and Easter Sunday are Statutory Holidays (Federal & Optional Provincial) and most stores and businesses are closed.
Easter Saturday is a horrible day for shopping as everyone is cramming in what they would have done on Friday and can't do on Sunday.
I think that this is great because as Statutory holidays, they are paid holidays and employees (especially retail) can spend the days with their families. There will be arguments that stores should be open every single day but I'm glad that Canada is an outlier in this situation. This provides a work/life balance. Schools are closed on Good Friday as well as Easter Monday. And again, there are some exceptions to these rules; areas that are designated Tourist Destinations have the option of being open and what the local municipal jurisdiction by-laws have mandated.
Easter Monday is a weird holiday as schools in Ontario and Federal/Provincial government offices are closed as is Canada Post (Crown Corporation) but Banks and retail are open. Apparently financial institutions cannot be closed for more than 3 days in a row.
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Post by cat2007 on Mar 24, 2024 1:08:19 GMT
Whatever the "Inn Between" has on it's menu...lol. We have no kids at home for Easter this year so DH, my 88 year old Dad and I are going to a local winery and then having dinner in the evening. A nice relaxing day  |
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Post by cat2007 on Mar 24, 2024 1:10:30 GMT
We have brunch at my dad's house. Dad will cook bacon and eggs on the BBQ. Stepmum will make a pancetta and quail egg tart (my favourite) and a cheese and spinach cheesecake. Oh, and hot cross buns of course. I need the recipe for this! It sounds delicious! |
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 24, 2024 1:22:11 GMT
Stepmum will make a pancetta and quail egg tart (my favourite) I need the recipe for this! It sounds delicious! It is SO GOOD!! Sometimes I make it for a (fairly) quick and easy dinner. The recipe isn't online anywhere, so when I get home I will scan it and post it here. |
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Post by cat2007 on Mar 24, 2024 1:27:33 GMT
I need the recipe for this! It sounds delicious! It is SO GOOD!! Sometimes I make it for a (fairly) quick and easy dinner. The recipe isn't online anywhere, so when I get home I will scan it and post it here. Thank you so much! |
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 24, 2024 1:34:36 GMT
cat2007 I just found a scanned copy on my laptop: 
A couple of notes for you: I usually use prosciutto instead of pancetta. And a couple of times I have made it with bacon (pre-cooked) because I didn't have prosciutto in the fridge and I was too lazy to go to the shops! You can make it with chicken eggs instead of quail, you would just use less of them, and they will take longer to cook. If I'm using chicken eggs I get rid of some of the egg white, otherwise the whole top of the tart would be covered in egg white! Quail eggs are definitely better to use. Also, I use puff pastry sheets rather than rolling out a block of puff pastry, so my tarts are usually square (unless I cut it down and use a rectangle tart tin - but most of the time I just put it on a baking tray).
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Post by Merge on Mar 24, 2024 1:35:36 GMT
Same here Merge. I didn’t get a lot of new clothes as a kid ( school uniforms ), but I always got a new Easter Sunday church outfit. Everyone I knew did. Yes - handmade by Mom in my case, or else a hand me down from cousins. And I wore it to church allllll summer. 😂 |
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Post by Zee on Mar 24, 2024 2:00:19 GMT
Whatever crap is in the cafeteria, I imagine.
Traditionally my family always did a ham. I didn't know that that's a Catholic thing per se but of the Irish Catholic families I grew up around, ham was pretty traditional on Easter.
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Post by natscraps on Mar 24, 2024 2:08:45 GMT
I'm making a ham and store bought potato salad since we are staying home this year. That was tradition until my mom passed. Since then we usually travel to my brother in law's for the long weekend and don't really do any special meals while there.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Mar 24, 2024 2:49:15 GMT
Traditionally we do ham, mac and cheese, green beans, broccoli salad or slaw, corn. I make a Key Lime pie. I would love to try asparagus but I don't know how to cook it. DH doesn't really care for it. I think DS likes it. Maybe DD. If anyone has a good and easy recipe, I'd take suggestions  |
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Post by cat2007 on Mar 24, 2024 3:50:48 GMT
AussieMeg that looks delicious! Not sure if I can find quail eggs but fresh chicken eggs can be found anywhere around here.
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Post by seaexplore on Mar 24, 2024 6:00:48 GMT
No idea what we are eating. Probably grilled cheese sandwiches 😂
Normally we go to my parents or my sisters (90 min away) but this year we are staying home. I run all week long and this coming week, after working all day - I will be driving 90 min one way for radiation for DH 2 days (taking one day off work and moving my orthodontist appt to the following week hopefully), gymnastics 45 min one way 2 days and chilling for 3 hours while dd practices, baseball games and practice 3 days, plus the Saturday before Easter is baseball opening day complete with a parade at 7:30 am followed by pictures at 2 and a game at 5 and I’m working snack shack 10-12. Easter will be a recovery day for me before the crazy of the next week starts.
Hell, I have NOTHING for my kids baskets even! That will be done while DD is at gymnastics and I hope I can find everything between dollar 25 tree and the grocery stores.
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