What is your Easter menu?

[Monique1]

I am not finished planning, so far a lamb goulash, cucumber. tomato onion salad with a yougurt dressing, mas potatoes, roasted carrots and asparagus, fruit tray, lettuce salad, bread (brochetta) and I don't know what else.

Care to share your menu or recipes?

[Denninmi]

1. I always do the same thing.

A baked ham with a glaze, potato salad, au gratin potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, baked beans with bacon, asparagus with butter, sweet potato rolls from the Betty Crocker Breads cookbook, plenty of deviled eggs (from the dyed ones), and a baked cheesecake with strawberries on top for the dessert.

[grasswire]

2. if I were making an ideal Easter dinner (which I'm not)

I think I might follow my great great grandmother's ideas for her Memorial Day tradition in Connecticut.

A whole baked salmon with egg sauce

New peas and new potatoes

Tomato aspic

Asparagus

Hot dinner rolls

Relish tray

Lots of pies -- she was famous for her pies.


Oh I think there must have been baked beans despite that being weird with salmon. Those people ALWAYS had New England baked beans.

[yellerpup]

20. That is an incredibly tempting menu.

I wouldn't mind that being the go-to tradition in my family. Happy holiday!

[Coyote_Bandit]

3. Ummmm......

chocolate bunny.....






I live alone, have family in another state, have had my fill of organized religion, and find little reason to celebrate Easter.

But the menus I see posted sound very, very good.

Enjoy!

[Warpy]

8. Same here, but since it's something that was a holiday when I was a kid

I'll treat myself to some Chinese takeout.

[Phentex]

13. We celebrate spring, bunnies and Peeps...

no religion here. I'm still doing a birthday countdown and April 22 is the anniversary of the first earth day. I think I can cook a meal around that! And we can eat by candlelight. :)

[Phentex]

4. I just found out we would be home for Easter!...

My mother-in-law has done the Easter meal for ages. Well, with Easter being late and Mother's Day around the corner, she decided she only wanted to host MD. We're on our own for Easter which I don't mind but I have absolutely nothing ready for an Easter feast. It won't be cold turkey and ham though - YAY!

[grasswire]

5. okay if I were making my own menu and not my great-grandmother's..

..I might consider the following. (Depending on how many people were coming and how many might be vegetarian.)

Sliced roasted ham.

Braised leg of lamb with lavender sea salt and rosemary.

Emeril's spinach and artichoke bread pudding. Yahoo!

Polenta with three citrus butter and toasted pine nuts.

Baby greens salad with radish vinaigrette.

Sweet potato buttermilk biscuits and hot dinner rolls.

Rhubarb pie.

Martha Stewart's Lemon Mousse (ahhhhhh)

Something like that. Not this year, though.

[yellerpup]

6. We are going to friends for dinner, but they've asked me

to bring a cake. Two days ahead I'm going to make an orange pound cake, fill it with ricotta filling that includes a little sugar, grated orange peel, shaved chocolate and toasted almond slivers. Three layers of filling is sandwiched between the four layers of (Cointreau-painted) cake, wrap it tightly, and set in the refrigerator overnight. The day before I will whip up a batch of mocha truffle frosting, chill it until spreadable, then apply a thick layer of this sinfully rich stuff and make it all swirly. After the chocolate sets (in the fridge) I'll wrap that in plastic wrap and let it meld until it's time to go. This is really easy to do and I have been known to make it even easier by buying the pound cake. Happy holiday! :hi:

[livetohike]

16. That sounds delicious!

:hi:

[yellerpup]

19. Yeah!!

Good to see you here again! :hi:

[The empressof all]

7. I decided not to cook so we're going out for a Dim Sum brunch

I'll be very happy to lapse into a Chinese food coma afterwards and savor a long and relaxing nappy afternoon in front of the tube.

[Lugnut]

9. We're doing cold stuff this year.

Ham, potato salad, creamy cucumber salad, kielbasi, paprika bacon, Italian Easter pie, hard boiled eggs and my daughter is making an asparagus salad. Paska bread and nut and poppyseed roll will be on the side and cheesecake for dessert. We have a lot of good hiding places in the back yard so we're doing an Easter egg hunt for the little ones.

[blaze]

10. Going to a friends house for dinner

He typically cooks up a nice ham... not sure what else is on the menu.

I just have to wash dishes!!! :)

[japple]

11. Roasted chicken, asparagas (from the garden--lots of it this year)

maybe red skinned potatoes, some kind of peas, green salad. Not sure about dessert. I'll make a Cold-Oven Sour Cream Pound Cake, and we might have fresh strawberries from the pick-ur-own place. Hot biscuits for sure.

[yellerpup]

21. That sounds so fresh.

New vegetables have so much flavor, but all you'd have to say is 'hot biscuits' and I'd be on those in a second! :hi:

[beac]

12. Various family members doing other parts of the menu, but my contributions will be

roasted asparagus with a lemon-basil vinaigrette and a green salad with strawberries, feta and balsamic dressing. Hoping I can find some pumpkin seeds to toast and add to salad, but all my local purveyors have been out this week.

[Callalily]

14. Going to a friends house . . .

and it's more of a family/friends gathering than Easter celebration.

Not quite sure what's all on the menu other than ham, and everyone is bringing a dish to pass. I figured that this would be a good opportunity to make the new test kitchen recipe . . . spicy cranberry sauce. Now how's that for mixing holiday! :rofl:

[Monique1]

15. I am also adding to my menu

Osso Bucco to my menu for those who do not like lamb and turkey meatballs for the toddlers. I found a recipe for the biscuits like they make at Red Lobster and will make that also. No ham here because most of us do not like ham because of the salt content. This would be a waste of money for me. The only desert we will have will probably be frozen fruit bars as we are not fond of sweets.

[Phentex]

17. Roasted Vegetable Lasagna...

I'm roasting vegetables for part of tonight's meal so I thought I'd do a large batch and make the lasagna for tomorrow. Boys will want one with Italian sausage so I'll make a smaller one of those. Dough is rising but the weather is iffy so we'll see how that goes!

[jtrockville]

18. Just finished making the artichoke filling for ravioli.

We're gathering at my sister's house. We always have a bowl of "reds" (homemade pasta of some shape with tomato sauce). We plan to grill some veggies (onions, asparagus, et al.) and maybe some sausage or fish. I'll make a white sauce for the ravioli, and maybe a loaf of bread (depending on how things go with the ravioli today). Someone is bringing chocolate lava cake - mmmm, can't wait for that!

[EFerrari]

22. My oven died so am reduced to the toasting oven until the big one

can be replaced. Ack.

But I made teriaki chicken with pineapple rice and some stir fried veggies for Mom who is a pineapple lover.

The real fun here last week wasn't Easter but Friday when I stuffed my first pork loin. Stuffing was just apples, raisins, celery, onions and a few spices, broth; glaze was dijon mustard and apricot preserves with a little splash of soy sauce, cinnamon. It was surprisingly easy to filet -- that's the part I was worried about. The stuffing was just wet enough to keep the pork beautiful and moist. I cooked it at a fairly high heat for about fifteen minutes and then, turned it down for the remainder. Glaze went on twice during the cooking and once more when it came out of the oven. It was so pretty on the table, I can't wait to do it again in a real oven. :)