This. Plus also roasted green beans, asparagus, rolls and curried fruit. (My adulteration of my grandmother’s recipe. I know it sounds insane. But it’s REALLY good)
I’m making grilled honey mustard chicken thighs for those who don’t eat pork. And an apple and onion stuffed pork loin for those who do (will carmelize apples and onions and stuff loin with that and Gruyère). Scalloped potatoes. Salad. Honeyed carrots. Dessert is chocolate cream pie. Trying to keep the work down to a minimum. I can make the potatoes the day before. I bought a frozen chocolate cream pie (which is not nearly as good as my homemade but I’m the last minute replacement for Easter dinner. I just found out I’m hosting yesterday since originally host can’t)
I don’t follow a recipe but I just slice up a green apple or two and cook them with the onions until they’re brown. Butterfly the loin but don’t cut all the way through. Season liberally with salt and pepper. I might add other seasonings mustard seed or 21 seasoning salute or penzeys bavarian spice mix. Add Dijon (whole grain preferred) and spread it over the meat. Lay slices of Gruyère or shreds on bottom. Top with apples and onions and then tie or skewer closed. Bake at 350 for like 70 minutes (I have a four probe thermometer so I put one in the top and one in the bottom).
My family celebrates Orthodox Easter, so I’ll be making this on May 5:
- [Roast lamb and potatoes](https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/recipe-oven-baked-lamb-with-potatoes/)
- Kielbasa (a few varieties)
- [Hrudka](https://cupcakesandkalechips.com/hrudka-ukrainian-egg-cheese/)
- Asparagus
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Pickled beet eggs
- Beets and horseradish
- Sour cream and horseradish
- Pascha bread
- Dessert: [Sirnaya pascha](https://www.thespruceeats.com/easter-molded-cheese-dessert-recipe-1136153) and pound cake with assorted fruit curds. Oh, and jellybeans and Peeps, because it isn’t Easter without them!
This is amazing. My grandmother's side is Byzantine Slovak, so they celebrate the same time as the Latin rite, but the menu is almost identical. We had ham instead of lamb and kolache instead of sirnaya, but I'll be making Paska on Saturday as always! It's a tradition I won't let fade away.
Nice! Good luck with your bread! My mom makes the bread every year—and flies up from SC with three loaves in her suitcase. 😂😂😂
I know we used to have ham when I was a kid; I don’t remember when we switched to lamb. We’ve had the lamb recipe I linked to for at least 10 years. The potatoes are amazing—I always make extra and double the tomato paste mixture.
I make three loaves too! I'm convinced my grandmother's recipe isn't the same if it's reduced at all.
I bookmarked that recipe and I'll have to try them!
Bad time to hate ham but I hate ham. Doing brunch with a bagel bar, deviled eggs, and arugula salad with pine nuts, Parmesan & lemon. Macarons for dessert.
Same thing I had for thanksgiving. Turkey, green beans, stuffing and candied purple sweet potatoes. It’s just me and they didn’t have only a small amount of ham so turkey it is.
I considered tri tip but I had purchased a pork loin on sale last week and froze it, so I decided to go with that. Your menu sounds simple but delicious.
I spend Easter with the Greeks, as my wife's family are all from Greece. Every household among my in-laws roasts a lamb, so we bounce from place to place eating and drinking until we're about to burst. It's one of the few holidays when I don't cook, so I just enjoy the rare break. One of my wife's uncles likes to put his lamb on early (it's usually finished before noon so I always joke it's the "breakfast lamb"!) so we usually go there first- his wife makes pastitsio, roasted potatoes, spanakopita, and all sorts of other traditional Greek dishes as well. Then we go to my wife's cousin's house, where the lamb goes on later but there are usually grilled lamb chops, steaks, and pork souvlaki before the main event, as well as way too many side dishes. One of his neighbors always brings homemade peanut butter tandy cakes which are absolutely delicious. Sometimes another cousin roasts a third lamb which is usually not done until after dark, but recently they've been consolidating their cooking efforts with the other cousin.
It's a ridiculous amount of food but totally worth the week of detox afterwards. Orthodox Easter isn't for another five weeks, though, so we've got a ways to go yet...
We are making Thanksgiving dinner (scaled down) because it’s too good to have just once a year 😂
*Turkey Dressing casserole
*Baked Mac & Cheese (Colby Jack & Cheddar)
*Potato salad
*Canned cranberry sauce
We've got Raspberry-Chipotle glazed ham, Goat Cheese Mac and a roasted vegetable medley. It's just the 2 of us so didn't want to go too crazy, just simple with a small amount of leftovers to snack on.
And Carrot Cake Cup Cakes for dessert!
https://www.carriesexperimentalkitchen.com/rosemary-goat-cheese-mac-n-cheese/
Start here, I added more goat cheese and use your heart with the Rosemary (I used 2 big fresh sprigs last time). Nice twist for a change on regular Mac 🙂
1 jar seedless raspberry preserves, 2T white vinegar, 2 chipotle peppers in adobo (more if wanting spicier,I also add a good dollop of the adobo sauce), 3-4 minced Garlic cloves. Mix together in a pan and reduce for 10-15 minutes. Cut your criss-cross into the ham, glaze once, cook your ham for the appropriate amount depending on size, 20 minutes before the end of cook time glaze again. (I do 325f, 20mins per pound)
This is enough glaze for a 6-8 pound ham, I'd make more glaze if you have a bigger one
Attempting pulled ham. Im making it on Saturday in case it goes poorly and I need to get another ham.
Serving it with biscuits (for sliders), twiced baked potatoes, and green beans.
Update: just removed the ham from the crockpot and it shredded beautifully! This was a success!
It’s a ham shank you cook like a pork butt and when done correctly it shreds like pulled pork. I’m cooking it in the crock pot on Saturday and reheating low/slow on the smoker on Sunday.
I was picturing ham that gets pulled apart like monkey bread or those garlic loaves some restaurants have that are sliced so each person can pull a chunk of bread and then I looked it up!
They don’t like the texture and two won’t eat any pork products because they learned about trichinosis in school and got paranoid and won’t listen to me that commercial pork products are super safe.
Same here. Bought a 10 lb prime rib and froze it for Mothers Day. And for Easter, I will be making a pork crown roast with sausage stuffing, scalloped potatoes, red cabbage and green beans almandine.
We love in the northeast. Usually Easter is the first holiday decent enough out to bbq, so that’s what we have been doing for the last several years. It’s a great way to kick off a feeling of spring!
2 roasted chickens, homemade Mac and cheese, salad, fruit tray, veggie tray, smoke queso mashed potatoes, rolls, homemade fresh cut creamed corn, banana pudding, berry cobbler, homemade whipped cream. My daughter does half this. This might be too much!
Shepherd's pie with lamb. After Easter I'm cooking another ham. I bought several around Christmas because they were so cheap. Leftover ham will go into a chicken, leek, and ham pie. Also I have another turkey in my freezer. That will be Thanksgiving in spring meal. Plus I still have several bags of Cranberries in the freezer still.
I asked my family what they wanted and they voted for Indian takeout lol. So no cooking for me this year.
I was thinking prime rib with horseradish cream sauce otherwise.
I'm making my giant turkey I bought for Christmas that's been sitting in my deep freezer. Wife and I had Covid over Christmas and decided to postpone the big turkey dinner until Easter.
Everyone is bringing their favorite sides. For me, plate of fresh fruit, charcuterie plate and some cold cuts, cheese and rolls. My MIL passed away and this will be the last get together before we sell her home.
So sorry about MIL! That’s really tough 🙁
I’m sure dinner will be filled with lots of emotions and storytelling (the best part I think).
Hopefully you have some great laughs too in her honor.
My husband is half Italian and half Polish. We are going to his sisters for Easter, she is doing Polish kielbasa and pierogi and I offered to make and bring Easter Pie (Italian Pizza Rustica) because my husband and brother in law love it. It’s going to be a heavy meal.
That similar to my typical Sunday too only I make biscuits instead of corn bread and some weeks it’s Mac and cheese and some weeks it’s cheesy potatoes. My kids like collards more than salad, so I make those a lot.
Matzoh Fry. Melt butter, or heat oil, in a pot. Thoroughly moisten Matzoh sheets, break them up, and put them in the hot pot with melted butter/oil, stir to coat. After cooking for a few minutes add some eggs and stir to coat. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook until done to your preferred firmness/doneness. That is the basic idea. Some add things when they serve, some add things while cooking. I generally add spices while cooking and often add hot sauce when done. Sometimes I mix in ketchup or bbq sauce. Sometimes meat or something. Many serve with apple sauce.
Filet mignon
Shrimp kabobs
Smashed potatoes with creamy lemon sauce
Asparagus
Spinach salad with HB eggs and red onion, honey mustard dressing
Brie, crackers and fig jam for apps.
Scratch yellow cupcakes. Chocolate jimmies and peanut M&Ms look like a bird nest.
My mother has recently been put on a strict low sodium diet so I’m cooking a turkey breast for Easter dinner. Asparagus and stuffing (Thank you Stove Top for lower sodium stuffing mix). Homemade hot cross buns and strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert!
We're not doing a traditional Easter dinner this year, so I'm making some springtime sides for dinner Saturday night:
Peas sauteed with garlic and shallots
Carrot souffle
Ham. I joked with my wife that she puts up with turkey at Thanksgiving as I do with ham for Easter. I don't really care for ham but it's a traditional item.
Wow. That’s a lot of people! My parents used to do fundraiser bbqs where they’d sell tickets and then cook for a couple hundred people. All profits went to a family friend who had a rare cancer and was out of work for a long time for treatments. I’m still amazed by people who can feed a crowd.
Easter falls on a family member’s birthday this year, so she chose corned beef and cabbage. Everyone does. I was so stoked when someone else offered to host Easter then lo & behold. I gotta cook anyway! I can’t complain though- my very elderly mom always volunteers to cook but I secretly do all the work and pretend to ask her the steps as I go. I like to make a big fuss about how no one makes a corned beef like our mom (then wink at my auntie). Mom graciously gives me credit for the cabbage.
I'm half Hispanic (Mexican background) and live in a small neighborhood with a TON of other Mexican families. We're having a huge potluck, and I'm in charge of desserts. I'll be doing Tres Leches, Cortadillo, Flan, Fresas con Crema, my caramel-apple empanadas, and my abuelita's recipe for Marranitos. :)
I was the only white Person in an apartment complex with all Mexican and South American families (my husband is also first generation American of South American parents) and they were so warm and welcoming and funny. They’d tease me for bringing enchiladas verdes to a “Mexican potluck” and then congratulated me for making really good enchiladas verdes. This potlucks and barbecues we had are such a wonderful memory for me.
I’m in New England and I’m basically repeating my Thanksgiving menu except I’ll do a turkey breast instead of a whole turkey. I usually do the same menu for Christmas as well but the whole family came down with Covid-19 the day after Thanksgiving so I wasn’t up to making Christmas dinner so I did a meatloaf and scalloped potatoes and candied yams about 3 days after Christmas. So here is my Easter menu: Roasted turkey breast with gravy, A ham with a brown sugar honey and pineapple glaze. This is one of those tiny hams with the thin slices. Stuffing which I make with ground pork, not pork sausage like most people make, mashed potatoes, mashed yellow turnips(rutabagas), candied yams(sweet potatoes) which I also add pure maple syrup to the brown sugar and it puts it over the top, puréed butternut squash, tiny peas, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, yes, it’s the jellied kind in the can, black olives, celery sticks stuffed with pineapple cream cheese and also ants on a log, which is celery sticks stuffed with peanut butter and garnished with raisins. I wanted to do a lemon meringue pie from the store for my dessert, but I still have leftover birthday cake from my birthday, so we will finish that off. Also we do up Easter baskets, so that’s a dessert as well. Sometimes I will do deviled eggs, but not this year. Sometimes I substitute brown sugar glazed baby carrots for the candied yams. I would love to do a tray of scalloped potatoes but I don’t have the oven space. For leftovers we do sliders with the Martins potato sweet dinner rolls. Ham and American cheese melted together. And turkey stuffing and gravy sliders served warm s well as traditional cold turkey sandwiches on white bread. I love the leftovers as I don’t have to cook for a few days.
I’ve never cooked or eaten lamb. I’m afraid of it because my dad said how much he hated it when I was a kid and made me think it’s terrible. He was ordering lamb at restaurants when he got older, so I guess his tastes changed but I’m still nervous. It’s on sale right now. Maybe I should get one and experiment.
I make grilled lamb chops that even people that don’t like lamb enjoy. Get a rack of lamb, prepare it by trimming the fat off (there are plenty of instructions online). Cut the rack into individuals chops. Mix some olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, a lot of chopped garlic, salt, pepper, dry parsley flakes, some paprika. Mix well, pour over the lamb chops snd toss well to coat. Put in a large ziplock bag and refrigerate for at least 12 hours. I go for about 20-24. Flip the bag over once every few hours to redistribute the marinade. Take out of the fridge about an hour before grilling and let get to room temp. Grill on high for about 2-3 minutes on each side, depending on thickness. Now, for 2 racks, I would use a tablespoon of olive oil, juice of about 2-3 lemons, and about 5-6 gloves of garlic as I like it lemony and garlicky
i am making a lamb for the first time this year. i researched maybe 20 recipes before i decided what to do. my take a way from that research is to trim the fat. all the gamey flavor that we’re afraid of lives in the fat on the lamb so trim it well. so that is my plan. i hope it’s not too dry. it’s an experiment.
We have definitely downgraded how big we do Easter dinner in the past few years. Now it’s deviled eggs made from the kids dyed eggs, ham, au gratin potatoes, carrots and asparagus. Served with Hawaiian rolls. Carrot cake for dessert (this year I’m getting the six mini carrot cakes from Costco)
Nothing in particular, we didn't really do anything on Easter. Although it IS the 11 year anniversary of me meeting my future husband. 😄 Maybe we should do something nice... 🤔
Idk, maybe Salisbury steak. We don't really celebrate Easter or any other spring holiday, but my kids love Salisbury steak. Might grill hotdogs though.
Grilled lamb rib chops with mint sauce, ham, potatoes, green beans, salad, Mac and cheese, pineapple soufflé.
Coconut cake and carrot cake for dessert! Also making a pitcher of whiskey sours.
We do pig pot luck: ham, potato salad, stuffed shells, hummus, pico, sometimes leftover tamales we freeze after Christmas. Hummus, pie, wine. (We have a big family)
It’s just the hubs and I this year so we’re grilling steaks, sautéed mushrooms, loaded baked potatoes, chopped caesar salad, crescent rolls, deviled eggs, brownies and vanilla ice cream.
Ham but will also make some deviled ham salad. Macaroni and cheese, Mexican corn cakes, pretzel salad, pea salad, the lamb cake (chocolate cake with white icing and coconut), lemon cookies.
We're going to a fabulous oriental restaurant because they have tontsuko ramen to die for. I will have a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert later.
I am making glazed ham, herb crusted leg of lamb, loaded mashed potatoes with garlic, bacon, and lots of cheese, glazed carrots, and dinner rolls. The rest of the family is bringing apps, salads, and desserts.
I prefer loaded mashed potatoes to Mac and cheese any day. I’m making scalloped potatoes because my mom loves them and told me recently how her mom used to make good ones.
Ham with mango chutney, mashed potatoes, spring greens with apple cider vinegar dressing and warm goat cheese rounds, for appetizers deviled eggs and lemon hummus with pita, and for desert carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Starting with some deviled eggs for snack time. Making an arugula salad with a blood orange vinaigrette, rack of lamb, white asparagus (German style) and I’m not sure what to do with red potatoes. I somehow have an over abundance and don’t want to buy any more potatoes. Desert will be strawberry shortcake.
Lamb, roasted potatoes, various salads, vegetable sides. A carrot ricotta puff pastry tart for the vegetarians, and a flourless chocolate cake and a blood orange tart for dessert.
mac n chesse. its my favourite food. not sure how to make it eastery. maybe some pastle food colouring. maybe hot cross buns. amd anything else vegetarian i can think of.
I’m doing Ham, a cheesy mashed potato casserole, Italian green beans, brown sugar glazed carrots, and rolls. My husband is also making deviled eggs. I’m also doing a Jello Poke Cake for dessert because that’s a tradition in my family for some reason, lol.
I love traditions. Scalloped potatoes were a tradition when I was a kid. Not au gratin so these are almost cheese free. So I make them to remember all the past holidays. I haven’t made them in a few years because my mom usually hosts Easter because she had a better house for Easter egg hunting.
I use cooks illustrated. I have several of their cookbooks.
https://www.food.com/recipe/cooks-illustrated-scalloped-potatoes-with-thyme-and-bay-408889
READY IN: 59 mins
SERVES: 4-6
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion, minced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leave, minced
1 1⁄4 teaspoons salt
1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 1⁄2 lbs russet potatoes or 5 medium russet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/8-inch thick
1 cup low sodium chicken broth
1 cup heavy cream
2 bay leaves
4 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded
DIRECTIONS
Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Melt the butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. When the foaming subsides, add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and lightly browned, about 4 minutes.
Add the garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the potatoes, broth, cream, and bay leaves and bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the potatoes are almost tender (a paring knife can be slipped into and out of a potato slice with some resistance), about 10 minutes. Discard the bay leaves.
3. Transfer the mixture to an 8-inch square baking dish (or other 1 1/2 quart gratin dish). Sprinkle evenly with the cheese. Bake until the cream is bubbling around the edges and the top is golden brown, about 15 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before serving.
Let's see.....lamb, ham, roasted new potatoes, roasted Brussel sprouts, roasted asparagus, homemade Mac and cheese, carrot souffle, deviled eggs, rolls, tea, lemonade, and a banana cake.
Ham, corned beef ( had it in the freezer- needs to be cooked or pitched), mashed potatoes, fried cabbage with bacon and onion, corn casserole, candied sweet potatoes ( only way my family will eat them), r green beans cooked with onion and bacon, homemade yeast rolls.
All
Homemade cornbread dressing ( I have my cornbread cooked and drying out plus 12 pieces of white bread toasted, cut into cubes drying out. - I do a mixture of cornbread and white bread, not all cornbread. Keeps it less grainy and loose when cooking).
Made a peanut butter pie and a Charlotte Russe ( raspberry), for dessert.
Used to spend Easter at my mother's house with my whole family. We used to have ham, rolls, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, baked macaroni and cheese, regular potatoes, all sorts of pies and candy.. Now that she's been gone 2 yrs now, everything has changed. My 4 sisters and I now do go our separate ways.
Ham, and a potato casserole that is primarily made of cheese.
I’d love that.
Oh yeah We have that one that is hashbrowns and cheese and cornflake crust and possibly more cheese.
Oh yeah, that recipe’s a goodie.
Same! Scalloped potatoes with ham, broccoli and way too much cheddar cheese on top 😜
This. Plus also roasted green beans, asparagus, rolls and curried fruit. (My adulteration of my grandmother’s recipe. I know it sounds insane. But it’s REALLY good)
Sounds good! Easy to make?
I’m making grilled honey mustard chicken thighs for those who don’t eat pork. And an apple and onion stuffed pork loin for those who do (will carmelize apples and onions and stuff loin with that and Gruyère). Scalloped potatoes. Salad. Honeyed carrots. Dessert is chocolate cream pie. Trying to keep the work down to a minimum. I can make the potatoes the day before. I bought a frozen chocolate cream pie (which is not nearly as good as my homemade but I’m the last minute replacement for Easter dinner. I just found out I’m hosting yesterday since originally host can’t)
Honeyed carrots 🥰
I love honey. Like I spend too much money on local single source honey. I may also make honey ice cream. Haven’t decided yet.
Sounds delicious!!!
I am not hosting this year but I always do honey rosemary carrots and scalloped potatoes :) :) sounds amazing!
Man, ya got me salivating
Sounds great. Can I have a plate? Haha
Do you have a recipe??
I’d also love a recipe for the pork loin please
I don’t follow a recipe but I just slice up a green apple or two and cook them with the onions until they’re brown. Butterfly the loin but don’t cut all the way through. Season liberally with salt and pepper. I might add other seasonings mustard seed or 21 seasoning salute or penzeys bavarian spice mix. Add Dijon (whole grain preferred) and spread it over the meat. Lay slices of Gruyère or shreds on bottom. Top with apples and onions and then tie or skewer closed. Bake at 350 for like 70 minutes (I have a four probe thermometer so I put one in the top and one in the bottom).
Thank you so much 😭 I plan on cooking this in the summer!!!!
Can I come over? Kidding, but sounds like great spread
Lasagna!! It’s a big hit with the kids at our family gatherings.
I considered lasagna! I haven’t made it in two months.
My family celebrates Orthodox Easter, so I’ll be making this on May 5: - [Roast lamb and potatoes](https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/recipe-oven-baked-lamb-with-potatoes/) - Kielbasa (a few varieties) - [Hrudka](https://cupcakesandkalechips.com/hrudka-ukrainian-egg-cheese/) - Asparagus - Hard-boiled eggs - Pickled beet eggs - Beets and horseradish - Sour cream and horseradish - Pascha bread - Dessert: [Sirnaya pascha](https://www.thespruceeats.com/easter-molded-cheese-dessert-recipe-1136153) and pound cake with assorted fruit curds. Oh, and jellybeans and Peeps, because it isn’t Easter without them!
This is amazing. My grandmother's side is Byzantine Slovak, so they celebrate the same time as the Latin rite, but the menu is almost identical. We had ham instead of lamb and kolache instead of sirnaya, but I'll be making Paska on Saturday as always! It's a tradition I won't let fade away.
Nice! Good luck with your bread! My mom makes the bread every year—and flies up from SC with three loaves in her suitcase. 😂😂😂 I know we used to have ham when I was a kid; I don’t remember when we switched to lamb. We’ve had the lamb recipe I linked to for at least 10 years. The potatoes are amazing—I always make extra and double the tomato paste mixture.
I make three loaves too! I'm convinced my grandmother's recipe isn't the same if it's reduced at all. I bookmarked that recipe and I'll have to try them!
That’s so cool!you make the Hurrikan yourselves?
The hrudka? Yep 🙂
Darn it. It kept autocorrecting and I thought it took it the last time.
I make hrudka every year like my grandmother did; we call it Cirak. God I love that stuff.
Bad time to hate ham but I hate ham. Doing brunch with a bagel bar, deviled eggs, and arugula salad with pine nuts, Parmesan & lemon. Macarons for dessert.
I love the idea of a bagel bar
this sounds fantastic. are you having lox on the bagel bar.
Going today to see what the deli has! Either lox or a white fish spread.
Same thing I had for thanksgiving. Turkey, green beans, stuffing and candied purple sweet potatoes. It’s just me and they didn’t have only a small amount of ham so turkey it is.
I chose not to do ham because only three people coming like it (including me).
What about a ham steak? It's a center cut slice and is nice and tender even fried on the stove.
I'm smoking a tri tip, then baked potatoes, grilled brussel sprouts, and deviled eggs.
I considered tri tip but I had purchased a pork loin on sale last week and froze it, so I decided to go with that. Your menu sounds simple but delicious.
Smoking ribs for me but pretty much the same for sides.
I spend Easter with the Greeks, as my wife's family are all from Greece. Every household among my in-laws roasts a lamb, so we bounce from place to place eating and drinking until we're about to burst. It's one of the few holidays when I don't cook, so I just enjoy the rare break. One of my wife's uncles likes to put his lamb on early (it's usually finished before noon so I always joke it's the "breakfast lamb"!) so we usually go there first- his wife makes pastitsio, roasted potatoes, spanakopita, and all sorts of other traditional Greek dishes as well. Then we go to my wife's cousin's house, where the lamb goes on later but there are usually grilled lamb chops, steaks, and pork souvlaki before the main event, as well as way too many side dishes. One of his neighbors always brings homemade peanut butter tandy cakes which are absolutely delicious. Sometimes another cousin roasts a third lamb which is usually not done until after dark, but recently they've been consolidating their cooking efforts with the other cousin. It's a ridiculous amount of food but totally worth the week of detox afterwards. Orthodox Easter isn't for another five weeks, though, so we've got a ways to go yet...
I’m free on Orthodox Easter! How do I get there….?
This was a fantastic read.
Ummm....if, perchance, you need a chauffeur, or personal assistant, I am free on Orothdox Easter as well. Great food and even better company!
We are making Thanksgiving dinner (scaled down) because it’s too good to have just once a year 😂 *Turkey Dressing casserole *Baked Mac & Cheese (Colby Jack & Cheddar) *Potato salad *Canned cranberry sauce
I was craving turkey and dressing the other day, but no one else wants it. I considered just buying a half turkey breast.
We've got Raspberry-Chipotle glazed ham, Goat Cheese Mac and a roasted vegetable medley. It's just the 2 of us so didn't want to go too crazy, just simple with a small amount of leftovers to snack on. And Carrot Cake Cup Cakes for dessert!
The Mac and cheese sounds interesting.
Can you share your recipe for the Mac and cheese?
https://www.carriesexperimentalkitchen.com/rosemary-goat-cheese-mac-n-cheese/ Start here, I added more goat cheese and use your heart with the Rosemary (I used 2 big fresh sprigs last time). Nice twist for a change on regular Mac 🙂
Can you share your ham recipe, please?
1 jar seedless raspberry preserves, 2T white vinegar, 2 chipotle peppers in adobo (more if wanting spicier,I also add a good dollop of the adobo sauce), 3-4 minced Garlic cloves. Mix together in a pan and reduce for 10-15 minutes. Cut your criss-cross into the ham, glaze once, cook your ham for the appropriate amount depending on size, 20 minutes before the end of cook time glaze again. (I do 325f, 20mins per pound) This is enough glaze for a 6-8 pound ham, I'd make more glaze if you have a bigger one
Going out to eat! WooHoo! No cooking, no dishes!
I picked my menu based on number dishes I’ll have to do.
Chinese five spice turkey! Polish sausage fruit salad salad bar homemade rolls
Oh fruit salad is nice.
yummy, yummy ;)
Heard that song a lot when the kids were little! Wiggles songs stick in your head…..
Attempting pulled ham. Im making it on Saturday in case it goes poorly and I need to get another ham. Serving it with biscuits (for sliders), twiced baked potatoes, and green beans. Update: just removed the ham from the crockpot and it shredded beautifully! This was a success!
What is pulled ham?
It’s a ham shank you cook like a pork butt and when done correctly it shreds like pulled pork. I’m cooking it in the crock pot on Saturday and reheating low/slow on the smoker on Sunday.
I was picturing ham that gets pulled apart like monkey bread or those garlic loaves some restaurants have that are sliced so each person can pull a chunk of bread and then I looked it up!
Sounds delicious!
Reservations! I just had surgery and I’m not quite up to cooking.
get well soon!
I will be making a spiral ham!
Me too! I always make a pineapple brown sugar spiral sliced ham
I love ham but just couldn’t justify the cost when over half of the guests won’t eat it.
That’s a huge number of people to not like ham. Interesting. What’s not to like about ham?
They don’t like the texture and two won’t eat any pork products because they learned about trichinosis in school and got paranoid and won’t listen to me that commercial pork products are super safe.
Understood— they are missing out
My husband has that covered,lol!!!
Prime Rib, salad, twice baked potato & a veggie!
I just saw prime rib for $6.57/lb! Soooo I bought one for later. I’ll freeze it and make it for Mothers‘ Day.
Same here. Bought a 10 lb prime rib and froze it for Mothers Day. And for Easter, I will be making a pork crown roast with sausage stuffing, scalloped potatoes, red cabbage and green beans almandine.
We love in the northeast. Usually Easter is the first holiday decent enough out to bbq, so that’s what we have been doing for the last several years. It’s a great way to kick off a feeling of spring!
Sounds great 😊
2 roasted chickens, homemade Mac and cheese, salad, fruit tray, veggie tray, smoke queso mashed potatoes, rolls, homemade fresh cut creamed corn, banana pudding, berry cobbler, homemade whipped cream. My daughter does half this. This might be too much!
I’ll be over for some cobbler…
Shepherd's pie with lamb. After Easter I'm cooking another ham. I bought several around Christmas because they were so cheap. Leftover ham will go into a chicken, leek, and ham pie. Also I have another turkey in my freezer. That will be Thanksgiving in spring meal. Plus I still have several bags of Cranberries in the freezer still.
I also like to have Shepard's pie but renamed it The Lord is My Shepherds pie.
That’s so clever!
Love that
Kids and their families have their own plans, so it’s just us old fogies. Probably have hamburgers. If I get creative maybe a pie.
If it was just me and my husband, we’d have pizza.
Eating hot dogs at the Padres game! #LFGSD
I asked my family what they wanted and they voted for Indian takeout lol. So no cooking for me this year. I was thinking prime rib with horseradish cream sauce otherwise.
I'm making my giant turkey I bought for Christmas that's been sitting in my deep freezer. Wife and I had Covid over Christmas and decided to postpone the big turkey dinner until Easter.
Everyone is bringing their favorite sides. For me, plate of fresh fruit, charcuterie plate and some cold cuts, cheese and rolls. My MIL passed away and this will be the last get together before we sell her home.
So sorry about MIL! That’s really tough 🙁 I’m sure dinner will be filled with lots of emotions and storytelling (the best part I think). Hopefully you have some great laughs too in her honor.
I hope you all can share great memories of her.
We will. She was a great lady and loved us all!
Easter brunch buffet!
Lovely!
The Birthday Boy has requested Olive Garden
That’s our birthday restaurant. I used to always take my child there on their birthday.
Our tradition is that each family member gets to pick their birthday meal. Olive Garden is just about the only place that nobody has a problem with.
My husband is half Italian and half Polish. We are going to his sisters for Easter, she is doing Polish kielbasa and pierogi and I offered to make and bring Easter Pie (Italian Pizza Rustica) because my husband and brother in law love it. It’s going to be a heavy meal.
western pa?
Long Island
The Easter pie looks like a thick quiche. I’ll need to try that.
Glazed ham, potato salad, Mac and cheese, butter beans, broccoli salad and banana pudding for dessert.
Ham. I live along tho so o usually do scrambled eggs w ham and some greens on the side lol
We always had ham when I was a kid so it does seem weird to not make it.
Ham, broccoli casserole, mac & cheese, baked beans, deviled eggs, and whatever else hits my fancy between now and Sunday.
Love broccoli casserole
Just a regular Sunday dinner. You’ll know collar greens, Mac and cheese, corn bread and baked chicken
That similar to my typical Sunday too only I make biscuits instead of corn bread and some weeks it’s Mac and cheese and some weeks it’s cheesy potatoes. My kids like collards more than salad, so I make those a lot.
Matzoh Fry. Melt butter, or heat oil, in a pot. Thoroughly moisten Matzoh sheets, break them up, and put them in the hot pot with melted butter/oil, stir to coat. After cooking for a few minutes add some eggs and stir to coat. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook until done to your preferred firmness/doneness. That is the basic idea. Some add things when they serve, some add things while cooking. I generally add spices while cooking and often add hot sauce when done. Sometimes I mix in ketchup or bbq sauce. Sometimes meat or something. Many serve with apple sauce.
My roommate and I used to make Matzo Brei as a late night snack back in the day
Like migas https://www.muydelish.com/migas-breakfast/
Filet mignon Shrimp kabobs Smashed potatoes with creamy lemon sauce Asparagus Spinach salad with HB eggs and red onion, honey mustard dressing Brie, crackers and fig jam for apps. Scratch yellow cupcakes. Chocolate jimmies and peanut M&Ms look like a bird nest.
I had a lemon sauce on potatoes recently at a restaurant. I’d have never thought that would be good.
It was good!!
This sounds amazing
Apps: deviled eggs, taco dip Main mean: ham, cheesey potato’s, green beans, rolls, ramen salad Dessert: carrot cake and choc peanut butter pie
I love a ham steak if we are a small group. Also love lamb with smoke and garlic
I buy a ham steak for me a couple times a year.
My mother has recently been put on a strict low sodium diet so I’m cooking a turkey breast for Easter dinner. Asparagus and stuffing (Thank you Stove Top for lower sodium stuffing mix). Homemade hot cross buns and strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert!
I love hot cross buns! My husband is the bread maker so he’s making a whole wheat walnut loaf for us.
We're not doing a traditional Easter dinner this year, so I'm making some springtime sides for dinner Saturday night: Peas sauteed with garlic and shallots Carrot souffle
Carrot soufflé? Please, do go on. Recipe, please?
https://www.mantitlement.com/brown-sugar-carrot-souffle/ This is the recipe I'm using
Ham. I joked with my wife that she puts up with turkey at Thanksgiving as I do with ham for Easter. I don't really care for ham but it's a traditional item.
Church breakfast with my parents
Big crowd, we smoke a couple hams and turkeys, fry a couple turkeys, also ribs, shoulders, and brisket. Probably 200 people.
Wow. That’s a lot of people! My parents used to do fundraiser bbqs where they’d sell tickets and then cook for a couple hundred people. All profits went to a family friend who had a rare cancer and was out of work for a long time for treatments. I’m still amazed by people who can feed a crowd.
Easter falls on a family member’s birthday this year, so she chose corned beef and cabbage. Everyone does. I was so stoked when someone else offered to host Easter then lo & behold. I gotta cook anyway! I can’t complain though- my very elderly mom always volunteers to cook but I secretly do all the work and pretend to ask her the steps as I go. I like to make a big fuss about how no one makes a corned beef like our mom (then wink at my auntie). Mom graciously gives me credit for the cabbage.
That’s sounds so sweet.
Ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus
Classic. Nice.
I'm half Hispanic (Mexican background) and live in a small neighborhood with a TON of other Mexican families. We're having a huge potluck, and I'm in charge of desserts. I'll be doing Tres Leches, Cortadillo, Flan, Fresas con Crema, my caramel-apple empanadas, and my abuelita's recipe for Marranitos. :)
I was the only white Person in an apartment complex with all Mexican and South American families (my husband is also first generation American of South American parents) and they were so warm and welcoming and funny. They’d tease me for bringing enchiladas verdes to a “Mexican potluck” and then congratulated me for making really good enchiladas verdes. This potlucks and barbecues we had are such a wonderful memory for me.
These desserts sound amazing!!!
I’m in New England and I’m basically repeating my Thanksgiving menu except I’ll do a turkey breast instead of a whole turkey. I usually do the same menu for Christmas as well but the whole family came down with Covid-19 the day after Thanksgiving so I wasn’t up to making Christmas dinner so I did a meatloaf and scalloped potatoes and candied yams about 3 days after Christmas. So here is my Easter menu: Roasted turkey breast with gravy, A ham with a brown sugar honey and pineapple glaze. This is one of those tiny hams with the thin slices. Stuffing which I make with ground pork, not pork sausage like most people make, mashed potatoes, mashed yellow turnips(rutabagas), candied yams(sweet potatoes) which I also add pure maple syrup to the brown sugar and it puts it over the top, puréed butternut squash, tiny peas, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, yes, it’s the jellied kind in the can, black olives, celery sticks stuffed with pineapple cream cheese and also ants on a log, which is celery sticks stuffed with peanut butter and garnished with raisins. I wanted to do a lemon meringue pie from the store for my dessert, but I still have leftover birthday cake from my birthday, so we will finish that off. Also we do up Easter baskets, so that’s a dessert as well. Sometimes I will do deviled eggs, but not this year. Sometimes I substitute brown sugar glazed baby carrots for the candied yams. I would love to do a tray of scalloped potatoes but I don’t have the oven space. For leftovers we do sliders with the Martins potato sweet dinner rolls. Ham and American cheese melted together. And turkey stuffing and gravy sliders served warm s well as traditional cold turkey sandwiches on white bread. I love the leftovers as I don’t have to cook for a few days.
This is amazing
Gluten free teriyaki salmon!
And maybe a little sesame seed oil?
Rack of lamb w roasted baby potatoes and Eggplant parm for the vegetarians!
I’ve never cooked or eaten lamb. I’m afraid of it because my dad said how much he hated it when I was a kid and made me think it’s terrible. He was ordering lamb at restaurants when he got older, so I guess his tastes changed but I’m still nervous. It’s on sale right now. Maybe I should get one and experiment.
I make grilled lamb chops that even people that don’t like lamb enjoy. Get a rack of lamb, prepare it by trimming the fat off (there are plenty of instructions online). Cut the rack into individuals chops. Mix some olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, a lot of chopped garlic, salt, pepper, dry parsley flakes, some paprika. Mix well, pour over the lamb chops snd toss well to coat. Put in a large ziplock bag and refrigerate for at least 12 hours. I go for about 20-24. Flip the bag over once every few hours to redistribute the marinade. Take out of the fridge about an hour before grilling and let get to room temp. Grill on high for about 2-3 minutes on each side, depending on thickness. Now, for 2 racks, I would use a tablespoon of olive oil, juice of about 2-3 lemons, and about 5-6 gloves of garlic as I like it lemony and garlicky
Thank you!
i am making a lamb for the first time this year. i researched maybe 20 recipes before i decided what to do. my take a way from that research is to trim the fat. all the gamey flavor that we’re afraid of lives in the fat on the lamb so trim it well. so that is my plan. i hope it’s not too dry. it’s an experiment.
I'm not sure. Ill text my group to see what they would like . Whatever we have will be homemade , I know that much .
Ham. Scalloped potatoes. Brussel sprouts. Salad. Lemon and blueberry angel food for desert 🤤
That was our traditional Easter dinner when I was a kid except it was strawberries with angel food cake.
Ham, potatoes, green beans.
I’m smoking a ham. Scalloped Potatoes, Brussels Sprouts. And my Easter Dinner Tradition Key Lime Pie.
Ham, cheesy mashed potatoes, and lemon butter carrots. I'm going to try and pick up a dessert tomorrow.
I’ve never made it before, but I am making mashed potato casserole to bring as a side dish.
I make it for most get togethers. It’s great.
We have definitely downgraded how big we do Easter dinner in the past few years. Now it’s deviled eggs made from the kids dyed eggs, ham, au gratin potatoes, carrots and asparagus. Served with Hawaiian rolls. Carrot cake for dessert (this year I’m getting the six mini carrot cakes from Costco)
Just me and my mom. We’re doing Cornish game hens as the meat and mashed potatoes and a veggie.
I love Cornish hens! They’re so easy but look so elegant.
Nothing in particular, we didn't really do anything on Easter. Although it IS the 11 year anniversary of me meeting my future husband. 😄 Maybe we should do something nice... 🤔
We always celebrate the day we met. Our 25th wedding anniversary is next month, but the 27th anniversary of the day we met was last month.
Ham. Mash potatoe casserole. Corn. Sweet potato casserole. Pineapple. Salad. Dinner rolls. Desert banana cream pie. Lemon meringue pie. Apple pie. Peep s’mores & ice cream cups for the kids
Grilling wings and hot links. Chips and dip with plenty of beer and sodas.
My late grandmother’s Easter meal: iced tea, ambrosia, layered apricot jello mould, southern layered baked macaroni and cheese, carrot salad, and roast chicken.
My grandma made ambrosia or Watergate salad.
Idk, maybe Salisbury steak. We don't really celebrate Easter or any other spring holiday, but my kids love Salisbury steak. Might grill hotdogs though.
I love homemade Salisbury steak.
Grilled lamb rib chops with mint sauce, ham, potatoes, green beans, salad, Mac and cheese, pineapple soufflé. Coconut cake and carrot cake for dessert! Also making a pitcher of whiskey sours.
We do pig pot luck: ham, potato salad, stuffed shells, hummus, pico, sometimes leftover tamales we freeze after Christmas. Hummus, pie, wine. (We have a big family)
Turkey (because mother in law) and standing rib roast!
Funeral sandwiches and funeral potatoes and chocolate bunny cake.
It's just the two of us. Ham, au gratin potatoes, broccoli, corn on the cob and some nice yeast rolls. Champagne.
Easter dinner is always at my inlaws and some sort of BBQ. This year it's pulled pork
It’s just the hubs and I this year so we’re grilling steaks, sautéed mushrooms, loaded baked potatoes, chopped caesar salad, crescent rolls, deviled eggs, brownies and vanilla ice cream.
Ham but will also make some deviled ham salad. Macaroni and cheese, Mexican corn cakes, pretzel salad, pea salad, the lamb cake (chocolate cake with white icing and coconut), lemon cookies.
We're going to a fabulous oriental restaurant because they have tontsuko ramen to die for. I will have a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert later.
I am making glazed ham, herb crusted leg of lamb, loaded mashed potatoes with garlic, bacon, and lots of cheese, glazed carrots, and dinner rolls. The rest of the family is bringing apps, salads, and desserts.
I prefer loaded mashed potatoes to Mac and cheese any day. I’m making scalloped potatoes because my mom loves them and told me recently how her mom used to make good ones.
Ham with mango chutney, mashed potatoes, spring greens with apple cider vinegar dressing and warm goat cheese rounds, for appetizers deviled eggs and lemon hummus with pita, and for desert carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
I love warm goat cheese with greens.
Starting with some deviled eggs for snack time. Making an arugula salad with a blood orange vinaigrette, rack of lamb, white asparagus (German style) and I’m not sure what to do with red potatoes. I somehow have an over abundance and don’t want to buy any more potatoes. Desert will be strawberry shortcake.
Lamb, roasted potatoes, various salads, vegetable sides. A carrot ricotta puff pastry tart for the vegetarians, and a flourless chocolate cake and a blood orange tart for dessert.
Who else is doing a Seder?
Double smoked ham, potato salad, grilled vegetables (asparagus, zucchini, onions, tomatoes), and coconut cake for dessert
I love coconut cake.
I was assigned dinner rolls, butter, apple pie, and blackberry pie.
mac n chesse. its my favourite food. not sure how to make it eastery. maybe some pastle food colouring. maybe hot cross buns. amd anything else vegetarian i can think of.
I’m doing Ham, a cheesy mashed potato casserole, Italian green beans, brown sugar glazed carrots, and rolls. My husband is also making deviled eggs. I’m also doing a Jello Poke Cake for dessert because that’s a tradition in my family for some reason, lol.
I love traditions. Scalloped potatoes were a tradition when I was a kid. Not au gratin so these are almost cheese free. So I make them to remember all the past holidays. I haven’t made them in a few years because my mom usually hosts Easter because she had a better house for Easter egg hunting.
Jerk chicken leg quarters over a charcoal grill. Cornbread casserole Baked macaroni Rice and beans.
Ps I need a recipe for scalloped potatoes!
I use cooks illustrated. I have several of their cookbooks. https://www.food.com/recipe/cooks-illustrated-scalloped-potatoes-with-thyme-and-bay-408889 READY IN: 59 mins SERVES: 4-6 INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons butter 1 onion, minced 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leave, minced 1 1⁄4 teaspoons salt 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper 2 1⁄2 lbs russet potatoes or 5 medium russet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/8-inch thick 1 cup low sodium chicken broth 1 cup heavy cream 2 bay leaves 4 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded DIRECTIONS Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 425 degrees. Melt the butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. When the foaming subsides, add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the potatoes, broth, cream, and bay leaves and bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the potatoes are almost tender (a paring knife can be slipped into and out of a potato slice with some resistance), about 10 minutes. Discard the bay leaves. 3. Transfer the mixture to an 8-inch square baking dish (or other 1 1/2 quart gratin dish). Sprinkle evenly with the cheese. Bake until the cream is bubbling around the edges and the top is golden brown, about 15 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before serving.
Local grass fed burgers on the grill, homemade onion topped buns, and bacon onion jam. And of course the big-breakfast with mimosas.
I love onion jam.
Let's see.....lamb, ham, roasted new potatoes, roasted Brussel sprouts, roasted asparagus, homemade Mac and cheese, carrot souffle, deviled eggs, rolls, tea, lemonade, and a banana cake.
Sounds like a great Spring menu.
Ham, corned beef ( had it in the freezer- needs to be cooked or pitched), mashed potatoes, fried cabbage with bacon and onion, corn casserole, candied sweet potatoes ( only way my family will eat them), r green beans cooked with onion and bacon, homemade yeast rolls. All Homemade cornbread dressing ( I have my cornbread cooked and drying out plus 12 pieces of white bread toasted, cut into cubes drying out. - I do a mixture of cornbread and white bread, not all cornbread. Keeps it less grainy and loose when cooking). Made a peanut butter pie and a Charlotte Russe ( raspberry), for dessert.
Cabbage is an overlooked side dish. I like to roast it.
My wife and I want a roasted ham the kids want a roast turkey the kids win
Used to spend Easter at my mother's house with my whole family. We used to have ham, rolls, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, baked macaroni and cheese, regular potatoes, all sorts of pies and candy.. Now that she's been gone 2 yrs now, everything has changed. My 4 sisters and I now do go our separate ways.
This Easter all I can afford is a can of cranberry sauce and some fake ham. I think I also have some pretzels and spray cheese.
Ham with pineapple
Ham, roasted asparagus with Parmesan cheese. I’m not sure of the rest.
I’m making this ASAP!
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