Easter dinner

[perc-o-prince]

Are you a traditionalist, serving lamb and/or ham? Prefer lasagna? Nothing special at all?

It's usually the one time all year I make a ham, but this year we're doing something different; gorgonzola ravioli! We'll make them Sunday and serve them with grilled asparagus and some kind of chicken paillard. Rich is making a flour-less chocolate cake so we can have something decadently chocolate after both having given it up for Lent!

What are you making? And don't forget pictures later!

Chuck

 

[imperial70]

Lamb.  Semi-boneless leg (Everyone has them for $4.99/lb)  Stuff the leg with garlic.  Lemon, salt, pepper and oregano (of course)

 

lemon/butter  potatoes

 

Green vegetable (maybe Brussels sprouts sauteed in garlic and olive oil).

 

 

 

[xraytech]

We are going to mothers for Easter dinner. We will be having a baked ham as well as kielbasa.
I will be bringing homemade pierogi, a carrot cake, sugar cookies, spinach dip, and a loaf of beer bread.
I will be taking a huge basket with all our Easter foods to church tomorrow for the traditional blessing of Easter baskets.

 

[retro-man]

I have a 5 lb boneless leg of lamb marinating since Friday. Olive oil, lemon juice garlic oregano and mint. Going to have rice pilaf with feta cheese green beans and some pita and jello for desert. Going to smell like heaven when cooking.

Jon

 

[luxflairguy]

Dinner for 14. 2 chickens marinating since yesterday, a 12# ham with a chutney glaze, my signature scalloped potatoes, green beans with lemon and almonds and cheddar biscuits and 2 lemon-lime meringue pies topped with an Italian meringue--not the old plain egg white version! Good wine and bubbles to accompany. Greg

 

[firedome]

Glazed baked ham...

a locally grown hog from one of the wife's patients, glazed with mustard, Vermont maple syrup, brown sugar, and cloves... with sides of oven baked green beans and almonds, oven baked carrots, and parsley potatoes... awesome!

 

[appnut]

Roasted pork with a fig preserve glaze; corn pudding; green bean casserole; whole wheat rolls; key lime pie.

 

[hairyguard]

fish and chips

Fish and Chips I live in the uk and live alone, I had to work today so no allowances were made for special meals. My partner does not live with me, but he has plans for us to go out on Monday afternoon for a belated easter treat.

 

[perc-o-prince]

Here's what we had. Gorgonzola ravioli in tarragon butter with walnuts, roasted asparagus, and herbed chicken.

Chuck

 

[xraytech]

That looks delicious

I didn't have a chance to take pics of dinner, but here is my Easter table

 

[perc-o-prince]

Very Springy, Sam!

 

[imperial70]

Chuck, when are you going to have your own internet cooking program? 

Sam, your tablescape rivals those of Sandra Lee.

 

[midcentnurse]

Xraytech I love your chairs

 

[retro-man]

From the left is pita, rice pilaf with lemon and feta cheese, steamed green beans and the leg of lamb.

 

[norgeway]

Their is

NOTHING better than leg of lamb!! My all time favorite meat!!We went out to eat for Easter, I was too lazy to cook.When I was a kid out traditional Eater lunch was glazed ham ,potato salad, green beans..it isn't a meal in the South without green beans!!,sweet potato casserole and turkey and dressing, Grandmother always had cocoanut cake and chocolate cake too......Our way of cooking green beans usually horrifies those North of the Mason Dixon line..LOL, we cook ours with a chunck of fat back or a ham hock at least 2 hours.

 

[moparwash]

Here is the star of our Easter Parade!

 

[norgeway]

YUMM!

Now THAT looks good!!!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

I went to dinner with my best friend and his wife and we had: (YUM!)

 

Pic #1: Oxtail Poutine (oxtail, cheese curds, gravy over garlic fries)

#2 Bacon Fried Rice (broken rice, super crisp bacon, bean sprouts, sesame oil, etc)

#3 Sliders  (50% ground bacon/50% ground beef, seared tomato, lettuce, fried shallots)

#4 Korean BBQ'd crispy pork grilled cheese with a chimmichurri/lime dipping sauce.

#5 Vanilla bean ice cream with strawberry sauce, berries & pecan cookie crumble

#6 Passion fruit creme brulee

 

Kevin

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[xraytech]

Kevin,
Your Easter dinner is by far the best one shared.
I could really enjoy that poutine and the sliders

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Thanks Sam!   Everything was delicious!   We also had Pork belly sliders even though in the photo they look like "cold slaw" sliders, LOL.

 

BTW, in the photo of the poutine, the pink stuff at the end is sliced pickled onion.

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[polkanut]

Sam,

Who is the mfr of the china in your pics, and the pattern name?  I love it.

 

[xraytech]

Tim, the manufacturer of my spring dishes are Canonsburg Pottery. The ironstone blank is American Traditional I believe. I'm unsure of the pattern printed on it, there were several patterns printed on this blank

 

[golittlesport]

Yummy, Kevin!

Where did you go to have a feast like that? 50 Forks? Looks so good!!!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Hi Rich, no it's a restaurant in Artesia that started out life as a gourmet food truck.  It's called Belly Bombz Kitchen.

 

[mikael3]

Our Easter dinner is very small now, nothing like what I remember as a kid.  There are just a few of us left!!

 

For several years, we’ve had a sort of picnic, with ham, salami, sliced cheese, deviled eggs, cole slaw, and potato chips.  (I never thought I’d serve potato chips at Easter, but it works!)  I always make a big loaf of honey bread and dye a bunch of eggs.  Dessert is cheesecake with strawberries, but Easter was so early this year, I didn’t have any nice berries. 

 

I still try to put together a traditional basket, a little Old World, a little New. 

 

Here’s the one from this year.  Bread, wine and oil, ham, salami, cheese, cheesecake, a butter lamb, salt and eggs.  I always forget the horseradish.  And there’s a sprig of boxwood on the handle.

 

 And yes, I know the cross is backwards.  I didn’t make it this year, and I didn’t want to fuss about it.

 

[xraytech]

It's so nice to see that others that still put together a traditional Easter basket. Mine always weighs a ton when I tote it off to the church for the Easter basket blessing