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29 March 2013

Sunday Dinner Anyone cooking anything fancy for Easter dinner?→[More:]We're having a family from church, and I'm serving:

*Ham (bought pre-cooked at the store, I want to do a glaze for it, any ideas?)
*Rolls
*Tater Tot Cheesy Bacon Casserole
*Coffee Cake (baked fresh from a box, lol)
*Mimosas, Lemonade, Juice, etc.

They're going to bring some sort of fruit salad.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 12:06 | 23 comments

Oh and I have carrots & hummus, too.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 12:06

No plans here. I don't really celebrate Easter, and anyway, my family is far away.

posted by Stewriffic 29 March | 12:11

I have chicken, asparagus and potatoes, all of which will be roasted in some way or another (so, garlic breath, and I don't care), and a chocolate Easter Egg for dessert.

posted by Senyar 29 March | 13:30

Oh, AND jelly beans and Cadbury Caramel Eggs. They were 2 for $1 at the A&P. I plan to go back Monday; hoping the 4 pks will be marked down significantly. Last year, I was eating caramel eggs in August :D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 13:36

TPS I must have this recipe for Tater Tot Cheesy Bacon Casserole. Please?

posted by Kangaroo 29 March | 14:09

It's going to be 72 here, so we are going to make huckleberry pancakes and bacon on the grill. I think we will probably also cook out for dinner, likely fish and a vegetable from the farmers' market. I'm so excited for the warm weather and getting to be out in it!!

posted by Sil 29 March | 15:34

Here it is! I'm making it without chicken this time. Also, I suggest cook time closer to 6 hours for more crunch!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 15:52

...I actually totally forgot it was the holiday weekend.

Maybe I'll make a duck?

posted by The Whelk 29 March | 16:05

Oh! And for glaze, honey mixed with fresh orange juice, warmed, is classic ( and makes a nice compliment to the cloves if you stick a bunch of cloves in your ham)

posted by The Whelk 29 March | 16:10

I'm at work until late on Sunday and so will be picking up my plate from whatever my mother plans to make on Monday. (She usually just buys a Honeybaked Ham and makes some biscuits and macaroni and cheese for me.)

(However, it is Veneralia for me on Monday but I'm not cooking anything special for that.)

posted by sperose 29 March | 16:36

Tonight I am going to throw together a steak salad with garlic vinegrette and let it marinate until Sunday when I plan to have a 60s sitcom marathon from Hulu.

posted by Ardiril 29 March | 19:49

Deviled eggs! I am also making deviled eggs.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 21:25

Oy with the ~~poodles~~ eggs already.
I have no idea but it will not be eggs.

posted by ethylene 30 March | 03:55

I think we are going to cook lamb this year. With mashed potatoes and a salad. Usually we do a ham but we had ham at Christmas and we still have a bunch of it in the freezer so we decided to go another way this year.

posted by fancyoats 30 March | 07:36

Deviled eggs are awesome but I get so frustrated peeling all of them. Impressed you have the patience!

My dad is taking me to the circus Sunday so I will be eating whatever I can find there that is kfp.
Elephants! I am excited.

posted by rmless2 30 March | 08:52

It's all out of order for me and my families-of-choice. Easter dinner this evening - lamb and asparagus/hollandaise. Staying over for movies, and mimosas, bagels, salmon, etc., in the morning. Then going to a 7th Seder, the only day when everyone can be there. The food and company for both will be excellent, and I am looking forward to it.

posted by theora55 30 March | 10:12

I'm making a paleo easter dinner. Lamb and escarole soup, rack of lamb, a ham, asparagus wrapped with bacon, carrot muffins, and baked sweet potatoes. We usually have some kind of brunch too, which will involve dyeing eggs and eating large amounts of bacon, and some kind of baked egg frittata thing.

A really great glaze for baked ham is plum. It's omg good. And you can't go wrong with pineapple. I'm baking a paleo pineapple upside down cake for tomorrow's dessert right now...yum.

posted by iconomy 30 March | 11:55

Is that fresh asparagus iconomy?

There's a bit of a ritual in the NL (and in D and L and Ch) about that very seasonal vegetable. Rather like Beaujolais.
It's a thing when they've come available again. My mother will be inviting me to visit to eat asparagus fresh from the land.
Here's a NYT article reporting on the northwest-European asparagus craze

One traditional way of serving it is with good ham, egg and beurre blanc. My mother has been making it for the last two decades though with thin cheese pan cakes (grated cheese in the batter).
So imagine us Dutchies seated at the damask covered table, set with the silver cutlery and the crystal wine glasses, marveling at the wonder of being able to eat fresh asparagus again. And sipping our dry white Pfalz Riesling wine.
Spring has come!

posted by jouke 30 March | 12:42

I blanch the asparagus in boiling water, and then wrap raw bacon around it and then do it in the oven. It's pretty amazing ;) It's kind of like this but with asparagus. Just blanched asparagus, butter, and bacon. No sugar or soy or any of that muck. Your ritual sounds charming. Asparagus totally means spring to me as well!

posted by iconomy 30 March | 12:51

That sounds lovely iconomy. Vrolijk Pasen!

posted by jouke 30 March | 15:12

I might have some toast, if I'm feeling energetic.

posted by dg 30 March | 19:33

I have made the requested crack n cheese.

posted by rainbaby 30 March | 20:59

Crack n cheese? I need details!!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 March | 21:14

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