Easter Menu

jshf

We're hosting Easter this year, so I need some ideas of what to serve.  We're getting a ham and also serving some sort of pasta.  But I'd like to serve some other meat dish.  My family is very boring in terms of food.  So something simple would be great!  They also don't eat lamb and don't eat things with bones or skin on it.  

 Any suggestions?  What are your favorites?  Any easy dessert recipes are appreciated too!  Thanks!

gakester8

all meat has skin and bones on the animal, so i'm not sure what you mean by that.

easy springy dessert - strawberry soda cake w/fresh strawberries 

tracyd21

My mom cooks Easter dinner, but usually it's some kind of glazed ham, baked mac and cheese, pineapple stuffing, a veg casserole  (green bean, spinach, broccoli or corn) and bread.  Sometimes as an extra, my mom will bake chicken in italian dressing and whole cranberry sauce - sounds weird but is delicious (you could do boneless/skinless breasts and thighs).  I usually make carrot cake for dessert.  We don't really do healthy on holidays, haha.

WA1215

We do ham, baked mac & cheese, scalloped potatoes, country green beans, some other veggie and dinner rolls.  (Dad likes cheese).  My mom also does deviled eggs, assorted pickles and olives and cole slaw.  I make carrot raisin salad.  For dessert we always have hummingbird cake.

I would do chicken breasts- baked.  Serve gravy on the side. 

chardonnay24

My family does this tasty breaded chicken breasts with broccoli and cheese sauce with baked potatoes, rolls, fruit salad, and dessert. I don't have the recipe because my grandma refuses to share it, but basically:

Pound chicken breasts flat, dip in egg white, coat with bread crumbs, and roll them up (like chicken cordon bleu), smother in homemade cheese sauce (or Velveeta if you so prefer, we don't) and add broccoli. Bake until chicken is cooked.

Or you could do any basic chicken breast dish. H's family does baked ham, scalloped potato, rolls, fruit, veggie, etc. If the weather is nice they will also do BBQ chicken on the grill.

vanessapodunk

Last year I made a ham, my mom brought lamb, and I also made a lasagna with meatballs and sausage. The meatballs and sausage were a way to have another meat alternative without it being something similar to the ham and lamb.

dthetford

Pork tenderloin would be a good (and super easy) meat alternative. 

My plan is to have ham, stuffed eggs, roasted asparagus, roasted new potatoes and coconut cupcakes for dessert (with toasted coconut and jelly beans on top to look like birds nests). 

yarncarchick

Pork tenderloin is always a hit with my FIL. Sort of redundant with the ham, but definitely a different flavor. I do a 'beer  & barbecue' marinade that's no fail.