Easter!!!

wejustwant2:)

Hi!  This year... for the first time ever in my six year marriage I am hosting Easter!

Agreed to swap with SIL for Thanksgiving - which is usually my holiday. 

Please share any and all decorating, cooking and dessert/appetizer ideas.  Am not sure yet whether doing lamb or spiral ham.  Am hosting for 13 pp. - BTW.

Thank you!

~ "W".  

6fsn

I must like meat wrapped greens because my first two thoughts were prosciutto wrapped asparagus or bacon wrapped green beans.  Lamb makes me think couscous, but for ham I go more toward scalloped potatoes.  Ina Garten has a fantastic baked "risotto."  I'd add a spinach salad with strawberries, feta, red onion, balsamic vinaigrette.  Oh and some bread.  I love bread.

wejustwant2:)

Oh awesome!  Thank you for the recipes.  I was also thinking Risotto - but I've only made it once, years ago.   I'm going to try it again.

gymbugmj2k

my family is italian and greek --- so we incorporate both recipes.

 We start with antipasto (veggies, olives, etc), then we do greek style lamb (with garlic), fettucini or other wide-noodle pasta with sauce, some sort of vegetable (broccoli, asparagus -- the asparagus recipe above sounds great!). green salad and then desserts!  (cookies, cannolis, ricotta cheesecake, etc)

wejustwant2:)

Yum!  Sounds so good.  I love Lamb.

Am trying still to get in the Easter mood... we were blanketed with snow Monday and now we're expecting more. Sigh.

~ W.