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Easter Menu
We're hosting two of our families for Easter Dinner (not lunch)
What's on your menu?
Any fun dessert ideas?
Appetizers?
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Re: Easter Menu
We always do ham. I see that they're on HyVee's 3 day sale, so we'll get a spiral sliced ham to bake. YUMMY! Then some sort of green bean concoction usually; either fresh with a bit of seasoning, green bean casserole, or mustard green beans. Sometimes a carrot thing (they are the bunny's favorite!). Then mashed pototoes with white gravy-this is tradition with DH's family, but I'm thinking it could also be fun to do roasted baby red potatoes with olive oil/butter and salt and herbs. Deviled eggs the way my MIL makes them. [she hard boils, then halves them, scoop out the yellow part together. THEN dye the white halves. They get so very bright then, are so very festive!] Sometimes DH insists on stuffing as well.
Dessert is just whatever we feel like, but one of my favorite is carrot cake cookies. Sometimes a nice angel food cake with fresh strawberries and a light glaze. Or Strawberry Pineapple Sorbet if it'll be warm. Maybe Topeka Slush
Appetizers... We've never done them for Easter. I've got nothing spring-ish coming to mind. I'm stuck on the cookies and sorbet right now!
Thanks for asking, now I'm starving, and need to make a shopping list of what we're going to eat for Easter!
We ALWAYS have pickel roll ups for an appetizer. A relish tray.
We do a ham also, mashed potatoes, some sort of casserole, my grandma makes my favorite jello thing, which is rasberry jello, w/ rasberries in it! YUMMY!
YES! LOL My other grandma ALWAYS makes my favorite!!! I'm such a geek, I LOVE Cherry Jello w/ Cherry Pie filling OOHHHHHH Homer Simpson drool noise please...
I'm playing in the sunrise service (6:21 am!) and then we are going out for breakfast (surprisingly, most buffets open at 7!) and then we are headed home to take a nap!
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I am debating making a ham meal later on in the day. It is just the 3 of us so we'll see. Maybe we'll just eat easter candy all day...ha!
Since both of my grandmothers are gone, we haven't had a jello thing at a family meal. My mom is making dinner, probably ham & scalloped potatoes, but I think now I'm going to have to make a jello thing.