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What's for Easter (Food)?
What's typical to eat on Easter where you are and are you having that? Anything else on the menu for you?
The "gigot," a leg of lamb, is pretty typical in France. I have an entire cooking magazine devoted to various leg of lamb recipes, but haven't picked one yet. I'm still pondering the side dishes. There will be six of us eating here.
I need to figure out Passover at some point, but am hoping some expat-Passover celebration will miraculously pop up. As the only non-Jew in my nuclear family, I am too stressed out to coordinate it myself, (Off to google expat & Passover & Paris...)
Re: What's for Easter (Food)?
I don?t know of any really typical food for Easter other than "Easter bread," but the restaurant down the street from us is serving lamb and a variety of egg dishes.
I will be serving guinea fowl with green asparagus and new potatoes, I think. Already have the drumbsticks in the freezer, just have to see what veggies the organic grocer has on Sat.
For breakfast I want to make a cinnamon roll cake: http://cookinupnorth.blogspot.de/2011/07/cinnamon-roll-cake.html
And we'll probably do some kind of egg salad sandwiches for lunch. For dinner I'm either going to make some kind of pork or chicken because those are the only meats I can tolerate right now. I'm more excited about the sides, a bunch of salads: green, macaroni and potato. I'm not sure what to do for dessert yet. I think that cinnamon roll cake will also make a good dessert, though.
A friend asked me to dinner at her place on Sunday night. No idea what she's making, it's just the two of us and she's Canadian. No one I know typically makes a big deal about Easter.
Actually, last year, we had an Easter/Passover (I'm Jewish) potluck dinner at our place. None of our friends are religious so we had this incredibly strange combination of food. DH makes ham buns which are a family tradition (Lithuanian) and I made some Passover stuff and friends brought a whole bunch of Easter or not-Easter-related at all food.
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Easter is in the fall here, and my in-laws serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal, with a roasted turkey and root vegetables, winter squash and a heavy continental cake.
This year I am hosting our holiday dinner and I am doing an Italian menu -- baked spaghetti, caprese salad, and herb focaccia. My MIL is a baker, and she offered to make a cake for dessert and I am anxious to see what she brings to go with the dinner.
We're going on a weekend getaway with our Italian friends here. Hopefully having lamb since we're going to the region famous for lamb (Karoo area).
I'll probably be in charge of Easter breakfast as they seem to think Americans do breakfast well (or maybe they just don't trust me to make lunch or dinner?!). Anyway, probably my famous pancakes, complete with maple syrup brought lovingly all the way from Canada.
Maybe I'll make bread as a side for lunch. I like the way my foccacia turned out this weekend and rosemary would go well with the lamb.
My in laws have invaded our house and kitchen, so we have no say in the Easter eats. Which is actually fine by me; when they came at Christmas and I tried to make the traditional American turkey, I had my FIL up my ass the entire time telling me what to do.
They live in Austria now, so they did the traditional Austrian thing this morning (and tomorrow morning, too, I think): ham, hard-boiled eggs and lots of fresh horseradish. Tomorrow FIL is making lamb.
(I don't want to sound like an ungrateful cow ... they are just grating on our nerves for other reasons right now.)