For me, it's ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, yeast rolls and some nice dessert, pie or cake.

• What is your idea of Easter dinner? - just asking since we talk about food daily!
  • Orthodox Easter - Christ Is Risen
    • Sounds a lot like the Easters at my grandmother's when I was a kid - Polish MT
      • My grandmother also, except . . . - Olga
  • Anything I don't have to cook! (nm) - Tuesday
  • We put on the spread....sm - My whole family gets together
  • Preference is split in my house - My2Cents
  • Crab cakes, mashed potatoes, fresh asparagus in cheese sauce, salad, deviled eggs and - typing4dollars
    • Double Wow sm - Wow
    • Jealous! That must be great at family dinners. - You know who is bringing dessert!
    • Okay...hand over the cake recipe; - gotta have it!
      • If I gave that recipe out, he'd kill me....but.... - typing4dollars
        • I will never tell you told - partially anyway! - Thanks for sharing though!!
          • Brownie recipe.... Shhhh, it's a secret..... - typing4dollars
            • Ummm...you know I would! Can I have the whole recipe? - LOL
              • ok.... Here it is... in full and complete. - typing4dollars
                • Easter recipes sm - just my opinion
  • For us, no different than any other dinner. - Atheist family
  • Who cares about dinner? JESUS is - ALIVE!!!!! NM
    • So none of you holy rollers are eating on Easter - ????
      • GUILTY!!! Im a holy roller but I will definitely be eating too!!!!! - in celebration of Jesus
      • I am - I will use any excuse, but Jesus is a GREAT one! - Ham, mashed taters, maccaroni, deviled eggs,
    • The Last Supper was/is ALL about Jesus...nm - Easter-Last Supper-Seder-Spring
    • He is Risen. - Actually
    • Every day, in every way! - nm
      • Absolutely! - ginny
        • Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess .. - Misha
  • Ham, cheese potatoes, asparagus, roasted cauliflower, deviled eggs. carrot cake, family and friends - my idea
    • Roasted caulifower sounds good! - Do you put anything on that?
      • toss in olive oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika - my 2 cents
  • For me, it's ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, yeast rolls and some nice dessert, pie or cake. - memt
    • Gotta be ham. - Easter Bunny
      • Not fried rabbit???? - nm
        • I'd eat bunny if it tasted like chicken! - Easter Bunny
          • But would you eat chicken if it tasted like Bunny? - nm
            • Certainly. - Easter Bunny
          • In France, they serve Lapin (rabbit)...yum - sure does taste like chicken
            • I've had rabbit stew before. - Delish!!!!!!

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Here's an interesting science project a kid did proving that yeast loses its effectiveness.  It's in Adobe Acrobat format.

http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2004/Projects/J1316.pdf

You can use it anyway, but it will take longer to rise, and you might get flat dense pizza dough.  BTW, thanks for the idea for dinner. 

I am dying over here for pizza. Have ALL the ingredients - cheese, sauce, toppings, but forgot the yeast for the dough. Called my 80 y.o. sweetheart of a neighbor to see if I could borrow a packet until I get to the grocers (quite a bit away).

She drives to my house and lovingly hands me the package. As I go to open it to place in my dough mixture the expiration date reads: Oct 25 1992

LOL!! Should I go for it or what, girls?

with a teaspoon of sugar.  If it starts to bubble within 10-15 minutes it's still alive.  Otherwise, it has died and will not breathe it's bubbles into whatever you are making and you'll get no rising. 

Next time you buy yeast, stick it in the freezer.  That puts it to sleep, and it will last years. 

shirt, over your ankles, and walking like you have two 40 inch diameter poles poking out at a wierd oblique angle from your fat butt that you try to walk on?  Most fat people are really nasty as well as ugly. 

It it any meaner to walk up to a skinny person and tell them how skinny they are than to walk up to a lard bard and tell them they are fat?? 

Cherry Cake Pudding

1 1/2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup cherry juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups canned red cherries, pitted

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.

Combine cake flour with baking powder and salt. Cream margarine; add sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs; beat until blended. Add dry ingredients alternately with combined milk and cherry juice, beating smooth after each addition. Stir in vanilla extract. Place drained cherries in baking dish. Pour batter over cherries. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until done.

Serve warm, plain or with whipped cream.

I think my favorite may be the Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings....turkey, gravy, honey spiral ham, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, garden peas.....I could go on and on.....

What's yours?????

I tend to find that fleas love pink-skinned kritters the best!!

I wouldn't call it ever being a gravy train.  We are highly trained professionals who work hard at what we do and we do it darn good, thank you very much.  It's not like we sat here eating our bon bons and getting upset because the banging away at the keyboard ruined our new manicure!  To say it was a gravy train is downright insulting, IMO. 

That said, I don't have 30+ years in this profession but I do have 15+ years including working in-house and remotely from home.  My first at-home was around 1997 for a small company doing straight transcription, none of this VR stuff, which lasted only about 4 months until the work dried up.  The pay was good while it lasted though and there was 24 TAT, no punching a time clock and sticking to a strict schedule. As long as the work got down within 24 hours it was fine.  That same company is still around today as a national but not huge like others out there.  I ended up having to go back in-house and was there until about 4 years ago when I signed on with a very well known national that screws people to the Q, if you get my drift.  I don't know when the MT biz as a whole went into the toilet, but up until 2 years ago I had no problem.  I was working hard all the time as work was available basically 24/7.  Never did I get NJA except for an occasional week or two around the holidays but very quickly the workload would start to pick up.  I had a GREAT supervisor who made working fun and made us feel like we were a real team.  The company always had bonus incentives with quirky little games.  It may sound corny but it actually made us feel valued and brought some fun into it while making good money at the same time.  Then about 2 years ago, things started changing for the worst and it's been going downhill FAST every since.  Maybe the offshoring and technological advances have something to do with it, I really don't know.  One thing I do know, I DO NOT advise anybody new starting in this profession now.  What once was a professional and lucrative career has basically been made into a sweat shop scam for the so called "training programs" and large nationals to make a nice profit at the expense of the MTs.  It is such a cut throat business with accounts going to the lowest bidder just to save a few bucks.  I only hope that things will turn around some day soon and MT can be the professional career it once used to be.

Please don't say it was a gravy train.  Thank you.