What is your idea of Easter dinner?
Posted By: just asking since we talk about food daily! on 2006-03-23
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Easter dinner
Honey glazed ham, sweet potato soufle, corn, butterbeans, deviled eggs, sweet potato biscuits. Honeybun cake for desert. Yummy~
Easter Dinner
Hi there...We usually make a smoked ham for dinner with potatoes, carrots and angel biscuits but this year my kids want an Italian Easter. So I guess I'm going to be making lasagna and a side salad with garlic bread. We also make my grandmother's homemade Italian sesame seed cookies, coosidadas and amaretti cookies. Have a great Easter and happy eating!
Easter Dinner What are you making?
For those preparing an Easter dinner, what are you making this year?
sure and I'm the easter bunny
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Orthodox Easter
What a great celebration we have! Our Easter falls after Western Easter (different calendar). We take our food to church in a basket and have it blessed, then share and enjoy to break the fast. The basket contains things that have meaning, i.e. a candle (Christ is the light of the world), eggs (new life), salt (salt of the earth), special bread (breaking bread), kolbassi or ham or both (breaking the fast having not eaten meat for 40 days), cheese (also breaking the fast of dairy product), honey (the sweetness of Christ is Risen), red beats with horseradish (the bitterness of crucifixion), and various other items depending on what part of Eastern Europe you came from. It is an incredible celebration.
Easter recipes sm
It is very difficult for me because my children married different faiths and it used to be that we (before they married) would go to church and then to a restaurant (our favorite) as a special treat for family style soup, salad and main course. Of course, the "new" family had to kill this plan since the other side did not like our Church. Too bad. I started to cook brunch after service which included: Coffee or tea, lots of different juices, bacon, ham (spiral), fried potatoes (home fries), waffles (finally woke up to buying prepared and frozen), lots of syrup, butter, fresh strawberries and blueberries, some favorites of the grandchildren (one liked cantaloupe, another's favorite was my homemade sugar cookies, another liked my peanut butter cookies). I cook for days but it's worth it. Know how I got rewarded? The "other" moms got so jealous, they started to offer "brunch" instead of the traditional dinner (ham and all the trimmings, sit-down style).. I was frustrated at this, but I still try. Why don't people realize that "life is temporary" - whatever works for you. Since someone "stole" my brunch idea, I offer nice foods still, at whatever time their schedule (allows) them to show up; not necessarily breakfast, but some rented "childrens movies" with no pressure. As long as we build it, they will come. However, my brunch was sooooo popular, I'm glad someone "stole" it from me. It's kind of like having MT account "stolen" from you, it's not the same quality, but you have to realize that copying you is a true compliment and you should enjoy it. BTW (by the way) I have a bit of Polish in me, so I thoroughly enjoyed the kielbasa aspect of Easter, I slice it up and cook it first in a little water to get rid of the grease. Then I recook it using currant jelly and slice it, put wooden toothpicks in there and let them munch. Easter should be fun, no matter what religion you are in or out of, "He" would just like you to have fun on His special day, or more especially a family day, never mind what you believe in or choose not to believe in. It's a fun day!!!
Passover and/or Easter....*S*....sm
Whichever you celebrate, just want to wish everyone a happy Spring holiday season!! Passover commences Wednesday 4/12 evening, and Easter Sunday is this upcoming Sunday!! Enjoy!!!
Hoppy Easter!
Here's hoping a very happy Easter comes hopping your way!
HAPPY EASTER! nm
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Hmm, so is Easter anti-biblical?
The word "Easter" itself appears nowhere in the bible because its roots have nothing to do with Christianity:
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity. Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts. The Christian celebration of Easter embodies a number of converging traditions with emphasis on the relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name used by Europeans for Easter. Passover is an important feast in the Jewish calendar which is celebrated for 8 days and commemorates the flight and freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets. (For more information please visit our Passover celebration - Passover on the Net). Easter is observed by the churches of the West on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 2I). So Easter became a "movable" feast which can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. Christian churches in the East which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observe Easter according to the date of the Passover festival.
My son's birthday is on Easter this year
he will be 8. On Saturday we are going to have his birthday bash at the bowling alley...he is very excited!! On Easter we will be going to my parents house. They just moved into a brand new, three story home. They sold about 13 acres of land in the city limits of Greensboro, NC. That is a hard thing to come by. The developer will be developing 302 townhomes on the property. It will be very strange to see that when it happens. My grandmother lives with my parents 6 months out of the year. The other 6 she lives in Florida. She's home right now because of the move, so she will be making Easter dinner. I don't know what she will make, but I'm sure there will be ham. Her cooking is so good that it doesn't really matter what she makes though!! Since it's my son's birthday, (and my birthday is two days later), it will also be another birthday celebration...so there will be homemade birthday cake! Can't wait!!
Happy Easter Back To Ya.......
Hope you, and everyone here, have a wonderful Easter.
And, thanks to you Busy for recent help you gave to me and solved a problem I had been worrying with for several months.
HE IS RISEN
So none of you holy rollers are eating on Easter
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Thanks for the good wishes, everyone. Happy Easter!
nm
Has anyones account seemed a little slow since Easter?
Just does not seem quite as busy?
Wishing a Happy Easter to the entire board!
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We have such gorgeous weather here today, Easter Sunday!
What about where you are?!
Dinner
Stouffer's frozen - chicken enchaladas with rice. It is sooo good and tastes homemade!
73 and nothing for dinner!
Everyone is gone! I've had a chicken sandwich and I'm getting my weekend work done so I can have some time off when everyone is home. 
What is everyone else having for dinner?
It is unseasonably cool here this week and I have been thinking about a pot of chili.
We don't go out to dinner at all.
We'll order pizza, grab takeout or go out to lunch maybe three or four times per month.
What's for dinner??
Chili, salad, cornbread.
Out to dinner
On the money I make doing MT, I'm lucky if I can pay all my bills much less go out to eat. I was better off 20 years ago when I actually had enough money left over to be able to do so.
What's for dinner??
Boxed white cheddar mac and cheese, big salad, garlic bread. Not very exciting.
What is for dinner
Is that all you think about is food?
What's for Dinner?
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No dinner
I'm lucky my DH works nights.. only breakfasts in my house!
dinner
Pot roast with carrots and potatoes. YUMMY!!
dinner
chicken -n- pastry, speckled butterbeans, corn, and biscuits or corn bread, haven't decided which yet
dinner
Sounds great! So WHERE do you live?? We are ALL coming over !
dinner
what are hawiian rolls?
For us, no different than any other dinner.
Although, in our area ham seems to be the traditional Easter food.
What's for dinner or what was for dinner?
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What's for dinner?
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What's for Dinner?
Tonight we are having one of our traditional comfort foods: Pasta and Prego (hey, it's pretty good!), a huge salad, garlic bread and hopefully dessert if I can get hubby to run out and get it.. heh.
I am looking for a good pot roast recipe for the crock pot. I know I can Google one but I remember there are a lot of good cooks on this board. (Haven't been here in a while.) We plan to use the leftover beef for shredded beef tacos the next day.. which my son, home from college for a couple of weeks, has been craving.
Anything will be appreciated! Thanks.
Dinner
We had Pizones from Pizza Hut. Friday is no cooking night at our house.
dinner
Oh man that sounds good! We had PB&J tonight!
Dinner
I know a lot of y'all don't like Wal-Mart, but they had some angus burgers with bacon and cheddar. Just thaw and plop on the ole George Foreman grill, fries and a salad. YUM. Other flavors too, mushroom & swiss is quite tasty, also.
Sorry, going out to dinner, sorry about your
plight and having difficulties on your income.
What's for dinner/supper?
Meatloaf, baked potatoes, salad, rolls, .... still need something easy for dessert. We have tons of strawberries.
What's for dinner tonight?
I'm going to make three types of maki-sushi and wontons because I have salmon, shrimp and tun in there to use up. I just love messing with the little bamboo sushi mat. It's so cute! LOL
I think of it this way - How much would you spend on dinner for you and
your spouse or significant other at a nice restaraunt? That is what your gift should be or a little more depending on if it is a family member. So, if you go to a very nice restaraunt and spend $70 for dinner for the two of you, including drinks, than the gift should be about that as they are providing you with a dinner at the wedding, right?
It may be off base, but that is how I figure it. If it is a family member, I usually will give $100 or more.
are you having wine with dinner?
just curious but your posts are not making much sense. not that there's anything wrong with wine with dinner, it's just maybe not so wise to post on MT boards when you are so "relaxed".
dinner tonight
With fresh tomatoes and peppers abounding in this area, I have made some salsa and we are having chicken burritos with fresh salsa and fresh peaches. Not much work and lots of good eating.
What's for dinner tonight?
Leftovers here. I am not cooking. I've got homemade cheeseburger pizza, chipotle grilled chicken, biscuits and sausage gravy, tacos, soup, sandwiches and salad that need to be eaten up.
Dinner? Oh @*&^ something is burning again. :)
Not kidding. Forgot to set my "office timer" and saved the meatballs just in time. 
My dinner plans
I am so sorry that your doggy had diarrhea all over your face. OH GEEZ, I didn't realize that is really what you look like - again sorry.
Turkey dinner...
with mashed garlic potatoes, bean salad, stuffing, gravy, ham, buns....YUUMMMMYYY I am sooo hungry!!
Happy Thanks Giving!!
Dinner tonight
Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, creamed corn, broccoli/cauliflower salad and Kentucky Derby Pie for dessert. I love to cook.
tonight dinner
Chingri Malai Curry |
INGREDIENTS
400 gm prawns
3 tbsp mustard oil
1/2 tbsp whole cumin
2 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp cumin paste
2 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp garam masala
1 1/4 cup coconut milk
2 tsp ghee
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Blanch the prawns in turmeric water.
Heat mustard oil in a pan and add sugar and whole cumin. Add ginger paste, cumin powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and sauté.
Now add the prawns and slit green chillies and stir for few minutes. Add the coconut milk, cook for few more minutes and then add salt.
In the end sprinkle garam masala and ghee on top and serve.
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So what's for dinner tonight? SM
I was privileged to be a guest at the first night of Hanukkah last year, and we had latkes and doughnuts, it was all about the oil.
For the life of me I can't remember what we had the second night.
I was in the Bay Area of SF and I'll swear all I did was eat the whole time I was there. And it was all wonderful. My friend is the best cook I've ever seen.
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