Is it Catholic to have a dinner/feast on Easter Day?

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Strangely, this still survives even with people who do not identify as religious in anyway at all. Sunday lunch (normally in the South) or dinner (normally in the North) is a big thing. You will always find a pub in the UK ‘doing’ Sunday roast. It’s, still, for many the biggest meal of the week. Also odd, many people in the UK still have a fish supper on Friday and fish is still considered ‘traditional’ on Good Friday, as is Lamb on Easter Day.
 
When I was a kid growing up, we had a big Sunday dinner every week. It was always after church at 1 o’clock and always roast beef.

My husband and I will be having a nice dinner on Easter Sunday but it will be small and just the two of us. Our grown up children and significant others won’t be able to come due to the virus.
 
Sunday roast (preferably with pork) has to be my favourite food. With full English coming a close second.

Full English I obviously realised was an English thing, but Sunday roast I assumed they had everywhere. (In the west anyway, where the food is similar to our’s)

As I said before, its very interesting to hear how they do things in other countries.
 
In the county of Lancashire in North West England (arguably, the historical stronghold of Catholicism in the country) both Friday fish suppers and Lamb on Sunday is nigh on obligatory. However, unbeknown to even many other Catholics living elsewhere in the British Isles, is the Lancashire Butter Pie or “Catholic Pie” which is a Meat and Potato Pie minus the meat, which is eaten on a Friday for obvious reasons! It is both unbelievably delicious, due to the quantity of butter used in place of meat, but unbelievably bad for the arteries lol Here is a recipie (geddit?)( Try it just once and live briefly in the very fast lane!)

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Lancashire Recipes - Butter Pie

Butter Pie is also known as Catholic pie or Friday pie, and is an age-old dish, from around the Chorley and Preston area or, for the…
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I would be willing to travel to Lancashire to try something called a Catholic pie. Butter pie even makes it sound pretty irresistible. Going to have to try and make one. I’m not much of a cook, though.
 
I’m vegetarian, so I don’t cook lamb on Easter. Instead, I prefer baking a lentil bread (veggie equivalent of meat bread).

However, most of my family in France has lamb on Easter Day.
 
Yes, this is what I was thinking of. My fiancé’s parents have a traditional Sunday lunch, although it had never occurred to me to wonder whether they do it every Sunday or only when I have been visiting! A lot of pubs in Britain serve a Sunday lunch as well, which is great if you don’t want to cook, although it gets pretty expensive, especially in Oxford or London, which is where I am most of the time.

As for calling it “dinner”, isn’t that a regional thing specific to the North? And then they call their evening meal “tea”.
 
Oh wow, I have happy memories of Darlington! The British guy I’m marrying is seriously into trains, so we took a day trip up to Darlington to visit the Head of Steam Darlington Railway Museum when we were in York to see the National Railway Museum.
 
In the Ukrainian Eastern rite, all the foods that were given up during Lent would be put into an Easter basket and blessed after the Easter service. There is a whole set of things around this, including the blessed bread called Paska, with a white candle standing in the center of it, lit for the blessing. There are decorated eggs, fancy linens with stitching that can say Christi is Risen!

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How about a lamb carved from butter?
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Isn’t “vegetarian” a swear word in your country? 😉 I’m vegetarian, too. I cook up a delicious vegetable and seitan mix and serve lemon cake for dessert.

I grew up in the U.S. eating leg of lamb. It’s been decades since I’ve eaten meat. But oddly, I liked eating it, especially with the mint jelly.
 
I’m pretty sure Easter has historically been considered a major feast day
 
Pretty much the same foods in my family. Sometimes we ate at home by ourselves, but we always visited my Italian grandmother and then went to my dad’s family in the evening.
 
That’s why I’ll be ordering Lamb Vindaloo from a local Indian restaurant… succulent, tender, spicy and delicious (to be delivered using non-contact protocols of course with outer packaging immediately trashed). Certainly wouldn’t attempt to prepare lamb ourselves…
 
Oh yes Sunday dinner! We can have it on the table from scratch in 90 minutes for the two of us 🙂 got it down to a fine art who does what
 
You’re lucky your hubby helps you. My friend is from another generation and I think her hubby pretty much watches sports on the telly while she has to cook everything. She is always happy when they can eat at the Chinese Buffet instead.
 
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