What are ya'll cooking for Easter?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Allegra
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

Allegra

Guest
So, it sounds like we are going to have a “immediate family only” Easter dinner, so it occurred to me that we don’t have to be confined to the family tradition of ham and bland party side dishes. Since we are only cooking for the five of us, one of which doesn’t have molars, we can literally make anything we want. Even fancy, expensive stuff we can’t normally afford because we’re feeding everyone and their cousin. So, inspire me! What are you planning to make for Easter?
 
For coffee in the morning, Monkey Bread. My MIL always made it for Easter morning and I guess me and the wife will have to try our hand at it this year.

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Last edited:
Yummy! I bought a Kringle from Trader Joe back when the only items they had left in the store were cut flowers, Kringles, and jars of oyster mushrooms. So that our breakfast plan! (And Easter Eggs of course!)
 
Prolly curbside takeaway.

And a glass of red wine (gave it up for Lent)
 
To be honest, I haven’t thought that far ahead yet, what with everything else going on. I suppose it will depend what’s affordable and available at the store. I’m sure the menu will involve bread, though. I began a sourdough starter this week, and I’m looking forward to baking with that.
 
I ordered a German poppy seed strudel mix that is about 50% poppy seed filling.

Really excited!
 
My wife has started her first sour dough starter. Any tips? She tried to explain it to me but my eyes glazed over after 5 minutes. Something about water/flour mixture and lactobacillus…
 
Don’t get drug tested for about three days after!

I love poppy seed cakes!
 
Basically, you’re trying to ferment the mixture, so for optimal fermentation, keep it in a warm location and feed it equal parts flour and water. You can keep it in the fridge if you won’t be using it often, but it ferments slower, and you’ll have to take it out a couple days before baking and reactivate it again.

You know the starter is ready if the mixture floats when you put a teaspoon of it in a glass of water.
 
Last edited:
I “won” a free ham (for spending enough money) from the grocery store before this happened

as long as it’s vacuum sealed up I think it will be OK

who knows these days?
 
Working on Easter, as usual. So no fancy meal, and no one else in our family celebrates it anymore.

For the last 29 years, I have only had 2 Easter Sundays off work. One of those Sundays was when I actually asked the supervisor for the weekend off, even though it was my turn on the schedule. I told her I had worked Easter Sunday for the last ten years, and she didn’t believe me–until she looked through the schedules and found that I was telling the truth. So I got it off.

But that was years ago, and a different supervisor than we have now.

This happens because Easter Sunday changes every year, and our schedule is a “work every third weekend” schedule (hospital). It just always falls on my week. I could offer to trade, but that means someone else has to work Easter. So I just put up with it, especially since I don’t have children at home.

I wish Easter could be on the SAME Sunday every year, but I know that will never happen. So until I retire, I will no doubt be working Easter pretty much every year.

And going to the Easter vigil is not pleasant for me, because it lasts so late, and then I have to be up at 5 a.m.

We’ll probably have ham sandwiches for Easter. And marshmallow Peeps–lots of them! Maybe I’ll try using them in a sweet potato casserole this year! If I could only find the root beer flavored ones–that would be pretty tasty!

Sorry to be so gloomy, but this work situation really does bother me every year. When I was young and living in a different city, I loved preparing a great Easter Sunday meal and doing other celebratory things. But for years, Easter has been just another working Sunday for me. It’s absolutely the worst holiday to work, because the hospital doesn’t recognize it as a holiday, so there are no free lunches or candy or ice cream socials or anything (like Christmas, which has a treat or a concert or something every day during December, or Super Bowl Sunday, or even Halloween!), and it’s usually super busy, unlike the other holidays when everything slows to a crawl and we have a lot of sitting-around time to reminisce about the holiday with our co-workers.

The Salvation Army brass ensemble does give a mini concert in the hospital lobby, but that’s not anywhere near our department (lab). And I doubt they’ll do it this year because of COVID-19–no visitors, not even family, allowed in the hospital except in end-of-life situations.

Sigh.

Have fun everyone! Eat something really yummy for Peeps!
 
Is that what my coworker used to call Mennonite bread? Probably 15 years or so, I was in college and working in an office with this somewhat elderly, single lady who went every year to Atchinson KS for a Mennonite festival to see the quilts. Her friend who normally went with her was sick and all the ladies in this office were kind of worried about her plan to drive there herself. They were all “grown” with kids and families, so it was suggested that I, the unattached college student, drive the coworker to her incredibly boring-sounding Mennonite festival. It turned out to be a lot of fun, especially the singing! Anyway, they had this pastry bread filled with straight up nothing but poppy seeds and honey. That was some gooooood stuff!
 
Celebrate with a dinner on a different day. Easter’s many weeks long!
 
After consulting the store for availability and considering the family’s favorites, I think we are going to go with steak and scallops, potato skins, asparagus, zucchini and tomato, biscuits, spinach and strawberry salad, and pineapple angelfood cake for dessert. Maybe some chocolate covered strawberries too.
 
Sourdough starter is the official trendy pet of the COVID-19 quarantine.

Wait until your wife names it…
 
Allegra,

Very likely.

Poppy seed cake is traditional for major Polish holidays (Christmas and Easter, I believe) and my sister tells me that it’s big in Germany.

I suppose it’s what they had before chocolate!
 
Due to the virus, we are having a very low-key Easter celebration this year. My mother-in-law is in a different state with one of her sons, unable to get home due to travel restrictions on everyone else in the family. So instead of the huge roast pork loin dinner and dressing we usually have, it’s going to be barbeque chicken, scalloped potatoes, and pea salad, with cheesecake for dessert. No kids to hunt eggs with as the only one in the family is 6 months old. And we will do our best to make sure everyone stays healthy!
 
I’m very thankful that I have my husband and three children to spend this quarantine with. I have friends and family who live alone and while that might be fun for a week or so, humans aren’t meant to be so socially isolated for such a long time!
 
I will be celebrating Easter alone with the Lord this year. Being a widow and having children who live several hours away, it will seem strange. Normally we gather together for holydays, holidays and birthdays. I used to serve roast leg of lamb with new potatoes and whole steamed artichokes. Oh and had to have mint jelly too! Thanks to my son in law who has his own smoker and likes to share the results, I am going to have a smoked Boston butt. I do have some mint jelly in the refrigerator plus a few Yukon gold potatoes and will have to check but think there is a jar of artichoke hearts in my pantry. Hey!! This is really shaping up to be a feast. I will toast to you all on CAF with a glass of Harveys Bristol cream sherry. Thanks for jogging my memory, elevating my mood and motivating me to rejoice with the blessings I do have. 💖
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top