Easter!

[Jennifer5]

As many of you know, Easter is only a week from today, so....


What does your Easter menu look like?

:flower:

[ctozrn]

I am actually struggling with what to make this year! As of Jan 1, I am a vegetarian. So, this year I have no clue as to what to make besides the customary ham...My partner who is following along with no meat somewhat reluctantly is hoping to eat ham anyway! The kids are begging for it.... I may have to make a diverse meal....

Any suggestions?

[Zerbie]

The complete Vegetarian Times cookbook (1995) suggests an Easter menu of:

Cream of parsley soup
Roasted squash with fruited couscous
Potato logs
Roasted Asparagus with sesame seeds
Cherry tomatoes with tomato cream
Cherry hart tartlets

I've tried a few of these things in years past and loved them.
Recipes available in the Vegetarian Times complete cookbook.

[Gregory_de_Bois]

Another Veggie here. I would suggest something ethnic and exciting using spring veggies and fruits. The Joy of Cooking folks made a Vegetarian cookbook that has a lot of menu ideas.

You could go back to the roots of Easter in the Mediterranean and make a Spring Mediterranean Feast! Or, you could look into what it really is that your partner and children want, what is that flavour behind the ham that they are craving. Always Remember: Google is your friend!

Here are some sites:

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/
http://vegkitchen.com/index.htm

And I did some easter googling:
http://www.grouprecipes.com/s/vegetarian-easter/recipe/1/relevancy
http://www.bryannaclarkgrogan.com/page/page/837124.htm
http://www.vegparadise.com/cookingwith54.html
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/specialoccasionrecipe1/qt/vegeaster.htm

Hope it helps!

Namaste

Greg

ps: Sorry to steal the thread.... I don't know what I am having yet. I really want to have something mediterranean. Artichokes? mmmmmmmm We'll see!

[ctozrn]

You all are awesome! Those are some great ideas! They sound SO good! I am new at this and always looking for new recipes.

Zerbie are you a veggie too? I have not gone vegan, just vegetarian. I do eat fish on occasion, mostly salmon.

Thanks!

[Zerbie]

I am a fishaterian, but honored to be thought of as a veggie.:) Truly admitted, however, I eat a LOT of fish, pretty much daily. Sometimes hubby gives me bites of chicken - I'm married to a sworn carnivore, so he goes and gets fowl from time to time because I'm not cooking any. :p

For several years I was really vegetarian, but that ended when I ran into trouble with my diet while traveling. I don't digest bread or cheese well, and when vegetarians travel in certain parts of the world, we are smilingly handed cheese sandwiches. Which for me meant eating nothing. So fish came back on the menu then. I discovered I do very well keeping it on the menu - it's an excellent lean protein source.

Back to Jen's question: My Easter menu will likely consist of a hard boiled egg and a veggie slice sandwich on wheat free bread (I call it "ingredient-free bread":rolleyes:) and a raw carrot or two. Why? I work all day the day before, so no advance cooking. Then sing in church Easter morning til 11:15, then DH and I have tickets for the re-play of the MET's Tristan und Isolde starting at noon in the next town over, and the opera is about 5.5 hours long. So there will be no chance to cook Easter weekend. I'll be happy to scarf a sandwich in the car. :p

[RedneckDyke]

My sweetie will probbaly still be out working so I'll probably not have a special dinner. But, I could have some ham. I have several hams cured from our pigs, and couple sliced up in packages of a few slices each, Maybe I will have GIANT HAM SANDWICHES with swiss cheese and honey mustard. ALong with microwave kettle corn. mmmmmmmmm

[Jennifer5]

I'm sadden by how few people are really celebrating!

..although I suppose if you're doing anything fun, that is celebrating!


My mom was trying to figure out her menu this weekend since she has to work all week. I think she has Saturday off... I hope! So we'll do prep Sat. then the meal Sunday. I refuse to go to church! However, we will probably hid eggs for each other :D

[keltic63]

I'm sadden by how few people are really celebrating!

..although I suppose if you're doing anything fun, that is celebrating!


My mom was trying to figure out her menu this weekend since she has to work all week. I think she has Saturday off... I hope! So we'll do prep Sat. then the meal Sunday. I refuse to go to church! However, we will probably hid eggs for each other :D


this one gets tossed to my mom. there's no way I can do all the stuff that needs to be done at church AND get a big Easter meal together.

[Gennee]

I don't know yet but it'll be something good.

Gennee

:D:good:

[Zerbie]

I'm sadden by how few people are really celebrating!

..although I suppose if you're doing anything fun, that is celebrating!


My mom was trying to figure out her menu this weekend since she has to work all week. I think she has Saturday off... I hope! So we'll do prep Sat. then the meal Sunday. I refuse to go to church! However, we will probably hid eggs for each other :D

Don't be sad Jen. Lots of us are celebrating. Keltic and I are definitely celebrating Easter by making church music. we just aren't cooking.

And I get to go see the epitome of romantic opera with my darlin' husband all afternoon. If it makes our Jen feel better, I can take the Easter Bunny to the opera with us? ;) :) :love:

[tdogg]

I've been away from home on work travel for 3 weeks now, and it appears Easter has crept up on me. I had planned to make a dinner and invite a few close family members - ham, mashed potatotes, gravy, steamed veggies, and possibly cake for dessert.

Sadly, I won't be home until Friday evening and I just don't have time to put anything together. So, we will either wing it with the family or eat alone. Who knows, maybe tacos??

Ok, so I have to air one gripe. This one is quite personal and emcompasses many years. Growing up, I received an Easter basket from my mother every year. The one thing I really looked forward to. Once my younger sister had children, the easter baskets stopped. In '05 I received a beautiful basket from my sweetie (because I told her the sob story about not receiving any baskets in the last many many years). That's it, nothing more. So, last annual basket rec'd in about 1978 or 1979, then I get one in 2005 and nothing since. :'(:'( I am SO immature...!

That's it, thanks for listening! I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!!! :love:

[Jennifer5]

Don't be sad Jen. Lots of us are celebrating. Keltic and I are definitely celebrating Easter by making church music. we just aren't cooking.

And I get to go see the epitome of romantic opera with my darlin' husband all afternoon. If it makes our Jen feel better, I can take the Easter Bunny to the opera with us? ;) :) :love:

It's ok :love:

I did make the note about doing anything fun, that really is celebrating!

[Daniel]

Jonathan will be playing uptown as organist and I will be singing a few blocks from home for Easter Service- actually looking forward to it.

We'll meet up after our respective services (I'll get home earlier) and I'll make Brunch: French Toast- slices of Italian Calabrese bread soaked in two eggs, light cream, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla, topped with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and warm maple syrup- along with chicken-apple sausage, expresso, champagne and orange juice.

Everything can be made quickly and stay warm in the oven until my guy gets home. And if we have a guest or two- so much the better.

The chocolate eggs are hidden where they can't be found...shhhh!

[Gregory_de_Bois]

I might be attending an Easter Vigil on Saturday night (Midnight to morning) where the church is emptied of light and slowly, as candles are lit, person to person, the church is filled with light, representing the Ressurection of the Living Christ! It is a beautiful liturgy (I have to admit that I have actually never been, but it feels as though I have in Spirit). Then I'll probably go to an early Sunrise Easter Service (If I can get up). All in all I will be spending the day in meditation and celebration of Spirit. :)

[Steven E. Webster]

Friends,

Last night I led a Maundy Thursday service at our church (University United Methodist Church in Madison, Wisconsin). It was a service that centered on the story from John's Gospel about footwashing. We did footwashing and ended with a Love Feast.

I preached a short sermon. The theme was that Jesus lives on among us when we share his teachings and follow his example of loving service to each other and to our neighbors--that is how we participate in the resurrection. Jesus is not nailed to the cross, but lives on!

Happy Easter!

[Emproph]

SweeTarts: Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies (http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/item/sweetarts_chicks_ducks_bunnies/) <that's a link

They're like regular sweet tarts, 'cept these have a glaze and they're shiny, not powdery or sticky. Plus you can turn them over, so like if you only have two left, and you still want to play with them, and they're both facing the same direction, you can just turn one over, and, voila', now they're talking to each other. Because they're exactly the same on each side!

It's so cool. And plus there's a bunny and a chick and a duck---in different colors too. So it's like you have some on your plate, or whatever surface is lying around, and it's like improv. It's like, ok, I got 3 bunnies, 2 chicks and a duck, Go!

And then it's like how come there's only one duck? Are bunnies really herbivores AS THEY CLAIM, or are the chicks in danger? Because at least the duck can swim away to safety because even three (make that two) bloodthirsty rabbits don't like water---OR DO THEY?

What occurred to me though (now brace), as I discovered how fun they were to toy with while also enjoying eating them, was that the amount of sugar in each one of these could probably save the life of a starving child, one of the 40,000 who die each day.

Remember the adage "Finish your food, there are starving children in Africa!"

And then somebody eventually figured out to say "Well then send it to them."

Well technically these are something we could send over there.

Ok, even that's flip, but I'm trying to poke at an image here---if only for the sake of remembering it. (it helps if you have them to play around with while you're reading this ;)) Because they're only going to be around for a little while longer.

According to the package, they're 12 and a half calories a piece. But what if they were packed even tighter and made of good stuff and vitamins. Pump 'em full of preservatives, vacuum seal, and drop them out of airplanes if need be.

Ok I'm back down to Earth now. If you've made it this far, thank you for entertaining my rant. I'll get working on that airplane now. :o

Happy Easter. :tup:

[Daniel]

I wish you a Blessed Easter!

:love:

The day of new births- new ideas- new Love.

[Jennifer5]

SweeTarts: Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies (http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/item/sweetarts_chicks_ducks_bunnies/) <that's a link

They're like regular sweet tarts, 'cept these have a glaze and they're shiny, not powdery or sticky. Plus you can turn them over, so like if you only have two left, and you still want to play with them, and they're both facing the same direction, you can just turn one over, and, voila', now they're talking to each other. Because they're exactly the same on each side!

It's so cool. And plus there's a bunny and a chick and a duck---in different colors too. So it's like you have some on your plate, or whatever surface is lying around, and it's like improv. It's like, ok, I got 3 bunnies, 2 chicks and a duck, Go!

And then it's like how come there's only one duck? Are bunnies really herbivores AS THEY CLAIM, or are the chicks in danger? Because at least the duck can swim away to safety because even three (make that two) bloodthirsty rabbits don't like water---OR DO THEY?

What occurred to me though (now brace), as I discovered how fun they were to toy with while also enjoying eating them, was that the amount of sugar in each one of these could probably save the life of a starving child, one of the 40,000 who die each day.

Remember the adage "Finish your food, there are starving children in Africa!"

And then somebody eventually figured out to say "Well then send it to them."

Well technically these are something we could send over there.

Ok, even that's flip, but I'm trying to poke at an image here---if only for the sake of remembering it. (it helps if you have them to play around with while you're reading this ;)) Because they're only going to be around for a little while longer.

According to the package, they're 12 and a half calories a piece. But what if they were packed even tighter and made of good stuff and vitamins. Pump 'em full of preservatives, vacuum seal, and drop them out of airplanes if need be.

Ok I'm back down to Earth now. If you've made it this far, thank you for entertaining my rant. I'll get working on that airplane now. :o

Happy Easter. :tup:

I read this whole thing and was completely confused... it made a lot more sense when I looked at the link... :lol:...you're crazy though! :love:

I wish you a Blessed Easter!

:love:

The day of new births- new ideas- new Love.

I second what Daniel said!

Thank you! :love:

[Vanessa White]

Let me know how you do with the creation of that airplane; I did manage to get a bag of chicks, ducks and bunnies in my easter basket so I would be glad to share some with the kiddos of the world..... they are my fave candy ever for easter, besides black jelly beans.... the bunny brought me a bag of both.

We went to a energetic and loving Easter morning service at our church, and our daughter got to sing two songs with the Youth choir. It was wonderful. He is Risen!! Amen!! :pray::love:

[Emproph]

Let me know how you do with the creation of that airplane

Now we have airplane sweet tart peeps to work with..