Your Easter Menu?

16 years ago

Has anyone planned their Easter menu yet?

We're having my out-laws er.....ahem, ... in-laws over plus my immediate family, totaling 11 of us.

Here's my menu:

Eggplant Parmesan (MIL making it)

Honey Baked Ham

Baked Beans

Macaroni Salad

LIMA BEAN Soup hee hee

Hearts of Romaine w/Mandarin Oranges

Garlic Rolls

Fresh Pineapple Slices

Deviled eggs

Trifle (SIL bringing it)

What's on your menu?

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16 years ago
Good timing, just finished the list Shaun! Actually it took about 1 minute to write 'cause it's same old, same old with a new additions to keep me sane. It's tradition, Christmas, T-day and Easter...menus never change, at least not much.

Having the whole "fam damily" .....should be 17 of us , 18 if Meredith flies home.

Baked Ham
Roast turkey, stuffing and gravy (additon, due to dietary restrictions of my niece's boyfriend, no pork)
Potato Gratin
Mashed potatoes
Baked Beans
Carrot Casserole (Terrapot's recipe).....addition
Brocolli & Cauliflower with cheese sauce
Roasted butternut squash
Lindac's bunny rolls....addition
Deviled eggs
Relish tray
Cheese Cake and whatever Sara and I come up with next week
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16 years ago
Mine's still in the planning stages since I just found out this week that I'll be cooking for 6 of us.

Leg of lamb stuffed with greens
roasted garlic souffle
baby artichokes
potatoes and...um...stuff
huevos diablos

Pasteira (rice pie) and pannettone for dessert
as much chocolate Easter bunny as I can steal

Nina
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I'm going to have to try that next time I have a small ham. I still have the 11.6 lb one in the freezer I have to do something with but that won't fit in my slowcooker. Our ham turned out well today - put foil in bottom of broiler pan, put in the ham and poured the juices from the shrink wrap over it, then brought foil up around it and sealed it tightly with double-folded seams. Warmed in preheated 325 oven for 45 min and then I was afraid my parents would be late (they weren't, but I was busy getting veggies done) so I turned the oven off and left it in another 30 min, it was very moist and not overly salty as I feared a non-smoked ham would be (and I got liquid on a scrape on my finger, so I know it WAS salted, though not salt-cured dry ham!). But it could have used some glaze or other flavoring IMHO - I think a little sugar/pineapple juice would have been nice. I hope the ham next Sunday is as good (I think I should freeze some of the leftovers, my parents only took a third of them, we're going to be tired of ham by next weekend!).
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I gotta say I miss the old days' get-togethers. I do remember Ma would hide our Easter baskets and we had a small house so there weren't a LOT of hiding places but I do remember the hunts a few times. Plus the family get-togethers then. I miss the aunts & uncles coming over or going to their places. It really wasn't anything super-special, except the food was always a big deal, otherwise it was mostly "visiting", and possible a rare card game by the adults. Kids knew to behave (so guess how many years this has been! LOL OK, don't get all up in arms...) But still it's good memories. I guess even as a kid, I appreciated and enjoyed the simple things in life. And since my mother died, things went downhill in a lot of ways. She held a lot of things together. And of course many of the aunts & uncles are now gone too so it's not the same and I realize it shouldn't be. I just preferred the way it was. Traditions change, which is fine. I don't oppose change. Just oppose change for the worse. Today's option of a family get-together? Back-stabbing interlopers getting together with con-artists, slugs and lazy b*stards while a "peacemaker" goes around trying to get everyone to forgive and forget.... Just doesn't appeal to me. I'll enjoy quieter times with true friends.
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I thought I had another week. I'm going to keep it simple: ham, potatoes, homemade bread or rolls, something green like asparagus and maybe a dessert. All three teenagers fussed last year because the Easter Bunny didn't hide eggs so I went Hobby Lobby the next day and bought the football size plastic eggs on clearance. This year there will be a hunt with some really cool stuff. I guess I need to go shopping.
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We had our dinner today. The ham was the best part, Elery smoked it about 10 hours, after 36 hours in brine, then half was served with a pineapple sauce and half without. We had baked beans, broccoli/cauliflower salad, green beans with bacon, whole wheat/butternut squash rolls, and Nancync's gluten free brioche, which came out very well: The coconut cake was decorated with Peeps and filled with coconut cream, then frosted with a coconut/cream cheese frosting: The kids were busy eating the chocolate that they found inside the Easter eggs, so they didn't want any other dessert. We got out the special Easter deviled egg plate and Mother's old Easter tablecloth from the 50s, we use it every year. We also had blueberry crisp and chocolate cream pie, but no one ate dessert except the Princess, who had this piece of cake. Everyone else ate too much ham! The only fail, and there's always one, were those blasted potatoes. Even though I don't like cheese and the Princess doesn't like sauced anything, I made au gratin. Found a recipe that called for heavy cream, gouda cheese, butter, garlic. Gotta be good, right? Two hours at 350 and the potatoes were still hard. Cranked the oven up to 450 for half an hour, still hard. Put them in the microwave for 15 minutes, the microwave overheated and died and those potatoes were still hard. We gave up on the potatoes, even with $15 worth of gouda and cream, and ate everything else. The girls split up the potatoes and took them home, they are going to try to cook them some more. Ugh, I didn't even want to look at them again and was going to compost them, but the girls couldn't pass up all that cheese, LOL. And so Elery and I took a trip into town and bought a new microwave after everyone went home. Annie
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dixiedog_2007
16 years ago
We will be serving more buffet style not sit down. This is it right now but I'm sure it will change (as it always does). LOL!

Shrimp, hot crab imperial with baquettes/crackers and vegetable & dip for starters.

Honey Baked Ham
Funeral Potato Casserole
Spinach Stuffing Balls
Roasted Asparagus with parmesan cheese
Romaine Salad
Deviled Eggs
Watergate Salad (Very old recipe I know buy my niece and nephew love it)
Bread/Butter Â Some good artisan type bread & rolls with good butter

Desserts - Up in the air right now. Might make individual cheesecakes, bars, and cookies (a variety) or one large cheesecake.
annie1992
16 years ago
I just finished my menu too. I'm actually allowed to play with the menu, and there will only be 8 or 10 of us, depending on whether Ashley has to work. Elery will be here, with Dad and Shirley, Amanda, David and the kids. Ashley will be here if she doesn't have to work and will invite the boyfriend.

Elery loves lamb, everyone else hates it, but I'm making it for him anyway, probably a small roast or rack. My family always wants ham, and I don't care much for either of them, but there is always so much other stuff that I fill up on the rest of dinner. So, my tentative menu is:

Appetizers: Cheeseball for David and Devilled Eggs, dyed a la Marilyn.

Meats: Baked Ham and Roasted Lamb, cooked medium.

Sides: Au Gratin Potatoes, Green Beans sauteed with bacon and almonds.

Salads: Apricot Cream Salad (yes, the dreaded Jello is in there, ick) and Strawberry Mandarin salad with Cinnamon Viniagrette.

Bread: Sol's Honey Rolls and Terri's Honey Wheat. Yeah, I'm in a rut.

Desserts: A sugar-free fruit tart with a cream cheese base, a chocolate multi-layer cake and a Dairy Queen ice cream cake which is everyone's favorite and will probably be devoured while the others are left. Go figure.

The layer cake will be decorated with the panoramic sugar egg I'm working on, covered in fondant and royal icing flowers so it looks like the Easter Bunny hid an egg in the flower garden. Or so my imagination says. LOL

Annie
wizardnm
16 years ago
We've ordered a spiral sliced ham from Nueske's, needed bacon anyway. We had one of their boneless ham's for New Years and we decided then we wanted another for Easter. Beyond that I haven't really decided.

Looks like a cold Easter, I just saw snow showers on the extended weather forecast.

Nancy
steelmagnolia2007
16 years ago
Just found out for sure about an hour ago that I'll be cooking for the gang, so my brain isn't fully in gear yet. There'll only be 8 or 10. So far, I'm thinking...

Appetizers:

Shrimp Dip or Cajun Crab Spread
Crudites with some sort of dipping sauce (gotta have rabbit food for Easter!)

Dinner:

Baked Ham with Balsamic/Dijon Glaze
Macaroni and Cheese (we have potatoes so often -- this sinful and time-consuming dish is a rare treat)
Broccoli Salad
Sweet-and-Sour Carrots
Roasted Asparagus
Deviled Eggs
Bunny Buns (if I screw up my courage to tackle the dreaded bread thing) or Sister Schubert Yeast Rolls (if I don't)

Desserts:

Strawberry Shortcake (recipe from Treebeard's that is absolutely fab!!)
Lemon Icebox Pie

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namabafo
16 years ago
Breakfast:

scrambled eggs with pepperoni and mozzarella
toasted Italian Easter Bread

Dinner:(so far)

Homemade Manicotti
sauce with meatballs, ribs, chicken and sausage
Ham
brocccoli salad
fresh fruit
more Easter Bread

dessert:

German Cheesecake
Lemon Poundcake
jcrowley99
16 years ago
We have almost the same menu every EAster.

Appetizers: Cheese and crackers, spinach dip, vegis with dip, mini sausages in sweet & sour BBQ sauce (the kids love them).

Dinner: Baked ham, smoked polish sausage (from Bobaks), Homemade fried cabbage Pierogi (two days work right there), my dad's Baked Beans, mashed potatoes, corn, salad, fruit salad, Featherlight dinner rolls (from the Church Supper Cookbook, if I make any other rolls they all complain).

Dessert: We are also celebrating my son's 18th Birthday so for his birthday he requested 2 pies. So, Apple pie with crumb topping, cherry pie with crumb topping, assorted chip cookies (chocolate, PB, caramel...), brownies, and decorated easter cutout cookies. Ice cream and whipped cream for the pies.

Coffee, tea, and some assorted single serve size wines, plus milk and pop for the kiddies. I love the single serve size wines, everyone can have what they want without leaving a bunch of partial bottles that I don't have enough stoppers for. I also use a pod machine for the coffee with about 6 different types of pods.

Joanne
jcrowley99
16 years ago
Oops! I spell checked and then posted that without putting in the corrections.
User
16 years ago
LOL Joanne.... left over partial bottles of wine! Never happens here! LOL
Terri_PacNW
16 years ago
Well a few weeks ago I thought I had it settled..then I read a new cookbook I got..

LOL so...

So far I'm doing Nigella's Ribs n Chicken and New Orleans Cole Slaw..
Jack N Beans (I believe the recipe came from Michael at the KT.)
Deviled Eggs
Baked Mac n Cheese
Honey Wheat Rolls (a must)
Fruit and Caramel Dip (a must)
veggie tray and dip
cheesecake of some sort with a nut crust.
Maybe a carrot cake.
Maybe some Easter cutout cookies, brownies and such.

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