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Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

Starpolisher — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:39:55 GMT

I love reading and getting new ideas from all of you! Although I usually stick with my traditional ham. scallopped potatoes and green beans, I like trying new, tried and true recipes to accompany it! So let's get started...What's on your Easter Dinner menu?

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

house cat — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:12:45 GMT

Very simple here… just four of us. We'll have ham, smashed potatoes and asparagus. Dessert will most likely be my favorite - carrot cake.

ETA: roasted carrots, of course!

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

BeachSheri — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:24:19 GMT

Honey Baked ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, cornbread and fresh fruit salad for us.

Dessert will be the Funfetti Bunny Cake made from the recipe on the box. Even though my kids are in their mid to late 20's, they still want this dessert that I made for them when they were little!

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jewelfool — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:31:27 GMT

Honey Baked Ham, "Thanksgiving" Macaroni and Cheese (Stouffers), potato salad and baked beans. Some kind of cake and pie for dessert.

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house cat — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:48:18 GMT

On 4/8/2014 Vayankee said:
Honey Baked ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, cornbread and fresh fruit salad for us.

Dessert will be the Funfetti Bunny Cake made from the recipe on the box. Even though my kids are in their mid to late 20's, they still want this dessert that I made for them when they were little!

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

goodstuff — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:09:09 GMT

Same thing as always: Marinated, grilled leg of lamb, rosemary potatoes, Greek salad, spring vegetable (probably asparagus with lemon butter), and hot rolls and butter. My kids insist on this every year.

Most of our family is on a sugar-free regimen, so I'm not sure about dessert.

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depglass — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:25:22 GMT

Whatever the casino's convention center dining room is serving. New venue, they have worked out the kinks and put out a very nice meal. Last year they didn't do ham, but some cut of pork instead. Bet they don't make that mistake this year. Easter is Ham.

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sciencegeek_1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:28:37 GMT

Ham and deviled eggs. Nothing else matters. LOL!

Add in mashed potatoes and gravy, cheesy carrot bake, green beans, and rolls to round it out. Probably a colorful Jello cake for dessert.

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Flo08 — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:45:17 GMT

It would not be Easter without parsnips and Orange Jello with crushed pineapple & shredded carrots. Think called "Sunshine Salad". Parsnips just split, parboil and saute with a little butter.

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KLevineFan — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:18:22 GMT

Cornish game hens, garlic Rice-A-Roni with onions/mushrooms added, asparagus, chick deviled eggs (recipe I saw in these forums, so cute!), pound cake w/pistachio ice cream & berry sorbet - & an Easter basket full of colored hard cooked eggs, almond M&Ms, assorted Jelly Bellies & a chocolate bunny for my best friend who's coming over.

Easter Chicks Deviled Eggs

Ingredients

6 Boiled Eggs
1/4 cup Mayonnaise
1 tbsp Sweet Pickle Relish
2 tsp Mustard
Salt and pepper, for taste
1 Mini Carrot
1 Sweet Midget Pickle or you can also use a few pieces of relish.

Instructions

Cut small slice off bottom off egg to flatten it so it will stand.
Cut zig zag pattern around middle of egg to look like it cracked open.
Remove yolks and place in a bowl.
Cut carrot so that you end up with 6 small triangles to use as beaks.
Cut strip off of pickle and then make 12 small squares to use as eyes.
Mash yolks with a fork and stir in mayonnaise, pickle relish, and mustard.
Salt and pepper, to taste.
Mix until consistency is smooth and creamy.
Transfer mixture to zippered bag and clip corner for piping.
Pipe mixture into cooked egg whites piping until over full to resemble a chick head sticking out.
Place beaks and eyes in place.
Top each with the bottom with its top half.
You can optionally shred lettuce to resemble grass to display them.

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

StylishLady — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:04:54 GMT

This Easter will be one of the few Sundays that is not a no cook day. Our older daughter and older grandson are visiting and we will eat dinner at home. Ham, scalloped potatoes, peas, are probably on the menu along with maybe a coconut cream pie for dessert.

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DiAnne — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:39:49 GMT

Honey Baked Ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, carrots, deviled eggs, with lemon/fresh raspberry trifle for dessert.

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KLevineFan — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:49:20 GMT

WOW, both coconut cream pie & rasp. trifle sound awfully good!

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

house cat — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:52:45 GMT

On 4/8/2014 KathyLFan said:
Cornish game hens, garlic Rice-A-Roni with onions/mushrooms added, asparagus, chick deviled eggs (recipe I saw in these forums, so cute!), pound cake w/pistachio ice cream & berry sorbet - & an Easter basket full of colored hard cooked eggs, almond M&Ms, assorted Jelly Bellies & a chocolate bunny for my best friend who's coming over.

Easter Chicks Deviled Eggs

Ingredients

6 Boiled Eggs

1/4 cup Mayonnaise

1 tbsp Sweet Pickle Relish

2 tsp Mustard

Salt and pepper, for taste

1 Mini Carrot

1 Sweet Midget Pickle or you can also use a few pieces of relish.

Instructions

Cut small slice off bottom off egg to flatten it so it will stand.

Cut zig zag pattern around middle of egg to look like it cracked open.

Remove yolks and place in a bowl.

Cut carrot so that you end up with 6 small triangles to use as beaks.

Cut strip off of pickle and then make 12 small squares to use as eyes.

Mash yolks with a fork and stir in mayonnaise, pickle relish, and mustard.

Salt and pepper, to taste.

Mix until consistency is smooth and creamy.

Transfer mixture to zippered bag and clip corner for piping.

Pipe mixture into cooked egg whites piping until over full to resemble a chick head sticking out.

Place beaks and eyes in place.

Top each with the bottom with its top half.

You can optionally shred lettuce to resemble grass to display them.

I love this!!!!!!!!!

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

princessaurora — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:12:03 GMT

If I can get just one of those chicks done, I'll be happy. I do the devilled eggs and my 8 grandkids color eggs in my kitchen. We go to my Mom's on Saturday; there are at least 24 of us. We will marinate chicken to grill, have a ham, baked potatoes, home-made rolls and 5 salads: devilled eggs, copper pennies, seven layer salad, broccoli salad, and fruit salsa. Maybe asparagus. We will have at least three desserts: white cake with pineapple filling and seven minute icing, blackberry cobbler, and a novelty cookie of some sort.

We have scavenger Easter Egg hunts. Each team of two kids has a certain color plasic egg to find. Each egg has three puzzle pieces that go to that team's puzzle. The first team to find all their eggs and put their puzzle together gets first pick of prizes from the prize table. Prizes are fun thing like kites, glow frisbees and such. Important tip: spray paint the back of each puzzle the color of the eggs it is going in to keep the puzzles separate. Sometimes the teams get to recruit one adult helper.

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

scotnovel — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:32:15 GMT

Homemade Chicken Pot Pie, steamed broccoli, & fresh fruit mixture for dessert.

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

house cat — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:38:56 GMT

On 4/8/2014 princessaurora said:
If I can get just one of those chicks done, I'll be happy. I do the devilled eggs and my 8 grandkids color eggs in my kitchen. We go to my Mom's on Saturday; there are at least 24 of us. We will marinate chicken to grill, have a ham, baked potatoes, home-made rolls and 5 salads: devilled eggs, copper pennies, seven layer salad, broccoli salad, and fruit salsa. Maybe asparagus. We will have at least three desserts: white cake with pineapple filling and seven minute icing, blackberry cobbler, and a novelty cookie of some sort.

We have scavenger Easter Egg hunts. Each team of two kids has a certain color plasic egg to find. Each egg has three puzzle pieces that go to that team's puzzle. The first team to find all their eggs and put their puzzle together gets first pick of prizes from the prize table. Prizes are fun thing like kites, glow frisbees and such. Important tip: spray paint the back of each puzzle the color of the eggs it is going in to keep the puzzles separate. Sometimes the teams get to recruit one adult helper.

Can I come?

Re: Okay Ladies...What's on your Easter Menu?

brewhaha — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:03:03 GMT

Rabbit stew.

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MarthaStewardess — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:09:44 GMT

Easter has never been a big deal for me as far as having a big dinner, unlike Christmas. To be honest, a lot of the things that people tend to like for Easter dinner, like ham, I don't even care for. I'll be out of town working anyway, so will probably just have a sandwich or salad, but I will have what I think are the best things to eat on Easter, and that's some Cadbury's crème eggs and mini eggs. LOL, chocolate is a major food group for me!

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ECBG — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:24:15 GMT

My fam isn't fond of ham on a regular basis, and when I do it, it's potato salad, deviled eggs, green beans, glazed carrots; cantaloupe, honeydew and strawberry tray. Homemade icecream and pound cake.

My fam wants a revisit of turkey and dressing! Once isn't enough during the year! None of us eat turkey lunch meat, we only like it this way! I will add the green beans and cantaloupe. For dessert, I do a white four layer cake done with butter cream icing and strawberries between the layers. Buttercream on the sides and homemade whipped cream and strawberries on the top.