Easter Dinner Recipes

[Tink2000]

What is for Easter at your house? I will be cooking for my family and both sets of parents and brothers family. We leave for vacation the week later so I need good but inexpensive recipes.

 

[tinkmom2]

I make a half ham braised with orange juice, pinapple juice, and gingerale. I also insert whole cloves in the top after I have scored the skin making a lattice pattern. Bake according to package directions. Usually around 2-3 hours at 325-350. I braise it every 30 minutes and cover with foil when browned.
Deviled Eggs which usually don't make it to the table with Miracle Whip, ground mustard, a squirt of regualr mustard. Rachael Ray also has a great Caesar deviled egg recipe. Yams with marshmellows baked in the oven, a veggie usually cauliflower. Mashed potatoes with heavy cream and a surprise like bree cheese inside. Gravy for the potatoes. Rolls for dipping in the gravy. And we usually have a olive/pickle tray. Sometimes I will ask my guests to bring desert but I think I am making carrot cake this year.

You can find ham deals starting this week and along with that deals on the rest of the stuff.

The ham leftovers and bone can be frozen for soups and scallopped potatoes later.

 

[dreamin_disney]

We go to dh's Grandma's house. Every year it's just a BBQ

 

[TiffanyK]

We usually have ham with either Hashbrown Casserole or Black Angus Potatoes Au Gratin

For dessert, Blueberry Upside Down Cake would be good.

 

[tinkmom2]

We usually have ham with either Hashbrown Casserole or Black Angus Potatoes Au Gratin

For dessert, Blueberry Upside Down Cake would be good.

Yum! I think I may make hashbrown caserole this week!

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

I married into a large Polish family. Homemade sausage, pierogi, the whole nine yards.. I am the only one who still follows the traditions...

Fresh Polish Sausage
Baked Ham
Homemade Pierogi (cheese, potato, and sauerkraut)
Deviled Eggs
Rye Bread
Butter Lamb
Green Beans
Lazy Pierogi

Dessert: Babka, Sernik (think cheesecake), and Chrusciki.

If anyone one wants recipes, please let me know.

 

[Tink2000]

Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming.

 

[thebeesknees]

Butter Lamb

If anyone one wants recipes, please let me know.

My I have the recipe for this? I bought some lamb this week and have been trying to decide which recipe to use. This one sounds interesting!

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

My I have the recipe for this? I bought some lamb this week and have been trying to decide which recipe to use. This one sounds interesting!

I guess marrying into a Polish family I tend to forget that some things may never have been heard of. I apologize for this. Here is a picture of a butter lamb...

 

[Tricia's mom]

I'llbe at Boma


Last year we were in Disney and DH took me to CiCi'spizza
He'sjewish

Happy Easter

 

[thebeesknees]

I guess marrying into a Polish family I tend to forget that some things may never have been heard of. I apologize for this. Here is a picture of a butter lamb...

Aha! Boy, do I feel dopey! It never occurred to me that's what you were talking about!

 

[Grandmouse]

I saw the butter lambs at Wegman's last night. Cute! Is there a story behind these?

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

The Easter Lamb bearing a cross-emblazoned flag (Resurrection Banner) represents Christ Resurrected and is thus the typical Polish Easter symbol. At the center of Catholic Mass is the sacrifice of the Lamb of God in the Eucharist. The lamb adorns greeting cards; sugar lambs are blessed in Easter baskets and plaster lambs form the centerpiece of the Swiecone table. The sugar lambs are most often blessed in children's baskets as a sweet treat.

Typically the table also includes a butter lamb shaped by hand, in a mold, or purchased from delis and Polish markets. This lamb is always included in the basket to be blessed.

The lamb also appears in the dessert form of the Lamb Cake, a pound cake shaped and decorated, often sitting atop Easter grass, and always carrying the Resurrection Banner.

And in our family it is tradition that you start from the bottom end and work towards the head of the lamb. I know it has some significance, but I can't remember for sure what it is right now...

 

[chobie]

Aha! Boy, do I feel dopey! It never occurred to me that's what you were talking about!

I was thinking it was lamb cooked in butter too and wanted the recipe!