What's on your Easter menu?

[Liv]

I'm hosting a few friends for an Easter lunch/early dinner-- my first time hosting any holiday ever. And I'm not what you'd call a "cook" by any means... (DH's grandma asks me "how my cooking is coming along" every time I see her. Beeyotch.)

Do you all have any tried and true go-to Easter foods that you're making this year? I don't even know what sort of protein to have... Starting from square one. 

[bigrock74]

We do the usual turkey and/or ham. Potatoes, turnip, and my Mom makes this awesome sweet potato bake with marshmallows (I am NOT a marshmallow lover, but I do like this dish). Mike's family does a delish couscous salad to go with their Easter and Thanksgiving dinners.

[Leapinglizards]

Food that's all I got right now.
Thanks for staring this. I will need it

[jnnfrrose6]

We always get a honey baked ham so that's already cooked and ready to go. Then it's whatever easy sides you want (potatoes, a starch, veggie, etc).

[Deleted]

I'd go with Ham. It's soo easy and hard to mess up!

[soon2bmrsn]

I also recommend Honey Baked Ham. It's pricey but so convenient and just delicious. You can probably find a coupon online, but call and reserve it soon.

Then you need some kind of potatoes. A cheesy potato casserole made with frozen hash brown potatoes is what I'd do.

A green veggie. Roasted asparagus? Or steamed green beans?

A green salad OR, my favorite for Easter, a fresh fruit salad.

Rolls.

Dessert. I made this carrot cake trifle last year and it was amazing. I used a boxed carrot cake mix since it was all going to be cut up anyway.

myrecipemagic.com/recipe/recipedetail/cream-cheese-carrot-cake-trifle

I also think lemony desserts are perfect this time of year.

Good luck @liv!

[lea]

Cupcakes with Peeps on top, Cadbury mini egg blondies, and Oreo stuffed cookies.

I'm in charge of bringing desserts, lol.

My family usually does ham and sides - mashed potatoes and/or sweet potatoes, green veggies (sometimes my sister does a cheesy spinach dish), rolls, etc.

[emilillies]

My mom usually did ham but every couple years she would do lamb.

Story time: At the nursing home I work at, they always offer ham and lamb. We always get a chuckle when offering this menu choice because to the hard if hearing, it sounds like "ham or ham" or "lamb or lamb". Someone always says "I heard you say ham, what's the other one?"... "LAMB." ..."HAM OR HAM?"

[littlemissmarla]

Mar 27, 2015 20:28:49 GMT -5 emilillies said:

My mom usually did ham but every couple years she would do lamb.

Story time: At the nursing home I work at, they always offer ham and lamb. We always get a chuckle when offering this menu choice because to the hard if hearing, it sounds like "ham or ham" or "lamb or lamb". Someone always says "I heard you say ham, what's the other one?"... "LAMB." ..."HAM OR HAM?"

I don't know why but I'm cracking up over the ham or ham.... Lol so hilarious.

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2015 20:28:49 GMT -5 emilillies said:

My mom usually did ham but every couple years she would do lamb.

Story time: At the nursing home I work at, they always offer ham and lamb. We always get a chuckle when offering this menu choice because to the hard if hearing, it sounds like "ham or ham" or "lamb or lamb". Someone always says "I heard you say ham, what's the other one?"... "LAMB." ..."HAM OR HAM?"

Lol!

[hurricanerek]

I like to bring pineapple stuffing to ours.

[gingergrant]

I'm making Easter bread, hard boiled eggs, pineapple ricotta pie, and this dinner pie:
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9108-geraldine-ferraros-easter-pie

I really dislike ham, so we're changing it up.

ETA: or maybe this recipe:
www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/pie/italian-easter-pie-pizza-chena.html

[anotherdreamer]

I've never done a Easter dinner, but I do make a carrot cake every year. Because, carrot cake. Yum.

I'm making a ham for us this year though, since neither side of the family is having a dinner thing for us to attend.

[mamanorris]

I haven't made a menu yet but these are my go to Easter desserts. m.kraftrecipes.com/recipedetail.do?recipeid=112585&cn=US m.kraftrecipes.com/recipedetail.do?recipeid=74114&cn=US

[liziz]

My mom is cooking, but I was thinking about requesting/making carrot cake. Yum!

[sararl07]

We are going to Brunch somewhere. I'm excited because there is no clean up

[Lola]

I need to make some sort of veggie to bring to my parents. Haven't even started looking at recipes.

[soon2bmrsn]

We go to my ILs' on Saturday and I was asked to bring a side so I think I'm going to make a 7-layer salad in my trifle bowl. I found a couple of recipes on Pinterest that I'm going to use for inspiration.

My mom told me to bring whatever I wanted, but based on her menu, I've decided to make a baked mac and cheese because I know my boys will eat that.

[soon2bmrsn]

Apr 1, 2015 12:13:20 GMT -5 sararl07 said:

We are going to Brunch somewhere. I'm excited because there is no clean up

I would LOVE to go to brunch but our parents both have long-standing traditional gatherings that we can't seem to escape from...

[Deleted]

My family does a brunch but we can't go this year because DH is on call. So he decided to invite his mother to our house instead. He must have gone crazy!