BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?

Subject: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 11:18 AM

What culinary delights will sate your appetite this Easter?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 12:02 PM

This year it coincides with the Orthodox Easter, and Easter Sunday is a big day for Greeks. I should be doing the traditional lamb on a spit, but with the weather the way it is in the UK I have abandoned such plans. Instead, the menu will consist of (in order of appearance):

red-dyed Easter eggs
smoked aubergine salad (melitzanosalata)
yoghurt/cucumber/garlic dip (tzatziki)
lettuce & spring onion salad
greek "village" salad (tomato/cucumber/onion/feta)
BBQed chicken drumsticks
BBQed lamp cutlets (paidakia)
leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic in the oven
greek lemon potatoes in the oven

and followed by

halva (semolina/milk/butter pudding)
loukoumades (golf-ball sized deep fried doughnuts with honey).

It will be all washed down with ouzo and retsina, although there will be other wines and beer and soft drinks available too.

Later there will be Greek coffee with tsoureki (sweet Easter bread).

Starting at 1pm, the Easter feast should last until 8 or 9 in the evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 12:06 PM

Traditional roast lamb with all the trimmings! And chocolate!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 12:42 PM

If I get ambitious - tuna noodle casserole; if not, probably ham.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 01:49 PM

Ham seems to be a tradition here amonst many in Atlantic Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Penny S.
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 04:03 PM

Roast lamb, new potatoes, cabbage and carrot. And a non-traditional dessert of cream mixed with fromage frais, layered with halved grapes and soft brown sugar. The best I can remember from a local charity cafe which called a dish Cloud Nine, and lost their recipe file. Breakfast will have been boiled egg and soldiers. Good Friday lunch - plaice poached in milk with parsley sauce, mash and peas. Good Friday breakfast and tea, hot cross buns. These will also appear on Saturday - it's the only time I eat them.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 04:08 PM

I never had much luck with roast lamb. Guess I just never learned how. Always comes out tough.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Alice
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 05:05 PM

turkey

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Rasener
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 05:09 PM

Bugger All

Just decided to go and gate crash George Papavgeris's do :-)

Alroight loik George :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 09:40 PM

Welcome, Les - I should have added that this is the "poor man's Greek Easter spread", in accordance with the new Greek austerity measures...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 01:41 AM

Well George, it looks posh to me :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 01:48 AM

Good Friday lunch: long buns, chopped chicken, and cheese sauce, microwaved.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Morticia
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 08:24 AM

Fish today, my beloved is in charge of that and it is always good. Roast lamb on Sunday, probably marinaded in honey, garlic and soy and then roasted off with all the usual suspects ( potatoes, parsnips etc). Pudding will be chocolate if the Easter Bunny comes. I have been reasonably good since Christmas so I have expectations.

Monday will be duck, haven't decided what I'm doing with that yet so suggestions would be welcome?

We aren't usually at home for Easter so I am looking forward to cooking in a real kitchen this weekend.

Gnu, I wonder if you are maybe overcooking the lamb, or perhaps not resting it for long enough? It should rest, I understand for half the time you cooked it for.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 10:05 AM

Ham, scallop potatoes, carrots, creamed corn and beets..can't wait...treacle tart for afters...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 10:26 AM

Ham is for sandwiches, lamb is for Easter. We do weeping leg of lamb where you cook the lamb on a rack with the potatoes underneath. As the lamb roasts it drips on the potatoes and they are delicious. We'll also have homemade biscuits, green beans almondine, a green salad and of course mint jelly for the lamb. I'm thinking about baking a sausage and mushroom frittata for an appetizer. Haven't decided on a desert yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 06:47 PM

Thanks Morticia.

SiL decided to have Easter Supper today. I know many of you have read my scathing remarks in the past, but, she cooked a real ham and it was tender, tastey and not dried out. Although I did pass on the black baked beans (I assume she tried to cook them on high heat after the ham was done... an honest enough mistake).

I brought a bottle of bubbly, but she neglected to serve it. I hope she keeps it all to herself after all the cooking she and my niece did... ham, spuds, carrorts, corn, turnip, brocolli casserole, beans, coleslaw, sliced tomatoe with green stuff, the usual suspects from jars, and a Graham crust coconut cheesecake with slivered almond on top of whipped cream. There was no room for the beans on the table.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Apr 10 - 06:14 PM

We are getting to the point that the trad dishes are rarer and rarer and we have once again opted for seafood. French Onion soup (I make a great soup if I do say so) for a starter. Then, couple of pounds each of shrimp, mussels, scallops, and cod, with baked sweet potato and lemon crumb broccoli. Cherry cake with creme cheeese frosting for dessert.

Click Here for the directions to make your own CHOCOLATE EASTER BUNNY

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner 2010 - what's cookin'?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Apr 10 - 06:22 PM

Slow roast shoulder of one of our own porkers - Edwina this time - with home-grown roasted spuds and parsnips with stir-fried kale and jerusalem artichokes. Not entirely self-sufficient, though, as we had to buy the salt used in the cooking.