BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Subject: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 07:35 PM

What are you making for Easter dinner?
So far, the table around here will be overloaded with a bourbon glazed ham, mashed sweet potatoes, crescent rolls, steamed asparagus, and a bread shaped like a bunny with a belly of dip with Mudslide pie for dessert.

What will your table host?

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,Mary
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 07:48 PM

My sis is a wonderful cook in Wisconsin.
Homemade Biscuits
Ham
Polish Sausage
green bean casserole
Easter Bunny Shaped Cake from scratch
Cheese Hashbrown Potatoes

Happy Easter !!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: InOBU
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 07:49 PM

Lets see... a small greek salad at Odessa, cup of coffee and for the holiday, a mint at the cash register. Whoopa. Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: jimmyt
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 08:44 PM

I will be on Holiday in Italy and will probably find an outdoor cafe in Orvieto, have a fresh mozzerella, house wine and something that grabs my attention from the menu, followed by a nice nap. Do they have an Italian Easter bunny?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Padre
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 10:03 PM

Leg of lamb with rosemary & garlic (Gewurztraminer d'Alsace)
Roasted new potatoes
Asparagus with lemon butter
Brownies
A good single malt scotch (Laphroaig)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 10:29 PM

I'll be at a festival, pickin' and grinnin' in the campground and groovin' to The North Mississippi Allstars and String Cheese Incident on stage. I'll probably eat a bag of potato chips. Maybe a hot dog.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 12:07 AM

What? No Eggs? Or, more to the point perhaps, rabbit?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 08:02 AM

Turkey. At a restaurant that specializes in it. This Sunday.

On Easter we'll be in DC visiting my wife's folks. I have no idea what we'll have or where.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 08:33 AM

Here's something fun you can do for Easter! Why not make your own homemade chocolate bunnies? Here's how!

Rapaire, why eat out? Here's a great Turkey Recipe that will help you avoid the more common mistakes! How to Fix a Turkey

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Nemesis
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 08:55 AM

It's a weekend right? At the end of next week .. well, the same as every weekend for a while .. whatever's left from a weekly, on Tuesdays, 20 quid budget for the family, .. usually by Sunday that's the odd Weetabix, maybe some eggs.. .. EASTER eggs then :) still have food colouring somewhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 09:05 AM

Oh Hille, don't use the dye!!! I have great instructions on the right way to do it!! How to Color an Easter egg

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 09:41 AM

'Spaw...you are sick! It is one of the things I like best about you.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: My guru always said
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 10:16 AM

Thanks Spaw, it was a boring day till I found you!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Nemesis
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 01:59 PM

Spaw, you are one sad bunny :) .. and there I was thinking it would give instructions on using onion skins and suchlike!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,Walking Eagle
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 07:50 PM

Beccy,

Would you be willing to adopt someone for Easter Dinner? Me, for example.

I have to work that day, so I'll just go to Meeting in the morning and fix myself some Venison with Hazelnuts, baked Yam, green beans, deviled eggs, and fruit salad of some sort.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 08:44 AM

Gee, Walking Eagle- that meal doesn't sound half bad at all... I wouldn't mind a little venison myself, but I don't have any in the old freezer and it's well out of season. Ah well.

In the meantime, ham is in abundance in the grocery store and so I will indulge. I love grinding up the leftovers, mixing it with some ground pork, egg and a little finely crushed shredded wheat and rolling it into 1 1/2" balls. Then you boil up some brown sugar, vinegar, and dry mustard and pour it over the top and bake it until it all gets a sweet and pungent crusty layer and a great deal of sauce all around it. YUM!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 09:19 AM

And your angioplasty is scheduled for Tuesday.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 09:22 AM

At least I'll go happy, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 09:38 AM

I'll be having a large lunch so that I won't have to eat much at my sister-in-law's. Ever heard the saying, ".... couldn't parboil shit for a tramp." ? Well, she'd burn it. She consistently ruins a beautiful toupie ham by halving and pre-slicing it and then warming it up at 250F for a couple of hours. Dryyyy ? As Turkey Turd Beer.

She makes cheesecake with a graham crust that could hold an M1-A1 main battle tank. I bent my fork on one at my brother's birthday dinner. He laughed, she scowled at him... ah, quality time with the relatives.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 01:49 PM

Oh, gnu... I feel your pain!!! Why do you all allow that woman to keep "cooking" your Easter dinners??????? Maybe you should show them how it's done. Or, and here's a thought, you could "volunteer to bring the ham" as you "know it's a tough economy" and you "want to contribute to the meal" because you "don't want everyone else to shoulder the burder for the cost of the meal". Eh??? Might be the hero, gnu.

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 05:53 PM

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd love to have a small mess of ramps now. Good for springtime energy!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 07:01 PM

Ever been to the Ramp Fest in Waynesville, North Carolina? The whole little town stinks to high heavens and your only salvation is to eat some ramps, after which you no longer notice. Damn things begin to ooze out of your skin after awhile......ain't really energy ya' got, just an overwhelmong desire to get away from yourself!


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 07:45 PM

Ramps????????? Please let us unenlightened downunderites in on this one.

Or is it some kind of secret weapon whch we'll only find about when we get on your list of Maybe Not So Evil Powers.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 07:51 PM

Here ya' go.........it's a wild leek, with more of a leek like flavor than standard onion, but some hint of garlic and VERY pungent!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 08:16 PM

Ah yes, the 'stinking rose.' Ramps grow wild in the Appalachians. But they can also be cultivated. Their leaves look a bit like a Leek. Now, find a clove of garlic and smash it up. Multiply that smell by about 100 or more times and now you have an idea of what a ramp is. When a town has a Ramp Festival, the skunks move away! Just a little dab will do you! Some towns cook theirs outside, others are more considerate of the population and cook theirs indoors. Ramp stories are legendary! Some people claim they are a spring tonic thing. I just like them.

Spaw might be right when he says the energy part is just you rtying to get away from yourself.

I wonder if Ramps would qualify as WMDs?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 11:00 AM

Ramps grow wild in the Appalachians.

I guess you could say they are running "rampant". (groan)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 12:11 PM

Well Jenny, that was bad....Not as bad as a ramp, but let's just say it stinks!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 12:16 PM

Yeah, Spaw, I thought so too.

Hey, those ramps must be pretty bad!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 05:33 PM

The first time I came across English wild garlic - the ramsons of the article, we were walking through a wood, my sisters and I, floored with what we thought were bluebells. Broad dark lily like leaves, with no gaps between them. As we walked, we found a strange scent rising around us, the scent of garlic, very strong, and clearing for the nose. My mother was highly amused that we didn't know what they were. they have an attractive flower, white clusters of star-like florets. My grandmother once used them as a table decoration in the house where she was a maid, but was called to remove them from the room. My mother was, again, amused when we went to an Inner Wheel function where the hostesses had the same taste in table decorations as her mother.
After the BBC broadcast some items about the Ramps festival, some of our chefs became interested in our native garlic, but I don't know if the interest has lasted.
My Easter dinner will be lamb with suet pudding, & mint sauce - I don't know about the vegetables yet - purple sprouting broccoli is in season. No native garlic, I think, but maybe leeks.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Dani
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 11:05 PM

Well, I was planning a simple picnic supper, being sick o' the restaurant business and all, but now you got me thinking....

Spring greens with a little vinaigrette, asparagus blanched and chilled with a little homemade lime mayonnaise, any excuse for a baked ham. Tiny red potatoes with olive oil and garlic and all those fresh herbs popping up in what's left of my garden. Sugar snap peas just dunked in boiling water and green as can be. Fresh yeast rolls shaped like little bunnies with currant eyes. A molasses cake!

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 07:59 AM

Beccy... no way. Every holiday, birthday, whatever, is at her place and she's in charge the whole way... "old battle axe" comes to mind.
Here's an example of her demeanour. We went over for lasagna about five years ago and it was the best I have ever had. I praised it up and everyone agreed. I asked for the recipe and she pointed to my brother. She had gone shopping and he used a recipe from a Carnation milk can. We've never had lasagna or spaghetti or any Italian dishes there since.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 08:05 AM

Being part Italian and growing up in a community with a large Italian population, I am somewhat wary of a lasagna recipe from a can of Carnation milk.........But if you say it was good................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 08:35 AM

I was surprised as well, but, I kid you not, it was the best I've ever had. Better than the f***ing rocket fuel my ex used to make. Twenty minutes from table to throne, tops.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 09:58 AM

Traditionally, Tom has cooked up a rabbit. (Yes, we're sick, very very sick.) Hasenpfeffer and rabbit stew and a glorious French recipe. And last year's stew was wonderful, but Curmudgeon has been grousing about the price of rabbit for the past year.

Lord knows what we'll have this year. Personally, since Tom's not crazy about ham (which is one of my favorites), I wouldn't mind making it the first lobster of the year. (Or maybe a nice curry.)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 10:39 AM

gnu- I truly do feely our pain, then. Can you make your own food ahead of time (a really nice meal) and then just nibble there or is she the sort of beast who gets offended if you don't eat the "food" she puts out for you?

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 10:44 AM

I think anyone would be offended by bringing your own grub... unless it was a special diet for a medical condition. Hmmm... medical condition... "I brought my own because your cooking makes me sick."

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 10:51 AM

Just got back to this thread.

We're going to a restaurant because we want to celebrate Easter (on Palm Sunday) with our "faux family." All of the wimminfolk therefrom are in Chicago (I'm currently in NW Indiana) at a big, big, BIG quilt thing (Quilters: it's called "Houston in Chicago" so you might know how bloody big it is). That leaves John and myself to cook, and we sort of

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 10:53 AM

(sorry, pushed the button too soon.)

synergize each other.

And next week we'll be in Washington, DC for Easter dinner with my wife's parents and family.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Yvonne
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 04:19 PM

Bird Watching in Norfolk for me.Ham sandwich,Kit kat and a bottle of water-- no people--- Bliss!!!!!!!!!!
Roll on Easter!

Diz

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Peg
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 01:46 AM

my mother used to make these wonderful easter egg candies...they had the consistency of marzipan (I guess) or fondant or fudge...made mostly of confectioners' sugar, butter and flavoring. There were peanut butter, wintergreen and peppermint, and sometimes other flavors like cherry. Mom would shape them into eggs, then dip them in dark chocolate, then decorate them with a flower and leaf out of frosting (the color of the flower would clue you into what kind of egg it was: yellow was peanut butter, pink was wintergreen, white was peppermint). Mom used to make a lot of amazing candy back in the day: fudge, English toffee, peanut brittle...yum. I must get these recipes from her before she can't recall them anymore...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 13 Apr 03 - 11:32 PM

Since I'm not a Christian, I often get invited for Easter dinners. Since the only way I can stand ham is fried, I decline. It was a pleasant surprise to see that so many were having something besides ham. I thought there was a law that said you had to have ham.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 10:33 AM

Actually, looks like this year it's going to be meatloaf (why not?) maybe with a couple hard cooked eggs inside for spring symbolism.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Peg
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 12:08 PM

I do not really celebrate Easter anymore but all these suggestions make me want to at least have a dinner! Baked ham, mmmm...with maple syrup and cloves...Vermont-style!
I recall having a HUGE baked ham as a kid and then enjoying the leftovers: cold ham sandwiches, and for dinner a few nights later, scalloped potatoes with ham...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 04:08 PM

Gnu- I just re-read my post and realized that I didn't explain myself very well. I meant, cook your own food and eat it at home. Then when you arrive at your sister's-in-law, you can just nibble her fare. Yikes. I sounded like a boor. Is she the Marjorie Rawlings type? (Read "Cross Creek" for reference...)

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Nancy King
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 07:27 PM

My family's traditional Easter meal was brunch, and consisted of eggs benedict (English muffins topped with Canadian bacon or ham and a poached egg) and fresh asparagus, all drizzled liberally with homemade hollandaise sauce. Makes me hungry just to think about it.

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 10:17 PM

Beccy... I believe I covered that in my first post. I AM going to chow down ahead of time. I've been doing it for years. I just can't eat potaoes whipped with milk and a SHITLOAD of margerine, carrots drenched in margerine, green and yellow beans drenched in margerine, brussel sprouts drenched in margerine, brocolli drenched in margerine and cheese, mushrooms and onions drenched in margerine... the only thing without a pound of marg on it is the salad, which is drenched in mayo... and DRY, "couldn't cut it with a chainsaw", ham. The only way you can stay out of the water closet is to just drink the water. But, I love watching the kids fight with her over getting dessert without eating supper (when they are five years old, they can almost get away with, "I don't like it. It doesn't taste good.") Ahhh, quality time.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Peg
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 02:34 AM

gnu;
have you thought of staying at the house the night before dinner, and then, at night when everyone's asleep, replacing the margarine in all the tubs with butter???

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 07:20 AM

Butter. I don't think that would help. The operative word is "drenched", as in "swimming", as in "why the hell would anyone do that ?" I've seen four cups go into the veggies for six adults and two small boys. Makes me want to head for the head hust thinking of it. But I wouldn't say anything about it... I just nibble and stay low.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: kendall
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 07:28 AM

I've been invited to dine with a couple of rabid republicans. It could get nasty. I never start a fight, but, I've ended a few!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: kendall
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 07:47 AM

Spaw, I do believe that if you were not making a living, they would put you away.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Wesley S
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 10:41 AM

Ham with lots of deviled eggs on the side. And I've bought lots of Bluebell ice cream for dessert. Vanilla and strawberry. Any other Bluebell fans out there ?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 12:06 PM

Kendall, just avoid any controversial topics. You know, stuff like Iraq, Bush, politics, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Syria, the UN, the economy, Springtime, Winter, weather, current events, old times, history, elections, the future, your health, their health, cars, music, food, drink, religion, computers, guitars, mandolins, banjos, Congress, sex, chess, checkers, canasta, money, and so on.

Of course, it will be a very quiet meal....

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 12:41 PM

Now, Kendall and Rapaire= I'm not gonna let you get away with baiting me in my own thread about FOOD! I'm a rabid food-loving Republican and intend to enjoy my food SANS politics.

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 02:27 PM

You can get shots for that Beccy. It's a damn good idea to go ahead and get them. Rabid Repblicanism will kill you over time so get your shots right away.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 02:30 PM

Beccy, I'm not baiting anyone. I'm apolitical -- I'll do 'em all, regardless.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: kendall
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 05:00 PM

You like your holidays off? Thank the democrats. Through labor unions, we can now enjoy the 8 hour day, overtime, holidays etc. hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Beccy
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 05:03 PM

That's it, Kendall... no mudslide pie for you, young man!

:-)

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: kendall
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 08:30 PM

Thanks anyway. hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,kimmers who lost her cookie long ago
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 09:23 PM

I've been gone for a long time... but recents events have given me a craving for the (in)sanity of the 'Cat.

We have two Easter dinners. The first is with the church, Saturday night, after the 3.5 hour-long church service... we eat at about 0100, and then party till dawn. Little kids, young people, old folks, dancin' and carryin' on. Only church in town that gets noise complaints. My friend Kristin and I intend to do Bushmill's Irish Whisky and cigars on the back porch. The food? Potluck, but there is always roast lamb. I usually bring hummus and pitas, plus Greek salad, sometimes baklava. There's one wonderful lady who always brings a bushel or so of hot, perfectly cooked artichokes... 'course, they're always gone by the time the choir gets over to the parish hall.

Dinner #2 is Sunday afternoon, at my mother's. Mom, her boyfriend, my brother, my husband, me (slightly hung over), sometimes a friend or two. Thank God, we are all on the same page politically... should be some interesting discussions this year, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 09:39 PM

KIMMERS!!!!!

I miss you! Please at least drop in a bit more huh?

And be sure to read my non-birhday thread where we're planning a whiz-bang fireworks display!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: GUEST,kimmers
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 09:40 PM

Spaw, you remember me? I'm stunned.

I will go and read said thread at once. Sounds dangerous...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 07:50 PM

Kendall,
Wear your powder blue T-Shirt with the doe-eyed llama on the front. That should cahnge the tone of the conversation a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter Dinner... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 08:05 PM

If I could add anything to my dinner, it would be guests. I like to cook for folks-------- jes' dreamin'. There is a song that Judy Collins sings titled Cook With Honey that has a lyric that goes 'Smiling guests around our dinner table, close together hand in hand' that pretty much sums up what I like about special dinners. My work schedule won't permit having Easter dinner with friends. Maybe NEXT weekend!