BS: Easter dinner

Subject: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:45 PM

Or whatever you call it. My family is keen to have turkey (boooooring!) and have told me where to go with my rabbit-pie suggestion. My question, in light of the Judas thread, is this: do I put 12 balls on the simnel cake or do I have to wait for a pronouncement from the Vatican?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:51 PM

Convert to a another religion (don't waste time) or quickly become an athiest ... that should remedy your predicament.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:55 PM

I don't do religion, sIx. I do simnel cake though.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:59 PM

Hmmmm .... then try a pie !!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:00 PM

regardless of whether Judas was a "true" disciple - he did according to the narrative hang himself and thus removed himself from the ranks of the disciples. So I would say you are safe to continue with 11 balls on the simnel cake. Or - since you don't "do religion" you can decorate it as suits your fancy. 11 white balls and one black one? 13 balls to include both Judas and whassisname they elected to take his place? 14 to include the above 13 plus John the baptist?

24 to be the disciples and the 12 major prophets of the Torah?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:03 PM

That's a lot of balls!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:05 PM

Whassisname was called Mathias MMario.
"And they all drew lots & the lot fell upon Mathias"
Gospel according to somebody or other.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:05 PM

Please excuse this non-practicing Chritisian Protestant/Jew ... but what is a simnel cake?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:08 PM

From the Beeb site:

Simnel cake
Lent is the period of 40 days which comes before Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday. For many Christians, this is a period of fasting and repentance in preparation for Easter, culminating in a feast of seasonal and symbolic foods. In the late 17th century, girls in service brought a rich fruit cake called simnel cake home to their mothers on the fourth Sunday of Lent. The cake was enriched with marzipan and decorated with 11 marzipan balls representing the 12 apostles minus Judas, who betrayed Christ.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:13 PM

I'll also be making braided saffron bread, which my Jewish buddy calls challah

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:14 PM

Sounds very good indeed ... 13 is kind of an uncomfortable number for me personally, so I'd say stick with 12 ... As I mentioned in the Judas thread when Bob Dylan was accused of being a 'Judas', He replyed with 'it's a lie' .. so if you really want I'd be comfortable with a marzipan ball on the cake for old Judas.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:16 PM

Actually the cake sounds much better than the challah ... but very universal of you for doing that Pink.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:24 PM

The origins of the Simnel cake date back WAY before the 17th century -. originally it was part of the offerings taken from a parish to the "mother church" - usually the bishop's seat. *THIS* - rather then any tribute to maternal parent - was the origin of "mothering Sunday" - Things shifted around in a major way in the 17th century.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Beer
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:38 PM

Go with the Rabbit Pie. That was tradition for a lot of Acadian folks. We call it "Poté".
Great meal.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:47 PM

Angus Dei... Lamb of God... with some rosemary and maybe a little touch of garlic....


Simnel cake is sickly goop. Go for traditional spiced and curranty biscuits called Easter cakes!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: bobad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:00 PM

We get together with some friends and their kids and feast on leg of lamb which has been boned and butterflied and marinated for a day or two in a marinade of olive oil, lemon, rosemary and lots of garlic. Grilled on a barbecue with veggies and salad and served up with a nice red wine it makes for a delightful culinary treat and a very pleasant evening spent with good friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:07 PM

I have a wonderful, wild caught, salmon in the freezer. A good salad, salmon, potatoes a la me, perhaps a green veg, mixed black- and rasp- berries over shortbread and topped with creme fraiche, perhaps a decent wine....

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:25 PM

I love a rack of lamb which has just about been introduced to the oven - but hasn't had time to become familiar with it....

Apart from that - where does the WORD "simnel" come from? I've a feeling I should know - but have long forgotten.

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: bobad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:27 PM

sim·nel Pronunciation (smnl)
n. Chiefly British
1. A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.
2. A rich fruitcake sometimes covered with almond paste and traditionally eaten at mid-Lent, Easter, and Christmas.
[Middle English, from Old French siminel, from Medieval Latin siminellus, ultimately from Latin simila, fine flour; see semolina.]

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:31 PM

My sister in law will put on a large, aboslutely delicious ham early in the morning. It will be cooked to perfection at about 14:00h. She will then carve it and put it back in the oven and prepare the veggies and others. At 17:00h, she will serve the absolutely dried out ham with veggies soaked in margerine with potatoes whipped with milk and margerine. Then, she will serve a cheesecake which actually is not a cheesecake. The cheesecake servings will be so big that a large hound dog could not finish one half that size.

At apporoximately 18:00h, having been polite and, thereby, having eaten a reasonable amount of this trash, my stomach will begin to gurgle. Being polte, I shall remain until I feel that I can just make it home in time. I am not saying my sister in law cannot parboil shit fer a tramp. I am saying that eating her cooking is always an adventure. No shit. (If yer lucky on the way home.)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: bobad
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 05:35 PM

Ah gnu, my sympathies. If you were anywhere near here I'd invite you over.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:44 PM

Since it's my son's birthday this Easter weekend, our family will be feasting on what he really wants for this combined birthday/easter supper. This will consist of my handcrafted barbecued fog burgers, potato salad and corn-on-the-cob.

BTW, for what it's worth ... I can't stand corn-on-the-cob.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 03:29 AM

What about HOT XXX UNCENSORED BUNS on Good Friday?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:55 AM

Hot crossed buns? We've had them in the shops since Christmas.... I'm getting sick of them!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 08:15 AM

hey six! "fog burgers"?? INquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:06 AM

Yes, I was a bit mist-ified by that one too.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:35 AM

Lobster fer Chriss' sake, right off the boat (legals) A tradition in my family..the second ugliest crteeture God made but some good tae eat. It made a christian of me just knowing that something so homely could be soo good and some divine being must have invented it. Oh and lally cake for afters.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:51 AM

Lally cakes? I speak pretty fluent "food" but that's a new one on me.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:03 AM

IF I cook, it will prob be ham.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:11 AM

corn chowder friday, ham saturday, lamb sunday.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:29 AM

MMario ... here's how one makes a 'fog' burger...

use regular or medium ground beef .. never ever lean ... you need the fat to make the smoke .. the more smoke the better.

Mix the ground beef in with lots of mesquite seasoning, lots of it. I prefer using natural mesquite wood in the old charcoal Webber, but I have become rather lazy, bourgois and impatient in my old age and now have surrendered to the gas grill.

Mix the ground beef in with lots of ground black pepper, lots of it, don't be shy.

Make a pattie, actually a very large pattie. Once it has been formed, stick your finger into the centre of the pattie and slightly hollow it out. Pour some Worcester sauce into it and top the hole up with ground beef. Be gentle with the pattie, it is now ready to grill.

Once grilled (with lots of smoke) it is now ready to be served with your favourite toppings. I prefer mayo, dijon, tomato and some hot pickeled bannana pepper rings.

It's called a 'fog' burger due to the amount of fog that rolls off of the Bay of Fundy ... seems to be that I'm out there grilling just in time for the tide to come in ... bringing with it the blasted fog.

I enjoy them, my son does and just about everyone I have made them for. If you lived up this way I'd invite you over for one. This barbecued culinary delight is the fault of me falling off of the vegetarian wagon.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: number 6
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:32 AM

That's me 6, posting the 'fog' burger instructions.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:55 AM

yummy! now - Lally cakes?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Kweku
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:25 PM

what is the real meaning of the word easter?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:28 PM

philosophically, etymologically, or usage?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Kweku
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:40 PM

I once heard a friend say it is the name of a Roman god.so I guess anything will do.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:45 PM

it is speculated that the English term 'Easter' - which is used to mean the Christian Feast of the Resurection is derived from the name of the goddess Eostre - which is also the origin of the English word 'east' - Eostre was I believe a Germanic goddess of the dawn.

Most of the world does not use the term, but some variation on 'Paschal' to indicate the Feast of the Resurection.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Kweku
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:08 PM

thanks MM.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:14 PM

"derived from the name of the goddess Eostre"

They swifted a lot more than the name.... The eggs... the rabbits.... the colours... The very resurection myth.... all associated with Eoster long before the Xtians got their grubby mitts on them....

So we BBQ a couple of rabbits.... have a few bottles of wine with friends... and well, seeing as we're all really to chicken to have an orgy, we share Hersey's Kisses with each other....   Maybe one year I'll 'spike' the wine....

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:18 PM

And the Feast of the Resurection was established long before Christians encountered Eostre - who was a pretty localized goddess.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:21 PM

It's not like their mythology made it up first

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:34 PM

I'm not saying the Christians came up with an original idea - but the timeline for "Christians stole Easter from Eostre" is paradoxical - since Easter existed prior to Christian contact with worshipers of Eostre.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 03:30 PM

OK, stop that ... what about tracklements?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 03:38 PM

hey! what's with tracklements when I still haven't found out what Lally cakes are!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 04:04 PM

Can I come to Repaire's for that salmon?
My Mrs. asked me earlier today to help decide what we would dine on, but we got side-tracked instead of settling the question. Which ever we go with, I have nothin' to fear from her cooking.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 04:57 PM

I like challah. I worked at a Jewish summer camp a few years ago and we always looked forward to Shabbat (even though I'm not Jewish--I was only there to take care of the horses, not corrupt small children).

I'll be the only one at home this year so I can pretty much eat whatever I want. I thought I might break down and make Wendish noodles. I'm not Wendish, either, but sometimes nothing beats chicken broth and homemade noodles.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:07 PM

Oops--wrong button. Chicken broth seasoned with parsley and nutmeg. Sounds bizarre but I swear it works.

It's not an Easter thing (well, they ARE egg noodles, I guess) but nobody else in my family sees the point of hand-making noodles, so it's their loss if they aren't here to share them.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:07 PM

I can't see any point in spending time inside the house cooking up a storm when we can be outside celebrating! It is our family tradition to have an easter picnic!!!   Depending upon the date which easter falls, it can be most interesting! I will say though, there's nothing quite like having BBQ ribs while it's snowing all around you!   Lots of fun is always had by all! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:08 PM

The Wends also make a mean Easter egg, a lot like those Ukranians.

I have a kit for this. I keep meaning to learn.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter dinner
From: Severn
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:01 PM

I always choose to send in from the joint that originally catered The Last Supper....

JUDAS' CARRYOUT