Easter Menu

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas.  Right now I have
a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned.  Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

What kind of ham... there's fresh ham, and there're so many types of
cured/preserved ham. Fresh ham is hard to come by except during
Christmas and Easter... for a festive occasion I'd choose a fresh
ham... you can have preserved ham any old time.

The deviled eggs are nice for a pre dinner snack. It's plain old
"Ambrosia", not ambrosia salad. Ambrosia is a dessert. For a salad
you may want to serve a Waldorf Salad instead. Hashbrown casserole
doesn't turn me on, sounds like a lot of empty greasy calories. I
think if you want potatoes then plain roasted are a far better
choice. And then all you need is some kind of leafy green veggie...
perhaps spinach/collards in cream sauce w/pearl onions. And you can
still do your tangerine/sage glaze with fresh ham.

For roasted potatoes pare, slice into wedges, rub sparingly with
vegetable oil, s n p, and roast until golden brown.

Here's how roasted potatoes should turn out:
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Sheldon

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I have
a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

Sushi. We've been having eel for Easter for a number
of years now.

Probably not the sort of idea you were looking for.

If I recall my childhood correctly, the Easter ham was
accompanied by either potato salad or scalloped potatoes,
with overcooked vegetables and oversweet salads. It's
a miracle I learned to cook.

Cindy Hamilton

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I have
a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

I hadn't really thought about it yet. Thanks for the reminder.

I think there are some lamb chops in the freezer. If I can find 'em,
I'll grill those. I like ham, but it doesn't seem right to me to eat
pork on Easter -- Jesus was a Jew, you know.

Steamed broccoli or brussels sprouts (I'm the only one here who'll eat
something that green), baked potatoes, green salad, deviled eggs, and
maybe a lemon meringue pie for dessert.

Bob

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub them
with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them with a little
thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle & mortar), then grill them.
If it's raining I've got an indoor stovetop grill. Mashed potatoes and
steamed green beans. No dessert here. But my aunt used to make ambrosia
(fruit salad with whipped cream, maybe it was Dream Whip or Cool Whip; I
don't really remember, it was back in the 1960's)

Jill

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ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub them
with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them with a
little
thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle & mortar), then grill
them.
If it's raining I've got an indoor stovetop grill. Mashed potatoes and
steamed green beans. No dessert here. But my aunt used to make ambrosia
(fruit salad with whipped cream, maybe it was Dream Whip or Cool Whip; I
don't really remember, it was back in the 1960's)

Jill

Ambrosia or 5 cup salad
1 cup of marachino cherries
1 cup of mandarin orange slices
1 cup of pineapple chunks
1 cup of shredded cocoanut
1 cup of sour cream (or plain or vanilla yogurt)

Mix together and serve. Easy enough to increase the amounts for more.
-ginny

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

When is Easter, like a week from this Sunday? I think Jill told me the
first Sunday in April? We don't celebrate Easter, but when I was a kid my
parents did. We typically did the turkey thing....again.....which was
overkill after the Thanksgiving Turkey, the Christmas Turkey and then the
Easter Turkey. Maybe that's why I stopped liking turkey. :~)

You need something green and a dessert to round it out. Since you've got
the sweet ham and the ambrosia salad, which is also sweet, how about some
beans with lemon butter and toasted slivered almonds? For dessert, I'd go
light; something berry-ish maybe.

kili

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What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I have a
tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

Ham, fresh and smoked kielbasa, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, sweet
potatoes (maybe), rye bread, butter lamb, carrot cake, house full of hungry
Pollacks to eat the whole thing.
-ginny

jmcquown said:

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub
them with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them
with a little thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle &
mortar), then grill them. If it's raining I've got an indoor stovetop
grill. Mashed potatoes and steamed green beans. No dessert here.
But my aunt used to make ambrosia (fruit salad with whipped cream,
maybe it was Dream Whip or Cool Whip; I don't really remember, it was
back in the 1960's)

Jill

My mom used to make Ambrosia with fruit cocktail, cool whip and little
marshmallows. When I was little, I liked it, but even as a pre-teen I
thought it was too sweet. Apparently my brother and sister did, too,
because after a while she quit making it. LOL.

kili

jmcquown said:

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub
them with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them
with a little thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle &
mortar), then grill them.

Same as here, Jill 😉
Only variation could depend on what we find: if I don't find chops who
inspire me, I'll go for a hind lamb leg, which will take some more time and
more liquids to cook.

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Mashed potatoes and steamed green beans. No dessert here.

I'll probably have a lettuce salad, and no dessert too. But let's not forget
the first course, you know us eye-talians: it will probably be something as
spinach/ricotta tortelli or cannelloni, or maybe a bechamel/ragout lasagna.
Beverages: water for the un-inspired and wine for the rest of us, probably
I'll bring up some good Lambrusco and a medium bodied red as could be a
Ripasso from Valpolicella, the area of Amarone.
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

Virginia Tadrzynski said:

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas.

Ham, fresh and smoked kielbasa, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, sweet
potatoes (maybe), rye bread, butter lamb, carrot cake, house full of hungry
Pollacks to eat the whole thing.

What is "butter lamb"?

I'm picturing your family all sitting around the table with their
scales, gills, and fins... and Virginia with her huge pectorials! LOL

I think you meant to type Polacks, Pollacks are a type of fish...
although I'm sure they'll eat kielbasa too, so maybe they're Polack
Pollacks. Anyone got a good fish joke? hehe

Sheldon

jmcquown wrote:
No dessert here. But my aunt used to make ambrosia

Quoted message said:

(fruit salad with whipped cream, maybe it was Dream Whip or Cool Whip; I
don't really remember, it was back in the 1960's)

That is NOT ambrosia. That is something gacky, but not a classic
southern ambrosia.

Sheldon said:

The deviled eggs are nice for a pre dinner snack. It's plain old
"Ambrosia", not ambrosia salad. Ambrosia is a dessert. For a salad
you may want to serve a Waldorf Salad instead. Hashbrown casserole
doesn't turn me on, sounds like a lot of empty greasy calories. I
think if you want potatoes then plain roasted are a far better
choice.

I think of deviled eggs as picnic food <shrug>...Just me and my notions.
I also wouldn't want to serve something so heavy or filling pre-dinner
or I might dull peoples appetite for the meal.
I prefer scalloped potatoes with ham. I agree about the hashbrown
casserole being greasy overkill.
Marinated cooked (yet still bright and slightly crisp) asparagus would
make a nice vegetable side dish.

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ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I have
a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

Oh, Raven, you're my kind of girl. Nothing especially fancy. Try that
hashbrown casserole (I'm pretty sure I know the one you're thinking
about) with red-skin boiled potatoes, peeled and diced, instead of
thawed hashbrowns. Undercook the spuds a tad.

We're guests again this year and I said I would bring a relish plate and
a dessert. Our hosts will do turkey (dressing and mashed potatoes and
gravy) and ham, plus other stuff.
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kilikini said:

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

When is Easter, like a week from this Sunday? I think Jill told me the
first Sunday in April? We don't celebrate Easter, but when I was a kid my
parents did. We typically did the turkey thing....again.....which was
overkill after the Thanksgiving Turkey, the Christmas Turkey and then the
Easter Turkey. Maybe that's why I stopped liking turkey. :~)

You need something green and a dessert to round it out. Since you've got
the sweet ham and the ambrosia salad, which is also sweet, how about some
beans with lemon butter and toasted slivered almonds? For dessert, I'd go
light; something berry-ish maybe.

kili

Green beans sound perfect! I have some in the freezer. Thanks!

kilikini said:

jmcquown said:

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I
have a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking
about hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub
them with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them
with a little thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle &
mortar), then grill them. If it's raining I've got an indoor stovetop
grill. Mashed potatoes and steamed green beans. No dessert here.
But my aunt used to make ambrosia (fruit salad with whipped cream,
maybe it was Dream Whip or Cool Whip; I don't really remember, it was
back in the 1960's)

Jill

My mom used to make Ambrosia with fruit cocktail, cool whip and little
marshmallows. When I was little, I liked it, but even as a pre-teen I
thought it was too sweet. Apparently my brother and sister did, too,
because after a while she quit making it. LOL.

kili

Mine is pineapple, mandarin oranges, coconut, little marshmallows,
cherries and cool whip.

Vilco said:

jmcquown said:

If I can find some decent lamb loin chops I'll get a couple and rub
them with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper and rub them
with a little thyme and finely crushed rosemary (in my pestle &
mortar), then grill them.

Same as here, Jill 😉
Only variation could depend on what we find: if I don't find chops who
inspire me, I'll go for a hind lamb leg, which will take some more time and
more liquids to cook.

Quoted message said:

Mashed potatoes and steamed green beans. No dessert here.

I'll probably have a lettuce salad, and no dessert too. But let's not forget
the first course, you know us eye-talians: it will probably be something as
spinach/ricotta tortelli or cannelloni, or maybe a bechamel/ragout lasagna.

I considered doing a spinach/ricotta [censored]...feeling a bit festive being
in Italy...lol

Melba's Jammin said:

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ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Right now I have
a tangerine/sage glazed ham and deviled eggs planned. Thinking about
hashbrown casserole and ambrosia salad...

Oh, Raven, you're my kind of girl. Nothing especially fancy.

Well, it's just Mr. Raven, the kids and I really don't need a fridge
full of stuff to keep for a week and then throw away. The ham and
Ambrosia will be the only things that anyone will eat leftover (the eggs
will go right away, the ham will go in a frittata on tuesday). I think
I may do my herb roasted potatoes instead of the casserole since I'm the
only casserole eater. I'll toss some sage, rosemary, and S and P with
olive oil on them then roast. (Mr. Raven is nodding his approval). Not
sure what dessert yet. We'll probably still have B-Day cake left over
from my son's party on friday. Tons of candy. I'm thinking about
attempting the sfogliatelle recipe from Ciao Italia since I bought the
stuff for it. Maybe a berry crumble.

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Sheldon said:

Virginia Tadrzynski said:

ravenlynne said:

What are you making that day? I could use some ideas. Â

Ham, fresh and smoked kielbasa, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, sweet
potatoes (maybe), rye bread, butter lamb, carrot cake, house full of hungry
Pollacks to eat the whole thing.

What is "butter lamb"?

I'm picturing your family all sitting around the table with their
scales, gills, and fins... and Virginia with her huge pectorials! LOL

I think you meant to type Polacks, Pollacks are a type of fish...
although I'm sure they'll eat kielbasa too, so maybe they're Polack
Pollacks. Anyone got a good fish joke? hehe

Sheldon

Tuna cassarole?
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Someone said:

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What is "butter lamb"?

Some ethnicities have an Easter tradition of serving butter
that has been molded into the shape of a lamb.

I have seen it in some specialty grocery stores around this time of year.

gloria p