Easter plans?

For those of you cooking/baking for Easter, what are you planning on making? Are you going to try anything new this year or will you be sticking with tradition? Any interesting wine with your meal?

[Jenise]

No plans. I've threatened Bob with roast peeps, but I don't intend to make good on that.

I'm helping my Mother-In-Law put an afternoon brunch together. We'll have ham, scrambled eggs, home fries, fruit salad and I'll going to make Jenise's pineapple muffins.

For those of you cooking/baking for Easter, what are you planning on making? Are you going to try anything new this year or will you be sticking with tradition? Any interesting wine with your meal?

I'm going to get Neil to shoot an Easter bunny.
I saw this program, 'The Wild Gourmets', with Thomasina Miers (winner of Master Chef in the UK). She shot her bunny, then hung it, then just ripped the loin fillets out and cooked them (but I can't remember how).
Seeing we have rabbits running rampant at the moment, it seems a good way to deal with one of then. That is, if Neil agrees.
Not sure what wine will go will Easter bunny. Depends how it is cooked. Will have to experiment.

Easter dinner will be postponed a week since I have business travel scheduled to begin Easter afternoon.
However, I probably will find a few minutes to hoist a bottle of Rolling Rock brew over the weekend as it is the "official" beer of Easter.
Redwinger

Only baking plans are maybe a loaf of walnut bread and to have a go at the enticing espresso shortbreads

I'm just going to hide until it's over.

Hot cross buns tomorrow, plus I need to temper and mould some more Easter chocolates for the neighbourhood kids, as my kids ate all of the ones I did earlier in the week.

Saturday, a birthday cake and bread for a BBQ next door.

Sunday, focaccia and dessert for a dinner at a friend's place.

Monday, I get to play in the kitchen, while small boy finishes his project on light wave particle theory...<groan>, and then we go to my mum's for dinner.

Really looking forward to it - I love it when I get to spend time in the kitchen like that !

Monday, I get to play in the kitchen, while small boy finishes his project on light wave particle theory...

Cool!

Oh yeah, the cooking plans too!

And to keep on topic, I have no plans at the moment. Happily, I do not have to be at work!

Believe it or not, I'm going to make a "Thanksgiving" dinner using a frozen turkey I got for about $6 during the holidays. My husband will be happy since he asks for Turkey dinner almost every night.

Of course, we are not being nearly as adventurous as Sue and Neal! Look out Peter Cottontail!

No plans. I've threatened Bob with roast peeps, but I don't intend to make good on that.

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On Sunday, we're going to the mother-in-law's house in Belgium for dinner. Nothing too special, but the wine cabinet there harbors some pretty impressive Bordeaux, so hopefully we'll find some nice bottles to go with the lamb. On Monday (also a holiday here), I want to make a fish dish of some sort with a cream sauce to go with a white 1er cru Chassagne-Montrachet 2003...looking forward to that! cheers, Bonnie

Wow, Doug, that's disturbing.

Wow, Doug, that's disturbing.

You think so now, wait until you see them after they're baked. THAT is disturbing.

Friday, I'll bake our traditional Easter pies - one, a sweet pie made with cooked wheat, the other, a pizza rustica containing chopped up salame and ricotta chesses. Those are traditional, and eaten not so much on Easter but around it.

I usually make lasagna for Easter, but I just made it two weeks ago for my wife's birthday party, so I'm not looking for it again so soon.
So, in the something new department, I think make some ravioli, instead.

As to wine, not sure yet - we'll have to peruse the cellar list and see what tickles our fancy.

That's funny John...my cousin does the meat pies every yr...she always makes one for me...YUM!!

I always do a leg of lamb on Easter Sunday. We usually start with a pasta course. It will probably be Penne vodka, since my husband doesn't like ricotta cheese...or maybe I will try Jenise' lasagna bolognese! I used to make manicotti for the pasta course, but haven't done that in years.

I'm going to get Neil to shoot an Easter bunny.

Yup, bunny seems to suit the occasion - maybe with double risen rolls...

I bagged a bunny intended for the pot last year in my garden, but as I was standing there holding the miscreant by the ears, a small voice from next door cried out "Oh look Mommy, that man found Fluffy" and I couldn't figure out how not to hand the varmint over. Damn - figured I'd have got 4 keychain fobs out of it, all lucky!

[Jenise]

and I couldn't figure out how not to hand the varmint over.

I understand this year you're planning baby chicks. I snuck into your house this morning and got this evidentiary photo:

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I had a different idea for this year:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7305522.stm

Tough to eat M&Ms with the holes in my hands, though.

John, you've made me homesick ! We made dozens of pizza rustica for Easter treats for friends and family. This is one dish that calls for everything but the kitchen sink . We sometimes also mixed in seasoned cooked scrambled eggs. Ricotta, parm, romano, pepperoni, salami, cooked sausages baked in a breadlike double crust - heavenly.

We also did what my mother called Pizza Cena - a very thin double crust pie filled with either savory garliced greens - spinach/chard or cheesy rice usually seasoned with lots of Romano and black pepper. These were only made at Easter.

Finally the sweet ricotta torta - seasoned with lemon and orange zest. We didn't do the wheat berries.

Depending on how busy work is this weekend I might have time to do one of the pizza cena.

and I couldn't figure out how not to hand the varmint over.

I understand this year you're planning baby chicks. I snuck into your house this morning and got this evidentiary photo:

Madam - are you suggesting that I have a penchant for choking the chicken....
Heaven forfend. Next you'll be calling me a beer drinker!

For the first time in years, we don't have to watch grandkids looking for eggs! It will be just Gene and I and I must say I am rather happy about this. Since it is going to be a fantastic weekend, we may be eating outside by the pool.
My menu for Sunday breakfast is Jenise's Pineapple Muffins, roasted asparagus, country ham and Parmesan cheese frittata.

Dinner will be Prime Rib roasted on the grill, my special stuffed baked potatoes, marinated cold asparagus (yes, more asparagus) mesclun salad dressed with balsamic vinaigrette. Wine will be McWilliams cabernet. If I have time, I may make an angel food cake with mocha, expresso whipped cream.

As athiests and anti-comercialists (if it's not already in the dictionary, I claim the new useage!), we don't do the traditional Easter thing. And as it looks like we're going to have snow for the first time this winter here in old Blighty this weekend, I'm going for a warming Pasta E Fagioli with some home-made six-seed bread (that is, once I've recovered from the hangover I know I'm going to have tomorrow morning! ).

Then it'll be working on the application for the stonking job I saw advertised this week (short closing date - only next Tuesday. Wsh me luck!).

Wow, Doug, that's disturbing.

You think so now, wait until you see them after they're baked. THAT is disturbing.

Stuart, don't do that to me! I just about killed myself laughing.

-Paul W.