An Easter to remember starting with menu...what’s on yours?!

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My DC love Easter and we always go all out, normally including family. Easter egg hunts, family meals, games etc.

I’m hoping to make it as fun for us all and firstly want to tackle Easter lunch/dinner. We have a roast most weekends and my husband is a good cook so what can we make that would be a little bit special...

What’s everyone else having?

Otolenghi's lamb shwarma, from his Jerusalem cookery book. Utterly divine.

We would normally have fishpie on good Friday but as the weather is supposed to turn on Saturday we're having a bbq tomorrow:
Homemade burgers
Ribs
Cous cous and halloumi salad
Brocolli and cheese salad
Green salad
Homemade bread rolls
Have bought the dc San Pellagrino as a treat

On Sunday we'll have the fishpie. We'll have an Easter egg hunt in the garden

Easter is normally a massive family affair for us. Usually about 20 kids of various extended family members for an Easter hunt. This will be the first year it is just us.

Easter sunday will be
Chocolate eggs for bfast
Lunch is roast pork, stuffing, yorkshires, roast potatoes & parsnips, carrots and cabbage with Biscoff brownies for dessert. Cheeseboard for tea
Wine, games & films interspersed
Can't wait

Lebanese carrot salad first I think (mint, red wine vinegar, pine nuts). I couldn’t get a lamb joint or gammon joint so I just got two lamb steaks - it’s only me, DH and lives-off-air toddler anyway - any suggestions for recipes to make it into a feast?

Easter eggs for pudding and I’ll try my hand at iced dalgona coffee

This year will be a really different affair but we are going to make it as special as possible. There’ll be lots of bbq’s - current menu for that is:

Homemade beef burgers
Cider infused sausages
Minted lamb chops
Salad
Pasta type thing

I am making brownies, honeycomb and fudge so we will have some sweet nibbles.

We are making an Ottolenghi recipe for Easter Sunday - roasted goose with quince cranberries and maple gravy. I literally cannot wait!

We will be doing an Easter egg hunt inside and in the garden.

I absolutely do not cook a roast every weekend! We're having roast pork with lots of crackling, apple and rhubarb crumble with cream. DC and I will be making a cake with copious mini eggs and we are having an alarmingly large easter egg hunt through the house and garden.

Have abandoned Easter this year. We normally do roast lamb with garlic and rosemary etc, and all eat at Grandmas.
Dh will be working this year. So just me and two adult dcs. One is vegetarian, one hates vegetables. I can’t be bothered to be honest

If my shopping delivery turns up, we’ll be having a full on roast (but might eat it in the garden). Roast chicken, ham in coke & all the trimmings with ice cream for pudding.

We’re having a BBQ tomorrow, takeaway on Saturday and lamb roast dinner on Sunday. DH has also made the Nigella Nutella cheesecake so we will be the size of houses by the end of the weekend!

I have part boiled some potatoes to freeze for roast potatoes ( partly to see if it is do-able and partly to use them up while they're still nice)

DD , DH and I are vegetarian. DS eats chicken.
We have 2 Quorn Roasts ( sub from online shop) and some chicken fillets .
Yorkshire puddings
veg
gravy

steamed syrup pudding and ice-cream

If I get everything in my online order I'll make some Brownies .

Easter eggs for DC ( 20 and 17) so no Easter egg hunts here .

No BBQs. And I need to get my washing in/out before the NDNs start theirs

Christmas was a washout for me, so I’m hoping to have an indulgent Easter.
Salmon for tomorrow (Good Friday).
Easter Sunday lunch will be fancy canapés in shot glasses, followed by fillet steak with béarnaise sauce, then possibly ice cream topped with a liqueur for pudding.
There might be a glass of fizz too, and there will certainly be a Lindt dark chocolate Bunny!

We normally have a big family get together for a Polish 'breakfast' which is lunch really. Lots of Polish sausages, potato salad, gherkins, beetroot and horseradish, Bigos, eggs, and some (lots of) wine. Instead, I am making the bigos my sister is making potato salad, and we are taking it round to immediate family (in accordance with our daily exercise allowance) so we can all have our own small Easter feast. I think we are going to try a Zoom thing to see all the rest of our family.

We’re having BBQ tomorrow afternoon, Saturday lunch baguette tabs cheese, salmon in the evening. Easter Sunday / turkey (sort of Christmas lunch). Leftovers Monday.

It’s really cheered me up reading how everyone celebrates (and eats )

I’m leaning towards an early doors roast, husband is big on the the meat and me and DC the sides so think we are going to do both roast pork and lamb and all the sides and then DH will make his famous Easter Egg cheesecake which is totally calorific and completely worth it.

DC have ponies so think we are going to do a ridden Easter egg hunt as well...

I usually do roast lamb but my dcs have seen so many cute lambs in the fields nearby they have said they do not want lamb. So we are having roast turkey randomly, cauli cheese, roast everything, chocolate and pear pudding.

Roast lamb (if I can get lamb. If not, salt and pepper pork), roast potatoes, honey roasted carrots, broccoli, Yorkshire puddings.
Promised ds we could make crumble and ice cream. Possibly a fry up in the morning, but if we can't be bothered, might just eat chocolate for the rest of the day, and I'll have coffee with cream and honey (better than the chocolate)

We are having a beautiful leg of lamb, maybe on the bbq with potato salad and that type of thing.
Maybe as a roast with the accompaniments. Will depend on the weather.
Similar to every Easter except we will have no visitors or be going anywhere which is a bit crappy but there we are, in it together, alone.
Have got some eggs for the kids to do a hunt but it won’t be quite the same without all the nieces and nephews round like we usually do. I think I’ll do some clues and make it a bit more exciting than I usually do, I normally hide them.

On Easter Sunday we are having beef because they had sold out of lamb. Might make an apple and pear tart for pudding. Tomorrow we are having homemade Chinese, then Saturday is takeaway fish and chips.

Don’t usually have a starter at Easter, so will be looking out for any ideas...

Tomorrow is fish and chips with extended family via Zoom

Saturday is Chinese

Sunday;

Breakfast will be french toast with maple syrup and those chocolate ‘boiled egg’ things.

Dinner will be a roast leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary, new potatoes with mint and butter, asparagus, leeks and spring greens, tenderstem broccoli, peas, mint jelly, red current jelly and gravy.
Pudding is white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake.

Hot cross bun before bed.

fancy canapés in shot glasses, followed by fillet steak with béarnaise sauce, then possibly ice cream topped with a liqueur for pudding.

That sounds lush.

Trying to keep some semblance of normality here. Usually we'd of already had a Passover meal as a church, completed the walk of witness, and tomorrow would be and still will be a calm day of prayer. Easter Sunday we would have lunch at home and I'd cook and my family would all congregate here. Easter Monday would be a celebration meal/ bbq with friends, Easter egg hunt lots of people.
This year it will be seafood pasta on good Friday ( no meat) and minted lamb roast for the three of us, and I'll deliver a couple to my elderly relatives who are isolating on Sunday. I will get my ds to do a bbq for us on Monday.
Thankfully our church are doing daily prayer meetings online ( currently twice a day as it's Holy Week) as it's meant I get some adult interaction/ conversation afterwards each day.

I’ve made low carb chocolate brownies for me (and DS) to eat over the weekend.

We’re all doing the cleaning in the morning to get it out of the way for the weekend and then having a BBQ in the afternoon/early evening. Saturday I’m hoping we will make some Easter decorations, and going to make some honeycomb, and then we’re going to get a takeaway.

Sunday we’re (hopefully if we can get it) going to have low carb pancakes for breakfast and then do an Easter egg hunt for DS. We’re hopefully having roast lamb for Sunday lunch. I might make chocolate mousse for dessert

I will be having beer, gin, and wine.....but not in the same glass!

I will also be doing at least 2 HIIT classes, cycling on turbo trainer, and some skipping to try to burn off some of the calories!!!

Tomorrow will be smoked haddock risotto. For Sunday I'm going to try and get a flock of baby chops, to be eaten with rösti, minted peas and glazed carrots. Eton mess for pudding. No alcohol as DW is doing a night shift.

Hot cross buns and easter eggs for breakfast.

Then lamb marinated in ras-el-hanout, honey and oil, cooked inside the bbq. Home made flat breads and hummus with salads.

I'm making an almond cake for pudding.

And we'll probably listen to some Easter music like The Messiah. DC are too old for Easter Egg hunts - late teens.

Lamb rack with new potatoes and asparagus. Followed by toasted brioche with creme de marrons, flaked chocolate and vanilla ice cream.