What’s on your Good Friday menu?

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

We’re sticking with tradition so serving fish. Cod with a bacon crumb cooked on tomatoes, peppers onion and capers with herby cous cous and garlic tenderstem broccoli. Minimal input required for tasty result!

We had a fish & chip lunch.

Baked stuff from a local bakery for breakfast.

Just had leftover curry for lunch.

Then will probably make some Chinese food for dinner.

Plus will definitely have chocolate

Salmon, herby couscous, cauli/broccoli cheese

PRawn salad and then some fruit, not v exciting but stuff needs using.

Sweet chilli chicken, spicy rice & Salad for adults. Chicken nuggets, veggie rice and salad for the kids

Friday is pizza night in our house. DS would take a dim view of anything else and I don't want to cook savoury stuff, I'm making a lemon drizzle cake instead.

But I've got a ham and a half shoulder of lamb for the rest of the weekend. Roasties & mint sauce for the lamb. Apples & maple syrup with the ham. Plenty of each left for sandwiches next week.

Steak for dh and me, spinach and ricotta chicken for the children. All with homemade chips and whatever veg is about.

Tbh it sounds extravagant but its actually what I pulled out of the freezer yesterday, trying to empty it a bit.

Is good Friday special dinner an actual thing then? I never knew that.

This sounds so pretentious but DH went trout fishing yesterday and he finally used the fish smoker thing I bought him many years ago.Had with soughdough bread and salad - can confirm very tasty

Pan fried cod, new potatoes, mixed veg and parsley sauce

@Pascha

Is good Friday special dinner an actual thing then? I never knew that.

We have always had fish on Good Friday since I was a child in the 70s, and it’s something my mum had always done too. We’re not Christians, just always had fish on Good Friday. Mind you, it was usually boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce.

We’ve just had fondue for lunch, Chinese takeout tonight.

@thenonsensespotter Me too!!

Courgette fritters, baked beans, hot cross Chelsea buns.

Stew, tatties and green beans.

A good bloody steak, with bordelaise sauce and herby potatoes.

We've just enjoyed a light mozarella/tomato salad lunch outside (we joked that lunch is at Spanish time today, because it's been a very busy morning.). Dinner this evening will probably be 8-9pm, so there will be a glass of wine each, too. That's already chilling.

We're atheist, and although we'd usually eat fish 2-3 times a week because we enjoy it, husband couldn't find any this week. After we remembered the date, and realised why everyone else had bought all the fish, and after I explained (to husband) the history of the church's hoopla with fish, we decided to give that bollocks and have steak.

Now, I'm going back outside to read some more in the sunshine, because I can.

Is good Friday special dinner an actual thing then? I never knew that.

Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence in many Christian denominations, so no meat. When I was younger we got no meat on any Friday. A friend belongs to an Orthodox church, they eat no animal products at all on Wednesdays and Fridays.

I'm having salmon and potato salad, kids are having cheese pizza.

@Pascha

Is good Friday special dinner an actual thing then? I never knew that.

Nah, not unless one is religious. In our case (atheist), husband is not working today, so we're enjoying the sunshine in our garden, after a very late lunch.

Supermarkets and marketing departments would prefer that everyone treat the four-day Easter weekend as a massive feast, because then, said shops can make a huge amount of money flogging lots of themed food and other paraphernalia, including shed loads of verra expensive chocolate.

We are having pizza because it is Friday. I would like fish but DC would not like to change from pizza Friday. For lunch we had homemade tomato soup, houmous and dip things, olive bread, sushi and fruit in our garden with my parents.

DioneTheDiabolist
Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence in many Christian denominations, so no meat.

MmeLaraque
Supermarkets and marketing departments would prefer that everyone treat the four-day Easter weekend as a massive feast

These explain a lot. I'm not religious at all, and my family never did anything different at Easter, we all had Sunday lunch as usual and a chocolate egg and that was that.
It also explains why Tesco wanted me to book a delivery slot early for this weekend - they were treating it like Christmas! (I declined, the shopping is coming on Wednesday as usual.

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Chicken fajitas. DP doesn’t eat fish, and we are not religious anyway. M&S tiramisu for pudding.

Herring was consumed for lunch. Very nice too.

We are not in the UK and can socialise so we are having guests tonight and on Sunday - we’re celebrating a bank holiday weekend. We’ll eat normally when we’re not entertaining though.

Tartyflette with smoked salmon and whatever veg hasn't yet withered. Can't wait.