To Probably Not Cook Roast Lamb On Easter Sunday?

[tigercub50]

I have the same thing each year - all the Easter ads come on the tv & I start to feel pressured to shop for a lamb joint, invite half the neighbourhood & decorate the house with bunting & fluffy chicks! But hopefully if the sun shines, I will be out with my family & not wanting to be bothered with cooking.

Yes scrowy. The smell, the taste, I suppose the mental image. None of us can eat it at this time. Unless maybe in a pastie when you wouldn't really notice.

Going Greek here and doing kleftiko.

Mmmmmm 10 hour lamb.

If you don't want to do the 'usual' stuff then don't. It can be a bit tiresome after so many years of doing something. After 15 years of spending most of Christmas morning in the kitchen, (prepping and cooking,) and half of the afternoon in the kitchen, (cleaning up!) AND prepping stuff on Christmas Eve: I announced to DH and the kids that I am not doing ANYthing on Christmas day any longer. (Or Christmas Eve!)

I said 'We will have 'Christmas dinner' on the 23rd, in the early evening, and a bottle of wine etc, and then chill and play games and watch films on Christmas Eve, and then lie in on Christmas day, and get up at 10am, and have some toast for brekkie and then eat random buffet stuff for lunch, and then maybe have some Christmas cake and loads of other shit for dinner later on.'

That was it really. It wasn't up for discussion. If anyone wanted Christmas dinner on Christmas day (or eve,) they were welcome to do it. I was doing fuck-all on those 2 days.

Don't get me wrong; I loved looking after my DH and kids, and didn't mind 'doing Christmas' for 10-12 years or so, but for the last 3-4 years or doing it, I started to get a bit fed up of spending half of Christmas day in the kitchen. Yeah I know I could have delegated or asked for help etc, but I guess I just got on with it as it became a kind of habit.

Anyhoo, DH and the kids were fine with it after all! But the OP @tigercub50 is not being unreasonable to want to change what she does, and just chill or whatever....

As I said, we still HAD our Christmas meal/wine/Christmas crackers etc, but on the 23rd of December.

If you’re not Christian, why are you even celebrating Easter,

Christians don't own Easter.

Easter celebration pre date christianity- and is an important cultural, secular and pagan festival.
Easter - or Oestre has been celebrated for thousands of years.
I don't see much reference to the easter bunny or eggs in the bible.

British lamb is better in Sept/Oct when the lambs have grown enough; British farmers would prefer lamb to be associated with some sort of festival slightly later in the year.
As much as I absolutely adore roast lamb, I will wait until it is in proper season.
And why the pressure? The media & supermarkets are trying to push Easter to be like Christmas- fight it!!!

I must be the only one that finds lamb quite greasy and unpalatable. Maybe it's the way I cook it though! Haven't had it for years, and it will never be on the menu here again either.

Good old roast chicken with a clove of garlic and half a lemon up the nether regions is gorgeous. Sorted here thank you.

Easter is a Christian festival. While it could be said that Christians don't own Easter in the sense that anybody can celebrate it in any way they like, Christians do get to say what Easter is really about, because it's our festival. The custom of Easter Eggs arose because eggs are a symbol of the resurrection, and originated in countries where Eastern Orthodox forms of Christianity flourished, spreading later to western Europe. The Easter Bunny originated in Germany in a folk tradition of a hare that laid eggs, and was taken up commercially (a bit like Santa Claus) in the United States.

There are, indeed, spring festivals in other religions, but they're not Easter. And Oestre is entirely made up, a completely cod-festival dreamed up by neo-pagans doing wishful thinking about a goddess that there is no historical evidence anyone has ever worshipped.

We’re having roast pork...

I love a nice roast lamb and before DD we always had it at Easter. Well, DD hates the taste of lamb so we may do a roast pork instead.

We celebrate Easter, decorate the house (a lot less than Christmas) and DD will get an Easter Egg hunt in the house or garden. We normally have days out but not a full day on Sunday, maybe an afternoon stroll somewhere but somehow I doubt the weather is nice enough this year.

Why not make a nut roast instead?

I believe Linda McCartney became a vegetarian as she tucked into a lamb roast while gazing out the window at cute lambs frolicking outside.

Easter is not a christian festival for me.

Regardless of origins ( and I dispute a lot of your analysis) the fact remains that easter - like christmas is an important secular and cultural festival.

Most people in the UK happily enjoy both festivals without any christian belief or thought of jesus.

You are not in charge.

Haven't decided what to have yet. I do like lamb roasted on a bed of lemon, lime and rosemary.

are you supposed to make merry at Easter?

poster tumbleweed38 we have always been big on easter, egg hunts when the kids were young, family and friends around. Easter tree, baking, crafts etc.
It's a lovely fun time.

I don’t think UABU - cook what you bloody like! Celebrations are about what feels celebratory to you and yours. Personally, for no religious reason whatsoever, I am feeling slightly drooly about a nice leg of roast lamb, so that is what we are doing, but really, each to their own!

I don’t have a wider family, and at Christmas I feel very blessed that our family of four can hope ourselves in and do exactly what we please. For some reason at Easter I feel sad that there’s no big communal dinner. I normally organise something with friends who are not busy.

Niminy, sorry but - no one gets to say what a festival mean. You keep it in your way, everyone else gets the same freedom. That’s what culture is about, it means different things to different people!

LyannaStarktheWolfMaid exactly.

Festivals mean different things to different people- they are big enough to share. Whether it's the Easter Bunny or jesus that rocks you boat then why not!!

We are a small family too. There are often easter events, egg rolling, stuff for kids locally on easter day, so familes can join in together for a good time.

Although some of he nicest family easter have been just the four of us.
Chocolate for breakfast!

FFS threads like this make me despair.Can you imagine what AIBU would be like if everyone started a thread about what they probably won't cook for lunch?

I'm not cooking roast swan for Easter lunch.

Eggs and bunnies are signs of spring time fertility. Their symbolism couldn't be any more obvious!

*we are on slippery moral ground.
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I hate Lamb. I doubt we will even do a roast. I am working the night shift so won't see much of it.

Plus, it is meant to snow here