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.

It's one of only a couple of Sunday's my hubby gets off work a year so we normally get together as a family for a roast. This year I was thinking of venison though as it is my favourite :) Someone has mentioned wellington, that is another favourite, so am tempted now to do a venison wellington!

I have no idea what we will be eating. It will be a special meal though.

I love easter ( without the grizzly bits)

5plusMeAndHim if threads like this make you despair, then feel free not to comment! It’s not really about the cooking but the whole tv/ magazine thing that can put me under pressure to have to do lots of fabulous things just because it’s Easter. I feel the same at Christmas but am getting better & more relaxed. I am never going to have the sort of celebration you see in Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping etc but that’s ok 🙂

OP I totally get the thread.

I never feel pressure- I like seeing all the ideas.

My celebrations are far from homes and gardens, but if we see just one element that makes our lives a little more fun, then that's great.
Whether it's a roast or having toasted hot cross buns for breakfast, or picking daffodils. It's all good.

I'm veggie but even if I wasn't I don't think I'd be eating it. Where I live in the we have fields and fields of sheep all around us, and they are so miserable. Wet through from the constant Cornish rain, shit stuck to their fleece all down their backsides, horribly lame from joint ill. The way that they're worth so little that they're just shot or left to die if they have complications from lambing too, it just seems so dreadfully sad. At least the beef cows and free range poultry seem happy and healthy enough.

Were having moussaka,and Greek salad, followed by a choice of birthday cake (mine) or chocolate bundt cake

You can get a lovely vegetarian roast...

Ugh lamb! It genuinely makes me feel sick, the smell, taste, everything. It's one of three foods I couldn't force myself to eat out of politeness (the others being baked beans and crab).

DH and I haven't eaten chocolate/cakes/biscuits etc for 6 weeks. We will be eating salad leaves for lunch to somehow balance out the gluttony...

I don't think you're being unreasonable at all! We do the lamb/decorations bit but only because we want to. If we wanted to go out for a walk and end up at McDonalds we'd do that too! Don't feel pressurised by what you feel you 'should' do. Just make the most of the fact it's a holiday and you can spend time together doing what you want! :-)

Decorated my easter tree yesterday it looks lovely.

Easter tree? Easter tree??? Woah there...what have I missed? Will prob scatter various half squashed yellow chicks around and about and will do our big annual treasure hunt but food is likely to be a sandwich if that (DD gets back from exDP late on Easter Sunday so will have eaten there)... I want an Easter tree

Easter tree can be quite simple. I have a German friend and a big thing over there apparently, they even decorate trees in the garden at easter.
I saw hers and loved it. I have been doing an Easter tree for 18 years. Some sprouting or living branches work well as they change and grow. Forsythia is good, and pussy willow. This year I have willow ( In LIDL atm (£2.99) and paper mach eggs from the pound shop. The willow has started to sprout- and grow roots I notice, so I will plant it in the garden after Easter.
It's a bit like this-

That's lovely speak Might have to have a go....

I won't be cooking lamb I can't stand it. Plan to cook the turkey a neighbour gave me this week. Don't make a big thing of Easter tbh and cook a roast most Sundays anyway.

We don't see a lot of the inlaws- well technically ex step mother ( but the closest OH has to a mother as his biological mother died when he was a baby) and his half sister.

We meant to have them on boxing day but we were all really ill with Australian flu, so was cancelled. We had bought a huge ham for them coming- OH has a lovely recipe that takes two days and involves a mustard and marmalade glaze)

Question is- it's still in the freezer- will it be OK to eat?

Not having any roast on Easter Sunday as we are away. So having it today instead. So looking forward to it already.

Easter Dec's going up today and jesus christ super star the musical will start to get played soon along with Easter parade and Easter parade song.

I like the OPs optimism about the weather! Not sure what roast we'll have- my mum usually chooses but the local butcher has closed down.

“Easter Dec's going up today and jesus christ super star the musical will start to get played soon along with Easter parade and Easter parade song.”

You are joking, I assume -tell me you don’t do a Sing-Along-A-Crucifixion!

Is there a NORAD Holy Spirit Tracker? A Stations of the Cross video game?

And do you take the decorations down for Good Friday?

I blot any of that jesus stuff out of my mind tbh.

Horrid grisly story. Not what we want at such a happy easter time. Chocolate and bunnies is the way to go.

Sing along cruxifiction, what a marvellous idea. Dh would reval in the role.

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Little 5 year old dd came back home from school telling me about blood and dying, and hands nailed in the middle. Trapped in caves rocks etc...