Easter Dinner

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  • MinmoInk
    MinmoInk Posts: 345 Member
    @fishshark thanks :D it Twas! Yes I did think from the religious standpoint of Easter and what Lamb means and all of that, it got me wondering.. eat lamb for Easter because blood and body etc or is lamb the ultimate no-no for Easter. Hmm I always thought it was the traditional Easter roast since I would always see it at brunches
  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    Honeybaked ham, mac and cheese, spinach salad, orzo salad, baked apples, chocolate pie, peach cobbler, cupcakes, tons of candy.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Naley2322 wrote: »
    tuckerrj wrote: »
    Chinese buffet! Started with soup & salad and then it was mostly SUSHI...

    isn't kind of morbid to eat anything with a soul?

    ... I thought animals had no soul. Not that I'm religious or anything... but yeah...

    Anyway... gotta LOVE judgmental vegans.
  • frankiesgirl21
    frankiesgirl21 Posts: 235 Member
    MinmoInk wrote: »
    @fishshark thanks :D it Twas! Yes I did think from the religious standpoint of Easter and what Lamb means and all of that, it got me wondering.. eat lamb for Easter because blood and body etc or is lamb the ultimate no-no for Easter. Hmm I always thought it was the traditional Easter roast since I would always see it at brunches

    Traditional in our house cause the hubs is Italian. In communion, the wafer represents the body of Christ so not sure why eating the lamb would be sacreligious...........

    I have a wonderful recipe for Loin chops from the American heart association so we even manage healthy!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    MinmoInk wrote: »
    Ok guys I gotta ask. Is lamb the norm for Easter? I was told that it was morbid to eat lamb on Easter but it seems a number of you all have. So... What's the dillio?

    It depends on your background. I grew up eating lamb on Easter and believe it is the more traditional, but ham is certainly common too.

    I always have some sort of lamb (did spareribs last night) with potatoes and spring vegetables and a dessert involving rhubarb.
  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    I just heard of the lamb thing this year. We usually eat ham on Easter.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    frankiesgirl21 wrote: »
    MinmoInk wrote: »
    @fishshark thanks :D it Twas! Yes I did think from the religious standpoint of Easter and what Lamb means and all of that, it got me wondering.. eat lamb for Easter because blood and body etc or is lamb the ultimate no-no for Easter. Hmm I always thought it was the traditional Easter roast since I would always see it at brunches

    Traditional in our house cause the hubs is Italian. In communion, the wafer represents the body of Christ so not sure why eating the lamb would be sacreligious...........

    I have a wonderful recipe for Loin chops from the American heart association so we even manage healthy!

    First, this is informational, not to discuss religion.

    It's based on the traditional (well, traditional in Jesus' time) Passover feast of lamb, plus symbolizes Jesus as the new Passover lamb (lamb of God, sacrificial lamb, and of course Easter = Paschal Feast, despite the English term). Don't think that makes eating it a no-no at all, though--it's why it's traditional.

    On the Passover seder: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/23/garden/a-tender-lamb-dish-for-a-passover-seder.html

    I think the preference for ham is more of a central European/German thing. My family is mostly Irish, English, and Welsh, and we've always done lamb.
  • Ellemarie72
    Ellemarie72 Posts: 52 Member
    fishshark wrote: »
    Ellemarie72 wrote: »
    fishshark wrote: »
    all the food sounds deeeelish! happy easter everyone.. starting the day off with mimosas and eggs Benedict

    Ah jealous! My favorites! I love having this for Mother's Day and my Bday! Enjoy! Happy Easter!

    We had spiral ham, asparagus with hollandaise, cauliflower/garlic mash. Kids got to eat mashed potatoes. And I didn't do any bread! We're also going to make some different variations of deviled eggs later.

    yumm sounds good.. i love anything with hollandaise.. i love just plain ol hollandaise haha! i love deviled eggs too.. always the best part of easter food! happy easter!

    Same! I can drink it!
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    Naley2322 wrote: »
    tuckerrj wrote: »
    Chinese buffet! Started with soup & salad and then it was mostly SUSHI...

    isn't kind of morbid to eat anything with a soul?

    I thought this was going to be a tame thread, but I'm totally in now! Fun!

    We had ham and meatballs (the soulless kind, so we're okay), salad, brussels sprouts with prosciutto, carrots, corn and lots of delish desserts.

  • Pinkylee77
    Pinkylee77 Posts: 432 Member
    kwtilbury wrote: »
    I just heard of the lamb thing this year. We usually eat ham on Easter.

    I am Italian we always ate lamb. I think it is traditional for Europeans and Greeks
  • Pinkylee77
    Pinkylee77 Posts: 432 Member
    jessieshanks1981 wrote: »
    We had brunch instead of Easter dinner and there was quiche, French toast casserole, bacon, ham, sausages, fruit salad, coffee cake and mini cheesecakes!

    Yum!
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    @Francl27 when i was a kid and they told me it says in the bible that animals dont have souls i was like... this religion thing isnt for me haha... but really i was pretty bummed. You are right from what i remember they aint got no souls.. try and tell my dogs that though. ha.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    Sockeye salmon, spinach salad, baked potato. Bread pudding for dessert, but it didn't really turn out because the bread ended up sucking up way more of the custard base than I expected. Oh well. We still had the moscato. :)
  • mpat81
    mpat81 Posts: 353 Member
    indigrrl wrote: »
    OMG I love all of you. I was just trying to decide how to log my church Easter potluck lunch, and on a whim typed "potluck" into the database search. If you've never done that, you need to. It's a great reminder not to take ourselves too seriously.

    Ha-ha, that's great!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    fishshark wrote: »
    @Francl27 when i was a kid and they told me it says in the bible that animals dont have souls i was like... this religion thing isnt for me haha... but really i was pretty bummed. You are right from what i remember they aint got no souls.. try and tell my dogs that though. ha.

    Here's a pretty cool poem you might like.

    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171425

    The Heaven of Animals by James Dickey (best known as the author of the novel Deliverance, later made into a movie, of course).
  • Madwife2009
    Madwife2009 Posts: 1,369 Member
    MinmoInk wrote: »
    Ok guys I gotta ask. Is lamb the norm for Easter? I was told that it was morbid to eat lamb on Easter but it seems a number of you all have. So... What's the dillio?

    My mother always serves lamb at Easter (we're UK) - unfortunately I forgot this when I accepted a lunch invitation - I hate lamb. Way too fatty for me. Plus my mother is very old-fashioned and strongly believes that meat should cover most of the plate so I had to ask her to remove most of it from my plate and then, because I really hate lamb, I palmed the rest off onto other people when she wasn't looking, so's not to hurt her feelings . . . but at least I had some pudding :smile:

    Note to self: decline further Easter lunch invitations from my mother.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    fishshark wrote: »
    @Francl27 when i was a kid and they told me it says in the bible that animals dont have souls i was like... this religion thing isnt for me haha... but really i was pretty bummed. You are right from what i remember they aint got no souls.. try and tell my dogs that though. ha.

    Here's a pretty cool poem you might like.

    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171425

    The Heaven of Animals by James Dickey (best known as the author of the novel Deliverance, later made into a movie, of course).

    really awesome!
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