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Rose Alba Karuna · 04-12-2009, 12:05 PM

Although we don't celebrate Easter in a religious manner, I do like to welcome the beginning of Spring with a celebration and Easter seems the best day to do that.

Tonight I have friends coming over and I'm making a traditional ham with cloves and pineapple, rice with noodles (a family recipe), asparagus, brussels sprouts, home made bread and a pineapple upside down cake (that just looks awesome).

Before dinner we will by dying eggs and hubby will judge the best egg.

Cocoanut Koala · 04-12-2009, 12:10 PM

Sounds wonderful! Especially the egg dyeing part.

I'm not making Easter dinner, having just got back in town yesterday, and feel a tad guilty and unglued about it. I do have an Easter gift for all three kids (that includes the son-in-law) though, which is their favorite thing these days - money!

My husband got the idea of hiding the money in those empty plastic eggs, one color for each ($25 each total) and they have to find them. We told them there was a surprise, and that it would be more fun if they could all three do it together - so it just depends on if and when they get their act together for that.

Plus we have friends in town cause their new grandbaby was just born, on Thursday, I think, and is in ICU (he should be all right, but he will be there a few days), so we have been kind of on hold about that. They should be coming by in a couple hours.

coco

**Sarah Nerd** · 04-12-2009, 12:13 PM

Spaghetti!

Lily Joliat · 04-12-2009, 12:15 PM

I have a roast beef, and I'll roast some carrots,zucchini, sweet potatoes, onions and whatever I have. I just use olive oil, rosemary, and garlic. And put everything over a bed of baby spinach. Don't know what I'll do for dessert. We still have cans of pumpkin, so maybe some pumpkin, orange cookie.

Your menu sounds really yummy. Sounds like we're doing fall still though haha. But who cares.

Aimee Weber · 04-12-2009, 12:32 PM

Burritos

Lily Joliat · 04-12-2009, 12:37 PM

is anyone having rabbit? hahahah

Rose Alba Karuna · 04-12-2009, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cocoanut Koala

Sounds wonderful! Especially the egg dyeing part.

I'm not making Easter dinner, having just got back in town yesterday, and feel a tad guilty and unglued about it. I do have an Easter gift for all three kids (that includes the son-in-law) though, which is their favorite thing these days - money!

My husband got the idea of hiding the money in those empty plastic eggs, one color for each ($25 each total) and they have to find them. We told them there was a surprise, and that it would be more fun if they could all three do it together - so it just depends on if and when they get their act together for that.

Plus we have friends in town cause their new grandbaby was just born, on Thursday, I think, and is in ICU (he should be all right, but he will be there a few days), so we have been kind of on hold about that. They should be coming by in a couple hours.

coco

I think you have given me my idea for next year Coco! I love the idea of hiding cool trinkets in those little eggs and then hiding them around the yard for my friends to find.

Phoenix Psaltery · 04-12-2009, 12:39 PM

Turkey.

P2

Rose Alba Karuna · 04-12-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Phoenix Psaltery

Turkey.

P2

We need a "Yum" icon. We have turkey on occasion for Easter and have even had pheasant in the past when my Dad was still hunting.

Joy Honey · 04-12-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by lily joliat

is anyone having rabbit? hahahah

Nope, but we're having leg of lamb!

mmmmmmmmm

Vengence Opus · 04-12-2009, 01:45 PM

We are having...

A ham that has been cooking since 8 am (will go all day) @ about 200 degrees, covered in brown sugar, honey, pineapple and cherries.

Fresh potato salad that got made about 30 minutes ago.

Deviled eggs.

Zucchini, pan seared in olive oil, fresh garlic and sea salt.

Homemade spinach dip with Seattle sourdough.

Green bean casserole.

Fresh corn on the cob.

For dessert...three layer Hawaiian cake (white cake, pudding layer with fresh pineapple, fresh whipped cream with toasted coconut), and scratch-made old fashioned vanilla pudding.

I am saving up my appetite all day for this, after which I will fall into a deep coma for three days.

Hex Blackthorne · 04-12-2009, 02:01 PM

HEX IS MAKING SWEET AND SOUR BEEF BRISKET STEW EXCEPT HE USED STEW BEEF NOT BRISKET BECAUSE WORKING WITH BRISKET IS TOO CLOSE TO BEING A BUTCHER FOR HEX. HE IS GOING TO SERVE THE STEW OVER A BED OF A MIX OF BROWN AND WILD RICE, AND SERVE IT WITH A BLACKBERRY MEAD

Cocoanut Koala · 04-12-2009, 03:24 PM

SOUNDS LIKE HEX WILL BE HAVING A GREAT MEAL!

Hmmm, hard to pick from these. I think we will be at Vengeance's for dinner tonight.

coco

Surreal · 04-12-2009, 03:38 PM

Even though I live alone, I still like to cook a holiday meal (leftovers rule), but skipping this year in favor of kicking back and relaxing.

Veng.. that knock on your door is me. I brought pie.

foehn Breed · 04-12-2009, 04:03 PM

I ate a doughnut from Krispy Kreme, which I never do, but gods they are good and had a way too strong espresso! *wheee* Now I'm all buzzed out. Happie Easter to me! ...Later if RL has time, we will make a garlic pork loin w/ pasta and sauteed apples. Then we go back to eating cereal, salads and sandwiches all week, 'coz we don't live together, but hopefully will be in Feb again, and no we didn't meet on SL, I corrupted him and brought him into SL.

Vengence Opus · 04-12-2009, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Surreal Farber

Veng.. that knock on your door is me. I brought pie.

There's always room for pie!

Y'all are more than welcome! Dinner is in an hour and a half. (Just heading off to start prepping the little stuff.)

Lewis Luminos · 04-12-2009, 06:56 PM

We don't do anything special for Easter here but we did have a good traditional Sunday meal which we don't always bother with. This was roast beef, roasted potatoes, roasted veg (carrots, parsnips and leeks, garnished with rosemary), horseradish mash (that's mashed potato flavoured with horseradish) and Yorkshire pudding. The beef joint was huge and there's still more than half of it left over so I guess we're having beef tomorrow too :-D

Porsupah Ree · 04-12-2009, 07:20 PM

Tiger prawns in a sauce with the creaminess of korma, but the spicy edge and tomato influence of jalfrezi, rice, a simple daal, and tandoori style chicken.

All home made. ^_^

Accompanied by a rather nice Californian shiraz.

ElphieBroome · 04-12-2009, 08:28 PM

We had some very yummy marinated sweet and sour pork tenderloin with scalloped apples, some potatoey side dish, candied carrots and broccoli ....

Was very nom

Oh....and the rest of the day pretty much consisted of chocolate, lol.

Sansarya · 04-12-2009, 08:47 PM

Herb-crusted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries with mandarin oranges, stuffing, homemade bread, corn and fruit salad. Strawberry shortcake for dessert.

FlipperPA Peregrine · 04-12-2009, 08:52 PM

I had tortellini and cheesy poofs!

Dancien Graves · 04-12-2009, 08:55 PM

I made this: Bacon-Wrapped Beef Tenderloin with Herb Stuffing Recipe at Epicurious.com for the main course.

FlipperPA Peregrine · 04-12-2009, 09:01 PM

You know what's weird? I'm not religious, but my parents are out of town on sabbatical at Easter for the first time. They've been gone for my birthday most years, and Christmas once. But I found myself missing the event of the family gathering a little bit today, because I relate it to the beginning of spring... and this year, I'm really looking forward to spring, hoping our house sells! It was a good day though, we got to hang with Surreal for a bit.

Phoenix Psaltery · 04-12-2009, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sansarya

Herb-crusted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries with mandarin oranges, stuffing, homemade bread, corn and fruit salad. Strawberry shortcake for dessert.

I apparently wasn't enthusiastic enough in my earlier post to suit Sans, so here is v.2.0:

We had a wonderful, moist, 18 pound turkey, homemade mashed potatoes (which I dutifully skipped), gravy, an incredible cranberry sauce with mandarin oranges, a very delicious stuffing, my mother-in-law's homemade bread, kernel corn and a marshmallow fruit salad. We are now watching Harry Potter #1 whilst waiting on strawberry shortcake for dessert.

And it was SOOOO GOOD!

P2

Nimue Jewell · 04-12-2009, 09:26 PM

Made the rounds for family gatherings today.

Lunch for my Dad's side hosted by my parents:
Ham
Beef and Noodles served over mashed potatoes
Homemade potato salad
Home grown corn (frozen in the summer)
"" green beans
fresh fruit, fresh veggies, assorted rolls
Deserts: Cherry crumb pie, cheese cake, assorted other pies.

Dinner at my grandma's for my mom's side
Pulled pork BBQ sandwiches
Mac and cheese
more corn
assorted salads and veggies
Desserts: White and Chocolate cake (we had a birthday too), Carrot Cake, Snickerdoodles, strawberries and vanilla ice cream.

And I didn't have to cook a thing.

Also, total easter eggs found by my kids = 167

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Cocoanut Koala Coco's Cottages There is no sanctuary. You may think there is, but there isn't. Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 8,406 SLShopper Ads: 9 Business: Coco's Cottages Awards: 1	Sounds wonderful! Especially the egg dyeing part. I'm not making Easter dinner, having just got back in town yesterday, and feel a tad guilty and unglued about it. I do have an Easter gift for all three kids (that includes the son-in-law) though, which is their favorite thing these days - money! My husband got the idea of hiding the money in those empty plastic eggs, one color for each ($25 each total) and they have to find them. We told them there was a surprise, and that it would be more fun if they could all three do it together - so it just depends on if and when they get their act together for that. Plus we have friends in town cause their new grandbaby was just born, on Thursday, I think, and is in ICU (he should be all right, but he will be there a few days), so we have been kind of on hold about that. They should be coming by in a couple hours. coco __________________ ~ Coco's Cottages ~ Rosieri 87,165,88 Freebie of the Month: Ravenwood Blue Cottage

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Vengence Opus Prefers Lux or Palmolive Life Buoy, on the other hand... Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: along the long, rainy river Posts: 3,244 My Mood: Awards: 1	We are having... A ham that has been cooking since 8 am (will go all day) @ about 200 degrees, covered in brown sugar, honey, pineapple and cherries. Fresh potato salad that got made about 30 minutes ago. Deviled eggs. Zucchini, pan seared in olive oil, fresh garlic and sea salt. Homemade spinach dip with Seattle sourdough. Green bean casserole. Fresh corn on the cob. For dessert...three layer Hawaiian cake (white cake, pudding layer with fresh pineapple, fresh whipped cream with toasted coconut), and scratch-made old fashioned vanilla pudding. I am saving up my appetite all day for this, after which I will fall into a deep coma for three days. __________________ “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.” ~ Charles Bukowski

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Lily Joliat Like Totally Peace All Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Newcastle, UK Posts: 4,547 My Mood: SL Join Date: 7/22/06 Blog Entries: 9	I have a roast beef, and I'll roast some carrots,zucchini, sweet potatoes, onions and whatever I have. I just use olive oil, rosemary, and garlic. And put everything over a bed of baby spinach. Don't know what I'll do for dessert. We still have cans of pumpkin, so maybe some pumpkin, orange cookie. Your menu sounds really yummy. Sounds like we're doing fall still though haha. But who cares.

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Cocoanut Koala Coco's Cottages There is no sanctuary. You may think there is, but there isn't. Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 8,406 SLShopper Ads: 9 Business: Coco's Cottages Awards: 1	SOUNDS LIKE HEX WILL BE HAVING A GREAT MEAL! Hmmm, hard to pick from these. I think we will be at Vengeance's for dinner tonight. coco __________________ ~ Coco's Cottages ~ Rosieri 87,165,88 Freebie of the Month: Ravenwood Blue Cottage

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Surreal Mental Health Hazard Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 9,381 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 6 Blog Entries: 49	Even though I live alone, I still like to cook a holiday meal (leftovers rule), but skipping this year in favor of kicking back and relaxing. Veng.. that knock on your door is me. I brought pie.

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foehn Breed All The Three w00f Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Washington, Grays Harbor Posts: 635 My Mood: SL Join Date: Jan 16 2006 Business: None but my own.	I ate a doughnut from Krispy Kreme, which I never do, but gods they are good and had a way too strong espresso! wheee Now I'm all buzzed out. Happie Easter to me! ...Later if RL has time, we will make a garlic pork loin w/ pasta and sauteed apples. Then we go back to eating cereal, salads and sandwiches all week, 'coz we don't live together, but hopefully will be in Feb again, and no we didn't meet on SL, I corrupted him and brought him into SL. __________________ The futures holidays are for me

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Lewis Luminos The Gingerbeard Man Ginger Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 3,597 My Mood: SL Join Date: 08/11/2008 Blog Entries: 16	We don't do anything special for Easter here but we did have a good traditional Sunday meal which we don't always bother with. This was roast beef, roasted potatoes, roasted veg (carrots, parsnips and leeks, garnished with rosemary), horseradish mash (that's mashed potato flavoured with horseradish) and Yorkshire pudding. The beef joint was huge and there's still more than half of it left over so I guess we're having beef tomorrow too :-D __________________ -- Just Add Ginger -- -- Plurk -- -- last.fm -- -- flickr --

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Porsupah Ree bunneh Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Maybe the Bay, maybe the UK, maybe somewhere else.. Posts: 236 My Mood: SL Join Date: February 2006	Tiger prawns in a sauce with the creaminess of korma, but the spicy edge and tomato influence of jalfrezi, rice, a simple daal, and tandoori style chicken. All home made. ^_^ Accompanied by a rather nice Californian shiraz. __________________ "Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars - all the beauties of creation." -- Victor Hugo

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Sansarya Koo Koo Kachoo! Feh Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rosebud Posts: 1,567 My Mood: SL Join Date: April 2005 Blog Entries: 2	Herb-crusted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries with mandarin oranges, stuffing, homemade bread, corn and fruit salad. Strawberry shortcake for dessert.

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FlipperPA Peregrine Evil Incarnate! Recursion is beautiful! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 6,446 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 1 SL Join Date: 2003-11-14 Business: Peregrine Salon	I had tortellini and cheesy poofs! __________________ Peregrine Salon: Flip & Jenn's thang.

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Dancien Graves What? Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 7,299 My Mood: SL Join Date: 12/2006 Awards: 1	I made this: Bacon-Wrapped Beef Tenderloin with Herb Stuffing Recipe at Epicurious.com for the main course. __________________

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FlipperPA Peregrine Evil Incarnate! Recursion is beautiful! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 6,446 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 1 SL Join Date: 2003-11-14 Business: Peregrine Salon	You know what's weird? I'm not religious, but my parents are out of town on sabbatical at Easter for the first time. They've been gone for my birthday most years, and Christmas once. But I found myself missing the event of the family gathering a little bit today, because I relate it to the beginning of spring... and this year, I'm really looking forward to spring, hoping our house sells! It was a good day though, we got to hang with Surreal for a bit. __________________ Peregrine Salon: Flip & Jenn's thang.

04-12-2009, 09:26 PM	#25 (permalink)
Nimue Jewell Typical Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Midwest U.S. Posts: 571 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 7 SL Join Date: 3/20/2007 Business: Prim Pincher XBOX Leaderboard: 31^st	Made the rounds for family gatherings today. Lunch for my Dad's side hosted by my parents: Ham Beef and Noodles served over mashed potatoes Homemade potato salad Home grown corn (frozen in the summer) "" green beans fresh fruit, fresh veggies, assorted rolls Deserts: Cherry crumb pie, cheese cake, assorted other pies. Dinner at my grandma's for my mom's side Pulled pork BBQ sandwiches Mac and cheese more corn assorted salads and veggies Desserts: White and Chocolate cake (we had a birthday too), Carrot Cake, Snickerdoodles, strawberries and vanilla ice cream. And I didn't have to cook a thing. Also, total easter eggs found by my kids = 167 __________________ Prim Pincher Furniture Product Blog My Flickr My Snapzilla

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