My parents are coming over for Easter dinner and I need a menu!
Traditional in my family is ham, fruit salad, mashed potatoes, and devilled eggs. However, I'm not a big fan of ham and I like to mix things up - so I need menu ideas!
I'm thinking some kind of roast chicken (mother's suggestion and I did that last year and it was good)
or -being really different and doing Roast Lamb Leg (this recipe: Lamb with Greens and Feta ) However, I have never cooked lamb before and I don't even know if a local grocer carries it!
Any other main dish suggestions?
Then I'll do some green vegetable, some potato side, and a fruit side - but, again, I'm uninspired.
The one thing I DO know? So making Grandmama's Chocolate Layer Cake for dessert.
Brisket!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I won't be much help... we're having a taco bar this year, lol! (usually we do the traditional ham, rolls and butter, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and some kind of fruit pie for dessert)
ReplyDeleteGrocer, or supermarket? I think leg of lamb is pretty commonly available.
ReplyDeleteI slow cooked beef roast. My Mom has a recipe where you cook the roast on the oven rack- Yum!
ReplyDeleteI was trying to find a link to the Easter recipes in my magazine, but they don't have it online. :P
ReplyDeleteInstead, I found this, which is in some ways better (more variety). A lot of them look delicious! Hopefully it'll give you inspiration.
I also scanned in one of the recipes from the mag (for me, and then I saw your post and thought I'd share it). A fancy version of deviled eggs. (Let me know if the image is hard to read and I'll send you a bigger version.)
I can't remember if I've linked you to this site before, so just in case:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.101cookbooks.com/
She does mostly vegetarian recipes, but even a hard core meat lover like me finds her recipes alluring! She recently posted a recipe for "Basic Chocolate Cake" that doesn't use sugar or white flour that looks and sounds heavenly. Perhaps that'd be a chocolate cake to try sometime?