primitives discuss Easter dinner

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The cooking and baking forum on Skins's island is, ominously, beginning to acquire cobwebs, at least in the corners.

And so as to goose traffic into that forum, this:

Monique1  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-18-11 12:10 PM
Original message
 
What is your Easter menu?

I am not finished planning, so far a lamb goulash, cucumber. tomato onion salad with a yougurt dressing, mas potatoes, roasted carrots and asparagus, fruit tray, lettuce salad, bread (brochetta) and I don't know what else.

Denninmi  (744 posts)      Mon Apr-18-11 12:12 PM
THE WOLVERINE PRIMITIVE
Response to Original message

1. I always do the same thing.

A baked ham with a glaze, potato salad, au gratin potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, baked beans with bacon, asparagus with butter, sweet potato rolls from the Betty Crocker Breads cookbook, plenty of deviled eggs (from the dyed ones), and a baked cheesecake with strawberries on top for the dessert.

Please notice the use of "au gratin" is acceptable.

But "bleu" cheese dressing still looks stupid.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-18-11 12:32 PM
THE PIE-AND-JAM FARMERETTE PRIMITIVE IN WISCONSIN
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2. if I were making an ideal Easter dinner (which I'm not)
 
I think I might follow my great great grandmother's ideas for her Memorial Day tradition in Connecticut.

A whole baked salmon with egg sauce

New peas and new potatoes

Tomato aspic

Asparagus

Hot dinner rolls

Relish tray

Lots of pies -- she was famous for her pies.

Oh I think there must have been baked beans despite that being weird with salmon. Those people ALWAYS had New England baked beans.

Coyote_Bandit  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 01:33 PM
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3. Ummmm......

chocolate bunny.....

I live alone, have family in another state, have had my fill of organized religion, and find little reason to celebrate Easter.

But the menus I see posted sound very, very good.

Enjoy!

Phentex  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-18-11 02:52 PM
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4. I just found out we would be home for Easter!...

My mother-in-law has done the Easter meal for ages. Well, with Easter being late and Mother's Day around the corner, she decided she only wanted to host MD. We're on our own for Easter which I don't mind but I have absolutely nothing ready for an Easter feast. It won't be cold turkey and ham though - YAY!

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-18-11 03:32 PM
THE PIE-AND-JAM FARMERETTE PRIMITIVE IN WISCONSIN
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5. okay if I were making my own menu and not my great-grandmother's..

..I might consider the following. (Depending on how many people were coming and how many might be vegetarian.)

Sliced roasted ham.

Braised leg of lamb with lavender sea salt and rosemary.

Emeril's spinach and artichoke bread pudding. Yahoo!

Polenta with three citrus butter and toasted pine nuts.

Baby greens salad with radish vinaigrette.

Sweet potato buttermilk biscuits and hot dinner rolls.

Rhubarb pie.

Martha Stewart's Lemon Mousse (ahhhhhh)

Something like that. Not this year, though.

When franksolich was a little lad, the family tradition was that a child got to select the menu for his birthday and one major holiday.

And so every March 6 and May 30, the family sat down to turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and peas, wheat buns with real butter, and pumpkin pie.

As the older brothers and sisters left home, their holidays were given to we younger ones.

And so every July 4, the family again sat down to turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and peas, wheat buns with real butter, and pumpkin pie.

By the time it was just down to my parents, my younger brother, and myself, the family every November 11 and January 1 sat down yet again to turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and peas, wheat buns with real butter, and pumpkin pie.

franksolich already knows what he's having for Easter cuisine.

[Skul]

I strongly expect a run of bouncies to show up after Easter.
After all, why attend a family get-together if you can't sway those evil baggers
into converting to liberal thought.
I can hear it now.
"So...I went to my parents house for dinner, and one of the cousins was spouting evil conservative talking points.
I shut that bagger down, and HARD, with my cold socialist logic.
The others clapped and cheered."
We ought to see the first bouncy appear right about ten that evening.

[Evil_Conservative]

It's just us three, but our Easter dinner is as follows:

Roast Chicken w/ rosemary
Mashed potatoes
Simple chicken gravy
Honey glazed pea pods and carrots

[franksolich]

I strongly expect a run of bouncies to show up after Easter.

After all, why attend a family get-together if you can't sway those evil baggers into converting to liberal thought.

I can hear it now.

"So...I went to my parents house for dinner, and one of the cousins was spouting evil conservative talking points.
I shut that bagger down, and HARD, with my cold socialist logic.

The others clapped and cheered."

We ought to see the first bouncy appear right about ten that evening.

I'm anticipating mid-afternoon on Sunday, when the balls will start bouncing.

[GOBUCKS]

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-18-11 03:32 PM
THE PIE-AND-JAM FARMERETTE PRIMITIVE IN WISCONSIN
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5. okay if I were making my own menu and not my great-grandmother's..

..I might consider the following. (Depending on how many people were coming and how many might be vegetarian.)

Braised leg of lamb with lavender sea salt and rosemary.

Polenta with three citrus butter and toasted pine nuts.

Baby greens salad with radish vinaigrette.

Sweet potato buttermilk biscuits and hot dinner rolls.

Rhubarb pie.

DUmmy grasswire, squatting in a charity apartment over a former friend's garage, is a contender in any pretension contest among the DUmp crones.
"lavender sea salt"? = salt
"polenta" = mush
"radish vinaigrette"? = has never been made in a bonus room
"sweet potato buttermilk biscuits"? = someone has been paging through Gourmet magazine, not baking in a bonus room
"rhubarb pie"? = a few misguided people will eat this, but it's a recipe for disaster at the old pie shop

I'm surprised that Mrs. Packer hasn't checked in to remind everyone that she and Wild Bill don't "do" Easter.

[Ballygrl]

We're having ham, baked potatoes, salad, and not sure what vegetable we're having, and lemon meringue pie for dessert.

[jtyangel]

DUmmy grasswire, squatting in a charity apartment over a former friend's garage, is a contender in any pretension contest among the DUmp crones.
"lavender sea salt"? = salt
"polenta" = mush
"radish vinaigrette"? = has never been made in a bonus room
"sweet potato buttermilk biscuits"? = someone has been paging through Gourmet magazine, not baking in a bonus room
"rhubarb pie"? = a few misguided people will eat this, but it's a recipe for disaster at the old pie shop

I'm surprised that Mrs. Packer hasn't checked in to remind everyone that she and Wild Bill don't "do" Easter.

I know exactly what you are getting at Gobucks!  They always sound like a couple of guys comparing packages when they talk about the dinners they prepare...and nobody can come to this snobfest with your standard Easter dinner--no, it's got to have lavender salt, baby seal vomit reconstituted into patties, and asparagus hand-picked by 5 year old monks. They are such pretentious retards.

[franksolich]

They are such pretentious retards.

Uh-huh.

That's the cooking and baking primitives described to a t.

[Vagabond]

Hmmmmmm....Around my house it was always hosnfeffer.  Which is funny as we aren't even a little bit german.
 


edited to fix spelling

[GOBUCKS]

We had a recipe here the other day that called for "pancetta" and "creme fraiche". I almost threw it away just for that, but I'm glad I didn't.
It came out great with "bacon" and "sour cream".

[VivisMom]

I hope to have spawned by then, so our Easter dinner is courtesy of The Honeybaked Ham Company. It's a family tradition.

[vesta111]

Kalbasa, boiled eggs, steamed cabbage, M.Potatoes, steamed carrots, turnips and onions.----As per request of Hubby from his childhood with one Polish grandmother.

[Boudicca]

I strongly expect a run of bouncies to show up after Easter.
After all, why attend a family get-together if you can't sway those evil baggers
into converting to liberal thought.
I can hear it now.
"So...I went to my parents house for dinner, and one of the cousins was spouting evil conservative talking points.
I shut that bagger down, and HARD, with my cold socialist logic.
The others clapped and cheered."
We ought to see the first bouncy appear right about ten that evening.

Hmm, sounds like a great drinking game.  Every time some numbskull spouts a bouncy, we chug.

Maybe, otoh, not so great an idea to get hammered at Easter?

Crap, speaking of hammered, I'm so sorry, Skul, I went to give you a hi5 and ended up giving you a bitchslap.     I promise to make it right with TWO HI5's tonight and tomorrow, depending on how long until I pass out.  Yes, it's been quite an evening.
Again, my total bad.  Please don't hate me.

[BlueStateSaint]

I'm anticipating mid-afternoon on Sunday, when the balls will start bouncing.

I'm trying to nail the time down, because . . . it's something to do now.  5PM Eastern?

(Why not do this?)

[LC EFA]

I'm thinking cheap domestic beer , followed by a bleu bloody steak, chips and salad. Then bourbon.

[franksolich]

I'm trying to nail the time down, because . . . it's something to do now.  5PM Eastern?

(Why not do this?)

That's about an hour later than I anticipate the first bouncing ball, but 5:00 p.m. eastern time seems close enough.

That's 4:00 p.m. central time, 3:00 p.m. mountain time.

[Karin]

They are such pretentious retards.

No kidding.  Couple of comments.

Grasswire.  Tomato, or anything, aspic is disgusting.  It used to be stylish in the 50's to mold all kinds of crap into a quivering mass of Knox gelatin, but the nation wisely got over that. 
Lavender sea salt?  Really?      You're supposed to put that into your bathwater. 
Radish vinaigrette?  Sounds bitter, sour, and inedible. 
You bother to type out "hot dinner rolls."  Why? 
The pies, the pies.  We're sick of your pies.  You even admitted the lemon meringue was a fail. 

Denninmi.  That's a lot of potatoes.  Where is the raw potato relish tray?  Potato ice cream?  Have some vodka shots!

Monique.  I'm so impressed that you're not just having bread, but having (brochetta). 

[DLR Pyro]

I gotta work that night so me and the rest of the pyro crew are going to BBQ a couple of Tri-tips and have the Costco pre-made mashed potatoes with it.  Ding Dongs, twinkies and Zingers for dessert.

[Skul]

Crap, speaking of hammered, I'm so sorry, Skul, I went to give you a hi5 and ended up giving you a bitchslap.   :

  No worry.
Liked your idea about having a shot for every bouncie that comes along.

Still think it will be later before they show up.
Primatives must mooch as much food as possible before getting thrown out of the house.
Sad part, I'll be in Australia that night, and miss the fun.

[Karin]

It was your one and only bitchslap, too!  Too funny.  Most people get one for good measure from Dutch when they first sign up.  Kind of like being smacked on the butt when you're born. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Dutch likes butts.








 

[dutch508]

Dutch likes butts.

and boobiez.

 
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[DumbAss Tanker]

And what's not to like, after all?

 

[Skul]

Well, Dutch, I'm waiting.    

[dutch508]

Well, Dutch, I'm waiting.    

Bitchslapped for being.

Just for being.