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Originally Posted by Aviendah

Incredible...you've planned my menu!!
Ham
Turkey (whole-smoked in the green "Egg")
Mashed potatoes (with sour cream, cream cheese and onion powder)
Gravy
Rolls
Green bean casserole
Deviled Eggs
Relish tray
Raspberry pretzel salad (raspberries and jello layered over a cream cheese cool whip mixture on a pretzel crust)
Dessert (A strawberry, blueberry and angel food cake parfait type thing my MIL makes)

Are you sure you aren't from the Midwest???

The mashed potatoes I found for a Christmas recipe. They were just fabulous!! My whole family raved over them. Here's the recipe...I of course layered on the butter. I also whipped up the potatoes and just put them in a crock pot. Had way too many to fit into a baking dish because I doubled the recipe.


Ingredients

* 9 potatoes, peeled and cubed
* 6 ounces cream cheese
* 1 cup sour cream
* 2 teaspoons onion powder
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 2 tablespoons butter

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Drop in potatoes, and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes.
2. Transfer potatoes to a large bowl, and mash until smooth. Mix in the cream cheese, sour cream, onion powder, salt, pepper and butter. Cover, and refrigerate 8 hours, or overnight.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a medium baking dish.
4. Spread potato mixture into the prepared baking dish, and bake in the preheated oven about 30 minutes.

LOL! How could you tell? Yes, I am. Born in CO, raised in NE & IA.

Loved the recipes! Thanks so much for sharing. I really enjoyed seeing what everyone else was eating.

We did do a Easter egg hunt for the two kids but I think the most fun was had by my 33 yr old son who hid them! LOL! He spent almost a half hour hiding them in "just the right place". I tried to get everyone to play cards but they weren't going for it. It was a really nice day (in early afternoon) so they all wanted to sit outside gabbing.

With my Mom, brother and kids living here - I wanted to keep the tradition going. I know that when/if the kids aren't here - it would probably be alot easier to do something a little less traditional but... after working around so many people with different nationalities/cultures I realized that keeping our traditions alive is important. I enjoyed sharing theirs but I really feel that we need to hold on to our own before it gets totally lost.

I hope everyone had a nice Easter day!