Anybody else cooking a BIG EASTER DINNER? What are YOU making?
 

I have my turkey in the oven now, dinner is planned for 4pm, and I am unsure what else I want to make. In particular I would love to have some kind of cool salad or veggie dish. Any suggestions?

Post your menu here! I'll start!

Herb Roasted Turkey
Mashed potatoes (with non fat milk and smart balance)
Fat Free Turkey Gravy
Cornbread Dressing with dried cranberries
Some kind of salad thingy :p
Some kind of veggie thingy :p
Cranberry sauce
Apple Sauce
Cottage cheese
pickles & olives
Low fat biscuits (not hockey pucks, right Deb? ;) )
Dessert: Fat free yellow cake squares with chocolate pudding, strawberries, and fat free cool whip layered mmmmmmmmm I can't wait!

OK, I am so hungry now, gotta go grab a bite to eat!! Happy Easter and Happy Cooking, everyone!!
HUGS! :hug:

We are going to my neices house for an Easter Brunch. I'm bringing salad and mini blueberry muffins. My sister is making ziti, another sister is making a zucchinni casserole, neices SIL is making quiche. There is a lot more food, but I don't know what everyone is bringing. Dang it Glad, now I'm hungry too! Have a Happy Easter!

Everyone is coming here!!!! :) :) :)
Well, I'm not cooking, but we are having a big dinner.
I went to Honey Baked Ham, and they did all the cooking.
The bakery made the cake, and RobinsonsMay sold the Govida.
So I'm all set! :D :D :D :D

Happy Easter All!!!! :2hearts2:

Here's what we're having. We don't cook on Easter.. Well, we do, but everyone brings something..

Honey Baked Ham
Turkey Breast
Homemade Mac & Cheese
Potatoe Salad
Green Beans
Fruit Salad
Beer Bread
Pickles & Olives
Easter Cake :)

Beer Bread and Easter Cake!!
 

If you can get the folks who make Beer Bread and Easter Cake to share their recipes, Lynn, that would be AWESOME!! :p

Ham
Turkey
Polish Sausage
Italian Sausage
Green beans
sweet potatoes
homemade potato salad
roasted tomatoes
sweet june peas
corn
fresh cranberries
fresh salad
biscuits
hard boiled decorated eggs


jello
choc frosted cake
carrot cake
cupcakes
10 mil kinds of candy


An Easter egg hunt and a White Sox game :D

Glad,

Unfortunately, the beer bread is a box from Tastefully Simple that you just add a can of beer to.. LOL DOn't really have a recipe.. It's awesome though. You should try and find a tastefully simple consultant in your area. The stuff is great! Here's the cake that we're doing.. I just got it off a Betty Crocker website!

INGREDIENTS:
1 (18 ounce) package Betty Crocker® Carrot Cake Mix
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 (12 ounce) can Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white ready-to-spread frosting
1 cup flaked coconut
construction paper
jelly beans or small gumdrops
1 cup flaked coconut
green food color

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 . Grease (or lightly spray with cooking spray) bottoms only of two 8-inch or 9-inch round pans. Beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour into pans.
Bake 8-inch pans 25 to 30 minutes, 9-inch pans 22 to 27 minutes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Reserve one layer for another use or to make a second bunny. Cut 1 layer in half as shown in diagram . Put halves together with frosting to form body. Place cake upright on cut edge on tray.
Cut out a notch about one-third of the way up one end of body to form head (small end) as shown in diagram. Attach half of cutout piece for tail with toothpicks. Frost with remaining frosting, rounding body on sides. Sprinkle with 1 cup coconut. Cut ears from construction paper; press into top. Use jelly beans for eyes and nose.
Shake 1 cup coconut and 3 drops food color in tightly covered jar until evenly tinted. Surround bunny with tinted coconut. Add additional jelly beans if desired. Store loosely covered.

Kristy, can I come to your house??
 

SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT DAY!! Enjoy!!! :p

Lynn, thanks so MUCH!!
 

That is completely adorable!! I will most likely make that one next year, and I KNOW the kids will love it!!

Thanks for sharing, sweetie!! :p

Lynn - that beer bread is so awesome! I used to make it all the time! That bunny cake is toooooo cute. I wish I could throw it together in time for our party!

Glad - 2PM! Don't be late ;)

Can I come to someones house? None of my kids are coming, only one of my kids lives close and they are going to her in-laws. So I'm not going to make a big dinner.

I was going to work in the garden, but it rained yesterday so it is too wet. I might go and get some Scotts and fertilize and try to get rid of some dandelions.

It's Ollie's bath day and toenail trim, and I might try to make some hair bows.

Beer Bread

3 Cups Self-Rising Flour
3 T sugar
1 Can Beer
2 T melted butter

Bake 350 for 45 minutes.

The flavor of the bread is determined by the beer you use. You don't want to use light beer. I love this bread with homemade soup in the winter time and I use a dark ale so it has a strong flavor of the hops. The top is a little lumpy looking but reminds me of European bread - which I like...

P.S. I don't know if you can substitute the butter - I somewhat doubt it but you are the expert on that..

Let me know what you think after you have tried it.

Awesome!!
 

Thanks, Cindy, and yes, I substitute Smart Balance for all butter/margerine ingredients and it works great! I don't have any self-rising flour, so this will have to wait. Also, it's been so long since I have had any beer in the house it will be wierd to buy some! I would probably have to get some from my daughter, lol!! It would be too tempting to have it in the fridge! lolol :p

Thanks so much for the recipe, sweetie!

LOL, I am having so much fun cooking with YT today!
 

I am making a dish, then going on YT for 20 minutes, and then making a dish, and then going on YT for a half hour, making another dish, and well, you get my drift!

Thanks for making cooking FUN! Now if only I don't FORGET to MAKE something... hmmmmmm. DRESSING !!!!! OH OH!!! :eek:

You are sooo cracking me up!!!!!!!!! Thats what I would be doing too if I had to cook!!! LOLOL!

But we are going out to eat at my husbands family Italian resteraunt!!!!! LOL!!!!
Happy Easter!!! Have fun cooking!! LOL!!! And I will have fun being waited on!!!! Hahahh!

You are welcome :)

Have had ours, we had a traditional roast beef dinner yum yum

Jealous!!
 

I am sooooo jealous!!! :p

I am cooking too!!! One of are family favorites is a veggie dish

I use 2 large bags of the California blend veggies, (Cauliflower, broccoli, carrots)
1 large can cream of mushroom soup
french fried onions, I use the large can, mix half to 3/4 in the mix and save the rest for the top
Cheese, shredded cheddar, I used a mixed blend the comes pre-shredded from the store...lazy...lol

Mix all the above ingredients together and put in a casserole dish or I use large 9-11 dish, sprinkle a bit more cheese on top, and then cook 350 till bubbly
, I then add the last of the french fried onions to the top and cook another 10 minutes to crisp them up.

My whole family lo9ves it, and I never have to force my kids to eat there veggies, and it is a different take from the traditional green bean casserole.

I'm just cooking for myself so if anyone wants to come over you are all invited! :)

We just got everything cleaned up!!!

I made:
roast, potatoes, carrots, onions (cooked together in the oven)
gravy
mashed potatoes ( my daughter doesn't like the roast potatos) :rolleyes:
lime jello salad
deviled eggs

My mom made:
homemade macaroni & cheese
apple, banana, & pecan salad

And I made banana pudding for dessert


Mmmmmm good - but of course, we all ate too much!!! :D

Fabulous!!
 

Thanks, everyone, for the recipes and the menues!! These are awesome!

I just got the potatoes on, the biscuit dough is resting in the fridge, and I just made the pudding for the dessert. CNN's "Two Marys" is playing on the kitchen TV... it's about the 5th time I have seen parts of it, lol! It's the kind of program you let run and catch the facts as you can. Pretty appropriate for Easter listening!

Man, I am getting so HUNGRY!! And Jeanie AND Kimberly, come on OVER girls! :p EVERYONE is welcome, I think I am making enough to feed an army!!

Just finished cleaning up!

I cooked

Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans
Mac & Cheese
Green Bean Casserole (husband loves it and only gets it at holidays, and kids won't eat any veggies but Green Beans...so we do both :rolleyes: )
Tossed Salad
Cheese Garlic Biscuits (MIL brought these)

Lemon Meringue Pie (MIL)
Chocolate Cheesecake

Now I need a nap!! :dogzzz:

Hubby had to work all day and my parents had to leave early, so it will be just the three of us for dinner tonight. I'm heading to Glad's house, although she doesn't know it yet!!! LOL! No really, I'm grilling out steaks, baked potatoes, salad and something for dessert...whatever Morgan chooses. Got the steaks marinating now. The weather is beautiful, so anything to stay outside.

We went out for dinner, i had way too much! :eek: it was a hot/cold buffet... i loved loved loved the deserts :eek: i promised myself NOT to eat tomorrow lol

Had an AWESOME dinner!
 

We had a wonderful time with the kids! Dinner turned out really good, and we pigged out! Yum Yum!!

Thanks, everyone, for making a full day of cooking so much FUN!! It was a blast spending time with you today! :p

HAPPY EASTER!!

HUGS!
Glad

We ate around 4:00
 

Dewaine fired up the smoker this morning and smoked 3 racks of baby back ribs and 4 pork tenderloins (I know what I will eat this next week!). I also cooked green beans with olive oil (be proud Glad) and smoked turkey for flavoring, corn and black beans with tomatoes, and potato salad made with very little mayo...mostly mustard...all pretty low fat! I was proud! My son, his wife and my grandson came over for the day and it was nice. Dewaine worked on the bee hive this afternoon and got his first bee sting! I guess he was excited :rolleyes: !!! He ain't allergic...I am :eek: !!!

Do you make this in a single loaf pan or can you divide the dough and make rolls??? It sounds yummy!!!

Wow Deb, your dinner sounds MARVELOUS!!
 

Yum Yum, girlie!! Nicely done!!! I AM really proud of you, you are really doing a GREAT job!!! Keep up the great work :p !

My family has an Easter meal that has become tradition. It's my favorite holiday meal since it's not so heavy. There can be other things, but we always HAVE to have:

Heavenly Ham
Mom's homemade potato salad
Asparagus

Today I had the out-laws and my parents, so we had Passover and Easter dinner. I also had...

Salmon (with lemon, parsley and fresh ground pepper) grilled on a cedar plank
Potato kugel
Asparagus Matzo Brei
Salad of mesclun greens, strawberries, toasted almonds and goat cheese with a basil and strawberry balsamic vinegarette

For dessert we had strawberry shortcake made kosher with macaroons and an ice cream cake for hubby's birthday. I think desserts are always the hardest to make kosher.