Do you go out for dinner on Easter Day or do your family cook a big dinner?

Question

if you cook is ham the meat for that day in your house or is it roast??

Answer 1

We tend to eat at home for Easter Day. We try to make a special, but simple dinner.

We buy a spiral sliced ham, have artichokes or asparagus (since they're finally in season), maybe some dinner rolls and buttered carrots, and maybe some berries with cream for dessert. Something nicer than an ordinary dinner, but low on effort.

If I feel ambitious enough to make them ahead of time, we might have deviled eggs along side the ham. Otherwise the eggs wait until the next day.

My mother's traditional Easter dinner is ham, scalloped potatoes, rolls, broccoli, gelatin salad (either orange gelatin with mandarin oranges or green gelatin with pears), and this elaborate cake for dessert.

She makes the cake by slicing an angel food cake into 3 layers, tinting vanilla ice cream pastel green and flavoring it with peppermint oil, and then spreading the ice cream between the layers. She then freezes the whole thing solid.

While the cake is freezing, she makes a little bird's nest out of a no-bake cookie recipe, substituting coconut for the rolled oats. After the cake is frozen, she frosts the cake with green tinted whipped cream and puts green tinted coconut all over (to look like grass). Then she puts the bird's nest in the middle of the cake and puts some candy malted milk eggs in the nest. She completes it by placing two yellow peeps on either side of the nest, as if they're keeping watch over their eggs.

It sounds garish, but it was an awfully fun cake when we were little!

Answer 2

I cook a nice dinner, with ham as the main course. I serve it with a savory cherry sauce instead of applesauce. Then I serve deviled Easter eggs (I dye a couple of them green so we have green eggs and ham for dinner, my husband's idea), red potatoes au gratin, asperagus, and salad. I decorate every plate and dish with edible flowers, and serve bunny-shaped truffles with desert, which is usually an angel food cake my mother-in-law brings.

It's a big deal in my family, and I love to do it. Easier than Christmas dinner and lots of fun. This year, some friends who want to escape their family are coming over to join us. yay!

Answer 3

My mother in law has a dinner, then all the little kids have an egg hunt, it is usually a relaxing day for us all (except my mother in law) but she insists on doing it, you know those Italian moms! forget the dressing up we all go casual, the kids don't like the frilly clothes no more,

Answer 4

If I cook it will be ham. I'm trying to convince my children we should go out that day.

Answer 5

Family dinner @ home with ham,turkey,Kielbasa,mashed potatoes,green beans,rolls,Lamb cake,apple pie and LOTS OF CHOCOLATE AND JELLY BEANS

Answer 6

I just eat all the candy in the Easter basket, burp!

Answer 7

I'll have colored scrambled eggs, rabbit and fingerling carrots w/melted butter and homefries. And peep smores for dessert.

Answer 8

cook...ham usually

Answer 9

We usually eat out at frisch's.

Answer 10

we all cook and love the leftovers