Easter meal planning

[versaceyoyo]

Easter is next weekend - has anyone started planning what they will cook over the break?  Want to share your meal ideas?!

[boonderoostudio]

Easter is next weekend - has anyone started planning what they will cook over the break?  Want to share your meal ideas?

I haven't  thought that far ahead yet but could also do with some ideas... Friday I am  picking up friends from the airport , for breakfast & then they are staying over Easter.  Sunday the whole family 3DD's, 3DSIL's, & 7DKids .. I think Salads and a BBQ plus of course Hot cross Buns. But I still have to figure out the rest of the Easter break Will post what I'm intending to do as soon as I figure out what I'm going to do.

[I Love Bimby!]

We never really follow any traditional Easter tradition (excpet for the HCB and chocolate eggs  ). But over Easter I'll have an Irish visitor  who is missing some of the foods he can only get in Ireland (or so he thought  ). While in Melbourne this week I managed to find an Irish butcher for some Irish bacon (apparently only cured and not smoked like ours is), some gammon (for boiling cabbage and bacon) and some black and white puddings. Oh and will cook up a stew over Easter as well using up some of the lamb in the freezer that needs something done with.  So with all of that, I think I'd better make the rest of the weekend fruit and salad   

Oh and will also make a rhubarb tart, Irish Brown Bread to go with the boiled cabbage and bacon and possibly the mars bar dip... if I haven't already had my fair share of chocolate... but it is Easter... 

[meganjane]

  Sounds great ILB!

We don't have any traditional foods either. We're going caravanning, down to Bremer Bay on the coast, so it will be BBQ breakfast, wraps for lunch and BBQ tea.
I'll do a mix of hot veges and cold salads depending on the weather.
Of course, HCB's will figure and the ubiquitous Easter Egg!

[I Love Bimby!]

Sounds lovely MJ!

Would love to go camping, but around here, every camp site turns into suburbia Melbourne!!    It's just crazy.

[the_vermins]

Not much here. 

Just wanted to add that I'm a Versace too.   Don't come across too many these days.  Well maiden name Versace.  I did change it when I got married.

[brazen20au]

we don't do anything special either so i haven't even thought about it!

[cookie1]

We don't do anything special either. But of course will do HCB.

Enjoy Bremer Bay MJ. Are you staying at the newer caravan park?  I thought it was a lovely spot. Enjoy your break.

[meganjane]

We stay at the old one by the beach. We go over to the newer one for the delicious coffee and cake at their cafe though!

Interesting ILB that you say that it's little Melbourne where you go, because it's little Nyabing where we go! But, I think that's what makes it so good, (for us, anyway).

[quirkycooking]

My dh has to work over Easter (even Easter Sunday), so no holiday for us...    Guess you can't close the hospital, can you.  I'm going to make Greek Easter Bread on Sunday (must find some proper red food colouring for the eggs to decorate it - don't worry, we won't be eating the eggs).  I also want to make my own raw chocolate with cocoa butter and cacao, like the Loving Earth recipe ILB posted a few months ago (I think) and put it in chocolate molds to give to the kids.  Probably some hot cross buns with choc chips to share with friends.  And a roast lamb with garlic, lemon & rosemary for Sunday lunch.  And we'll be decorating Easter eggs too.  Not sure what else... 

[Thermomixer]

.... (must find some proper red food colouring for the eggs to decorate it - don't worry, we won't be eating the eggs). 

Could you use wooden eggs ? placed on after to give the same effect - shame to waste the eggs - or drill holes top and bottom and use the contents for a dish (do you want to know how to suck eggs? )

[quirkycooking]

wooden eggs might work - but would they die red?  Don't know how to suck eggs - sounds gross!!! 

[Thermomixer]

We have wooden eggs that have been coloured red ( and pretty sure it is a safe dye)

Article here - but lots more on google search http://mommyme-thewonderyears.blogspot.com/2010/03/colored-wooden-eggs.html

You can make holes at top and bottom of egg and blow, more than suck the contents out (as in the saying "Teach your gran to suck eggs").  Then they can have holes covered with suitbale material and dyed normally.

Check these sites http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/eggs.html and http://www.monkeysee.com/play/7599-blowing-out-an-easter-egg

[cookie1]

If you're going to blow eggs it's a good idea to use a toothpick through the hole you make to break up the yolk and white a bit. It is easier to blow that way. We were told this after having done 11 or so for my class one year. It is not easy work.

[quirkycooking]

Sounds like too much work - it's going to be a busy weekend here.  Maybe I'll just use dyed boiled eggs!  (you only need two)