So...whats for dinner?

Kaara

Looks like everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend planned.  My shopping is all done except for last minute things, and the kids baskets are all put together.  They are too young yet to dye eggs, except for the 9 year old and he does that with DD at her house.  I will hide plastic eggs for them and hope to get some good photos.

I'm making deviled eggs for appetizer, along with hummus and veggies, rack of lamb, a turkey breast, mashed potato casserole, tomatoes provencale, roasted asparagus, a green salad with grapes, walnuts and blue cheese vinegarette and rolls.  DD is bringing her famous pineapple upside down cake that she makes from scratch.  Most of it is do ahead, and BF does the racks on the grill, so an easy day.  Now if everyone will just show up on time!

Debbie:  That stuff is going around, so take it easy and be better soon!

Michelle:  Enjoy your vacation and golf!  We're headed out next week...can't wait. 

Laurie08

Debbie- oh no!  I hope you feel better soon and Chuck too.  Not what you guys need!!

Kaara- Love the new avitar!  Your Easter sounds wonderful!

Here are the boys doing eggs tonight....

Laurie08

finished!

Kaara

Laurie:  So cute!  I'll bet they had a blast!

Have a wonderful Easter! 

MinusTwo

Kaara:  Lovely to see your picture. I'm too conservative to put mine out there.

Debbie:  Hope your weekend gets better & isn't totally devoted to the flu.

Luv:  Hope both the golf & the beach work.

Laurie: This is one of the few years I haven't decorated eggs so thank for sharing yours. Boys are cutte.

Carole:  Glad someone else is adapting the chicken salsa to pork - or whatever.  It's a great all purpose recipe thanks to Laurie.

Happy Easter or Passover.

deborye

deborye

I am going to try to make an Easter Braided Bread with the colored eggs tomorrow.

deborye

deborye

Hopefully it will look something like this.  I bought this one from a bakery last year.

 

apple

Kaara - you are really cute... you look so darn healthy.. i think i will do a smoothy thing tomorrow. i absolutely cannot eat..  i have ensure in my basket, i will buy avacados because i love them, stock up on super yogurt.. I do have tons of fruit  and kale and a bunch of stuff growing, chard and spinach. ... and actually love brewer's yeast.  also the evil tasting protein stuff ick ick ick.. it's strawberry of all things.

you are really cute!

DucorpsToo

Had chicken curry, egg masala,mushroom masala and rice for dinner this evening...Plenty of yummy leftovers

debbie6122

Michelle- Thanks, we both feel better tonight. wow what a site that must of been i have been reading about it and saw it on tv. I just hope and pray there were no casulties. Happy Easter to you too and have a great time.

debbie6122

Kaara- I love your picture, you are so pretty! Your dinner sounds good, would your DD share her famous upsidedown cake? Yumm!

Laurie- I knew you would have pictures and they would look so cute, i just knew it! LOL! Those turned out so good even if it was a kit. The boys look like they were having a blast!

Minustwo- I hope i feel better by tomorrow so i can get those boots i wanted LOL!

Deb- That bread looks delishious. Love the chick!!

Apple- Hope you get your appetite back by Easter. but your veggies sound so yummy to me right now.

debbie6122

Hi Ducorp- Welcome. What is egg marsala? Never heard of it, but love marsala wine do a lot of chicken marsala but never with eggs.

Hopeing Dh goes to work tomorrow, love him dearly but he is getting on my nerves and making me crazy! 

Lacey12

Deb, Hope the bread goes well. I am always fascinated by that Easter bread but never had the creative energy to try to make it!



Debbie, So sorry to learn that you are both sick....and I do hope it all "passes" quickly so you can enjoy Easter.



Kaara, love your new avatar....sunny, just like your state!

Michelle, I was thinking of you when I learned of the jet crash, and so wasn't surprised to hear that you saw it. Lots of new about that up here also. Hope you get some good golf and beach weather!



Laurie, the boys looked so cute making their eggs. Have a fun Easter with them! We are heading to our neighborhood easter egg hunt and coffee in the morning.



Bedo, I hope things are going well for you and your DD.



Went to see the oncologist today, and she said that the fatigue is not a common SE from Tamox, but she suggested that I go off of it for a week and see if my normal energy level returns.....so that's what I'm up to.

I also asked her about any grapefruit concerns (adversely affecting the Tamox) and she said that there is no medical evidence of that.....so finally I'll be enjoying the grapefruit someone sent me from Florida! . I've been giving them all away.



We went out to lunch in Cambridgeport at a great little Thai restaurant, where I had hot and sour shrimp soup, and a duck dish with the regular Thai veggies. No need for dinner for me after that.



I was dying to make a kugel that I recall my mother-in-law serving many years ago....but not the dessert variety. While looking up recipes, I came across a cabbage kugel , and I had a whole head of cabbage in the fridge, so I made that....very interesting, tho maybe not for everyone...and not the noddle kugel I was originally wanting to make. I will serve some of it as a side with our Easter dinner, which is looking like it will take place here, with DS2 bringing meat to grill and mashed potatoes, DH making his new favorite vegetable, grilled asparagus, and I'll make a salad and dessert.



I'm up ridiculously late because I was also making pizzelle cookies to bring to our neighbor's coffee....two flavors, lemon and also anise. They take forever to make but my neighbors like them.



So I will now try to get some shut eye or I will stop complaining about fatigue!

LuvRVing

Kaara - yes, I meant to say this yesterday...LOVE your new picture!



I'm up having coffee and catching up on my blogs while DH catches of on his zzz's. The breakfast is included here at this hotel but it's a genuine white carb fest along with those fake eggs and mystery meat sausage patties. I think we'll go find a real breakfast after DH gets up and we are dressed.



It's another incredibly windy day here in VA Beach. I hope it calms down, could make golf a real challenge for me. I haven't played since before my BMX and honestly not much at all the year before. I'm guessing this will be a swingfest and I'll be just pitching and putting by about the 12th hole!



Have a great Saturday, ladies!

apple

what am i cooking for dinner?  i'm going to char smoke the brisket for tomorrow.. and make that delish marshmallow salad.. maybe grill something. 

Kaara

Thanks for the compliments on the photo ladies...you are all so kind!  It was taken while on our cruise in January and what it doesn't show is the little animal that our cabin steward made out of towels...so cute.  That's why I'm smiling...we came back to our room and it was perched in the middle of the bed:)

Had a birthday dinner with one of my BF's sons last night, then he stayed over and they went to play golf this morning, leaving me to begin the Easter dinner fixings, which is fine because I work better when I'm alone.  Naturally I forgot a few things at the store, so I'll make yet another trip!

Debbie:  I'll try to get DD's recipe for the upside down cake, but she usually doesn't have one...just throws things together and they always turn out well.  She's a much better cook than me, and does everything from scratch where I take all the shortcuts I can find.  When she's done cooking, every pan in the kitchen is dirty...she cooks but doesn't clean... that's my job:)

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!  Don't eat too many Easter eggs! 

carberry

Debbie   so sorry you guys got that flu...but on the other hand..good thing it was the flu.  So funny about your husband...they are like babies when they are sick.  If my Dh ever retires we are in big trouble because he doesnt know how to do anything else but work.

Kaar  love your new avitar.  My mom always made the best upside down cake,, and i have never made one. I am making a cake today, though, where you add mandarin oranges to the mix and bake and then the frosting is coolwhip with pudding and crushed peineapple, very light and moist and springlike!

Last night we went to a local winery that our friend band played at and watched the full moon come up over the lake. It was supposed to be a special moon for some reason...there was a psychic there and she did a spiritual saying while everyone held hands and worshipped the moon HUH? Anyways went to dinner after and had an awesome fish fry.

Laurie  very cute pics  All those eggs look surprised!! maybe they know they are going to get eaten LOL

Apple Hoping you are feeling better and able to eat some yummy Easter dinner. Maybe melt that chocolate bunny down and pour him over some ice cream...

Happy Easter Everyone

debbie6122

Lacey- Yes you were up late, i thougth i was the only night owl lol! Sounds like you had a busy day and evening hope you got some rest!

Michelle-Oh i dont like those complimentary hotel breakfasts either they always taste so horrible to me. Hope the winds die down and you get a good golf game in. 

Apple- Your brisket sounds good, have you shared the marshellow salad recipe yet? It sounds really good. I make one crushed pineapples, cream cheese, marshmellows, cool whip and cherrys that is really awesom, but would love to have your recipe if your sharing ;-))

Kaara-Thats how my mom cooked too she just threw things together and it always came out perfect. I always say a  messy cook is a good cook! LoL!

Carrie- DH went to work today, yay! im glad he is feeling better i was worried about him but he did look pale this morning when he left. but yes he is a big baby when he is sick, he does this whisper thing when hes sick as if he has lost his voice lol, i baby him of course and take good care of him but i do have to giggle how men are when they are sick. Funny story on the full moon and pysic, good thing no warewolfs came out! lol

apple

i don't know if i made my mom's recipe right.. a carton of sour cream, marshmallows, mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks and small marshmallows. i think i will add some whipped cream or cool whip tomorrow. . it looks kind of funny... needs some decadent creaminess. i think my mom added cherries.  that's what it needs, but i am not going to the store.. i'm done.

Lacey12

Debbie, I've always been nocturnal....at least until recently, when I mostly do not dare try to stay up like I used to....even if I could.....last night being the exception. I also have a job that requires me to rise at 6AM, so that's not conducive to late night adventures. My favorite aunt was a night owl, and so much fun to be with (I think she actually had a serious sleep disorder!) and I stayed at their house a lot on weekends and summers so I think I learned how to enjoy the wee hours there...and it stuck. Then my first son was born at 10PM and that was always his alert time ....brutal when he was a baby.....payback to me! Glad your DH felt well enough to return to work...hope he continues to gain his strength back....it's been quite a month for you guys!



Had fun catching up with our neighbors at the egg hunt and coffee this morning...this little annual event is like the Spring emergence and reconnection for the neighborhood after the shut-in winter.... even tho this last one wasn't bad at all.



Have a wonderful holiday everyone!

debbie6122

Lacey- I always worked the night shift at the restaurnts i worked at, i would get home around midnight or later and then it would take me at least an hour or two to unwind, i cant seem to get out of that mode. its a joke with my family and friends if debbie wants to see the sunrise she has to stay up all night lol!

Just talked to my friend on the phone and she has no plans for tomorrow so we are going out to dinnr, first time on a holiday we will go out and not cook. She wants thai food or mexican not my choice on easter but i told her that sounds good. 

Happy Easter every one!!!

chabba

Happy Easter

MinusTwo

Apple:  Your Mom's fruit salad sounds like Mom's except she added 1 cup cocoanut.  Sometimes she added bananas, pitted cherries, or nuts.  Yours may be more creamy after a night in the fridge.   But of course my Mom usually made fruit salad with a cooked base because my Dad liked that better.  Sort of like she made fresh yeast rolls for most dinners.  Times were different.

Debbie:  Anything else in your Mom's salad besides the cream cheese & of course the fruit

Went to a nice Italian family restaurant tonight.  Chicken Franchese with artichokes & mushrooms in a lemon sauce w/angel hair.  My friend had Linguine w/white clams - hard to find that made well in Texas.

debbie6122

Minustwo- No thats it, just pineapple, cream cheese, cool whip and cherries, its so easy and yet so yummy for not having to many ingredients in it. It taste even better the next day. It was not my moms though i got it off a tv show with Beth stern (howared sterns wife) making this and i thought it sounded good.

Just got through watching the decendants on payperview, it was not as good as i thought it was going to be. i was dissapointed, i remember some of you said it wasnt that good, i agree! the only thing good about it was the popcorn i made during it lol!

MinusTwo

Debbie:  But wasn't the scenery in the Decendants great?  Otherwise I was surprised it won awards.

debbie6122

Minustwo- I loved the scenery, i just thought it was going to be more about hawaii, it was just depressing for me, if George clooney wasnt in it i dont think i would of finished watching it. They should of called it The depressants not the descendants lol!

apple

ok - so i smoked the brisket for a bit yesterday before the 4 year old gas grill totally gave up the ghost and i will bake it today..

how do y'all bake yours?  I am thinking 250 for 5 hours.. slice and rewarm with bbq sauce (the old family way). 

recipes are all over the place as to baking time)  it smoked at about 250 for a couple hours. .. just enought time to get it smokey.

Kaara

apple:  That's how my cousin from Texas does his....about 5 to 7 hours at a very low temp in the oven, and you know Texans know how to bbq!

I'm up early this morning to start my turkey breast so I'll have room in the oven to cook my side dishes later.  DD can't understand why I don't remodel the kitchen and get a double oven...lol.  Not for just the few months we spend in Florida...I'm done with remodeling.  Have to remember to hide the eggs before the grands get here later.

Hope everyone has a blessed Easter!