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What are your traditions for feasting for Easter Sunday? Do you do brunch? or dinner? or both?
Is there such a thing as an Easter Ham? Turkey?
Do you dine out on this day? I haven't been in the States during Easter for 20 Years, so my memory fails me. My extended family usually goes to the country club for dinner. This year no one will be in town, so it is just our little family. I may ask a couple of single women from our Parish to join us, but first I need a bit of an idea...
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We have gone to Easter Brunches at Hotels.
We usually eat at home though - early dinner/late lunch, but a little heavier then brunch foods, I guess.
My DH loves to have ham, my Mother always served lamb, also. With mint jelly.
We always had what my Russian Orthodox Grandmother called "Easter Cheese" - it is similar to a cannoli filling, but different. And, really, really good.
And...spring time foods...is how I think of them in my mind - macaroni salad, red potato salad (the salad is red, not the potatoes, it has beet juice in it...), deviled eggs...
And a lamb cake. I have my Mom's old mold, it weighs like 500 pounds, but I know you can buy new light weight aluminum pans too.
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Our thanksgiving is often out of our control and traditional american. Our Christmas goes a bit English with a prime rib of beef as our main dish. We do mexican around New Year's. And we go for the polish/german part of our heritage with Easter.
Now Poland was traditionally a Catholic Country and did the heavy fast of no meat at all, no fats, etc. so Easter was a HUGE feast. We do a ham as our main meat dish.. when we have more company I try and expand that to the main types of meat we eat (poultry of some sort, beef maybe a polish sausage).. side dishes are more up for grabs.. we all love mashed potatoes and/or mashed sweet potatoes with ham.. well ok.. not all the kids like the mashed sweet potatoes  and of course some sort of hard boiled egg.. when we had a Polish priest he blessed parts (or all) of the Easter meal so we had blessed hard boiled eggs.. less is more in this regard.. get one or two and slice them so that everyone can eat a slice but not have to eat a whole egg  but deviled eggs are a lovely side dish. I like a hot veggie and a green salad and a jello of some sort.. a molded jello with part of it having sour cream or cottage cheese mixed in.. or just a jello salad.
And sweets.. oh yummy sweets.. pound cake and cheese cake and kolacky are the main ones I try and have each year. Not to mention the Easter basket candy 
Oh it's an early dinner.. and we also have a brunch.. with special things but not too elaborate.. that's usually only our immediate family so that will hold us to an early dinner.. and skip a lunch altogether.
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Thanks for the heads up on lamb cake. I remember as a child, my grandma always baked a bunny cake. I bet I could find a lamb form. Where do you buy your hams? Do you get one at Costco or some specialty shop?
Man oh man, Jodie, I would love to be invited to your FEAST! Who does all that cooking and baking?
I would still love to hear more of your traditions!
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Well, my older kids do a lot now. The ham is easy. I just get one from the regular grocery store.. they normally go on sale about now and I can get a whole ham (about 20lbs) for .99/lb then I have the butcher cut it in half (when you buy the half hams the shank half is usually the same price but the butt end is meatier and cost more per pound.. this way I get both for the lower cost, freeze one and cook one)
the jello is my oldest "speciality" she's been making it for the last few years..hmmm I might see if she won't pass that down now.
a child usually does the green salad as well. The polish cookbook I have says a lot of the meat is served cold.. I've done a deli platter of turkey and roast beef to eat on rolls to add to the ham. hot veggie is uaually easy dump in pot and cook though I sometimes do broiled asparagus just have it ready to cook when the ham comes out. kids help with the cookies and cakes.. oh and rolls or I'll do a braided bread wreath that's fun.
I love cooking so mostly it's just a case of setting aside time to do it for several days in advance.
And we'd love to have you for dinner.. too bad we're on opposite sides of the country
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