Ham, Lamb, or Something Else?

GaryKH wrote:

GaryKH wrote:
We're doing a ham roast also, in oven with pineapple. I thought i'd do something different for a side dish, so searched, and came up with this...

Eggs and Hash Browns

Looks good!

Well, it was great! The eggs made a different,colorful side dish. That, along with the ham, asparagus, spinach, carrots all came together and supplemented each other.

Sounds and reads yummilicious!:c

GaryKH wrote:
We're doing a ham roast also, in oven with pineapple. I thought i'd do something different for a side dish, so searched, and came up with this...

Eggs and Hash Browns

Looks good!

Well, it was great! The eggs made a different,colorful side dish. That, along with the ham, asparagus, spinach, carrots all came together and supplemented each other.

Made a meal out of everything sale priced before Easter. Ham was .89 lb.

Something about cooking lamb on Easter has always seemed sacrilegious to me, not really but it just seems weird. Kind of like a pagan serving rabbit.

Left over lamb chop and mashed potatoes for breakfast this morning. I haven't asked about dinner tomorrow :C

DutchmenSport wrote:
We are not traditionalists here. I learned to eat pizza for breakfast 45 years ago!

We've all all the above, plus beef of every cut, pastas from every nation around the world, and we've done our share of eating out too.

This Easter we are going to Applebee's. Not only is this Sunday Easter, but it's also my birthday! So, my 92 year old mother is coming with us.

I'm not Jewish, but I've also participated in REAL Passover celebrations this time of year too in my past. The first one I ever attended was 1976 in Israel, in Jerusalem, at the Hebrew University. I've since conducted several since for various Church groups (but not in the last 17 years - I'm not doing that line of work any more.) But still, something about the Easter Season makes me want to go get a Lamb bone from the local meat market every year. The only problem is, (the tradition). ... the bone is not suppose to be broken. When you get them from the meat market, they are almost always cut into 2.

If anyone is interested in the Passover Celebration and all the various foods and their symbolism, an easy search on the internet: "Passover Traditional Service" will turn up a bazillion web sites. It's an interesting read.

Bitter herbs and all,eh?:c

Participated in my first Seder at a lifelong elementary school friend's home. She grew up Conservative but her paternal grandpa was Orthodox. He'd regale us by demonstrating dairy laws by pouring milk over raw meat. Early science experiments.

The man's family are Reform Jews and the Seders his mother had were very authentic from a secular POV; ordered from Zabar's in NYC or Publix when in FL, LOL.

Growing up it was always lamb as the first meat we ate after Lent.
Now, Nana, tended to serve country ham as a 2nd Easter meat. She'd make a special trip back to VA to pick it up but since she was the only U.S. Southerner in the family we made special allowances for her "eccentricities", LOL.

So the lamb years continued through my adulthood furthered by my decision to marry a "furriner" who also ate lamb on Easter Sunday.

Imagine my surprise when hosting a "let's get to know each other better" Easter with my DIL's family to find that most Americans ate ham. Her family was freaked out looking at the leg of lamb soooo it was a good thing they'd brought McDonald's burgers with them :R:B.

Neither family was the least bit surprised when divorce proceedings started a few years later.

This Sunday, it'll be boneless leg of lamb (easier to serve for small gatherings) slathered with garlic, parsley and olive oil and roasted until rare. If asparagus looks nice when I get to market I'll make a starter of spring minestrone soup. The man wants potatoes and I want rice. Maybe we'll toss a coin and let it be the decider.
Already have a lemon cream in the freezer for dessert.

For us it will be Turkey and Stuffing. Not too popular with the family but I got the turkey free so I have to use it.

Watched folks check out Prime Rib the other day. At 59.50 per KG many chose to pass and go with Ham or Roast Pork,

Happy Easter to all!

Smoking a 14# prime rib, baked beans, mashed taters, deviled eggs on Saturday. Sunday, leftovers..:)

We're doing a ham roast also, in oven with pineapple. I thought i'd do something different for a side dish, so searched, and came up with this...

Eggs and Hash Browns

Looks good!