With Easter coming, I wondered what different people that you were related to made for that holiday?
I saw someone on T.V. say that it was lamb or ham.
I went back in my memory and realized that the only 2 people that made anything close to an Easter dinner were my grandmother's. My mother didn't, and my 2 aunts went to my grandmother's - their mother's - house.
One grandmother made ham...and maybe turkey? Or, was that only for Christmas?...with all of the expected sides.
My other grandmother made chicken, with many sides.
When I started making Easter dinner, I cooked a corned beef the night or two before. Then, on Easter, I made a brown sugar-mustard glaze for it, and baked it. It was delicious.
I made various sides, such as new potatoes with butter and asparagus. Those both seem to be very spring-like to me.
Eventually, when I couldn't have corned beef anymore (I looked at natural ones this year, just out of curiosity and they contained things that I was allergic to, such as sulfites or soy.) I needed an alternative, so chose variations of the following meal:
Roasted chicken, sometimes new potatoes or else au gratin potatoes...because I love them, candied carrots, and asparagus. It worked well.
These days, I just try to make something that we really like, for the 2 of us. Not really a big meal. Maybe when I get a kitchen again.
How about you?
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