Easter Menu

This weekend is Easter weekend, which means treats left by the Easter Bunny and a delicious Easter feast. The most typical Easter dinner seems to be ham, often glazed with honey or maple syrup, to match the sweetness of all the other Easter treats around. Turkey, chicken, and lamb are also popular for Easter dinner. Lamb certainly seems to be the most elaborate, it can range from a simple leg or chop to an impressive rack of lamb or crown of lamb. Fresh lamb is most common around this time - the beginning of spring. Common side dishes for Easter dinner seem to revolve around fresh spring vegetables. Asparagus, peas, carrots, beans, and potatoes are popular choices. Of course if you are going with the turkey option, you will likely have a complete turkey dinner, similar to Thanksgiving or Christmas. However, usually Easter dinners are a bit lighter and more in tune to the springtime, and so it is not necessary to have all of the trimmings. 

Many different sweet breads are also associated with Easter. Hot Cross Buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday (the crosses represent the crucifixion). Easter egg bread and braided Easter breads are also popular, and are often flavored with a little citrus and raisins or currants. Easter egg bread is often decorated with hard-boiled eggs tucked into the pockets of the bread I love to color eggs to picture with my bread, or just alone in an Easter basket. They are great for breakfasts or sandwiches for the next few days.

There are also so many different desserts associated with Easter. I am sure we have all seen the popular bunny head cake, cut out of two round layer cakes. Easter basket and chick cakes are also cute, as are cupcakes. Decorated sugar cookies in the shapes of bunnies, chicks, eggs, and baskets are always welcome. Little nests made from coconut meringue cookies, chocolate coconut cookies, chocolate oat cookies, or haystack cookies can be filled with candy-coated chocolate eggs or milk chocolate eggs. 

And of course everyone looks forward to the chocolate bunnies, whether hollow or solid, that the Easter Bunny brings, along with mini candy eggs, cream eggs, jelly beans, and milk chocolate eggs.


Have a great Easter weekend!

PHOTO CREDIT:Happy Easter.jpg" http://quiltandstitchkingston.blogspot.ca/2010_04_01_archive.html.Quilt & Stitch, n.d. Thursday, April 5, 2012.