Easter

Well, looks funny. I like it and I love cooking.

What an amazing spread and lovely kids, your family days are always a pleasure to view !!! you really got busy with the desserts, love the peeps perching on the cupcakes !!

Annie, as usual, thanks for sharing your family with us. I almost feel like I was there.

One question: Do you have any relatives in that nursing home? Just wondering.

Annie, you always make every holiday very special!

Pat, the girls' great-grandmother, Hazel, was there for about three years, until she passed away last spring. She was my ex-husband's grandmother, but I was married to him for 30 years, so I visited, the kids visited and they made a lot of friends there, so they had to go "help" them celebrate.

It's definitely a tradition in our family, one that I think we'll keep, even without family members there.

Lutus, my holidays are always kind of unique, LOL, welcome to the Cooking Forum!

Mitch, what is Easter without a Peep or two?

Thanks, Nancy, I try to keep the kids occupied after feeding them all that sugar. I wonder how they slept? (grin)

Annie

Annie, you have such a nice family and I always enjoy reading "The Adventures of Bruvver and The Princess".

Twins named Autumn and Summer?? Ahem. Do they have a sib named Spring? I wonder why three seasons are used as names but Winter is not.

The trip to the nursing home was lovely and thoughtful.

Did you have enough food??

NCE! Annie! Thanks for sharing those wonderful & delicious pictures. I could almost taste some of them... felt like I was there! ;-)

We didn't do much for Easter. My in-laws didn't come so just the three of us. The entire Easter weekend was fish and more fish. Last night I made Italians: Calamari, marinara on pasta, & a bread basket. Little man managed to take part of the dough for my bread basket to make himself a bread bunny. And this is the best picture we have for Easter! LOL

Al

dedtired, they didn't ask me before they named them, LOL, and their siblings are named Ricky, Christa and Phillip, who are all in their 20s. The twins just are spoiled freakin' rotten, with no manners and no discipline, the "babies" of the family. Mother first called them the Twin Terrors...

Al, I like the bunny, and I love calamari, yum.
Annie

Working a 12 hour shift of Easter? Sounds like my bad habits. I went to shoot pool and drink beer. Dinner was a burger and fried... great greasy bar food that is so good after a couple three beers.

Thanks for sharing your holiday Annie! Cooper is a very handsome dog.... Dolly would instantly fall in love.

: )
lyra

What fun Annie, can't believe how big the kids are getting. As an aside, is their still a wedding planned in the Fall for Amanda and David...or did I dream that?
Which reminds me...how's it going for the May wedding!

Michael, I think that's what Ashley had for Easter dinner, a burger, fries and a beer! Cooper is growing to be a handsome boy, isn't it? A little fatter, because he's eating my cooking and Elery takes him to McDonald's for McDoubles for $1, LOL.

Yes, Sharon, there is the traditional "pig roast and a keg of beer" wedding planned for October, Amanda and I have been working on invitations and everyone is invited, of course!

My job is going to be baking the wedding cake and dessert table items, keeping everyone organized and watching the grandkids if Dave and Amanda decide to go somewhere for a short "honeymoon".

As for that May wedding reception, Elery just bought a freezer for his house, and I've finished 20 dozen appetizer quiches, 20 dozen more to go before I start on the habanero cheesecakes. I've done spinach and swiss and ham/cheddar/broccoli, now I'm leaning toward a crab/asparagus/parmesan choice.

I'm going to Elery's this weekend, we are either making meatballs or wontons. I'm lobbying for Gordon Food Service meatballs and making the wontons.

Annie

Wow, great pix, Annie! It certainly looks like a good time! Thanks for sharing!

Hi, I've enjoyed viewing the pictures and recipes posted on this site, I've never posted here but wanted to come out from looking/reading at this forum and finally say hello to all.

Hope it isn't too late to join in.

adrienne, it's never too late to join, just jump right in!

Welcome to the Cooking Forum, where we discuss everything, PLUS cooking, LOL.

Annie

Annie, Thank you for the welcome here. I can definitely feel pretty comfortable discussing (everything) including cooking and will jump right in. Nice to meet you.

Annie, I enjoy your family get-to-gether pictures. They make me wish I had a large extended family. Even with minor chaos it looks like fun! The g-kids are sure growing. Is the Princess in school this year, or next?

/tricia

Tricia, the Princess is in first grade, Bruvver will start kindergarten in the fall.

That sure happened fast.

Oh, and there is always at least minor chaos at our family get togethers, somehow. LOL

Annie

Annie, I always enjoy your pictures. Your posts make me feel like I was almost there with you! LOL

annie, I love your pics but your commentary just makes it all worth reading....:-) FUN!

Great pics Annie! Very nice of y'all to go to the nursing home too. I'm still laughing about your comment about Amanda and the balloon.

All that plus you had time to work on all of those mini appetizers too.

I just hope the DJ survives the wedding...LOL!

David

David, we're still taking applications for someone to pee on the DJ, are you interested? (grin)

Hey, I fixed fence on Friday and did most of the baking on Saturday, so cooking Easter dinner was a piece of cake...er.....cupcake!

Annie

Late to the party but it looks like it was a wonderful time as always! Princess and Bruvver are darling. The twins look like a handful and a half for sure.

Annie, every one looks so good and the food looks fantastic. Kids are getting big and Cooper is flourishing with you. I knew he would stay. Mickey D's? Bad Elery!

We were 26 for dinner but all I did was a cheesecake and the strawberry almond cream tart for dessert and a deviled egg spread appitizer.

Peppi, Ashley still claims that she plans to get an apartment or house when she graduates and gets a job, and that she'll be taking Cooper to live with her at that point.

Of course, by that time she'll have learned to cook so he won't starve, LOL.

Annie

It all looks like so much fun, but I have no idea how you do it all! It's sweet that you visit the "home". The old folks love seeing the little ones and your two are super cute!

Looks like a fine time was had by all, Annie. Thx for sharing.

This was the first Holiday in ages that we didn't have a family gathering-- half the group was down with various viruses, flu etc so Doc & I spent the day doing yard work after planting the new tree-- my Easter gift from Hubby was a Weeping Cherry.

Annie,
Thank you for sharing your Easter with us. I wonder, those dishes you named and showed us photos of-are the recipes on this site?
I was specifically wondering about the rolls? I am looking for a good roll recipe and yours looks amazing!
Thanks again,
Sissy

Sissy, any of the recipes that I mentioned came from someone specific are posted here somewhere. I have to tell you, though, that the search is impossible. It's easier to just ask for specific recipes and most of us don't mind posting them again.

So, here is the recipe for Sol's honey rolls, they are sweet and light and yeasty and the grandkids eat them without anything on them at all, not even butter. Yes, they are that good.

Honey Rolls
1 cup milk
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup butter [1 stick]
2 teaspoos salt
1-2 tablespoons granulated sugar*
2 pkges. dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water [110º-115ºF]
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
6 - 6 1/2 cups AP flour

Heat the milk, add butter and salt. Set aside while butter melts. Stir in the honey.
In another bowl, combine the warm water, yeast and sugar. Let it sit until yeast is completely dissolved, about 6-7 minutes.

Combine milk mixture with yeast mixture. And stir in the beaten eggs. Beat in 4 cups flour. Add enough remaining flour to make a soft, but not sticky dough.

Place dough in greased bowl, turning to coat both sides. Cover and allow dough to rise 1 hour. Punch dough down, and allow to rise another hour.

Punch down again, and shape dough into rolls. Let it rise again 45 minutes to an hour or until doubled in volume. Preheat your oven to 375ºF and bake rolls for 25 minutes or until a deep golden brown. For a very soft crust, brush rolls with melted butter as soon as they come out of the oven.

Note: You could omit the sugar from this recipe altogether. I sometimes use about a teaspoon of the honey called for in the recipe to feed the yeast instead of the sugar.

I also have to admit that I don't follow the directions exactly, I put all the wet stuff into my bread machine, add the dry stuff and let it finish on the "dough" setting. Then I roll it out, cut it into rolls and let rise, then bake.

I've done it both ways and they both turn out about the same, so choose your technique, they both work!

Annie

Thank you so much! I have tried the search many times but never get what i"m looking for!
I must admit I'm new at yeast dough. I've never used a recipe that calls for eggs!
Wish me luck!

Hi Annie:
A little late, been busy getting ready for Monday 4/12.

Had a nice Easter. Only 8 for Dinner this year.
I brought a Smoked Ham down to my Daughters .
Made a Rigotta Easter Cheese Cake.

They put me in charge of the Ham , Pineapple Sauce and the Candied Sweet Potatoes.
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We had the Annual Easter Egg Hunt, with the two- 24 and 25 year old Kiddies.
The tradition has been ongoing for 22 years.

My youngest Daughter; Ginny, is in the center.
Jason; on the right, was just discharged from the Submarine Service.
Dana, my Grand Daughter; on the left, is expecting next week.
She was mad, because she can't bend down too easily.

We hid about 50 eggs . All had money in them.
That's my oldest Daughter, in the back.

Dana was the winner!!! Jason conceded.

Dana's saying:
" Hey Pop ! I got the Kilroy egg, you owe me 20 Bucks "

We had a very nice Easter, Hope everyone else did too.

LOU