Easter Dinner Plan?

[leechlake]

My wife and I are hosting Easter Dinner this year for about 15 family members. We pondered things and are tired of having ham for the umpteenth time. After going over many options we've decided on having an Italian themed feast this year. For the boring we're having Lasagna since it's usually a crowd favorite, making bolognese sauce that cooks for about six hours with the kitchen sink in it and adding some great Italian sausage from the meat market, final item is a creamy sauce with garlic shrimp. My daughter caught wind of the plan and asked me to make home made bread too. Can't say no to her request.

Various salads, sisters are bringing pie but I'm also going to make some home made cannolis to keep the them alive.

What's cooking at your house (besides hard boiled poked eggs)?

[pushbutton]

Always host a breakfast brunch for around forty. Lots of pork...wild rice sausage, thick strip bacon, patty. Lots of bakes...cheesy egg/potato. Fresh fruits, salads, breads. Usually cook the 20 lbs or so of the pork a day ahead of time and after rendering down all that pork fat, will go till a month or two before I will eat it again

I like the idea or your nontraditional holiday meal. They always seem to taste better then the same ole...

[bak2MN]

Will be by myself 15 hrs from home at work and will grill a nice steak and some taters and have a beer and wish I was at home!!

[eyeguy 54]

Smoked Deviled Eggs and Blueberry Coffee for Breakfast, Church, Coyote Moon Grille for dinner (that's noon to me ). Supper???? No plans yet but probably grill something. Laid back day this year. Just the 2 of us. Happy Easter ! ! !

[JeremyCampbell]

Old country buffet here.No cooking

[picksbigwagon]

Heading to the inlaws, she is either going to dry the heck out of the ham or drown it in some kind of sugary liquid.......or worse, my father in law will slice it Nd grill it to death with a honey mustard sauce on it.....better pack my hip flask

[hockeybc69]

Pork butt and ham on the smoker. Everything else is just filler material.

[kingr]

Double smoked ham, smoked deviled eggs, salad, other veggies and grandma's apple pie

[nofishfisherman]

We are doing an Easter brunch at my house. I'm going to whip up a batch up pancakes that I am known for. Others will also be bringing various brunchy type items plus the bro-in law is mixing up some sort of adult beverage of his own creation which rarely disappoints.

For dinner I'll probably kick everyone out and then grill steaks for the wife and myself.

Also debating on firing up the smoker this weekend. Not sure what I'll smoke yet but I feel like I should smoke something.

[hockeybc69]

Do some armadillo eggs Nofish.

[iland99]

Heading to the inlaws, she is either going to dry the heck out of the ham or drown it in some kind of sugary liquid.......or worse, my father in law will slice it Nd grill it to death with a honey mustard sauce on it.....better pack my hip flask

We must be related.....

[huntnfish]

Im throwing a full brisket on the smoker that's around 17 pounds and the wife is putting a ham in the crock pot in case of emergency. Other than that it's going to be the usual holiday things that in-laws bring like green bean casserole and some sort of pasta salad.

[picksbigwagon]

"Emergency Ham"????? You got a keeper there

[H2O Milfoil]

Dude, we did our ham dinner last weekend. It came out perfectly. And I don't have to worry about holiday dinner on Sunday. It looks like it could be a good day to wet a line!

[eyeguy 54]

Great start to the best day of the year. Happy Resurrection Sunday to the HSO posters, lurkers, staff and Major Tom.