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As you might recall from last year, we celebrate Easter on Saturday. This is mostly because it’s more convenient for the people who have to drive several hours to get home, to do that the next day. Also, it means a lot of folks who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to make it due to their own family celebrations, can join us.
The menu is always a selection of salads and savory pies, and meat of some sort. For pies this year, we had Geraldine Ferraro’s Easter Pie, Torta Verde and new addition: mozzarella pie with kale and sun dried tomatoes.
The salads were barley with corn, parsley and endive, roasted beet, onion and lentil, celery with golden raisins, almonds and herbs, fennel and orange with avocado and herbs, and a delicious mixed green.
Lamb was the featured meat, both roasted (over spoons), and in meatball form with tzatziki dipping sauce.
That’s pretty much all I can tell you as I did not help out even a little bit this year, because, you know, I’ve got a baby.
i need to know why the lamb is roasted over spoons.
I NEED TO KNOW.
From Shane:
Rachel…..Prepare for a long story: The Lambs-spoon Lampoon
Once upon a sunny preaster Saturday old mother Rita was frettting about in her kitchen. Morgan was full of no ideas but lots of comments that came to nothing. Out of the blue, or maybe it was from the back garden, there emerged a hungry oversized leprachaun looking for a banana to fill a void in his vaccous belly. He noticed a large hunk of uncooked lamb in a roasting pan that needed to get high so it could release its juices and absorb the ovens’ heat evenly. Rita had only one large rack that wouldn’t fit into the roasting pan……so what to do?…what to do? The hungry mick had a thought and quickly leapt into action. Begorra Rita “why don’t you put a bunch of spoons under the lamb.” Thank God the slaughtered lamb rose in the pan, cooked perfectly and the ravenous mick and his hungry pals feasted all the do da day long on body and blood. Yum!!!
Best
Story
Ever
it’s an easter miracle! i have some bunny ears for that leprechaun if you want me to send them in the mail…..
Are the eggs in green tights garland? Or is that how you hid the eggs?
Also, @ Rachel, many folks fill the cavity of a whole chicken when poaching so it stays submerged in the liquid… many uses for flatware prior to eating :-)