Sunday, April 17, 2022

Easter 2022

Hubby Tony and I had a lovely, relaxing Easter weekend. Yesterday we got together for lunch with extended family members we haven't seen in person for several years. For dinner we walked to a nearby Chinese restaurant, and later in the evening attended our church's Easter Vigil. This morning we slept in. After breakfast we leisurely read the paper, then took a mid-morning walk before the forecasted afternoon rain.  Son Donald came over for dinner. 

With only three people eating I didn't want to make a ham and have a ton left over. When I learned that the temperature was going to be in the low 50s Fahrenheit, I started thinking of nice warm comfort foods. I ended up making Ina Garten's Lamb Stew with Spring Vegetables, adding French bread and a simple green salad. 

The lamb made the dish decadent enough to feel holiday special, but the warm, savory sauce was perfect on a gloomy day. Ina's recipe called for three pounds of lamb, but because of the size of the packages at the store I used 2 1/2 pounds, and added roasted brown mushrooms to bulk the dish up. No one complained. There was enough stew left over that dinner is covered for tomorrow night and I was able to send some home with Donald.

12 comments:

  1. With best wishes to you and your family at Easter and always.

    God bless.

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  2. Cliff and I had cornbread and beans as our Easter dinner.

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  3. We had an Easter lunch at my daughters house. We ate so much that was basically it for the day.

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    1. My body would have liked it better to have a big meal in the middle of the day instead of dinnertime, but that wouldn't have worked for our schedules.

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  4. Happy Easter!
    I love lamb but hubby won't eat it!

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    1. For budgetary reasons, lamb rarely showed up on the table when the kids were young. One time when they were old enough to understand I scored a package from the clearance section and served it for dinner that night.

      Everyone was enjoying the meal until someone asked what it was. When I said lamb all three boys put their forks down and refused to eat another bite :-)

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  5. Sounds like a wonderful meal for Easter, that would work well for me for Passover too.

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    1. It was a fantastic recipe. More steps than I'm used to doing nowadays, but really worth the effort.

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