Will you be cooking a special meal over Easter? What is your traditional festive fare? I will probably be doing slow-cooked lamb, Persian style with apricots and cous-cous.
Easter feasting
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Elawin
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I usually have arni psito - roast lamb cooked with onions, mushrooms, potatoes and parsley and a lemon, garlic and black pepper sauce. It makes plenty of roast dinners and delicious shepherd's pie afterwards for the freezer 
I have never heard of that! I could Google... but I won't. Where is that dish originating from?
Elawin
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It's Greek - not their traditional Easter lamb - just a dish I am particularly fond of. Recipe here https://www.cookingbites.com/thread...c-and-lemon-sauce-arni-psito-me-patates.7116/
which I posted this time last year
It's Greek - not their traditional Easter lamb - just a dish I am particularly fond of. Recipe here https://www.cookingbites.com/thread...c-and-lemon-sauce-arni-psito-me-patates.7116/
which I posted this time last year
I like that! Maybe I will cook that instead.
Why not?
No kids to hunt easter eggs. And don't need to be told when to eat lamb or ham.
I can fix those foods any day.
Elawin
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Couldn't go without lamb at Easter. The last leg of lamb I bought was at Christmas. Anything I've had since with lamb has been the frozen leftovers from Christmas.
So the next one will keep you going until September!
Elawin
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August bank holiday, probably. I tone down the meat consumption for about a month before Christmas
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pretty much don't do Easter here either but we may fire up the pizza oven on Easter Monday if my hubby gets around to inviting people around.
I have purchased him a dairy free chocolate easter egg though! A nice one, not one of those plastic tasting ones that you get for a couple of pounds. But that is the extent of Easter other than a few extra days being able to be spent cleaning the garden (prior to people turning up).
I have purchased him a dairy free chocolate easter egg though! A nice one, not one of those plastic tasting ones that you get for a couple of pounds. But that is the extent of Easter other than a few extra days being able to be spent cleaning the garden (prior to people turning up).
Elawin
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I usually start celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve and then prolong it until 7th January (Orthodox Christmas - my late cousin's wife is Ethiopian). Their New Year starts on 11th September. We don't usually bother with that, as some people think we are taking the p....
We do usually do a Polish/Slovakian style Easter dinner as that is my wife's heritage.
We start with white borscht, farmer's cheese (twarog) and rye bread, then have a roast ham, potato salad, coleslaw, steamed asparagus, sautéed string beans, grated beets and horseradish, and a casserole of sauerkraut, potatoes, and kielbasa.
We start with white borscht, farmer's cheese (twarog) and rye bread, then have a roast ham, potato salad, coleslaw, steamed asparagus, sautéed string beans, grated beets and horseradish, and a casserole of sauerkraut, potatoes, and kielbasa.