Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 16:33:48 GMT -5
I know I'm a Godless Heathen, but I still like to get together with friends and family. Anyway, Easter was the pagan spring equinox celebration long before Europe was Christianized. I think it's a pretty natural instinct to want to throw a party now that winter's over and spring is springing, and religious belief or lack thereof doesn't have a lot to do with it, so that's why I'm having a big Easter party despite being (sort of) an atheist (I think that's such a loaded term) (My parents are a bit religious, but not too terribly much) (When I was a kid, we used to go to Palm Sunday and all, so I've been celebrating Easter forever despite my lack of belief) (I went to a Catholic college)
But anyway, I'm glad spring is here, and I'm super excited about tomorroww!!!!!!
- Making little Easter baskets, but only with a small amount of candy because too much candy makes me pretty sick to my stomach, and nobody else wants that much candy either, so I got a bunch of really cute and tiny Easter baskets and I'm filling them with a few jelly beans and chocolate eggs and Lindt foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies.
- Rainbow peeps cupcakes: Lemon cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Each cupcake will be baked in a different colored cupcake paper, with a corresponding peep on top of the cupcake.
- Cinnamon bread molded into the shape of a bunny. My brother's girlfriend doesn't eat anything but boxed cake mix, potatoes, and cinnamon bread-y things. She's a really picky eater, so it's been a challenge for me to think of things that she can eat.
- Boiled dyed eggs -- I have a ton of these. Whatever we don't eat for brunch will be turned into devilled eggs or egg salad, because I hate wasting food, but I love dyeing Easter Eggs.
- An asparagus tart made with puff pastry, Gruyere cheese and asparagus. Asparagus is such a good spring vegetable! This is the best time of year to eat asparagus, peak of season!
- Fresh strawberries
- Orange juice
- Some baked ham with herb-mustard sauce that I'm making
- Salad with pea shoots, shelled peas and mint -- all good spring-time vegetables! I'm so happy that spring is finally here!!!
- Oven-baked home fries (potatoes) because potatoes are one of the only things my brother's girlfriend eats.
THEN, For Easter dinner, later in the day, I'm having
- A spiral-cut ham
- Candied sweet potatoes
- Mashed potatoes
- Peas and pearl onions
I'm very excited!!!!! I wish I wasn't too old to have an Easter-Egg Hunt. I need to have children, so I can organize Easter Egg Hunts For them.
In college, we used to have the most insane and large-scale Easter Egg Hunts. I love Easter Egg Hunts but, whenever I did it with big groups of kids in elementary school, it just got really nastily competitive. I liked it when my mother did it exclusively for me, my brother, and two cousins.
I'm doing a MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH in a few more weeks too!!!!
I'm supposed to be on lockdown studying for a job interview today, but I love to bake and cook and throw parties, so that's my exciting Easter Plans for the weekend.
What are you all doing for Easter?
I'm (sort of) an atheist, but I don't mind hearing about your churchgoing plans. When I was little, we used to visit my grandparents in Maine every Easter and first thing on Easter Sunday Morning, we'd wake up and go to Sunrise Mass at the Pemaquid Lighthouse and we'd watch the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean.
But anyway, I'm glad spring is here, and I'm super excited about tomorroww!!!!!!
- Making little Easter baskets, but only with a small amount of candy because too much candy makes me pretty sick to my stomach, and nobody else wants that much candy either, so I got a bunch of really cute and tiny Easter baskets and I'm filling them with a few jelly beans and chocolate eggs and Lindt foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies.
- Rainbow peeps cupcakes: Lemon cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Each cupcake will be baked in a different colored cupcake paper, with a corresponding peep on top of the cupcake.
- Cinnamon bread molded into the shape of a bunny. My brother's girlfriend doesn't eat anything but boxed cake mix, potatoes, and cinnamon bread-y things. She's a really picky eater, so it's been a challenge for me to think of things that she can eat.
- Boiled dyed eggs -- I have a ton of these. Whatever we don't eat for brunch will be turned into devilled eggs or egg salad, because I hate wasting food, but I love dyeing Easter Eggs.
- An asparagus tart made with puff pastry, Gruyere cheese and asparagus. Asparagus is such a good spring vegetable! This is the best time of year to eat asparagus, peak of season!
- Fresh strawberries
- Orange juice
- Some baked ham with herb-mustard sauce that I'm making
- Salad with pea shoots, shelled peas and mint -- all good spring-time vegetables! I'm so happy that spring is finally here!!!
- Oven-baked home fries (potatoes) because potatoes are one of the only things my brother's girlfriend eats.
THEN, For Easter dinner, later in the day, I'm having
- A spiral-cut ham
- Candied sweet potatoes
- Mashed potatoes
- Peas and pearl onions
I'm very excited!!!!! I wish I wasn't too old to have an Easter-Egg Hunt. I need to have children, so I can organize Easter Egg Hunts For them.
In college, we used to have the most insane and large-scale Easter Egg Hunts. I love Easter Egg Hunts but, whenever I did it with big groups of kids in elementary school, it just got really nastily competitive. I liked it when my mother did it exclusively for me, my brother, and two cousins.
I'm doing a MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH in a few more weeks too!!!!
I'm supposed to be on lockdown studying for a job interview today, but I love to bake and cook and throw parties, so that's my exciting Easter Plans for the weekend.
What are you all doing for Easter?
I'm (sort of) an atheist, but I don't mind hearing about your churchgoing plans. When I was little, we used to visit my grandparents in Maine every Easter and first thing on Easter Sunday Morning, we'd wake up and go to Sunrise Mass at the Pemaquid Lighthouse and we'd watch the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean.