Traditional Easter/Passover food

VeraBlue

VeraBlue

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Normally, this time of year I'm getting ready to make some traditional foods I grew up with. One is called pizza chena (spelling far from perfect). It's like a quiche, only it has a lid and is stuffed with ricotta, basket cheese, salami, ham, pepperoni and provolone and eggs. It's wonderful and makes you want to have lots of wine.

I also make egg braided breads with coloured eggs.

And rabbit shaped cookies.

I just realized that I haven't given any of these things any thought at all this year.

I'm thinking of not doing it. My head is spinning as it is... I hate to 'not' do it, but don't know when I'm going to have time to do it.

What about you?? Any favourite traditional meals planned? Anything you are thinking of ditching this year??
 
:blush: Ummmm, I thought chocolate Easter bunnies were the traditional Easter food. You mean I'm supposed to be making something else to go with the candy?
 
Well, since it's just the two of us, our holiday "traditions" are scaled accordingly. It's nice because we can just relax - no dressing up, no last-minute cleaning, etc., etc. - just us watching some good movies on tv/dvd & hanging out together.

For Easter we usually have grilled turkey kielbasa slices with pierogies &/or spanakopita as starters/snacks early in the day, followed by a roast duck (or sometimes a whole smoked turkey if I can find one) accompanied by whatever appeals at the time. Could be Czech bread dumplings & sauerkraut or some type of white potato dish, along with one or two green veggie dishes.

If I have the time, I do hard-boil & color eggs for fun & then make deviled eggs for myself. Hubby doesn't care for them so it's just a "my thing" sort of thing. But in case I don't get to it, I have a dozen gorgeous ceramic colored eggs I purchased from the Murray McMurray egg hatchery people. While I don't get deviled eggs out of them, they're so lovely & look exactly like real home-colored eggs. Plus - no worries about them spoiling from being left out too long - lol!
 
Well, we just finished our Seder. I guess the only really traditional things we make are the matzoh ball soup and the mandel bread. Oh, and my mother still makes chopped liver :)
 
How lovely, Warren! I haven't been to a Seder in a couple of years. The friend who always invited me moved out of town. :sad: I sure would enjoy some charoset.
 
we have taken on my wife's family's easter traditions (slovakian/polish) over the years, which include: a baked ham, kielbasa/kraut/onions/potatoes, steamed asparagus and/or stringbeans, white borscht, farmer's cheese, grated beets and horseradish, polish rye bread, and babka.
 
Good tie for this thread. I have to make Easter dinner for 6 and I have no inspiration at all. I wanted to do a fresh ham, can't seem to find one. Just at a loss.
 
Crap I forgot to call Grandma in West Palm for Passover! Raised Catholic but I love the Seder food. Unfortunately Jewish grandma not a cook... but she knows her deli.
 
Still undecided about the foods.....I can spend all day saturday packing things and cleaning the basement and garage or I could make the breads and pies. I really should pack....
 
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