Easter Recipe Ideas

The state park where i live hosts an age appropriate easter egg hunt and families grab a picnic table and either bring a bbq or use the parks and we bbq.

Last year we had grilled ham steaks w/pineapple chipotle glaze, red skin potato salad, deviled eggs, green salad, rolls, chicken and veggie kabobs, mac salad, coconut cake, and various pies. There were three families together.

It was great!! Fresh air and sunshine. Dont know what the weather will be like this year but i plan to be untraditional and healthier.

Hope that helps
granny

Hi J.,

Have your thought about making individual Cornish hens stuffed with rice or dressing? Add a green salad and fresh cooked green beans and you've got a simple but tasty lunch.

We are going to marinate a grill a pork tenderloin... so yummy and lean. Hope this helps!

Hi, J.. One year I marinated round steak in some kind of concoction I came up, over night in the fridge. We grilled it the next day and it was wonderful. Here in Louisiana, it's usually almost hot for Easter, so it's perfect barbeque weather. I also made potato salad, baked beans with bacon, deviled eggs and brown 'n serve rolls.

J.,

If you like beef, how about a nice prime rib. You can bake it or do it on the stove top using a cast iron dutch oven. I do a prime rib sometimes with a nice twice baked potato and big garden salad. This is a big hit in my family.

J.

Our new favorite holiday meal is deep fried turkey. You could also smoke a whole chicken on the smoker, which is our next favorite. No problem if you do not have a smoker, many local barbque places around here (the ones that smoke the pig outside) will smoke yours for you - you just have to drop it off a few days to a week before, and then go pick it up. Yummy!

As for sides, we don't make 50 side dishes anymore. My husband picks a favorite, I pick a favorite, and we call it a day! It makes for much more time with the family in my opinion.

you could do a brisket with some potato cassarole and bread green bean cassarole and deviled eggs

Well J., I am Joy, And What we do every year is have a family get to gather, Because I have 4 children and they are all married, and 3 grand children, so there is 13 of us, And after Church on Sunday we have a B Q Dinner Chicken, Weiners, Sausage, on the Grill with Potatoe Salad bake beans , And for Desert we have Bannana pudding, Big Hit here.. Hope have helped... Joy...

Try grilling out. Steaks are great and just enjoy the nice weather.
T

I also have decided to do something different this year. Everytime I make this someone asks me how I made it.
Tomato Basil Pork Loin
3-5 lb. pork loin
3 tablespoons olive oil
minced garlic
chopped onion
sliced mushrooms
diced tomato's
basil
pepper meat
1 can chicken broth

put olive oil in large skillet
add garlic/ heat
brown meat on all 4 sides/ about 30 seconds each side
place in large baking dish
add everything else except for broth
brown about 3-4 minutes(turning to brown each side)
add broth bring to boil/ remove from heat
pour over meat/ cover with foil
Bake on 375 3-4 hours depending on size of Loin

Goes well with all dishes that your family already loves.
I promise you will not be disappointed. No knife is needed to cut the meat. It just falls apart.
Blessings,T.

Maybe make egg-shaped ham sandwiches? Deviled eggs are good. Also, Hopping John (made with black-eyed peas) is really good. You can serve it with rice if you'd like. Or, if you've got the money to spend, spruce up a nice rack of lamb.

I am a southern girl, but every Easter we do a good ole fashioned BBQ. We do chicken, Boston Butt, Potato salad, pork-n-beans, rice dressing, garlic bread, and also hot dogs for the kids to munch on while they wait. And of course we have like cheesecake or something for dessert!!!

Actually, i am looking for the same thing. I just think it's time for a change on the holiday meals i just haven't got around to asking mamasource for help with ideas yet because i am trying to get help with stopping my 3 year old from sucking his thumb. Any suggestions? Please feel free to respond.

Here are some of my most used web sites for recipes:

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/ea...

http://www.tasteofhome.com/search/recipes/category.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holidays-and-Events/Easter/...

http://www.bhg.com/home/Easter-Recipes.html

http://southernfood.about.com/cs/easterrecipes/a/easterme...

I hope some of these will help you find just what you are looking for.

Being from Calif. and leaving most of my family there. We often had rack of lamb for Easter time. If cooked right it's very good but at the same time if not it's very bad!

I see you have gotten some great ideas, but I thought I'd add mine. We may have this dish at my house for Easter. A friend gave it to me, and its delicious and easy, as well as pretty! :)
Cranberry Chicken

1-16 oz. can whole berry cranberry sauce
1-8 oz. bottle creamy French dressing
1 envelope onion soup mix
6 chicken breasts

Mix cranberry sauce, dressing and soup mix. Pour over chicken breats in a 9x13 dish. Marinate overnight. Bake at 400 degrees for 40-60 minutes. (We eat ours over rice.) Enjoy!

Have a blessed Easter!

How about grilled steaks and twice baked potatoes. Or go Italian-could do lasagne, salad, garlic bread or could do shell fish with rice, salad, roasted veges. Here's a thought, how about you pick the main dish, and the kids and hubby each make a dish to compliment it. Or put it to a vote. If you are a certain nationality, you could find out what is traditional for that nationality and try some new things. Just a few ideas. Have a great Easter.

My daughter was never much in the mood for a big dinner after sampling the treats in her Oestre basket and hunting eggs, so we would just make deviled eggs or egg salad sandwiches (two of her favorite egg dishes) from the eggs we had colored.