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Easter Sunday Sides

Easter is traditionally a time when families (immediate and extended) come together to celebrate the season and share a large meal. After all, you can’t have a family gathering without food, right? If you are planning to attend an Easter potluck or you are simply helping your Easter party hostess by preparing a couple of side dishes to supplement the holiday ham or lamb, then consider these easy crowd-pleasing casseroles that are a cinch to make and are loaded with flavor. BAKED POTATO CASSEROLE Ingredients: 1 (2-pound) bag frozen country style hash browns potatoes, thawed slightly 1 (16-ounce) container of … Continue reading →

Unique Easter Desserts

Growing up my mom would make the same dessert for Easter. Year after year after year she would bake a yellow cake in the shape of a bunny or an Easter basket, cover it with white frosting, then douse it with toasted coconut flakes. She stopped making the cake when I was in junior high, right after I was diagnosed with a coconut allergy. These days we diversify when making desserts to celebrate the Easter holiday. In addition to having at least a couple chocolate desserts (what’s Easter without chocolate, right?), we also make sure the buffet table contains a … Continue reading →

Easy and Affordable Easter Desserts

If you are looking for ways to brighten up your Easter buffet with spring colors, then consider making the following simple sweet treats. Not only are they a delicious way to end a holiday meal, they also can be made for less than $10. ORANGE FLUFF CAKE Ingredients for Cake: 1 box orange cake mix, prepared according to package 1 small box orange gelatin 1 cup hot water 1 cup cold water Directions: Bake cake following the box’s directions in a 9 by 13-inch pan. Remove cake from oven and poke holes it in with a fork. Let cool. Dissolve … Continue reading →

Easy Easter Recipes

Easter is less than a week away. Do you know what you’ll be making to celebrate? If you prefer sticking with traditional Easter dishes, then the following simple yet delicious recipes should come in very handy. To save time in the kitchen look for short cuts. For example, with the ham recipe, consider purchasing a fully cooked ham and dressing it up with the glaze listed below. In addition, for the Easter Petit Fours you can cut down on prep time by using store-bought pound cake. EASTER HAM Ingredients: Whole ham 1/2 cup peach or apricot preserves 1/2 cup honey … Continue reading →

Super Simple Sides

If you are looking for an easy side dish to serve with your glazed Easter ham or spicy Easter lamb then you’ve come to the right place. The following recipes are not only super simple to prepare they are also easy on your wallet. The first dish take less than 30 minutes to make and calls for only a handful of ingredients. However, its simplicity only adds to the dish’s overall flavor. The trick is finding the walnut oil. I buy my flavored oils from gourmet stores, but every once in a while you can find walnut oil at larger … Continue reading →

Easter Sunday Dinner Ideas: Lamb

Our family’s Easter dinners typically consist of ham or prime rib, but this year I am feeling a bit bold and am considering making lamb. Ordinarily, big holiday gatherings are not when you want to experiment with dishes (especially main entrees) that are not embraced by all of your guests. However, lamb is a traditional Easter entrée and if you prepare it on a regular basis (and your family members enjoy eating it) then you might be interested in this next recipe. I found it in my mom’s recipe box when I was home visiting a couple of weeks ago. … Continue reading →

In Case of Bad Weather – Inside Easter Egg Hunts

Here in Colorado, we never know what kind of weather Easter will bring. We’ve had some gorgeous Easters where we hunted for eggs outside in short sleeved shirts and sundresses. We’ve also had a lot of Easters where we had more than a few inches of snow. Most of the time we put on our coats and snow boots and go outside anyway, and joke that it would have been harder to find the eggs if we’d left them white! During one snowy Easter we found out that dyed eggs leave a little bit of color behind in the snow. … Continue reading →

The Pets Blog Week in Review for Apr 2-8

It’s that time again: time to catch up on what you might have missed last week in the Pets Blog. Below is a daily breakdown of what Aimee and I covered: Monday, April 2 Poor Aimee had to endure a Moose on her head at 2 a.m. thanks to Nights of Thunder Tuesday, April 3 There was no joy in Kittentown when it came to Aimee’s friend’s spayed kitten Zoe and the “creative diapering” they partook in to keep her from licking her stitches. In honor of April being Pet First Aid Awareness Month, we gave you a list of … Continue reading →

Church-Going Cherub

The week before Easter brings a marathon of church-going for Christians. There’s church Maundy Thursday, with communion; church Good Friday; and a variety of Sunday-morning services to celebrate Easter. Since I was a child, I’ve attended church Thursday, Friday, and gone to one service on Sunday morning – the Easter Sunrise Service. Yep, we got up, put on our Sunday finest, and drove (sometimes walked) off to a service that started at 6:00am. We’d sit in church, singing hymns, listening to the joyful Easter sermon, and catching whiffs of the delicious Easter Breakfast aromas floating up from the church kitchen. … Continue reading →

Creative Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention – Charlotte, North Carolina 2008

It isn’t too late, even though the date is rapidly approaching. This year Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention (CKC) ’08 is coming to Charlotte, North Carolina on August 15-16, 2008. And while it is coming up fast, there is still time to register and sign up for classes and workshops. You have until Sunday, July 27 at 12 midnight Easter Standard Time to register online for the first pick of your favorite classes and crops. And if you register online between now and Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 12 midnight Eastern Standard Time, you will receive a free gift from Wausau … Continue reading →