Ham Calzones

Wanna know what’s cooking in Laura’s kitchen tonight? (In Minnesota, where we are getting what I HOPE will be the last blizzard of the season–supposed to be up to 9″ of white by morning!) We are making Ham Calzones. (”Calzone” is the Italian word for pants, and these little inside out pizzas are [...]

An unusual Easter feast

Remembering last year’s unique Easter “dinner.”
This year’s Easter celebration looked VERY different than the last several years’. This year, for a variety of reasons, I (Laura) took a leave of absence from the church choir, and so I was not at church yesterday from 7 a.m. to noon, involved in all the musical hoopla. Where [...]

Happy Easter

We wish each and every one of you a truly Blessed Easter and a joyous celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
Barb and Laura

Resurrection Cookies and Leg of Lamb

I want to recommend two posts by Journey-to-Mom, a blogger on our blogroll. JTM has posted recipes for both leg of lamb and for resurrection cookies. Check them out!
Barb

Roasted Vegetables ala Paul

Reposting some Easter recipes from last year. I wrote these up AFTER the fact of Easter last year, so now they are just in time for 2008:
Like I mentioned before, my brother-in-law, Paul, is an amazing cook. He managed most of the lavish Easter dinner single-handedly. I’ve had his roasted potatoes before, but this time, [...]

Hey, check this out!

I mentioned awhile back that my second son Nate spends a lot of time on the Instructables website. This week he posted a recipe that he snagged from my files on how to make a SINGLE chocolate chip cookie. This post is part of a contest for making pocket-sized things. At this point, my son’s [...]

Some Easter dinner menu suggestions

Reposting this from last year:
I must confess: I am not cooking Easter dinner this year. In fact, I have nothing to do with Easter dinner this year. We’ll be eating Easter dinner with my sister-in-law Clair and her husband Paul. Both of them of wonderful cooks, so I suspect that I’ll be in for a [...]

Easter Salad

My good friend, Beth, who is also one of the Loopies, sent me this recipe.
Beth writes, “Here is something that I usually only serve at Easter. It is green and fresh and served at room temperature.” (more…)

Grilled Pork Loin with Orange Marinade

Reposting some Easter recipes from last year. I wrote these up AFTER the fact of Easter. Here they are, just in time for this EAster:
Not only did we have rack of lamb for Easter dinner, we also had grilled pork loin that was just amazing! It was deliciously tender and extremely flavorful. (more…)

Mint Rosemary Marinade for rack of lamb

Reposting some Easter recipes from last year. I wrote these up AFTER the fact of Easter. Here they are, just in time for this Easter:
On Saturday, my brilliant brother-in-law, Paul, starting marinating the rack of lamb. He grilled the lamb on Sunday for Easter dinner. (more…)