Someone invited me over for Easter dinner and I had to decline, but here is what she's serving:
Ham (I don't know what kind - spiral, etc.)
Potato salad
Fresh green beans
Chocolate angel food cake w/ chocolate sauce and fresh strawberries
If I was cooking for company, this is what I'd make:
Spiral ham with Rum Raisin Sauce
1 cup dark raisins
1 cup Bacardi amber rum, 80 proof
5 to 7 pound partially or fully cooked ham with bone
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 cups apple cider
1/2 cup rum
Soak raisins in 1 cup rum for 2 hours. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place ham, fat side up, in a roasting pan. Score fat in a diamond pattern, cutting at 1 inch intervals. Rub ham with mustard and pat with brown sugar. Add raisin/rum mixture and apple cider to the bottom of the pan. Bake 1 1/2 hours, basting every 20 minutes. Remove ham and skim fat from pan juices. Pour juices into a sauce pan and cover over medium-high heat for about 15 minutes. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup rum and heat. Pour into sauce boat.
Scalloped Pineapple
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 eggs
1 (15 oz) can crushed pineapple
4 cups cubed soft bread
1/2 cup butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat sugar, flour, and eggs with a spoon. Add pineapple and juice. Pour into buttered casserole. Stir bread cubes in melted butter until bread is soaked. Add to casserole. Bake 1 hour until set, do not underbake.
Green Beans with Tomatoes and Basil
1 pound green beans, trimmed
1 garlic clove, crushed
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
5 tablespoons minced fresh basil, or 5 teaspoons dried basil, crumbled
4 small tomatoes, quartered (or some of those little grape ones)
Cook the green beans in boiling salted water for 4 to 5 minutes, or until just tender. Drain them, and refresh under cold water. Cook the garlic in butter in large skillet over moderately low heat, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the green beans and 2/3 of the basil. Cook, stirring, until the beans are just heated through. Add the tomatoes, the remaining basil, salt and pepper to taste. Cook, tossing gently until the tomatoes are just heated through.
Don't forget some hot bread - dinner rolls or biscuits. You could buy the rolls, but don't use refrigerated biscuits. If you can't make biscuits from scratch, don't bother with biscuits at all.
Dessert?
After all that cooking, some rainbow sherbet.