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Easter Dinner

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.

posted on Apr 22, 2011 2:13 PM ()

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Yum!! Here's my menu: goat cheese artichoke dip, lamb chops, spring peas and asparagus with dill butter, baby new potatoes, ginger-spiced nectarines and cinnamon chip ice cream.
Best wishes for a wonderful holiday!
comment by marta on Apr 22, 2011 5:04 PM ()
Wow! Sounds so good. I love lamb. Cinnamon chip ice cream!
reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 5:10 PM ()
I am not cooking. I want to go out.
comment by elderjane on Apr 22, 2011 4:38 PM ()
You need to go on a gourmet cruise after your past weeks of being a soccer mom.
reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 5:11 PM ()
wow!I am coming there.How about johnny bread?this goes with anything.
What are you doing for your Easter dinner.
We are having Roast chicken.Had the ham last night.
for dessert I made Swedish Apple pie our favorite with Pistachhio ice cream.
Only two of us,so we keep it simple.But you are more than welcomed at our house.Loved to have you.
Happy Easter.
comment by fredo on Apr 22, 2011 2:32 PM ()
Thanks for the invite. If this was science fiction, I could beam up and set down at your house in time for roast chicken. I have actually have a chicken thawing out in the refrigerator and it should be ready to cook on Sunday, my chicken will be roasting, almost like dinner at Fredo's.
reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 5:15 PM ()

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