[Sca-cooks] OOP Easter dinner

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

I'll be on a plane coming home from Passover. ;-)

You've described a very simple yet delicious way of roasting lamb. If you 
add lemon and rosemary and oregano it will have a Greek flavor. Accompany 
it with a simple mint sauce--vinegar, a touch of water, sugar, mint.

Are you looking for a light spring soup, or something with more substance 
to it?

Dessert could be some form of custard, possibly with bits of candied 
ginger in it.

Margaret FitzWilliam

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Georgia Foster wrote:

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> Sigh
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> Easter this year will be taken in the company of brothers-of-choice.  My younger daughter will not be home from military training yet so the only child to hunt eggs is the younger son.
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> Yes, we are still hunting eggs.
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> only a few things I will miss about being the mom once he is grown... and this will be one of them (but I digress)
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> Dinner request is lamb (ewh ewh ewh) ... and I have NO idea how to cook it.  I am toying with the idea of making slits and inserting whole cloves of garlic at intervals and slow roasting over apple wood in the smoker.  Suggestions?
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> For those who do not eat lamb (me) and as an additional feast offering there will be ham, heated over apple wood as the lamb finishes.
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> mashed sweet potatoes
> wild rice cooked with rosemary and chives
> fresh green beans (neither frozen or canned)
> mixed lentils cooked with bacon (I am thinking mixed colors)
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> Hot cross bun dough formed into doves with sliced almonds for the feathers on the wings
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> I need ideas for soup (French Onion has been VETOed), and dessert.
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> Every place will be set with a boiled colored egg with the individual’s name on it.
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> So what is everyone else doing?
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> Cheers
> Malkin