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Weekend Bites: Easter Eggs

It’s Easter Weekend! Thanks for joining us on Weekend Bites. Check out the featured recipes for eggs below. Share your favorites in the comments.

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I love Easter Weekend. It’s one holiday that I don’t really stress over too much. Growing up, it was always huge. My aunt usually hosted a church egg hunt for the kids, and a scavenger hunt for the teens. It was quite a crowd in our home that weekend, and plenty of candy was to be had. We would spend the Monday night before dyeing all the eggs – and let me tell you, that was a lot of eggs! See we didn’t just hide plastic eggs, lots of real hard boiled eggs were included. After the egg hunt was over I’d go around trying to see who got the eggs I colored. You know you’ve always got at least one egg you feel especially proud of. If I could locate it, I’d try and finagle a trade – usually for one of the plastic eggs with candy inside.

With all those memories, and realizing I didn’t have to color any eggs this week, I started feeling a bit nostalgic. As always, you all came through for me, and shared a nice variety of egg dishes to feature.

Egg Features

Chocolate Confetti Easter Eggs

from Clean and Scentsible

why yes, I am starting off with a chocolate egg. What a brilliant idea! I can already see it sitting in the kids Easter Baskets.

Eggs to Dye for

from Margarets Morsels

I love how bright these colors are! You’ll have to click over to see what she used.

Hard Boiled Eggs Benedict

from Home Cooking Memories

I love eggs benedict, I never thought to use hard boiled eggs! This is a great way to use all those colored eggs next week.

Greek Egg Benedict

from Lemons for Lulu

In case you want a greek flavor, try egg benedict with a bit of lamb and pita! This is on my try ASAP list.

Sourdough and Sausage Tuscan Egg Bake

from Growing Up Gabel

If you want something easy and flavorful Easter morning, I’d give this a try!

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March 24, 2016
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March 15, 2016
Jerusalem Dinner

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Weekend. It fell right in the middle of our Spring Break, so we got a lot done on our bathroom remodel, but we also kept it fun and Spiritual for the kids. To celebrate Easter simply we had this Jerusalem dinner.

Saturday we went to the town’s Easter Egg Hunt. It was absolutely wonderful, and the kids may make it in the local newspaper! We got way too much candy though, so the Easter Bunny left one basket of goods for the family to share. I was actually pretty happy with this route, because it meant we could spend Sunday focusing a little more on the true meaning of Easter.

After church, we turned on The Testaments. A beautiful movie about faith in Christ, that ends with his Resurrection and his visit to the America’s (as told in The Book of Mormon). You can purchase it through Deseret Book.

After the movie, and some nice Sunday relaxation we ended our day with what I’m calling a Jerusalem Meal. I got the idea from SugarDoodle. While most families I assume were eating Easter Ham, we had a much simpler meal consisting of what Christ would have eaten. The only thing we were missing was some Lamb, because I couldn’t find it at our local grocer, and I didn’t want to make the drive out to Walmart.

Want to create your own Jerusalem Dinner?
A few musts –
Unleavened Bread, Grapes, Plums, cheese, and grape juice.

I added the hard boiled eggs because we have quite a few in the fridge. You could also add some lamb to your meal, and trade the juice for milk. Not pictured here is honey. I think the honey really made a nice addition to the bread.

I used Catholic Cuisine’s recipe for Unleavened Bread, but I added about 1 tsp of Rosemary to ours. It was quite good.

The kids and I loved this meal, Mark would have enjoyed it more with a little meat. It was a great lesson to teach the girls about the food ate during Christ’s time on earth though.

April 1, 2013
Not enough hours in the day

It’s official – there are not enough hours in the day to do all I want to do. When I became a mom I started throwing my whole self into that – motherhood. Slowly I began doing things I enjoyed again – like reading. As a homemaker, the kitchen became my domain. 3 home cooked meals a day (although that includes cereal most mornings) has turned me into quite a little chef. Having so much time to spend in the kitchen has helped me grow my cooking and baking skills. I can adjust recipes as needed, substitute with what I have on hand, and sometimes make stuff completely up and have it all taste pretty good.

With so much time devoted to feeding my family, and just staying on top of daily chores, my other hobbies have gotten left behind. This last Christmas I decided to start sewing again. It’s not something I was ever great at, but I did enjoy. So I made some hooded capes for my nieces and a hat for the littlest one. There was supposed to be a matching dress with the hat, but I ran out of time. I finally made the time to get the dress finished – 3 months late. I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Of course now I need to remember to get to the post office with it before she outgrows it.

I am actually really excited to have accomplished this. I plan on many more sewing adventures in the future, and perhaps more tutorials to share with you! Now I just need to find the hours to craft, go running, scrapbook and garden. So many fun things, so little time in the day.

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This week we should be finishing our bathroom remodel. It’s also the end of the month – YAY – so our menu this week is real simple! Enjoy

Monday – Paul Bunyan Burgers

Tuesday – Biscuits and Gravy

Wednesday – Beef Stew (from my freezer meals)

Thursday – Hawaiian Ham Skillet

Friday – Phyllo Chicken Rolls (another freezer meal)

Saturday – Leftovers

Sunday – Jerusalem Dinner

March 25, 2013