What Is on Your Easter Menu?

I'm doing a brunch, so I won't be much help in the dinner dept.

I'd use some of those Easter eggs to make deviled eggs as an appetizer.

I am making a sweet Easter bread as a dessert!

Ingredients

* 6 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
* 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 6 tablespoons butter, cubed
* 4 eggs
* 3 hard-cooked eggs
* vegetable oil
* 2 tablespoons cold water

Directions

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast, cardamom and salt. In a saucepan, heat milk and butter to 120 degrees F-130 degrees F. Add to dry ingredients; beat just until moistened. Add 3 eggs; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
2. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes.
3. Dye hard-cooked eggs; lightly rub with oil. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide dough into thirds. Shape each portion into a 24-in. rope.
4. Place ropes on a greased baking sheet and braid; bring ends together to form a ring. Pinch ends to seal. Gently separate braided ropes and tuck dyed eggs into openings. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 20 minutes.
5. Beat water and remaining egg; gently brush over dough. Bake at 375 degrees F for 28-32 or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool. Refrigerate leftovers.

we're going to relatives and all I have to bring (by request) is my (or should I say epicurious.com's) delicious macaroni and cheese with carmelized shallots and feta! it would go great with ham...go to epicurious and see if it's something you'd like.

Brunch at the local nicer restaurant! Prime rib, ham, turkey and gravy, pasta dishes, stuffing, a few veggie casseroles...and I HOPE, their yummy Mousse Bombs in the dessert selection....yum! We have an early afternoon reservation, so the "dinner" menu will be for us, rather than the breakfast items.

We never have concrete Easter plans (my family all goes to their spouses familys and my in-laws are PITAS the last few years about the day)..so we made our own plans, and invited them along...no reply so far...ugh!

Look back to late yesterday. Someone asked the same question.

LOTS of great menus!

Try funeral potatoes is what most call them, they are good with ham. We are going away from the traditional ham and just barbecuing hamburgers and hotdogs for our Easter dinner.

Your ham is a good place to start then what we do at here is we choose, a nice salad or we make bunny out of 1/2 pears with rasins for eyes and nose radishes for the ears and a marshmello for a tail pm a bed of lettus, our favorite vegetable, usually sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar and mini marshmellos, dinner rolls usually cresants, pork stuffing and a Easter themed cake. To drink we have kool aid or some kind of juice. I try to keep it hassel free so I can spend time with my family. If you are having family over ask them to bring one of their favorite dishes.
Wishing you have a wonderful Easter;
J. (from Wyoming)

Potato salad is always good (we make our own so we use some of the boiled eggs)
Also, green salad, fresh fruit, carrot sticks, deviled eggs (another good way to use all those eggs you're going to color, hehe), olives, maybe a green bean casserole. And plenty of rolls. It seems like mostly the ham is hot and everything else is cold for our Easter dinner.

My potato salad recipe: (sorry, I don't measure, learned to do it by eyeball and taste!)
4-5 large potatoes, boiled in skin until tender (but not mushy)
3-4 boiled eggs
2-3 stalks of celery
dressing: mayo, miracle whip, mustard, thousand island dressing, sweet pickle relish, dash of salt, onion powder

Cut the celery into small pieces (I cut twice down the length, then small bits across), peel potatoes and cut into about 1-2 inch cubes (size depends on preference, we like them small like this, but some people like bigger pieces), slice eggs, mix all together in a large bowl.
Mix dressing in a separate bowl - 2 parts mayo and 1 part miracle whip, then add a generous dollop of thousand island and a small bit of mustard, and a rounded Tbsp of relish. Mix well, add dash of salt and a bit of onion powder (maybe 1/8 - 1/4 tsp), mix again. Fold dressing into potato mix until well coated. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Enjoy your Easter dinner with your family!