What is for Easter Dinner?

[aromaticwings]

For those that celebrate Easter. Just wondering what your dinner menu will be??

[Rawkinlocs]

bumping this up for you 'wings so you'll know what happened to it! :)

[aromaticwings]

Thanks sorry.. looks like it got put on two different areas..

[aledwards]

I'm heading to my Mom's house, which will be all cooked- roast beef & the like.... BUT she asked me to bring a side dish & be in charge of dessert! -she's so supportive of me...I feel very lucky. Anyway, I'll be bringing Carrot Raisin Salad, and I'm making 2 desserts: Mixed Berry Cheesecake & Chocolate Mousse with Raspberries. I'm pretty sure there will be a veggie & fruit tray there, but honestly I would be just fine eating the desserts! Yum! :) I would love to hear what other people are doing.... holidays are tough for us newbies!

[Purl]

My dh's g-ma is making the usu cooked stuff, but I'll be bringing fruit salad, mexican cloeslaw, kale salad, raw fudge, and date-nut torte for myself and the dc.

[tvillemom]

I haven't thought that far ahead yet. My family is going camping that week, and we will return home on Saturday before Easter. I know my extended family will have lunch at someone's house, so I'll probably take a really nice salad, or maybe something else just for me (that might look tempting to everyone else!) and Alissa's fudge balls that I believe are out of this world yummy!! I might try a cheesecake......I know whatever I take, I want others to REALLY WANT to try it!!
Wendi

[rawpriestess]

humm, don't celebrate Easter-- since no kids at home to search for eggs, LOL

but we do celebrate many other pagan holidays, so this is what we do for those days.

Dragggon and I usually do some sort of ritual to the Earth Goddess, with a big bonfire, and meditation, or dancing etc.

then we usually pick any fresh raw foods available in our gardens, right now we have a bunch of herbs and spring greens, then we bring them in make a salad, and probably will have a huge fresh fruit and nut plate followed by some really cool dessert type thingy made of nuts and dates and strawberries, mmmmmmm or whatever we can find.

[Lunar*Fey]

rawpriestess that sounds beautiful. I wish I could celebrate with you! My family seems to be very unsupportive of anything they consider "strange"...I just sort of realized how little freedom I have/have had and how I have made that even worse by developing a disorder. I'm not saying I consider your celebration strange, I just mean anything straying from the usual way my family and most others around here seem to operate. I, in fact, find such a way of celebrating quite natural to me...but have been forced to not do such things, not do things I believe in or feel is right. Anyway, I just wanted to say that that sounded wonderful and I wish I could be there as well...or at least witness such a wonderful connection with the earth. *sighs*

[rawpriestess]

Dearl Lunar*Fey,

I wish you were here too!

What a magickal celebration THAT would be.

[heabrook]

don't celebrate easter. But, this weekend we are having Alissa's raw cannolis :D

That seems appropriate for easter.. something fun like cannolis.

[wyjoz]

I celebrate every 'holiday' on the calendar. not the 'religious' applications behind the holidays. We don't go to church Easter Sunday and bless the eggs as such. BUT in our own way --we have our own. Yes, I'm making the Easter Basket! Even though we don't eat this stuff-- Untill my kids outgrow it!

We are having;

Alissas Ravioli
Sarmas Beet Ravioli
White Sauce and Red Sauce
Several different salads
My Easter Egg Shells, I posted here:
**working on RP Frappucino so we might have that also.
then go for a hike and be part of the 'spring' nature as it's blooming here and just breath in all the spring smells!

[Raene]

I'm making turkeyless turkey and stuffing from Eating w/o Heating and some candied sweet potatoes that were mentioned on this board. For dessert I'm making a raw white cake shaped into a bunny and decorated with raw coconut cream frosting. On Easter morning the Easter bunny will be bringing raw nests made of coconut, dates, and carob hardened in the freezer with lil chocolate eggs -- a recipe I've come up with to replace the cooked ones. Having been vegan for a year, I'm still debating whether eating chocolate eggs and bunny cakes is anti-vegan. Any thoughts?

[rawfigure]

I celebrate the true meaning of the religious Easter, not the commercial Easter. I will have my Mom do a cooked meal for them, I will do the uncooked for me. I must search the Book. Since I am a not a big eater I will be happy with a piece of fruit pre dinner then a Kale salad, and some flax crackers. No desert as I eat desert in the AM if I am going to have it or in place of a meal..after usually gives me um...gas ... :p

[eatyourbroccoli]

humm, don't celebrate Easter-- since no kids at home to search for eggs, LOL

but we do celebrate many other pagan holidays, so this is what we do for those days.

Dragggon and I usually do some sort of ritual to the Earth Goddess, with a big bonfire, and meditation, or dancing etc.

then we usually pick any fresh raw foods available in our gardens, right now we have a bunch of herbs and spring greens, then we bring them in make a salad, and probably will have a huge fresh fruit and nut plate followed by some really cool dessert type thingy made of nuts and dates and strawberries, mmmmmmm or whatever we can find.

im totally not trying to hijack the thread here, but i just wanted to tell you RP that i think youre a beautiful person and youre what i want to be when i grow up :p :D

(me and lunar*fey are like your little groupies :) )

OK so onward to easter dinner...

im not going to be home for easter :( SO..ill probably be eating yummy bananas and dates and more dates all day as a treat :)

happy holidays to all (whichever one you celebrate :cool: )

[AJ Bodine]

This will be the first year my family and I live far away from home. (Wisconsin) We have no family where we live now and very few friends, more like just acquaintances for right now.

Anyway, because we have no pressure to attend the big formal dinner with a smoldering chunk of ham in the middle of the table, we've decided to start new traditions for our holidays.

Rather than base our holiday around food, we're going to base it around activity. I'm sure that we'll have something raw and delicious to eat. But we are either going to travel to another area that we really love to visit and find hiking trails and walk around the deserted downtown, or we are going to stay local and hike up the mountain range in our state park. When we reach the top, we'll hang out up there enjoying nature and snacking on the fruits that we bring with us. We take our dogs with us, so the whole family is together!

[eatyourbroccoli]

This will be the first year my family and I live far away from home. (Wisconsin) We have no family where we live now and very few friends, more like just acquaintances for right now.

Anyway, because we have no pressure to attend the big formal dinner with a smoldering chunk of ham in the middle of the table, we've decided to start new traditions for our holidays.

Rather than base our holiday around food, we're going to base it around activity. I'm sure that we'll have something raw and delicious to eat. But we are either going to travel to another area that we really love to visit and find hiking trails and walk around the deserted downtown, or we are going to stay local and hike up the mountain range in our state park. When we reach the top, we'll hang out up there enjoying nature and snacking on the fruits that we bring with us. We take our dogs with us, so the whole family is together!


wow..that sounds like soo much fun!! :D

[Lunar*Fey]

[QUOTE=eatyourbroccoli]im totally not trying to hijack the thread here, but i just wanted to tell you RP that i think youre a beautiful person and youre what i want to be when i grow up :p :D

(me and lunar*fey are like your little groupies :) )

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hahaha I definately agree with you there :D :p hahaha

[aromaticwings]

This will be the first year my family and I live far away from home. (Wisconsin) We have no family where we live now and very few friends, more like just acquaintances for right now.

Anyway, because we have no pressure to attend the big formal dinner with a smoldering chunk of ham in the middle of the table, we've decided to start new traditions for our holidays.

Rather than base our holiday around food, we're going to base it around activity. I'm sure that we'll have something raw and delicious to eat. But we are either going to travel to another area that we really love to visit and find hiking trails and walk around the deserted downtown, or we are going to stay local and hike up the mountain range in our state park. When we reach the top, we'll hang out up there enjoying nature and snacking on the fruits that we bring with us. We take our dogs with us, so the whole family is together!
Do you live around Kings Mountain? It is a small town there in NC but it is beautiful and full of so much history. I love NC. :D

[lily]

I'm really looking forward to celebrating my first Easter raw. I'm going to make the Mock Turkey Loaf on page 393 of Alissa's book. I tried out a half quantity last night and it was the most divine thing I've eaten for ages. The combination of the delicately sage-flavoured nut 'roast' and the cranberry sauce (I found it needs 4 tablespoons of honey for the full quantity) is just so good. And it doesn't need to be dehydrated.

I'm going to start the meal with a raw soup -- still experimenting with that, but might do a creamy tomato, macademia (or avocado) and basil mixture -- and for dessert, I'm going to make my favourite raw cake, Renee Underkoffler's Lemon and Poppyseed cake, which we've discussed on this board fairly recently.

No chocolate/carob in this menu, so I'll make some of Alissa's Fudge Balls to nibble at the end.

This year it will just be my husband and me, and although he won't go as far as veg juices/wheatgrass/green smoothies, he's very happy to eat everything else raw, so I don't have any SAD addicts to please, which makes it so much easier.

lily

[AJ Bodine]

Do you live around Kings Mountain? It is a small town there in NC but it is beautiful and full of so much history. I love NC.

I live about 45 minutes from Kings Mountain. We actually live next to the South Mountain range. Our back yard backs up to the State Park property which is all mountain, it's quite awesome! North Carolina is wonderful, but like everywhere, too much building going on and the mountains aren't looking as beautiful as they used to. :(

[tvillemom]

AJ...my grandmothers family lives up at Kings Mountain. The rest of us live here in the Triad area (Greensboro, High Point, Thomasville, ) Great to know another North Carolinian....YES, I love NC! How long have you lived here? I haven't read all the posts, so if I'm asking you to repeat something, sorry.
Wendi

[AJ Bodine]

Hey Wendi,

We've been here in NC since the week before Christmas, we lived in SC for 3 months before then, waiting to find a house. My BIL lives in the Raleigh area though, so we have some family about 3 hours away and my nephew goes to Appalachian State up in Boone. I don't go to Kings Mountain often, but I've been told they have hiking trails where you can also rent canoes. My family and I hike at least once a week, and on a good week, maybe up to 4 times.

For Easter, we are heading over to the Chatanooga area, another place that we really love!

I love NC too, always have. For as fantastic as the organic and produce selections here are, surprisingly few raw foodies around! I guess that just means more raw for me until it catches on!

[aromaticwings]

I was living in SC at the time.. Gaffney.. When my hubby wanted to get away from it all for a bit.. he took me to a big raging river one night close to Kings MT. Loved that area beautiful. I do not remember much because we were having some troubles at the time.. but I remember the beauty. When we went to Kings Mt. we went to a place that you sat through some movie about the war between the north and the south..then walked out a different door and walked some trails of where that history actually took place. So cool! You could just hear them trapcing through the forest and feel you were there.. I loved it.. hated to leave. my x is from Shelby, NC but I met him in Gaffney SC

[AJ Bodine]

I lived in Gaffney for 3 months before we found our house. Shelby is the nearest large town to us. I do a lot of my shopping there. And Hallelujah Acres is there, for those that know about that raw business/program. I don't follow HA, but they do have a nice store there and salad bar, both all organic. I will have to check out Kings Mountain soon. Small world!