We made babka. I don't like this recipe. ( and it appears to have eyes)
Michelle rolled out some pierogie dough and we made some potato-cheese ones! Yum.
My family helps me celebrate my birthday while we are all together!
Traditional egg cracking contest. Here are the youngest and oldest pitted against each other.
Molly hasn't a clue, but she will learn quickly.
Every year our household hosts the Easter dinner for my family. We have about 20 of us.This year I decided to go against our tradtional meal of turkey/ham, etc...
I decided to be a little more ethnic. Polish side doesn't have a traditonal Easter meal, aside from getting the food blessed on Sat. (we didn't do that) So, we just had traditional polish food; all homemade except the sausage; kielbasi, pierogi, babka, galumpky(cabbage rolls). For the Italian side, they have a big multi course meal which included a lot of fish; so we nixed that and added lasagna, pasta salad, field green salad, and an anti pasta called "benedetto" or blessing. This is strictly a Battista (Vin's mom's side) dish. Layered orange slices, egg slices, genoa salami, lemon slices and ricotta salata. I didn't remember this dish. I asked Vin's aunt about it, and searched high and low for the ricotta salata (a hard ricotta that you can slice), found it at Whole Foods. Vin was super excited and I am so glad I can bring a favorite taste bud tickler to him. That was fun to see.
What traditions do you all have and do you ever switch it up?
3 comments:
Hallelujah He is Risen!!
And.... the pierogies look delicious.
I LOVE polish food- one of my favorite meals at our house is pierogies, kielbasa, cabbage, and stewed apples. YUM!!!
At Christmas, we don't do the traditional ham or turkey because we already do them BOTH between Easter and Thanksgiving. So we do really expensive steaks that we wouldn't normally buy. Baked potato and salad, lots of desserts. I llok forward to that steak all year:)
say it like Grandaddy....
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