Easter

Happy Easter to all from Aunt Rose and JoAnn.

I remember the dining room table at Grandma's that Aunt Phyl created every Easter. I can still picture the many colored hard boiled eggs and candy on the table. We never refrigerated them or the ones that we made at home. I don't know how we never got sick. Aunt Rose still colors eggs and they are always so pretty too.

Traditionally, Aunt Rose also makes Easter bread and ricotta calzones. She makes a little lamb cake when the kids are going to be here. I sometimes make an Easter pie that my neighbor from Italy taught me how to make with eggs and ham and cheese. I have started to make lamb for Easter dinner along with pork roast and all appetizers and the sides that go with dinner. Since it was not something we were used to, I made a small boneless lamb roast with our usual dinner a couple years ago and everyone seemed to like it so now the lamb roast gets bigger and the pork roast gets smaller. My sister, Jerry and Jeremy (Dana will be in Chicago this year) and my son Vic and his wife, Gabriella, will come for dinner. My son, Bill, has made a tradition to visit my daughter Christine and her family every Easter. I wish we all could be together, but at least they have each other for the holiday. The girls, Grace (9) and Isabella (6), especially look forward to Bill hiding eggs for them to find Easter morning. Here at home we'll have our usual early dinner and then there will be ham and all the Easter treats for the rest of the day. Happy Easter!