What are Your Meal Plans for Easter Sunday

Lamb meatloaf. It has become our tradition. I scored the ground lamb on sale at Meijer last week.

Undecided. Waiting to see what goes on sale this Sunday / Tuesday. Usually try to cook a few bones of rib roast but not sure I will. @Wooleybooger your roast sounds good. @Shane R I did not see that, different market. I'm strange & don't care for lamb anyway.

We're on a plane visiting relatives that day so whatever American is providing, I guess. Didn't occur to us when we booked that that day was Easter Sunday. Oh, well.

The actual day might be an easy travel day.

Shane R said:

Lamb meatloaf. It has become our tradition. I scored the ground lamb on sale at Meijer last week.

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Lamb really is underrated in the US. I really like it. I use it in meatballs all the time and we have lamb chops regularly. I'm gonna make a boneless leg of lamb as soon as I get one.
The combo of ground lamb, pork, and veal turned out to be excellent in meat balls.
We don't celebrate easter. So it will just be another Sunday for us.

The wife and I are going to the oldest daughters for Easter. I’ve been tasked with desert. Bread pudding and Crème Brûlée.

Her in-laws are bringing the meat, it will be over heated ham again…..I really want to bring a Weber grill prepared leg of Lamb with the sweet mustard sauce but…..

Tom

I love lamb, but what I can find around here (SE Twin Cities, MN suburbs) is crazy expensive. $13.69/pound for ground lamb, YIkes.

We're having ham, au gratin potatoes (or is that 'potatoes au gratin'?), creamed corn we made and froze last summer (we had some recently and it tasted so good it brought tears to my eyes), and whatever else SWMBO (I have one, too) decides will be on the menu.

Seldom see lamb around here so I've never developed a taste for it. I tried to cook a leg of lamb years ago. We didn't like it and tossed it out.

I used to buy the leg and roast it but after my wife died I didn't need that much meat. That's when I got the idea to do a meatloaf. I paid just over $7/lb for the ground lamb this year.

Steve-o said:

We're on a plane visiting relatives that day so whatever American is providing, I guess. Didn't occur to us when we booked that that day was Easter Sunday. Oh, well.

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Last time I went to South America I used LATAM from Miami. They had a full dinner service complete with wine. The entree was ravioli of all things. Much more elegant than what Delta provided.

Old Gnome said:

I love lamb, but what I can find around here (SE Twin Cities, MN suburbs) is crazy expensive. $13.69/pound for ground lamb, YIkes.

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Aldi has ground lamb on the regular and it's around $7/pound iirc. Personally speaking, I would think they could find lamb to grind closer than Australia and New Zealand but it is what it is, I guess. It's decent stuff. I use it in chili and have no complaints about it other than the road miles.

Shane R said:

full dinner service complete with wine

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We're cashing in FF miles so we don't get much of a choice. My expectations for pretty much any US carrier are pretty low so if it's edible and not 91% refined carbs I'll call it a win.

Well, pleasantly surprised. She agreed to ONLY ham this time 'round. SO picked up a spiral for a change instead of a bird and a 'nugget' ham.

Now to decide on sides. Green beans a must and some spuds. Still thinking as sides for ham are substantially different than for turkey IMO.

You going to bake that ham or eat it right out of the package?

Turkey is a once a year thing around here. Used to have it TG and Christmas as a kid so once is my rule.

It's pre-cooked so just a re-heat to 135o--resting comes to 140o. Comes with a glaze packet but we'll see when it comes time for that whether I use it or "wing it".

Have the ingredients for a glaze from here

I think I would go with the Dijon Maple Glaze.

Steve-o said:

We're cashing in FF miles so we don't get much of a choice. My expectations for pretty much any US carrier are pretty low so if it's edible and not 91% refined carbs I'll call it a win.

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Call the airline and ask for a Kosher meal. They're much better than the standard fare.

LeonardoDaBenz said:

Well, pleasantly surprised. She agreed to ONLY ham this time 'round. SO picked up a spiral for a change instead of a bird and a 'nugget' ham.

Now to decide on sides. Green beans a must and some spuds. Still thinking as sides for ham are substantially different than for turkey IMO.

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Scalloped or au gratin potatoes tend to be the go to here for ham. I make 2 separate batches of the potatoes so I can cube up what's left of the ham to toss in, warm it up and add steamed peas for a meal a few days later.

This year's Easter menu is roast leg of lamb, fresh peas, a potato dish of some sort, and something else. I positively loathe mint jelly so I'm going to make fresh mint sauce instead. Not sure how I'm going to roast the lamb just yet; my husband is kind of new to lamb (the first time he had it was about 4 years ago) so I don't want to do too much to it.

Any suggestions / ideas?