A Happy Easter (and peaceful Passover) to everyone!
(This was one of those semi-accidental/semi-metaphorical photos—showing how the Light touches our everyday things, and makes even the smallest and most trivial aspects beautiful. So may God touch your life.) Click on my image at right to view a larger version.
So… descending to the beautifully trivial <g>—what did y’all make for your feasts? We do Italian food for Easter (Mexican food is for Christmas): I made Drunk Chicken Pasta Salad, deviled eggs and brownies, and our son brought his astonishing spicy lasagna (it’s astonishing that you can get up from the table after eating it, rather than just sinking into a blissful stupor right there…).
And at the other (non-trivial) end of things—I woke up from my evening pre-work nap to hear that Pope Francis has died. This is of course a solemn time, but not of mourning: Francis lived a very long and fruitful life, and is now with God who called him to that work, and has now called him to eternal life. On Easter Sunday.
What special dishes did you make or share this Easter with family and friends? Share below if you like.
Click here for my Drunk Chicken Pasta Salad recipe, which I posted in 2009.
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Vegetarian lasagna is my favorite Easter dish. (Hoping Sam will share his spicy lasagna recipe!)
This year for dessert I decided to make Pineapple Refrigerator Cake, a family recipe that my late aunt (actually a cousin of my dad’s) always made for me when I visited as a child, and when I grew up. It is heavenly, melts in the mouth, extremely rich. It was so hard for me to wait for 24 hours for it to cool that Aunt Mildred would make it the day before I arrived!
Somewhere in moving to and living in 5 states throughout my life, I lost that treasured recipe. I remembered what was in it but not the amounts. So last week I did an exhaustive search online and found it after almost 30 minutes using DuckDuckGo.
As I ate that fabulous dessert again, I closed my eyes and was that little girl in my Easter best: fancy hat, best new blue Easter dress, lacy socks and patent leather shoes. I could see my late Mom and Dad young and healthy in my mind. Amazing what a flavor can do to trigger memories. Thank you, Aunt Mildred!
Will share the recipe when I get it typed up in case anyone wants to try it. A taste of the 1940s and loved ones who once lived in eastern New Mexico…
Happy Easter!
Loretta McKibben
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