26th Street Sentiments

So, this year our Easter celebration was all about the food. After all, when you take away family, (live in a different state) easter eggs (who has the time?), and church (services only offered in the morning/Wes still sleeping from working all night), what do you have left? Food. Lots of yummy good food (and of course our early morning doughnut adventure). Last year Sue and Greg were visiting. They came and our day started with church, continued with breakfast for lunch, lunch for dinner and dinner at 9:30 at night--woops! All because of--drumroll please-- some bread-rolls... homemade rolls. Explanation: you know how I can be a little emotional sometimes?? Well, I cried over the rolls when I discovered they took hours longer than I had planned for. And having the amazing, sweet family that I have, they insisted that we eat late and make the rolls. So we did... we ate late only to end up having hard small rolls that didn't even turn out anyway. *sigh* memories. This Easter we did not make these rolls (though we almost did) we felt like we were trying enough new recipes for one day and to add on homemade rolls to the mix would have been a bit much. The good news is: Everything turned out delicious this Easter. AND we ate at 7:00. Boo-yeah! So, our menu on Easter day:

Honey-goat cheese-phyllo dough-triangles and fruit

making them...



Leek, Mushroom Potato Gratin

[Oops... forgot pictures of these]

Asparagus

I discovered a beer that I like:


and Tiramisu for dessert

yum yum yum

and these were

my surprise Easter flowers...
Rainbow Tulips!

We had so much fun. A little saying to live by: when preparing any meal always spend as much time enjoying it as you did to prepare it.... and that we did....

I PROMISE we were not the least bit tipsy in any of these pictures. Just being silly and having a great time with our "photoshoot."

Love to you all... counting down the days to summer! :)

Katie