Easter Dinner 2016

Last year Sandi invited us to her house for Easter dinner. I think she felt compelled to do a repeat performance. As usual, her table setting was set beautifully in pastel colors. I brought some color coordinated chocolate eggs and bunnies. She had lots of hors d'oeuvres, including olives stuffed with blue cheese which was very good with Champagne.

Her main entree was an Easter Ham. She insisted on making ham even if she doesn't like ham because she abides by the rule that on Easter, one should serve ham. I like ham so who am I to argue especially when she announced that she was planning to serve it with 2 kinds of sauces; pineapple and a raisin sauce.

I could not decide which sauce was better; they were equally delicious with the ham. The Macaroni and Cheese was perfect with the panko topping mixed with with garlic and Parmesan cheese then fried. The Brussels Sprouts were roasted with chili, garlic sauce and sweet soy sauce. Those veggies were not enough so she had to make Multi-colored Baby Carrots and some Coleslaw. She was afraid that would still not be enough so she bought some Potato Salad.

Since none of us are shy in any way, we ate till we could eat no more.....aside from the impending dessert.  We seem to always have room for that. I baked an Apricot Cream Strudel.  I wish I could take full credit on making it but all I did was buy it frozen from Mishi's Strudel and then popped it in the oven. Sandi served it with a scoop of salted caramel ice cream.

As we consumed what seemed to be everything on the dinner table, we relaxed a bit. Aaron turned the news on the television as we watched another one of Los Angeles car chases wherein the bad guy drove on the freeway and and residential areas in high speed. The cops finally did a pit maneuver and the person got out of the car....the guy turned out to be a gal! She had her hands up and as she walked towards the police car when she suddenly went for the driver's seat of the patrol car. She was going to run away from them. Luckily, the police was fast enough to stop her.

Family, great food and entertainment. What more can you ask for on an Easter Sunday......thank you Sandi, for inviting your other family.