You know I love sharing food photos especially of all the delicious dishes from holidays:like Scenes from my Easter 2014 and Food Photo Friday: Scenes from my Easter 2013. SO I wanted to pop in to share this years Easter Dinner. As usual, I headed over to the fiances house for a feast! I have been doing pretty good at work-outs (T-25 DVD’s) and even did a cleanse (3 day refresh recently – more on this soon) so I think I was a little bit too excited to let loose and eat whatever I want, but what can you do. As usual, the table was set and ready to go thanks to Sal’s mom.
We had some cheese and crackers, olives, and pepperoni to snack on and the first course was ravioli with homemade sauce. My favorite!
Onto the main course….we had grilled lamb lollipops with mint pesto!
Here is a peek of all the other goodies that made it onto my plate and happily into my belly: cherry glazed ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and the lamb. Everything was cooked great and there was plenty of food to go around (and LOTS of leftovers – my fave).
And for dessert, pastries from Modern Pastry of course!
Another great holiday family dinner with food, drinks, and family time! Now I need to get my focus back and cut out sweets….a lil over three months until the wedding- eek! How was your weekend – any passover or Easter dishes you loved?
Another holiday feast for Michelle and her soon-to-be hubbie. The in laws go all out….yum.
Did you bring a dish or were the delectable goodies from Moderne your treat?
It took three days to clean your apartment? Wow, it must be totally spic and span now. But spring cleanings are a necessity and a three day cleanse must really get into shape. Did you switch out your winter and warm weather clothes too? That can take at Keats a day for me. But it’s width it!!!
The lamb chops looked so good…is the lollipop in the marinade/sauce on them? I didn’t see them. What flavor lollipops do you use? I bet it’s delicious.
Too bad about the Bruins. My BF screamed at the TV last night, called Milan Lucic Milan Loser and Tuuka Rask Too Bad You Suck. He’s crazy for the Bruins….
I didnt bring anything at all – they have so many treats there is no reason to bother ha Noooo not cleaning , cleansing which is when you do a strict diet and a lot of liquids to cleanse out your system from junk food for a few days! its good for weight loss and your metabolism supposedly !
Sal wasnt too pleased about the B’s either. boo!
The “lollipops” is really just the way you cut the chops to be like a easy to eat lollipop and then the sauce was mint and basil and other ingredients blended into a pesto dipping sauce.
Lamb and ham, a beautiful Easter for you and yours. The Italian touch as a first course truly set it apart.
Did you go to Mass on Saturday or Easter morning.?
It’s something to think about as Easter is what makes Christians Christians.
I’m not sure if I believe that 3 days in a tomb and voila out comes Jesus ready to mingle with his peeps for a few more weeks. But I sure as heck admire anybody who holds to those beliefs.
How many lamb lollipops you eat? I can crush those things.
I can’t do those cleanses, they give me diarrhea and wreck my bowel movements. You did it for 3 days….be careful, they can sap your strength.
Sometimes I’ll just purge if I feel bloated. Not too much, just maybe once every two weeks or so.
No church for me – I am actually Jewish – but not practicing any religion at this time so no synagogue either! I had two of the lamb lollipops and we had leftovers the next day too – so another two the next day ! The cleanse actually did the opposite – I did not go to the bathroom until it was done ! besides p from drinking so much water and shakes !
What a lovely Easter. Your in laws look like spectacular chefs and culinary experts.
Hope you learn to make that gravy for the ravioli. Bet your mom in -law calls it gravy like all the other Nonnas in Revere do.
The lamb chops looked yummy, but I was wondering why you or Sal or his mom serves them with lollipops. It just seems to be a very odd pairing, although you hid the lollipops from the picture.
Are those workout videos good? What do they concentrate on? Do you feel like they’re working?
Are they on Comcast or did you buy them?
For your cleanse, do you just do veggies or a combination of fruit and veggies?
They dont call sauce gravy actually 🙂 They simply call is sauce !
The beachbody videos (like the t25 i mentioned) really are a good hard workout ! it is total body ! i bought them! i have a couple of weeks left (you are supposed to do 5 weeks straight on T25, 5 days a week) so hopefully i see some great results!
The cleanse was also through the beachbody company and you do a shake three times a day. then you can only have one fruit in the morning, one vegetable at lunch, and one vegetable at dinner time and then tea and water!
Whoops…. I saw just that the lamb is cut like a lollipop. …very cool.
I stopped doing cleanses. They left me weak and very vulnerable when I drank after doing them. I’d get a buzz really easy and hook up without really thinking who I was going hone with. It made for some good if slightly crazy times.
But if I’m going to drink shots of Don Julio I need a plate or two of food so I can at least see if Mr Right Now is normal! !!!! Lol
Ha yes ! lamb lollipops are merely the way they are cut and served 🙂 check out a recipe i found online https://blog.etsy.com/en/2013/eatsy-lamb-lollipops/
Yeah you have to careful during a cleanse ! no alcohol at all !