Well, after the Lenten abstinence, and the fast on Good Friday, we
were ready to feast on Sunday. We had the Easter Vigil Saturday night,
and ended at around midnight.

Sunday's feast was at our house, we've been hosting the church and
family for about three years now. About four families couldn't come
this year, so we only had about 40 people over including us.


I made four legs of lamb, stuffed all over with garlic and roasted in
an herb paste
A roast turkey, roasted with rosemary, lemon, onion, salt and pepper
and gravy to go along with it
Laban bi Khiyar, which is a yogurt cucumber salad/sauce with garlic,
lemon juice and mint in it
Hummus
Three batches of pita bread, of which we have much more left over
than we thought we would
Taratoor, a tahina, garlic and lemon sauce
Harissa, a spicy red chile sauce
Falafel
A pot of waraq 'ounab, grape leaves stuffed with meat and rice and
herbs and cooked in a tomato sauce
Koubbeh, which is a shell of lamb and burghul wrapped around cooked
lamb and pine nuts, all spiced
Tabbouleh

We set out lettuce, kalamata olives, spanish olives, sweet pickles
and dill pickles, feta cheese, tomatoes, radishes. Someone brought
california olives and artichoke hearts.

Other foods brought were,

Two hams, with a glaze of orange marmalade and peach juice on them
that was very nice, but not cloyingly sweet
A green salad with glazed walnuts and pears and a champagne pear
vinaigrette
Chips
Shrimp cocktail and crackers
Devilled eggs
Pesto pasta salad
Mixed veggies
A kind of pasta risotto with lots of vegetables
A Japanese rice roll type thing



For dessert: I made a triple chocolate cheesecake, double batch in a
huge pan.

My MIL made a lemon cake filled with lemon curd and iced with a
coconut cream frosting and shredded coconut

Other people brought Easter sugar cookies, frosted and decorated
Chocolate covered nuts
Brownies with cherries in them
Chocolate cake (a belated birthday cake for our priest)
A shortbread apple tart

To drink:

Sparkling Shiraz (Lorikeet)
Vacqueyras Red Wine (Clos de Cavea)
Ginger Peach Iced Tea (made from Republic of Tea's ginger peach tea)
Lime Coke
Cherry Coke
Barq's Root Beer
Fanta
Ice Water

The lemonade never did get made, but nobody seemed to miss it.

We still have tons of food here, so anyone in the area is welcome to
come feast some more. This is a whole week of feasting for us.

Regards.
Ranee

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