Happy Easter?

Sorry, carry on.

Decided not to post.

Church, followed by roast pig that we started last night. Potato salad, roasted squash, mangos. Not to mention beer and iced tea. Just finished the egg hunt and the kids are outside having a cascarone (confetti filled eggs) war. My kids alone bought 18 dozen cascarones with their allowance.

Anyone else?

grading student tests while listening to a book on tape

Saw my parents for lunch, now watching some college hoops. Might stay up and watch the Walking Dead tonight.

It always sneaks up on me since it's a lunar calendar thing. Happy Easter to those who do, Happy Spring to those who don't. Off & on showers, but at least our little cold snap is over. I must have moved those plants in and out of the house three times in the last month.

Sort of glad it is almost over. Just finished helping the wife get the house back in order after having 22 relatives and friends for Easter dinner. 21lb turkey and 10lb ham and we might get one leftover meal out of what remains.

Went and had brunch with the inlaws.

Currently trying to understand why all my best friends all of a sudden are being shiny happy people to me.

Game of thrones, scotch, leftover ham and kielbasa... The best part of some holidays happen after everyone else goes home or to bed.

Happy Easter to all

Sibs didn't make it up to the old home place so I had to help the folks devour all that fantastic traditional hunky Easter food. They only make this food once/ year so why not splurge. I have blood work this week, my cholestorol and sugar will be in the trees. One of my favs is bacon bread, fried bacon bits baked in a kinda eggy bread... well worth skipping the diet for bacon bliss.

Work, thankfully slow. It was amazing how many people where looking for hams at 3 pm Easter Sunday.

Went to the FIL/MIL's. My kid trashed the play room, did full contact easter egg dye-ing, we ate ham made from a pig I met face to face, home made/grown everything else- and fell asleep on the couch to some western. Life was good.

Just got home from the weekend at home (3 hours away). Saw some relatives that I'm trying to see as much as I can for their duration, saw a lot of family and friends, went to church, good food, good people, good beer. Good time.

Happy Easter everyone

Ojala wrote: Not to mention beer and iced tea.

Sounds like a good ol' Catholic Easter egg hunt to me. I remember those from my childhood.

fasted58 wrote: Happy Easter to all Sibs didn't make it up to the old home place so I had to help the folks devour all that fantastic traditional hunky Easter food. They only make this food once/ year so why not splurge. I have blood work this week, my cholestorol and sugar will be in the trees. One of my favs is bacon bread, fried bacon bits baked in a kinda eggy bread... well worth skipping the diet for bacon bliss.

recipe please

cooked a leg of lamb for Mom and me ... yummmmm

Had the family Easter at my parents house out in the country. Got to play with this: Why? City boy cousin buried his girlfriends car in a snowdrift so bad that a 4wd truck couldn't pull him out.

I was a bad person. I was off on a holiday for once and I didn't visit anyone. It's the first weekend in 5 weeks we weren't on the road. We started building a linen closet for the bathroom and grilled some nice strip steaks and veggie for dinner.

I was a bad boy and finished up a timing chain change on my Nissan truck. Spent from 9:00am until 8:30pm on it on Saturday and didn't finish. I hurt so much I could not get out out off bed Sunday morning. That and the wife was off visting our daughter and grand kids and wasn't there to wake me up.

Unhappy Easter here.

One of our cats - a tuxedo who showed up on our doorstep one day back when he was a kitten - got hit by a car. Poor guy didn't make it.

Please give your pets an extra hug in his name.

Both parents in the hospital. It wasn't our normal Easter...

In reply to bravenrace:

Hope they are well soon

just went through that too, not fun

Relaxed being one of my first weekends in a really long time with no school work to do. Then we had dinner at my mom's place.

In reply to fasted58:

Thanks! Both of them fell and then had other complications. They found my Mom was mal-nourished with dangerously low sodium level, and my Dad had a broken rib and pneumonia. He's 90 and my Mom is 83, so recovery will be slow. My Mom is going to a rehab facility today for two weeks, and my Dad will follow once they feel he's recovered enough from the pneumonia. It initially looked like they were no longer going to be able to live at home, but now things are looking up a bit.

bravenrace wrote: In reply to fasted58: Thanks! Both of them fell and then had other complications. They found my Mom was mal-nourished with dangerously low sodium level, and my Dad had a broken rib and pneumonia. He's 90 and my Mom is 83, so recovery will be slow. My Mom is going to a rehab facility today for two weeks, and my Dad will follow once they feel he's recovered enough from the pneumonia. It initially looked like they were no longer going to be able to live at home, but now things are looking up a bit.

Man, that's rough. Good wishes going on for ya.

wbjones wrote:

fasted58 wrote: Happy Easter to all Sibs didn't make it up to the old home place so I had to help the folks devour all that fantastic traditional hunky Easter food. They only make this food once/ year so why not splurge. I have blood work this week, my cholestorol and sugar will be in the trees. One of my favs is bacon bread, fried bacon bits baked in a kinda eggy bread... well worth skipping the diet for bacon bliss.

recipe please

Saw the folks today and remembered to get the recipe. Dad at 89 recently took over the cooking/ baking while Mom was sick so this is his version of it.

Cube bacon from slab into 1/4" pcs. Fry till kinda chewy/ crisp but not too cruchy crisp. Drain grease, press bacon on paper towels if real greasy. Remove the crust from a loaf of white bread, dice bread up to manageable pieces. I spose deli Italian bread would work as well but regular off the shelf white bread is the easy way. Knead bread well w/ 4-5 eggs and bacon cubes. I don't think there can ever be too much bacon in it so populate the mix well. Might wanna add salt. Consistency should be not too eggy, not too bready. But just like stuffing everybody makes it a little different. Place mix 1-1/2" to 2" deep in greased baking or angel food pan, bake at 350 for half hour.

I prefer it dense and moist (prolly just a tad more eggy), if it browns too much you'll lose the moist. My aunt makes it more bready but they prefer it like that. YMMV

Oh and it's best served w/ kielbasi and ham, they just go well together.