Easter Traditional Foods

Usually baked ham here too. I honestly do not remember the sides she made with it. Another "tradition" as a Catholic, on Holy Saturday, there would be a "blessing of the food" at the church. People would bring a basket of foods, representing out Easter meal, and the priest would bless out meal.
 

We usually had some combination of the following ham, kielbasa, hard-boiled eggs, horseradish, a jello creation, cabbage salad, carrot coins, cheese potatoes, and fresh asparagus if it was available.

Dessert was usually a three-layer coconut cake and a mile-high lemon meringue pie or lemon squares.

I usually make a scaled-down lower carb version with a vacuum-packed ham steak, kielbasa, horseradish, cauliflower cheese, and fresh asparagus.

Dessert is usually mixed berries with whipped cream and a few pieces of SF chocolate.

The real Easter treat was leftover ham ground with sweet pickles and mixed with mayonnaise as a ham salad sandwich spread!
 
debodun said:
Does your family have any foods that are traditionally consumed on Easter?
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We used to have a honey baked ham on Easter. My father used to buy it but he's gone now as well as my relatives who have left the state.

We also used to have Keilbasa, potato salad, rolls. When I was real young we'd go to my grandparents and have a huge feast with sausages, mashed potatoes and gravy, ham. My aunts would make these beautiful colored eggs. I still don't know how they made those--not your regular dyed eggs--but rather festive looking ones.
 
We dyed eggs the night before Easter and they were left out in a basket after the egg hunt the following day sometimes longer, not one person died from eggs being left out.
My Easter basket was all I was concerned about.
We had ham for as long as I can remember and I served it as well. My daughter is following the same tradition. Generally we had sweet potatoes, and vegetables that varied from year to year.
Dessert was usually buns that my Czech grandmother would make. Filled with poppy seed, prunes or apricots.
I'm not quite sure why we had ham every year because all the men in the family hated it. Some of the men served in the army and had ham almost every night.
My hubby was in the air force and he had ham on a regular basis also. Yet every Easter the ham was on the table.
I guess tradition won out.
We are going to my daughters home for Easter this year and my hubby asked what we will be having.
Sure enough, ham!
 
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