Easter holiday is in 1 week and most of us start cooking this week. We have all traditions to keep, recipes from our grandmothers to prepare and menu to make. Time will pass so fast next week so make a list this weekend with all the dishes you think about making for Easter. It will help you next week a lot. Add for every meal on the list, the time to prepare and the ingredients, so you will know when to make it.
My list for Easter is almost the same each year. Here goes some traditional food we will definitely serve on Easter.
Traditional red eggs (and colored)
Borsch or sour meatball soup
Sarmale -Wine vine rolls or cabbage rolls with rice and meat
Lamb stew
Cozonac – sweet bread with poppy seeds or walnuts
Pasca – Cheese or chocolate cake
I will also add to the menu new recipes and not so traditional. I will make smaller portions than usually. Our families make too much food on Easter and Christmas. Visiting friends, you will get the same menu over and over again. It is nice to have something fresh and new to serve your guests beside your traditional recipes.
I start asking my family to make less food every day. We need to be aware of wasted food, especially on holidays.
Our traditional appetizers are a mix of fresh vegetables, cheese and meat. Go wild and serve instead some Red caviar or Black caviar. It will make your guests feel special.
For soups you can go festive with a Lobster bisque or a Sweet potato soup with ginger.
Try Half Hasselback potatoes for your potatoes.
For dessert you can try something different with
Chocolate cupcakes without sugar and flour
Pasca you can replace it with Raw vegan cheesecake with clementine. It will be a light dessert after all the heavy menu.
Enjoy!
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Amazing! You make me feel hungry!! Congrats for your menu, my happy pixel! I’ll be posting some Easter recipes this week, too, if you want to have a look!
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I have never heard of most of these dishes but they all look so amazing!! I haven’t had breakfast and now I’m drooling just looking at this!
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so beautiful and yummy! thank you!
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Interesting reading. We do not have for Easter lot of traditions. Eggs and quark dishes, that is all 😉 so thank you for inspiration!
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Your pictures are STUNNING!!! Love it!!
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I love your family Easter menu, particularly the red eggs, and the idea for half-hasselback potatoes. I agree it’s good to change up the traditional holiday menus, and also making less is a good idea. Wonderful post!
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Wow, great stuff, Gabi! Sarmale in vine leaves is one of my favs, but I’ll have to cook more vegetarian this Easter because of my vegetarian brother coming by. The meatballs sour soup is also another great dish, not to mention the desserts! Ofc, the eggs will be on the table! Have a great week!
Thank you. Try the vegetarian sarmale with mushrooms. They are amazing!
I know but I prefer those vegetarian in cabbage leaves (varza murata). 🙂 And the meaty ones I like the best in vine leaves.
Omg! Everything looks so good ☺
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I like them you inspired me to start my easter shopping… i always wait till the last minute 😅😅
Scrumptious!
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Wow! That is a lot of food. Big family?
Big family. All are making their contribution.
That sounds like a delicious easter menu! But definitely a lot of work. Good luck with all the preparation!
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Yummy! Looks very lovely! 🙂
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Your menu is very different from mine. We are a simple family, whose main Easter dish is Baked Ham, topped with pineapples & cherries.
I like your menu. We are simple family too. This big menu is for all the family that gets together for the holiday. Imagine a grand-grand father, 8 kids with families. It could get more than 25 people at the table.
Some great ideas for easter. I tend to cook traditional foods for the holidays but with a healthier twist.
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That sweet potato 🍜soup looks delicious!
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Wonderful menu! love it 🙂
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Wow, you are very ambitious with that menu. Would love to see some of those recipes in the future, esp. the vine rolls and the cozanac. -Kat
I will put the recipe on the blog
I’ll start my planning tomorrow. Have a wonderful Easter.everything sounds great!
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I love the sound of the Cozonac. Just googling recipes and most seem to be loaves. Are yours in a pastry case? Would love to know.
They are in a special clay tray special for cozonac.
Everything looks so wonderful!
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hopefully i’ll get to try out a recipe..
This looks delicious! 😀
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Wow. Would to be at your Easter table!!!! It all looks amazing 🙂
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so much delicious food here!
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Lovely, I like all of the pictures, and you are right to make smaller portions and more variety. On the other hand, I love leftovers. Some foods taste even better the next day!
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Everything looks so good! I need that lobster bisque! 😊🤤
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Gabi, you are a very talented photographer! I love the photos of your foods. From what heritage are you? Some of the foods look Ukrainian, but other do not. I am guessing Eastern Europe. My heritage is Ukrainian, Norwegian and Austrian(?) which leaves me mostly confused. On the other hand, could lutefisk stuffed pirogis be all that bad? Hmm… probably yes.
Hi. I am from Romania. We were influenced by Austrians.
I lived in Germany for five years, and in that time I was able to visit Romania and Moldova several times. The drive from Munich was stunningly beautiful! Every country I drove through, I wanted to stay longer because everyone I met was so kind and interesting. I stayed in Targu Marus for a couple weeks. One the way back from Moldova, we were able to stop Brasov to check out one of Vlad the Impaler’s castles. What an amazing experience! This was back in the early 2000’s so border crossings were not a pleasant experience, but only due to long lines. As for Moldova’s welcome sign, “Drum Bun,” well it made for some good jokes along the way. I nearly lost my car in a pothole!
We have big problems with our roads. So sorry about that. We are trying to make them better but is a long process.
Romanian roads weren’t that bad. It was in Moldova that the roads were pretty awful!
Cooking with limits is very vital in the African region particularly Nigeria where the living standards for the common man is nothing to brag about. So we are very careful not to eat our tomorrow’s food in advance, and how I wish the reverse is the case. All the pictures posted are beautiful and attractive. Thanks for such a display of professional display.
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What a wonderful selection of food, and so we’ll photographed. We have very little in the way of traditional Easter food in Scotland, although we have borrowed some English ideas.
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Hey! Thank you for your continuous support
You are an inspiration. Keep motivating me
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Your family sounds so much like mine. Our menu is traditionally seafood on good Friday and then again one Easter Sunday. We too make an abundance of food and I have often suggested to my mother not to make as much this year! Your recipes look delicious and the photos are divine!
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I am totally with you on cooking too much food. My mom turns a deaf ear. To her abundance is love…my sister-in-law and I are trying to be pre-emptive this year by bringing several things ourselves so that we won’t have left overs.
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This all looks great. I remember having Borsch soup during my time in Russia. It was pretty good! Hope your holidays are well and thats there’s not much waste this year
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This menu sounds so wonderful. I love cabbage rolls and lamb stew. Happy Easter to you and your family.
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The sarmale looks awesome. Is it similar to dolmas?
Thank you. Something similar.
Weldone Gabi, the photographs are great.
I like the sweet potato soup with ginger.
And thanks for all your likes on my blog postshttp://nahfood.wordpress.com, I’m grateful. 😉
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Mmm all those yummy Romanian Easter dishes….can’t wait till next Easter to come again.
Stunning images.
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