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Easter Celebration
Yesterday was Easter and the weather was glorious – warm and sunny and not at all like Easter in New England. For the first time in my life I served a sit down dinner for 12 outside. We set up tables and chairs in the driveway (the ground is pretty soft right now) and with some extra touches (like rugs from our Civil War trailer) I made it look very special.
Most of the family and some of our friends were able to join us for ham, turkey, parmesan mashed potatoes, asparagus, mashed carrots and turnip, and corn muffins. Everything was delicious and the company was great. We sat and talked and laughed and ate for most of the afternoon.
Our dessert included coconut cake and iced sugar cookies and lemon squares.
All very spring-like on a lovely summery afternoon.
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Wasn’t the weather just the best? My nephew spent all afternoon with his adult “puppets” in the backyard, playing with the bubble machine…
Lovely afternoon and great night, watching baseball, knitting and just being.
Oh yum! How nice that you got to be outside, too. What a special day.
What a lovely time!
Sounds like fun!
Looks like you had a great deal of fun! Your cookies look (read in Billy Crystal’s Fernando Lamas voice) Marvelous!
A perfect day!
Wasn’t it a beautiful day? Eating outside was a great idea … the table is beautiful.
Lovely table, and those cookies look great! Did you decorate those?
It was a perfect day wasn’t it? Your table looks lovely!
Such fun! You’ve got a real knack for those cookies!
How very COOL — and yet, WARM. 😉
So great to be able to have dinner outside. (Though my husband would not agree. He hates dining outside. Can’t STAND it. “OMG, an INSECT might come!!!!!!!!!!!!” Good LORD. It is a huge bone of contention around here, since I LOVE it.)
Your table looked so nice outside! And I love the cookies. You have such patience!
So glad you had a nice day for dining outside! It’s been a few years since I’ve had a big dinner in the yard…now I’m feeling inspired!!!
How lovely – looks wonderful!
That looks really nice. I love the cookies. Did you make them?
It was truly a glorious non-New-England-Easter day! We ate outside as well 🙂 It was wonderful … ’til those darn little bugs came out, LOL! So glad you had a good day with family and friends 🙂 Oh, and the parmesan mashed potatoes? A *HUGE* hit with my family!!!
What a great day. You always make things look so enticing
It was a bit too cool in Los Angeles to eat outdoors but we did get to experience the effects from a 7.2 earthquake in Mexico while we were eating! Everyone just looked at each other and wondered if we should move outside – we didn’t and finished our delicious meal.
That all looks lovely! How nice to have the rugs outside to lend that air of elegance to your festive table. Our weather was glorious too.What a treat for the holiday.
It sure looks lovely – and sounds like it was fabulously yummy as well. 😉
WOW I want to come to your house next easter.
Tres cool! Rockport was a bit too misty and chilly for a fete such as yours – those ocean breezes, you know. Soon, though.
YUM! You know how I love ham. Did you make those cookies.
What a great Easter celebration!
THose iced sugar cookies look amazing. I want them. I am a Christmas cookie/cookie all year round nut!
How wonderful!
You really have the gift of the sugar cookies, don’t you? 😀
Norma’s husband and my daughter need to have dinner together inside, far away from the flies, while we all eat outside 🙂
We made blueberry pie…the lattices were wonky but man, it tasted good! Your dinner sounds awesome.