Easter is just around the corner, can you believe it? This holiday is such a festive one for our family. Well each holiday is filled with scrumptious food, colorful breads and lots of family gathered around the table.
Because we celebrate the Risen Christ, our traditional foods embody this sentiment. Our homemade pasta is the Ravioli, with golden raisins as little pieces of treasure tucked in each one. This symbolizes the gift of life, Christ gives to each of us.
We have a Lamb dish cooked with spring asparagus, greens, eggs and seasoning. This is a welcomed dish full of spring flavors and rebirth for our gardens.
The Easter Bread is a favorite with a hidden surprise! Each loaf is hand crafted to hide the symbolic hard cooked egg. For Presentation and more sweetness, a sugary coating is given to each load and then sprinkled with cheerful colors.
There is a Ricotta Cheese Pie, or Italian Cheesecake, that we also make. A dense, moist cake drizzeled with the same sugary coating and colorful sprinkles.
Of course we would get dressed up in our Easter Sunday outfits and attend Easter Mass. The entire day was filled with sweet treats, eggs, lots of eggs as they are used in each and every dish, and family.
Rebirth, renewal, spring, growth, happiness, the lifting of heaviness to welcome newness and freshness, this is Easter.
May each of you find that your Holiday is filled with all those things that Jesus promised for all of us!
Happy Easter!
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