What should I make for Easter brunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deviled eggs!!

Food poisoning!!

(OP wants to leave in in the car during Mass)

NP- I love easter mainly as an excuse to make devilled eggs. If you have a good cooler with enough ice packs I would think they'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you do something normally associated with Passover? For example, apples with honey, something with salmon, or appetizers made with Motzah crackers.

Because it’s Easter. And she’s going to church beforehand. Would you recommend bringing an Easter ham for Passover?

+1 bizarre suggestion

[Anonymous]

What about a big bowl of cut up fruit? And you keep it in a cooler? A pound cake that you put the fruit over would be great too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carrot souffle

Is there such an abomination?

You've seriously never heard of carrot souffle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend is hosting a potluck Easter brunch. I'm in search of a recipe that I can make the night before and heat up at her house (an hour away) on Easter morning. Even better if I can leave it in my car while I'm in Mass (1 hour), thus eliminating the need to return home after Mass to pick up the dish. I don't know what anyone else is bringing yet.

If you store any food in your car, definitely put it in a cooler even if you need to warm it up once you get to your friend's.

+1

[Anonymous]

Can't you stop by Wegmans and buy an assortment of pastries, rolls, and bagels?
Done and done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you do something normally associated with Passover? For example, apples with honey, something with salmon, or appetizers made with Motzah crackers.

Because it’s Easter. And she’s going to church beforehand. Would you recommend bringing an Easter ham for Passover?

+1 bizarre suggestion

Well, it's a little different, but Jesus was celebrating Passover in the last supper, so it's somewhat symbolic I think. I don't like matza crackers myself, but a salmon dish sounds lovely .. a cold poached salmon with a creamy dill sauce on the side? ..

[Anonymous]

What about quiche? Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for one made in a sheet pan and cut into squares to feed a crowd, and it looks delicious!

https://smittenkitchen.com/2016/11/spinach-sheet-pan-quiche/

[Anonymous]

Peeps S'mores!

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions (even the Passover foods, which was certainly unexpected). After I posted here the host specifically asked me to bring meat and she’s already providing ham. So I think I will do either roasted turkey legs or Cornish hens. I have good recipes for both but have never served them to guests a day after cooking. (Though they have always tasted fine as leftovers.) So maybe I will just get up extra early on Sunday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for the suggestions (even the Passover foods, which was certainly unexpected). After I posted here the host specifically asked me to bring meat and she’s already providing ham. So I think I will do either roasted turkey legs or Cornish hens. I have good recipes for both but have never served them to guests a day after cooking. (Though they have always tasted fine as leftovers.) So maybe I will just get up extra early on Sunday?

I don't think you should keep any kind of meat you intend to serve at a potluck in your car during church. I suggest dropping it off first even if it makes for two trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for the suggestions (even the Passover foods, which was certainly unexpected). After I posted here the host specifically asked me to bring meat and she’s already providing ham. So I think I will do either roasted turkey legs or Cornish hens. I have good recipes for both but have never served them to guests a day after cooking. (Though they have always tasted fine as leftovers.) So maybe I will just get up extra early on Sunday?

Hey OP, do you mind sharing your recipes for both? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for the suggestions (even the Passover foods, which was certainly unexpected). After I posted here the host specifically asked me to bring meat and she’s already providing ham. So I think I will do either roasted turkey legs or Cornish hens. I have good recipes for both but have never served them to guests a day after cooking. (Though they have always tasted fine as leftovers.) So maybe I will just get up extra early on Sunday?

I don't think you should keep any kind of meat you intend to serve at a potluck in your car during church. I suggest dropping it off first even if it makes for two trips.

+1

Even if the meat is cooked, it won't taste the same sitting in a cooler in the car through 90 min Easter Mass + 60 min car drive to be reheated/dried out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for the suggestions (even the Passover foods, which was certainly unexpected). After I posted here the host specifically asked me to bring meat and she’s already providing ham. So I think I will do either roasted turkey legs or Cornish hens. I have good recipes for both but have never served them to guests a day after cooking. (Though they have always tasted fine as leftovers.) So maybe I will just get up extra early on Sunday?

I don't think you should keep any kind of meat you intend to serve at a potluck in your car during church. I suggest dropping it off first even if it makes for two trips.

+1

Even if the meat is cooked, it won't taste the same sitting in a cooler in the car through 90 min Easter Mass + 60 min car drive to be reheated/dried out.

I don’t intend to keep the food in the car during Mass. I scrapped that idea when the host requested meat. But dropping it off first is out of the question given the distance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you do something normally associated with Passover? For example, apples with honey, something with salmon, or appetizers made with Motzah crackers.

Because it’s Easter. And she’s going to church beforehand. Would you recommend bringing an Easter ham for Passover?

+1 bizarre suggestion

Also apples with honey is for rosh hashanah, unless you are referring to charoset which sometimes has honey in it. I guess salmon sort of counts but I don't think it's particularly Jewish or passover specific. Maybe gefilte fish, or matzo ball soup, but those really don't go with an easter bruch. I am half jewish and half christian and prefer to keep my holiday foods separate, other than the overlap of hard boiled eggs.

OP, I'd bring Easter cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake.