Easter Dinner Menu Plan, TO do List, and MORE!

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Meal Plan:

Spiral Sliced Ham
Green Beans cooked in bacon drippings
Hot Buttered Super Sweet Corn
Herb-Roasted Red Potatoes, Onions, minced garlic, Mushrooms, Broccoli, & Cauliflower.
Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes
Chicken Gravy
Ice Box Rolls
Hummus Deviled Eggs & Regular Deviled Eggs
Dessert:
Orange Cookies & Spring Refrigerator Sheet cake Cake

Do A-head List:

• Monday Evening: {Buy Ham from Aldi's-might wait until Thurs?}& Purchase Jelly Beans for Easter Eggs: Assemble Easter baskets, print off vintage Easter tags for place settings at Dinner Table-Grocery Shop List Below*
• Tues/Wed: hard boil eggs and color with kid
• Thursday: Drop off Addison's Easter baskets & Pick Up Eggs from mom, fill eggs w/jelly beans
• Friday: Double check recipes and make sure we have all the ingredients we need to make dinner. Make Ice Box Rolls Dough and place in Fridge. Perhaps do an "Easter Egg hunt"
• Sat:  

1. Make Orange Cookies
2. Make Refrigerator Sheet Cake
3. Possibly make Resurrection Day Cookies w/Kids b4 bed.
4. Sweep Carpets, clean bathroom, clean dinning room table off, make sure serving dishes/spoons, place settings are freshly washed.
5. Might Peel & Dice potatoes, place in water in fridge
6. Perhaps do all the prep the night before: Chopping onions, mushrooms, crisping bacon, making deviled & Humus eggs, mincing garlic? Place all in fridge for next day??
7. Make more Humus if all out

• Sunday: 

1. Start ham at ____ time
2.  Peel & Dice Potatoes {about 10 Lbs} place in Crock w/chicken stock and smashed garlic cloves on top- Start b4 church needs to cook 6-8 hours.
3.  Chop onion, clean/slice mushrooms, mince garlic, & thaw veggies{corn, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, red skin potatoes w/red pepper, onions, and rosemary}
4.  Make Chicken gravy from Chicken Stock 
5. Make regular Deviled Eggs & Hummus Deviled Eggs
6. Crisp Bacon and thaw frozen Green Beans. Cook gr beans in drippings adding kosher salt & fresh cracked pepper, place in white oval serving dish and keep warm.
7. Place Frozen Corn in white bowl and add 2 scoops of sugar and cook for 4 min, drain water and add 3 T Olivo and cook 30 sec more. Cover to keep warm.
8. Bake Rolls.
9. Set Table and arrange Tags

Easter Dinner Serving Dishes:

• White Oval Au Gratin dish: Green Beans
• Crock Pot: Mashed Potatoes
• Roaster: Ham
• Brown McCoy Pottery Bowl: Corn
• White Rectangle Pan: Roasted Veggie Medley
• White Gravy Boat: Gravy
• Bread Basket with Yellow Napkin: Rolls
• Cake in 9X13 Pan
• Cookies on White tiered tray

Shopping List: 

• Lime Jello
• White/Yellow Cake Mix
• Lemon Pudding
• Whipped Cream
• 8 oz Cream Cheese
• 2  bags Frozen Red Skin Potatoes w/peppers, onions, and rosemary {from Marc's} if cheaper than 5 lbs bag of fresh red skins--if NOT 5 LBS of red skin potatoes
• 8 oz button mushrooms
• Spiral Ham from Aldi's
• fruit cocktail {Might have in pantry}
• Zucchini, Squash, Cauliflower, & Broccoli {Fresh of frozen, check chest freezer b4 shopping}
• Frozen Green Beans & Sweet Corn {Check Freezer Chest}
• Fresh Oranges
• Fresh Limes & Lemons
• 10 Lb Bag Yukon Gold Potatoes