An Easter Feast with food to spare


(When my brother Andy and his wife Izzy were here from England last November I ordered a Fresh Market Thanksgiving Dinner.  We found it to be superb.)








 So acting on a whim about four weeks ago  I ordered a Fresh Market  Easter Meal for eight.

 (Spiral ham, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, bread rolls and dessert cake all for about fifty five bucks for eight people. I could not cook it from scratch for less).

 I ordered the meal for eight, but what do do with it?   A chance conversation (was it "chance"?) resulted in eight of us gathering at the home for G and J for this Easter Feast.

 I provided the food, G and J set the table.

 One of the guests, my friend R dropped a hint about Lamb for Easter.  I took the hint, bought a leg of lamb, and asked him to cook it  (which he did -  very well!).

I insisted that we should eat the lamb with mint sauce rather that with that ghastly fluorescent coloured super sweet American mint jelly  (ugh!)

 I made some mint sauce from scratch.
Darn, it was good!

We eight had super table fellowship.  'Twas a fitting feast for Christians, Atheists, and Agnostics.  

We each went home with leftovers.  I shared some leftover ham with three neighbours and I will use the lamb to make Lamb and Barley soup (yum!).

Feasting is a joy, provided that it is not overdone, and provided that as we feast we do not forget the poor who are so beloved by God, and we share with them.





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