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- Orange Glazed Ham with Sweet Potatoes
- Simple Scallpoed Potatoes**
- Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
- Citrus Mint Peas
- Dinner Rolls**
- Country Inn Cream Pie**
Easter Menu Recipes
Notes:
- This menu should serve 6-8 adults plus smaller children comfortably. If you have growing teens, big appetites, or more people, I suggest doubling several of the side dishes and cooking a larger ham.
- Some of these dishes can be made ahead and refrigerated until time to serve. They are marked with **. Also, see the next section of notes to help with proper timing of this meal.
- Saturday night:
For Ham...prepare marmalade mixture and store in a sealed bowl.
prepare Sweet Potato/Pineapple Mixture and store in sealed bowl.
For Simple Scalloped Potatoes...prepare, cook and store. You will reheat in oven tomorrow.
For Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus...wrap and store on wax paper in covered dish. You will place on broiler pan and bake tomorrow.
For Citrus Mint Peas...Zest the lemon and store; thaw the peas.
For Dinner Rolls...feel free to use store bought or use your own recipe tonight.
- The size of the ham you buy will depend on the number of guests you are having and how many leftovers you want to have. I am including an 8-lb. ham on the list to allow for leftovers, but adjust this according to your needs.
- Also consider what time you will be eating your Easter meal. This year I plan on eating soon after we return from Easter service. My plan is to put the ham in my Rival Roaster Oven at about 325°F until we return home (about 2 hours later). As soon as I get home I plan on basting the ham, checking the temperature (the internal temperature for a fresh ham should be about 150-160°F) and adjusting the cook temperature if needed. While the ham continues to cook for the last 30 minutes, I will add the sweet potatoes to the ham and let the ham finish baking. I will bake the asparagus and reheat the scalloped potatoes. While those are baking, I will cook the peas and just before serving, I will reheat the dinner rolls.
- The upcoming menu for the week of April 13-17 includes 15 Bean Soup which calls for leftover ham and the week after that will also have some leftover ham recipes, so don't feel the need to polish off all of your leftovers and remember to save your ham bone for the soup. Be sure to check out these Easter Leftover ideas, too.
Orange Glazed Ham with Sweet Potatoes
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8 lb ham
- cooking spray
- 1 cup orange marmalade
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp honey mustard
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 2 cans pineapple chunks, undrained
- 3 cans sweet potatoes in light syrup, drained
Preheat oven to 325°F. Coat a shallow roasting pan with cooking spray and put ham in pan. Cover and bake for about 2 1/2 hours (depending on the size of your ham and if your ham is precooked; you want the internal temperature of your ham to be 150°-160°F when fully cooked). (See my notes above for timing of this meal.)
Combine marmalade, brown sugar, honey mustard and ground ginger in a small bowl. Cover ham and baste with about 1/3 of the marmalade mixture. Reserve the remaining mixture for the next step. Drain the pineapple, reserving 1/3 cup of juice. Combine pineapple, and sweet potatoes. Add the 1/3 cup of reserved pineapple juice to the remaining marmalade mixture that you reserved before. Pour marmalade mixture over sweet potatoes/pineapple mixture and toss lightly. Arrange the sweet potatoes/pineapple mixture around the ham. Bake, uncovered for an additional 30 minutes or until ham and potatoes are heated through.
Simple Scalloped Potatoes**
- 3 tbsp butter
- 8 baking potatoes, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1/4 cup onion, chopped
- 2 cups cheese, shredded
- 2-3 cups milk
Generally butter a 9x13 casserole dish. Wash potatoes. Peel if desired. Slice potatoes to 1/8" thickness. Layer into dish as follows: potatoes, flour, pepper, garlic salt, grated onion, grated cheese. Continue layering until your dish is nearly full. Pour enough milk into dish so that the milk barely covers the potatoes when they are pushed down with your hand. Cover and bake at 350°F for 1 1/2 hours or until potatoes are tender.
Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
- 2 bunches fresh asparagus
- 1 lb. bacon
Half each slice of bacon lengthwise. Wrap a piece of bacon around each asparagus spear. Lightly spray the top of a broiler pan with cooking spray. Lay all bacon-wrapped spears side by side on broiler pan and bake in oven at 350°F for about 40 minutes or until bacon is crisp.
Citrus Mint Peas
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 pkg (32 oz.) peas, thawed
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 cup mint, finely chopped
- 1 tsp lemon zest, grated
Melt 1 tbsp of the butter in a large pan. Add peas, salt and pepper, stirring occasionally until peas are tender and heated. Add remaining butter, mint and zest and stir until butter is melted and creamy. Serve warm.
Dinner Rolls**
Country Inn Cream Pie**
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 crust pie shell, baked and cooled
Combine 2 cups milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt in top of double boiler. Heat until thickened. Combine remaining milk, and egg yolks. Stir into milk and heat until bubble. Add butter, salt and vanilla. See below options for specialty cream pies. Cool. Beat until creamy. Pour into baked pie shell. Top with whipped cream or topping.
Cream Pie Choices:
Peanut Butter Cream Pie: Mix together 1/2 cup peanut butter and 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Make crumbs and put them on the crust before adding the cream mixture.
Banana Cream Pie: Slice 2 bananas onto bottom of crust before adding cream mixture.
Coconut Cream Pie: Stir 2/3 cup coconut into the cream mixture before pouring into pie shell.
Chocolate Cream Pie: Stir 1/2 cup chocolate chips into the cream mixture while still warm. Stir to melt. Pour mixture into baked pie shell.
* Indicates that of the options listed, this item is the one on the grocery list.
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