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Home » Mom Life » Easter 2017: My Turn to Cook a Holiday Dinner [FINALLY!]

Easter 2017: My Turn to Cook a Holiday Dinner [FINALLY!]

Apr 17, 2017 2 Comments

An inside look at my family’s Easter 2017 celebration. From food to family and much, much more!

But first, let’s start with dessert. My Mom purchased a chicken cake vs. a bunny or lamb. I couldn’t stop laughing at this cutie!

Call me crazy, but I’ve always wanted to host a major holiday meal! And this Easter I got my wish. I called dibs on Easter dinner and my Mom couldn’t have been more grateful. In fact, I’m hoping Easter gets designated as MY holiday to cook. I know my Mom and mother-in-law read the blog occasionally; So, ladies, what do you think?! The other meal-focused holidays in our family, Thanksgiving and Christmas, are alternated between my parent’s and in-law’s house. I only contribute a side dish or dessert— which has worked out perfectly because I’ve either a. just had a baby or b. had been about to have a baby when it came to those holidays and timing during past 3 years. This year I’m feeling more like myself [nope, not pregnant and getting a decent amount of sleep], so Easter was all mine!

3 little bunny butts…. love this view, and Lily’s glance at the camera!
A much better view of my smiley girl. She was such a champ during her first Easter mass and slept almost the entire time!

To make things a lot easier on myself, I purchased most our groceries ahead of time using Kroger’s Clicklist online grocery shopping program. In fact, I’ve been using Clicklist every week since early March because I’ve found it THAT much easier to purchase my groceries. Not only did Kroger have everything on my grocery list for Easter dinner, I could get some of our weekly must-have items so I didn’t have to make a second trip during the week.

I spent much of the day before Easter [Saturday] cleaning, finishing laundry, getting Easter baskets and eggs prepped and hidden. That way when we came home from mass on Easter Sunday I could start cooking! I also made sure my dinner menu was simple. Lord knows one of the three kids would need me once I started cooking, so simple was key! Even with help from Dad, plus Nana and Grandpa hanging around, the kids still always want Mom. Remind me I’ll miss that in 10+ years!!!!

And here we are! Notice I wasn’t wearing church clothes. Momma was busy in the kitchen and working up a sweat from 4pm on…

Here’s what was on our Easter menu:

  • Grilled ribeye for the guys and filet for the girls
  • Balsamic Mushrooms and Onions [for the steaks]
  • Lemony Asparagus [instead of cooked on the skillet I roasted the asparagus]
  • Parsley Parmesan Potatoes
  • Herb Roasted Carrots
  • Rolls [purchased from a local bakery]
  • Appetizers: Hummus, veggies, and mini hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls [my Mom always makes this one]
  • Dessert [from Nana]
The crescent hot dogs were baked at 375 for 18 minutes, and the hummus was Sabra’s toasted pine nut hummus + roasted garlic cloves on top.
This is a new app c/o Nana. Toast crackers topped with burrata cheese + peach preserves. SO SO good!
My Easter dinner! The centerpiece is my favorite. In fact, I had it in my college dorm room 10+ years ago!

While I know brunch or early dinners are commonplace for Easter meals, my family celebrates almost every holiday with a dinner. A LATE dinner [those of you who know my Dad will snicker–the man eats dinner SO late! And no, he won’t read this blog post or be offended for me calling him out on his crazy nighttime eating habits]. Not that it’s a big deal, but while most people were winding down from their Easter celebrations, ours was just beginning! We started our festivities around 5pm and everyone was fed, bathed and in bed by 9:00pm.  The kids, not Nana and Grandpa.

Nana was one happy camper as she didn’t have to cook a holiday dinner. So she hungout in the ball pit with a glass of Prosecco!

We have leftovers which means I won’t have to cook on Monday. And I have a husband who put the kids to bed and a Mom who helped with clean-up. I guess you could say I had it easy!  Just don’t except much more from me this week, my kitchen might be closed!

Ze dinner. Delicious and surprisingly light. All those veggies take up a lot of plate space.

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Easter celebration! I’d love to hear what was on your menu. It could be inspiration for Easter 2018 at the Serbinski’s!

Disclosure: This post was developed in partnership with the Kroger Company of Michigan. As a loyal Kroger customer for over 30 years, I am so thankful to be able to partner with brands my family has used for generations! 

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  1. Annie says

    April 17, 2017 at 6:17 am

    Yum! Your dinner looks amazing! Hope it was a great day!

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    March 29, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    […] hope you have a blessed Easter holiday [I’m hosting Easter dinner again this year- here’s last years recap!] and we’ll be in touch next week. God-willing we ALL. STAY. […]

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