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Asparagus and leek quiche/tart and croissants for breakfast and I am debating on whether or not to do lamb or ham for dinner. I've never done a ham before and it will only be my husband, daughter and myself so I'm not exactly sure how small they run but I am enthusiastic to try. Sides will depend on what my main is.

I start baking bread for easter this weekend, its sort of like challah, only richer and flavored with maleb (the pits of sour cherries) and mastic, (an ingredient used in gum, i think). We'll dye eggs a few different colors each with a little oil in all the coloring baths (makes it look marbled). For easter dinner serving the traditional white fish and a omelet that is filled with so much greens that it looks nothing like an omelet. Plus a huge amount of rice. With the traditional food all accounted for, I encourage others to bring something along they like. Dessert is the only thing I get to approach how I choice, although the people doing lent in my family will probably ask for a cheesecake, I'm think rubarb crumble with strawberry ice cream.

We're hosting Easter this year, and it will be the last celebration in our current house (because, miracle of miracles, it sold!). Since Easter is 3 weeks before our move date, it won't be a huge affair (never is, really). I've got a new tablecloth I'm happy about. I'm making Jen's Slow Cooker Roast Beef (userealbutter.com), which is fabulous and super easy. Then I'm letting everyone else volunteer to bring what they want, and I'll fill in the gaps. We've got some picky eaters, so it's always interesting.

My Filipino grandmother usually does all the cooking for Easter, often making at least a ham, plus Filipino and American sides. However, since I used Lent as my "test" to go vegan (and am not looking at stopping at Easter), I'll probably make a few things, as well this year. Of course, many things we make for Easter are already vegan -- like my grandmother's broiled eggplant salad and her Filipino desserts.

Perhaps I'll bring an asparagus tart (for us to snack on while we wait for everything else), some garlic-roasted brussel sprouts, and a strawberry pie for dessert, so we can indulge in the bounty of springtime produce.

This year my family is going to do an Easter brunch. My mother said she's still going to get a ham. I'm looking through your recipe archives for brunch ideas. A friend is going to bring scones. I was thinking of baking sugar cookies and having people (OK, my 3 year old) decorate the cookies themselves.

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Throwing a Seder at the new apartment that will be vegetarian and hopefully inspired by this "Mexican/Passover" NYT's piece.

I'm making homemade gefilte fish and cauliflower-leek-kugel for a potluck seder.

I'm the vegetarian/pescatarian one attending.

there will of course be matza ball soup; and the hosts are being super nice and making a veggie soup for me as well (the host says it's not passover without his grandmother's chicken soup with matza balls)

last year I made chickpea soup (minus the noodles, of course) with the matza balls. it was delicous.

My husband and I are too far away to spend Easter with family this year, so we've decided to just make a duck breast. Most likely with asparagus and baked potatoes. I've never made duck at home before, so hopefully it will work out!

My family is coming to us for Easter weekend... we're making a ham, pierogies, salad with mache and homemade croutons, garlic green beans if I can talk my husband out of making green bean casserole, and cornbread. My sister is going to make French silk pie and serve with fresh strawberries if we can find them. Her bf is making his traditional breakfast on Easter - kielbasa with eggs, rye bread, and babka if we can find it anywhere!

A good ham, scalloped potatoes, whatever fresh vegetable appeals to me at the grocery store, homemade bread, and carrot cake.

We do a seder potluck every year and this year I'm responsible for bringing something sweet. I'm not much of a baker but hopefully I can do better than store bought macaroons!

I'll be making my husband's family recipe for Portuguese sweet bread and dying my eggs with onion skins.

We are hosting a brunch this year, aside from the bread we'll be serving quiche, fruit, Peruvian potatoes, mimosas, and a few other things to fill the table out.

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