Easter Lunch

Yesterday I had the most wonderful mix of family and friends over for Easter Lunch. What was so great is that I prepared the entire meal the day before, except for the pancakes. It was a nice informal lunch, but the dishes were anything but. I had a nice mix of recipes from Paula Dean, the Best of Bridge, and Micheal Smith - true down home cooking.

We started off with the seven layer salad, and a spinach, feta, cranberry salad with an easy olive oil and apple cider vinaigrette.

Then we had an incredible potato, onion, bacon casserole that was totally impressive looking, but so easy to make. I also served up Paula Dean's Deep Fried Macaroni Balls, Low Carb Scotch Eggs, homemade pancakes, turkey sandwiches with lemon aioli, banana bread with Philly cream cheese, strawberries, and of course, champagne and orange juice. Will post recipes soon, just enjoying my beer and some Fleetwood Mac this Easter Monday.