The Weekend Dish: 4/15/2017
Happy holiday weekend to you!
Are you dying Easter eggs, hunting for Easter eggs, making deviled eggs or engaging in other egg-related activities today? We’ll be dying them here at our house, and I’ll be prepping desserts for tomorrow! I’m planning a Boston cream pie (new recipe!) and a fresh strawberry pie. I’m also making my grandma’s bacon and cheese Easter bread (yummmm).
I’d love to hear what you’re making/eating/doing this weekend!
As always, you’ll find a recap of what was posted to the site this week, the most shared recipes, my Sunday dinner menu, and recipes I’ve bookmarked from other blogs. Enjoy!
On Brown Eyed Baker This Week
Scalloped Potatoes – These easy scalloped potatoes come together quickly and are rich and decadent.
Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake – This strawberry rhubarb coffee cake with a cream cheese filling and light crumb topping is a perfect spring and summer dessert.
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons – These coconut macaroons are light, chewy, and dipped in chocolate. They’re always a crowd favorite and incredibly easy to make!
Friday Things – Swim lessons, pizza, cookie dough, and more!
Top 5 Most Popular Posts This Week:
1. No Bake Banana Split Dessert
3. No Bake Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Oatmeal Cookies
5. Creamy Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese
Sunday Dinner Menu
Our Easter dinner menu (this is always my mom’s holiday!):
Roasted leg of lamb
Spiral ham
Potatoes (either mashed or scalloped – my in-laws are bringing)
Veggie dish
Boston Cream Pie
Fresh Strawberry Pie
What I Bookmarked This Week
Recipes and posts from other blogs that I thought looked especially delicious and that I thought you would like, too:
I would like to dive head-first into this brownie trifle.
Whyyyyyy do we not do more carrot cake rolls?! Why does pumpkin get to have all the fun?
These chocolate covered caramel marshmallows look ah-mazing!
Someone needs to make this chocolate peanut butter cup bundt cake and tell me how amazing it is!
Easy baked French toast casseroles are my favorite holiday breakfasts!
Have a delicious holiday weekend!
I had to look up Spiral Ham as I’ve never heard of it. Â Also looked up your grandma’s Bacon and Cheese Easter Bread. Â Those old recipes and the way our moms and grandmothers cooked and baked was amazing. Â I asked my mom years ago for her stuffing recipe and she found it hard to quantify the ingredients as she just did it by look/feel/memory/intuition. Â My biggest disappointment when I moved her into a nursing home and cleaned out her home afterwards was not finding her old handwritten recipe book. Â Hope you have a wonderful Easter!
Hi Wendy, I hope you have a fantastic Easter as well!
Happy Easter Weekend! Thank you for all of your creative recipes and wonderful family stories. Hope you’ll share the Boston Cream pie recipe!
Happy Easter to you, too! I definitely will!
Hi Michelle,
Happy Easter!! I’ve been considering making a Boston Cream Pie too! I have the recipe from the Cooks Illustrated Baking Book that I’ve yet to try but then I saw a cute cake called an Easter Egg Nest Cake from Nigella Lawson so now I’m not sure! Of course, I still haven’t totally ruled out your Chocolate Malt Cake either. Hmmm…it’s the day before Easter so I’d better make a decision soon! Oh and I’m making your Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake recipe. Regardless of how I cover the chocolate “food group,” your lemon bars will be representing the seasonal “food group.” I was really tempted to make your Lemon Limoncello Cupcakes which look so delightful but with the Limoncello in the icing (we are blessed to have a 18 month old at our table) and my inexperience with icing tips, the lemon bars might be our best bet. We also have pastiera which is our family’s grain pie recipe. Since that has the ricotta cheese, etc., I won’t make a cheesecake because while I can defend having four desserts for 7 adults, I don’t want to conflict with a traditional Easter dessert. So, that’s our dessert menu. My brother and sister-in-law are wonderful cooks so they make the food which is always delicious and too much so that frees me up to be creative with desserts.
I wish you and your beautiful family a most egg-cellent Easter! Enjoy!
Thank you so much Emilia, Happy Easter to you, as well!
Did you end up getting a new diaper bag? If so, which?
Hi Erica, I didn’t yet, but I had a eureka moment! What I really want is more organization and the ability to not just dump everything in, and I remembered how much I adored my old camera bag with adjustable sections inside. I love Kelly Moore bags, and am waiting for this one to come back in stock in Stone: http://store.kellymoorebag.com/collections/shop-all/products/the-libby-2?variant=32449334026. It’s pricey, but I can put it to use after it’s done being used as a diaper bag.
I have a Kelly Moore Libby bag in green that I bought and use for traveling. Â I love being able to reconfigure the compartments depending on what I’m packing but it’s awesome for toiletries, hair tools, a change of clothes and shoes, etc.. Â yes, they are pricey but last forever and the uses are endless. Â I think you will love it. Â