Holiday Traditions
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Did proper Xmas this morning with all my girls. Had a heathy breakfast, ran 5 mi now I’ll settle in for the Ravems game for which I somehow managed to that the many many opportunities for spoiling yesterday. Tomorrow I’ll take down the decorations and dispose of the tree and that will be that.
Happy New Year everyone!
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Spent the day running around preparing for Easter. Picked up chocolate for the kids (maybe some for me), a leg of lamb, potatoes, wine
and some vegetables. Tomorrow morning, I’m heading to the bakery for some hot cross buns (Laura’s favourite and something her dad would pick up for her every Easter). I do it to remember him, but also to treat Laura.Growing up I always had ham and Laura’s family had lamb…I much prefer lamb.
Anything you guys do or have for the holiday? Looking forward to seeing some of your traditions.
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I grew up in a pastors house, so these days (Easter and Christmas) were also working days. But we did celebrate them as well and always with the extended family. At Easter my mum usually woke us up with the traditional Christian Easter greeting ("Christ is risen ...") and a kind of sweat pudding, a Russian Easter tradition called Paskha, that we were allowed to eat in bed before we got up.
When I became an adult at some point I incorporated the tradition of pickled eggs at Easter, which I made a few days before. Before you eat them, cut them in half, take out the yolk, add olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper, replace the yolk and have it as a whole. We usually had them with a glas of vodka, a great combination. -
Kids dyed Easter eggs with some natural dyes. Turmeric, beets, onion skins, blueberries, etc. turned out pretty cool
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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@WhiskeySandwich that’s rad man! Guess turmeric is good for dying other things than my hands when adding to turkey burgers.
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@WhiskeySandwich looking very cool!
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Thanks dudes! Worked out better than we expected. The beets were the strongest, and the one I wanted to keep furthest from my denim
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@WhiskeySandwich makes me think about the egg search we always did at school. The ‘bunny’ had hidden the eggs and we were searching our asses
of haha! Now 25+ years later i do the same with my kids. Tomorrow they’re gonna paint the eggs with a custom egg paint set we’ve bought..(yes we did) then we’re going to my parents and gonna hide the eggs(also some chocolate ones) in the garden and then we release them for there eggs search dutie before we all head into a well deserved brunch! -
@Heavy_blue good ol days man! Easter has always been a holiday of grandparents in my family. They put on a good hunt and brunch for the family today. Here’s a fancier shot of our “diy overdye” project lol. Really surprised how well the natural ingredients worked out
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@WhiskeySandwich was this just water and turmeric or beet juice etc? Really vibrant!
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With a tbsp of vinegar too. It was a mix of white eggs and some home-laid brown and olive eggs
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Thank you @Madame-Buttonfly @Giles
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@goosehd good golly that looks good! What’s that, lamb?
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@WhiskeySandwich Yes sir! Love spring lamb…
