Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate this holiday! It seems a bit frivolous to do an Easter post with photos of a bowl of pastel colored, foil wrapped chocolates, but I don’t have a good example/photo of Christ’s resurrection ascension back to heaven, despite the many santos and other religious icons handed down to us from generations past, so chocolates will have to do. In addition to the religious significance of the holiday, in our home, with a young child around, Easter also meant all of the fluff of the season… colored eggs, more eggs, and more eggs, flowers, bunnies, chocolates, marshmallows, cookies, baskets, bonnets, dresses, hunts, etc. But it’s different this year, the Kid is now the Teen, she is fast asleep late morning hoping she will grow some more, and when she wakes, she’ll have this bowl filled with Easter chocolates…
Thank goodness we had some time to pass by a grocery in New Hampshire last week, as I LOVE holiday chocolates and almost always have a bowl put out of Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s and Easter chocolates… and these were a huge bargain at $2 per pack. If there were more kids around the house I would have snuck in several chocolate bunnies as well!
So whether you are at mass, at an Easter Egg Hunt, or cleaning out the cage of that silly Easter bunny the mall was giving away several years ago and whom the Kid took home, and who has been a faithful pet for over 5 years, well beyond its expected lifespan, Marketman, family and crew wish you all a wonderful Easter! We are having a ham today rather than spring lamb, how about you?
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Happy Easter to you MM and and the family and to all MM faithful readers and food bloggers. My family and I are to Talisay in Sta Rita, Agat for the annual Easter Subday brunch and easter egg hunting. Happy Easter to all!!
Sorry.. should read ” my family and I are going to…We’ll enjoy the beach later too. On Guam all the lovely beaaches are just a stone’s throw away from one’s residence.
Happy Easter, Mr MM!
About the bunny, over 5 years? Aaaargh, that long?! I think I need to find a good recipe. Hehehe.
What a coincidence. We are having ham too :-)
Happy Easter MM! We just had an Easter Egg Hunt with our little boy a while ago.
Happy Easter! Which reminds me, I should buy some chocolate bunnies for my nephew! =)
Happy Easter MM!
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all of you! :) We are having cocido (it’s also my mom’s birthday) :)
Happy Easter to all! We are having BBQ butterflied Leg of Lamb… it’s a tradition on my husband’s family to serve leg of lamb on Easter…
The bowl of chocolates looks so pretty. We are having beef tenderloin steak and salad. Lamb, yummy. =) So should it be happy passover? =)
Happy Easter to you and your family!
happy easter to everyone…hmm…ham, brown sugar, crushed pineapple for easter yummm
MM, we also spent our Holy Week in the south. We were in Tagaytay and we sampled some of the most delicious fish in the world: tawilis and maliputo. Have you ever been to Tootsie’s? Their food is so wonderful. Anyway, Happy Easter to all!
happy Easter! :P
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND CREW, AND THE MARKETMANILA BLOG FAMILY!!!!
Happy Easter! I chopped up some leftover ham from lunch and it’s in the lentil soup for dinner :-)
happy easter to all!
Happy Easter to you and your loved ones, MM!! we are going out today…the cook rests.
happy easter MM and family! btw, did you notice that you got a total of 666 votes in your latest post? :D
happy easter MM, Mrs. MM & the teen…..wow, yummy chocolates for easter!!! we had buffet this lunch at the subic bay yacht club….OMG!!!!! on our way home there was a really long line of cars eager to go back to manila…..thank goodness we were going at the opposite direction
Happy Easter to one and all! This is just such a great gathering of savvy and wonderful, fun spirited and generous souls!
happy easter to everyone! our family went to a champagne brunch. almost all the food that i enjoy was there…
Happy Easter to everyone! Just like Natie, the cook had a day off! Hubby took everyone out for brunch….though if I had tawilis and maliputo like K. Ramos, I would have been a happy camper , nonetheless!
Happy Easter to MM and family and all MM fans!
We went to a humungous Easter egg hunt (200,000 eggs we were told)at a big park and hundreds of kids and the young at heart all had a great time. We had an organic rack of lamb and lots of roasted vegies and a choc pannacota for our easter dinner.
After dinner,we went to see a Ray An Fuentes gospel concert which was uplifting and enlightening and basically it was quite an enjoyable Easter Sunday.
Happy Easter to everyone!
– no traditions for us except Salubong Mass. however serving lamb sounds good.
too hot to cook, so we all went to an easter buffet, for a change.
Hi MM,
I just want to rant that we went to an Easter event organized by a hotel for my 4 year old’s first Easter. There was no Easter egg hunt! What is that?! Just some uber commercialized product sampling event with snaking lines for kids salon and face painting. Parang generic birthday party.
I should have just made the eggs and invited the neighborhood kids.
MM, you probably meant Resurrection which Christians celebrate on Easter Sunday. Ascension is 40 days after Easter.
well was working. But I will celebrate the Greek Easter next week.
HAPPY EASTER MM & Family and to all loyal blogmates!!! The family had dinner over at John and Yoko at GB5, food was great and so was the service. Japanese fusion was well created especially their thin crust mango and chicken teriyaki pizza.
woohoo!happy easter!
patty, you are ABSOLUTELY correct. Resurrection and not Ascension. Just shows how little I know about the critical events. Thank you for pointing that out.
Ooooowww the chocolates look so inviting!! Prepared Chicken Curry with all the side-condiments (in crystal mini bowls): grilled eggplant,sliced boiled eggs,raisins,chopped nuts,fried onion rings,and mango chutney. We also had tilapia wrapped in pechay with coco milk. We had watermelon shake with this. Simple- but my in-laws who came over loved it!! Not the usual ham or lamb…but proved interesting to my visitors. Happy Easter everyone!!
Zena,
yes we had lamb… but my husband’s family is Greek, and it has been their tradition to have lamb during Easter.
Zena, I think Italians and others from the mediterranean area also traditionally have spring lamb for Easter… it makes sense as that was the season that the lamb were born… nice and tender and flavorful before they become mutton a year later.
Happy Easter to everyone!
Learned something here over the Easter weekend: Australia’s got a shortage of white eggs! The reason being (daw) is they have replaced the white egg laying hens with brown layers (as they are more prolific), to the point that all of a sudden, no white eggs. So come Easter (Greek & Christian), there are hardly any real white eggs to be painted….
Kisses… I miss it; we don’t have them in my neck of the woods. It was too hot to hide chocolates in my mother’s garden for the Easter hunt. The kids were mustered and were handed bags full of chocolates. My 6 year old daughter was very upset.