Easter Sunday with family

Every Easter my family congregates around our table to eat. It is not that we celebrate Easter although Catholics, we celebrate our family, our health and the food that is on the table.
Most years I cook a lamb with spring vegetables and also a ham( for my brother in law), dessert is usually a variety of things, for this year I think I am going to make a European style cheesecake and a Greek dessert with phyllo pastry and cream of wheat custard laced with a lemon syrup. My husband always pairs the lovely wines( I hope for a good Chablis as a starter) I cook better with a glass of wine near by.
Then on Easter Sunday, after everybody is up, I am up for much longer, feeding horses, dogs and cats and hiding Easter eggs, my sister arrives with her children and even though my daughters are now 23 and 25 they still have major fun going on an Easter egg hunt with their cousins.
After that we sit in front of the fireplace( it is Canada after all and Easter is usually still cold) enjoy a drink and sit down for dinner soon.
I am really happy to see everybody tuck in and have a good time. After it is usually a walk, some digestif and my husband and brother in law have a little scotch tasting, much to my sisters dismay as she has to take her hubby home, who gets incredibly talkative after some of my husband 80 or more scotches.
After the day my little family that since last year also includes my daughter Laura's boyfriend Xel, sits down in front of the television and watches a season of ` 24`, totally pathetic, but so much fun. We do not answer the phone and sit there til late at night, from one episode to the other, just really crazy and restart the next morning. We call it ` work`.
Okay, that's a little bit of our life in my bloggie, I will add the recipes tomorrow...but maybe a picture is fine.

Friday night with my best friend, aka husband

Had a great night with my husband yesterday evening. First we had some cocktails( gin/tonic) my new favourite, then I cooked a lovely meal. Spelt spaghetti with garlic and herb sauteed shrimp and had a wonderful bottle of Chablis. Of course after I was still thirsty and had a bottle of Beaujolais after and we talked until late late late.
I found out over 28 years( that`s how long I am married now,) that it is important that you not only love your man or woman, but you must like him or her, that`s when you have these fantastic moments where you do not want to go to bed, because this is too precious.
By the way, spelt noodles are actually the closest to the real durum wheat noodles.
For the shrimp, just saute some garlic and fresh spring herbs in butter( yes, that ) and add the shrimp. 5 minutes, done and add to the pasta.

Easter weekend

So, Easter is here, it is still snowing, well no more snow on the ground, but it is cold and flurries are dancing through the air, it is grey and cold out there. It is funny, but I am listening to African Soundscape and watching the cold Canadian Landscape, unreal.

My children and my sister and family are coming for Easter Sunday. We have some Champagne( maybe, if my husband is generous enough) if not a nice Cremant de Bourgogne will do and then we all go for a Easteregg hunt, even in the snow, if necessary. After we have lamb, presale from the Ile Gaspais, spring vegetables and a greek desert with phyllo pastry and a cream of wheat with lemon syrup. Cheese and wine , too.

I love to set the table nice and it is for me always a happy moment to see everybody enjoy the food and the company.