Month: April 2015

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Unitarian Easter Breakfast

Apologies to my brother who has always detested this recipe…
I just couldn’t let Easter go by without one more meander down memory lane.

CREAMED EGGS (the orginal Unitarian recipe from Margaret Grayden)

9 quartered hard boiled eggs
3/4 lb sliced mushrooms
1/2 lb butter
1/2 C flour
3 C milk
1 C cream
1/8 C sherry or cognac
2 T chopped chives

Saute the mushrooms in 1/4 lb. or butter. Make a cream sauce using the remaining butter and the four, milk, cream and chives. Remove from the stove and ad the sherry, eggs and mushrooms. This is usually served over rice. Will serve 12 people.

UNITARIAN FRUIT CUP

2 10 oz. pkg. frozen strawberries (I use fresh.)
2 or 3 bananas
2 small cans (or 1 big can) of mandarin oranges drained (if using fresh strawberries a bit of the juice added to the fruit salad is tasty.)

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Easter

Annalee and Easter Egg

Annalee and Easter Egg

Blue tree and AL

Blue tree and AL

It’s Easter. For the first time ever, I did nothing. No little gifties for my family. No church. Not even meditation with my Tibetan Buddhist buddies (highly recommended if you have poor executive function skills). Outside my neighbors are having their annual gigantic Easter egg hunt. Kids and grown kids both run amok in their search for eggy prizes. It takes me back to my childhood Easter celebrations which, in good Unitarian style, took place in the middle of a Spring explosion at Cecil and Dorothy Miller’s big farmhouse. After the mandatory Easter egg hunt, a beautiful breakfast was served with ‘ Creamed Eggs over Rice’, Banana/Strawberry/Mandarin Orange fruit salad and a sweet punch topped with violet blossoms. .
No matter what one’s faith, it’s a day to celebrate renewal.

For the beauty of the Earth,
For the splendor of the sky,
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lie,
Lord of all to these we pray,
This our hymn of grateful praise.
(Shaker hymn)