Ham or lamb?
That's the big culinary question when it comes to Easter.
For the past few weeks, I've been paging through cookbooks, marked pages and was all ready to order a big hunking leg of lamb.
Then I shared my idea with the family.
Silence. A frown or two. Finally, a voice asking (pleading), "I thought we were going to have ham."
Sigh.
I have absolutely nothing against ham but, frankly, I find it kind of boring. It's a lunch meat you can eat everyday for God's sake. You don't eat lamb everyday!
C'mon people. What's your problem?
Anyway, didn't Dorothy Parker once say, "Eternity is two people and a ham."
OK, so a few more people are coming to my home for Easter. But still.
I love my crazy clan. And you have to give the people what they want. So, we're having a spiral cut ham. I'm going to glaze the hell out of it and try to enjoy every bite.
They just don't know yet about my orzo/feta salad side dish or that I'm substituting a French style potato salad for the usual mayonnaise laden one. And that I'm fairly certain there's an artichoke dish brewing in my brain.
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