April 12, 2004

When you gonna buy me a canned ham

So Easter dinner last night was pretty good. I got started about 11:30 a.m. (Christopher had to work) and I made

  • baked ham
  • biscuits
  • scalloped potatoes
  • corn custard
  • glazed carrots
  • one of those Jell-o things where you mix it with Cool Whip
  • a lemon cake soaked in lemonade with lemon royal icing
and still managed to listen to my brother's radio show, watch the Kings game AND watch the East Coast feed of "The Sopranos" and still have everything ready at a reasonable hour. Go me. It looked something like this.

easter_2004

If you enlarge it, you will see some exciting detail of our hot midcentury dinette set (that's solid chrome baby), as well as our lovely dinnerware. The plates and the matching platter are all survivors of my great-grandfather's restaurant.

A brief word on the benefits of Le Creuset: I baked the ham in a Le Creuset baker and it took less than a minute to clean it. I'd say it's worth its weight in gold but that cast iron is heavy and the stuff is expensive enough already.

Posted by Kim at April 12, 2004 04:21 PM | Non-Moving Pictures
Comments

"Canned Ham" by Norman Greenbaum

Posted by: Kim at April 12, 2004 04:27 PM

Outstanding Easter fare!

My mom had a bowl almost exactly like the green one holding the jello cool whippy thing. Maybe it was a law to own one or maybe they came from S&H Green Stamps?

I see Chris wore the good Pokemon shirt for the special occaison.

What? No fondue on Easter?

Posted by: pieman at April 12, 2004 07:18 PM

I love the vintage Pyrex. The pattern of which you speak is Spring Blossom Green. We found an entire #300 nesting bowl set at Savers when I first moved in here for like nothing, and then we found the largest bowl from set #400 at the same store about a year later, also for like nothing. We use them a lot. A LOT. I think everyone's lived in a house with a Spring Blossom bowl at one point in their lives.

The Pyrex print I really like is Butterprint. I know this pattern figures into my childhood somehow.

Now that you mention it, we need to make some fondue. Something to dip all this ham in.

Posted by: Kim at April 12, 2004 10:57 PM

Hey, we have that green bowl too! Just that one size, though. Also, we happened by Le Crueset in the outlet mall, and the man was trying to sell us everything. I was like, "Don't you know I'm broko?" But I guess he saw our weird gay family and thought, "Cha-ching." Fool. We got out of there with a pie plate and a loaf pan in black. They have stuff in my lovely blue, but that color is like never on sale. Bastards. Your Easter dinner looks fabulous. I have never ever eaten any food you make. How did that happen?

Posted by: jane at April 13, 2004 12:20 PM

Oh no Jane! I don't turn on my computer for two days. My kitchen on RSD, she was too small. I think I only cooked ten meals the whole time I was there. The whole place was too small for such business. It's bigger here, you should come, I'll cook for you!!!

The Le C that we didn't get from being married, I only got because Martha was selling it for cheap. It's the drabware color which is actually kinda hot. But the blue, that's my fave rave right there. Oh man, I need to win a lottery.

Posted by: Kim at April 15, 2004 08:39 PM