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Afternoon everyone ….

Today is Easter Sunday for all the Christians & Catholics. But it also happens to be that Orthodox Easter for @trumpman falls on the same day this year. It’s not very often that they line up this way, but when my daughter was younger it made it easier on us. Why? Because we then had only one day of celebrating Easter. My daughter was baptized in a Greek Orthodox Church, so we celebrated both.

Growing up in an Italian and Polish family, there were lots of traditions for Easter. The Italian side had the seafood and fish dinner for Good Friday. It was a feast with shrimp in garlic sauce, clams several different ways clams casino, stuffed clams, clams oreganata, plus a clam sauce for pasta, fried calamari, mussels in a garlic wine sauce and a spicy tomato sauce, bakala stew with potatoes, onions and peppers in a garlic wine sauce. My uncle also made this lobster dish that I’m upset that I never learn how to make.

On Easter it was a bone in prime rib roast, with a homemade horseradish sauce. Two full trays of lasagna with homemade pasta. One was a cheese only lasagna, the other was a meat & sausage lasagna. That doesn’t include all the pre dinner. Hot and cold antipasto, a crazy cheese platter with freshly baked bread, there was also an olive tray with stuffed mushrooms and roasted peppers.

I miss those days…….

Most of them have passed away now. Traditions are now a thing of the past.