I need some advice?!
I need some advice?
My grandmother fell down the stairs about a week ago and is in bad shape, and easter is coming soon and I have ben asked to do the baking this year for our family dinner. We have a really large family and I am not sure what to make. Any suggestions?
Answers:
Bake an Easter Cake... can be white or strawberry or cherry chip.. frost with white frosting and put coconut on top
Then bake a cherry pie if you are having ham.. other meats can bake apple, blueberry or pumpkin... if it is a large gathering then bake 2 or 3 of them.
Make a fruit salad with
1 can pineapple tid bitsor crushed= drained
1 can of fruit cocktail =
1 diced red apple (don't peel.. you want the color)
1 navel orange cut sections in 3rds
4 bananas
Can add coconut or nuts per taste.
1 container of cool whip
Make right before sitting down to meal = is a family favorite of mine
GOOD LUCK
you can bake somthing that you know how to make or you can ask your grandmother how to bake somthing.
Make a cheesecake or a big poundcake that you can serve with ice Cream or strawberry compote
Stella's Best Ever Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Have everthing at room temperature except the eggs
Flour and grease Bundt pan or tube pan (Angel food cake pan) please take the time to do this. You can use angel food cake pan. This makes a big cake so use the big pan.
Cream:
3 sticks butter.
Add 1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese and
3 cups of sugar.
Continue to cream mixture.
Add 6 eggs, one at a time.
Sift 2 teaspoons baking powder and
3 cups of flour and a
pinch of salt.
Add to creamed mixture. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. This is one of the best pound cakes I have ever eaten
deviled eggs!!, fruit salad, keesh
ham and potatoes or potato salad cheap and very easy to make and serves a lot of people and you could do strawberry short cake for dessert or something else relatively simple
a punch bowl cake is hard to mess up and it don't have to be pretty but it tastes really good
a banana pudding is a good one with the vanilla wafers and bananas and vanilla pudding layer and serve
kraftfoods.com
i get alot of recipes from their site and they are good too
If possible, ask different family members to bring a dish, that would help you out a lot. You could make the chicken or turkey. If that isn't an option, buy desserts from a store get some canned or frozen veggies and cranberry sauce for side dishes. You can get instant mashed potatoes that don't take vary long to make, and instant stuffing.
Hope this helps!
You're just doing the baking right? (People need to read the question.) A passion cake, jazzed up carrot cake with pineapple in it, lots of recipes out there, would be a good bet. Also hot cross buns, my personal favorite Easter food. Tickle your memory. Did grandmother always make a certain cookie, dessert, or other baked good? Keep those family traditions alive, but don't be afraid to start some of your own!!
You could have a BAr-b-que.
However, Do a Tray of Cold Meats (3) - Ham - Beef- Pork. With that do (4) Cold Salads. Potato-Coleslaw-Mixture of Carrot and Walnuts Salad and last but not least your normal Caesar Salad.Also Warm Carrot and Beans with Butter and Honey is exceptional. Baby Boiled Potatoes with Butter and mint would not go astray either.
Now if you want something Hot/ Three Roast Chickens.
The above salads will do nicely WIth the cooked Chickens.
Now there is no need to cook the meats if you find you don't have the time.
Most delicatessens or butchery will have cooked Meats.
All is required is to slice in nice thin slices.
Individual desserts are too time consuming so Make two.
Trifle and Chocolate Pudding or Chocolate Cake.
No one can refuse Chocolate anything. Have ice Cream or custard on the side With a dash of Cream.
Hope that helps Good Luck
A huge ham and turkey. Then buy a couple of pints of coleslaw at KFC and pour it into a bowl and sprinkle peprika on it so it looks like you did it yourself. Buy 3 Eli's cheesecakes and take them out of the box so it looks like you cooked it yourself. Get a big can of Van Camps baked beans and put it into a bowl then add diced onions. Ask somebody else to do the deviled eggs.
We have a pretty big family too, my grandma makes yeast rolls... Oh and you don't have to do it all yourself, we divide it up, somebody brings a ham, somebody brings the turkey, my mom usually makes 2 giant salads, several people bring deserts. Just like veggies are done at my grandmas house, and the rolls (I love them :) ) Oh yah and yams are always delicious...
Foodnetwork.com had great recipes. Another idea if your not into baking is to call your local bakery and see if they make either a bunny cake or last year our local bakery made a cross cake with peace lilies decorated on it. It was very neat and special.