
Easter (Pascha/Vaskrs) Menu
Western Christians celebrate Easter on April 12 2009.
Orthodox celebrate Pascha/Vaskrs April 19 2009.
Christos Voskrese! Vaistinu Voskrese!
Tradition holds that after the Orthodox Pascha service each person is given a red egg. The eggs are dyed red a couple of days prior and set out to dry during the Friday evening service. If you want to read of the custom of exchanging eggs:
hamatoura.com/GreetingCard/Pascha/Pascha-Eng.html
Our Easter (Pascha/Vaskrs) Sunday Menu
Tradional Easter menus include ham and or lamb.


Often traditional holiday dishes get dressed up for a delicious contemporary dinner.
Crab Cakes

or dolmathes are favourites of our family as a starter.

Grilled Asparagus makes a nice side.

Smoked or grilled or baked leg of lamb or spit roasted whole lamb-this year we are doing leg of lamb shish-kebabs

Garland of Spring Vegetables


Rice-vermecilli pilaff

Dessert often includes fresh early strawberries

Some Orthodox Christians discourage the use of the word Easter, believing that the term has roots in pagan rites of the spring equinox and overtones of fertility. Most English speakers are unaware of the etymological origins of Easter, however, and use it without any sense of pagan connotations, and so Easter is also used by many Orthodox English speakers.

Cheese paskha (сирна пасха) - the pyramidal white thing decorated with XB - and kulich (кулич)/ babka (dry cake-bread) are traditional to Russian Easter foods pl;us the ham, eggs, sausages, etc.



