Soon we'll all be spilling egg dye on the good tablecloth as we get ready for the fun this Sunday...but the holiday doesn't have to be exclusively sweet.
We have options, many of them great for the family feast and beyond.
In short: we have kids treats and adult flavors, too. Everyone will be in on the fun. After all, not all of us will be hiding treats this Sunday. Some of us have teenagers.
I had one of those wonderfully "cliché" grandmothers growing up who fed you cookies every time you walked through the door. She was a great cook in her old-school way and she cooked a ham for Easter every year. Grandpa would plug in the electric carving knife and go to town.
That's the kind of nostalgia I'm looking to create when we gather this weekend for the holiday—just with a super upgraded ham.
The meat masters at Smoking Goose in Indianapolis start this ham with heritage Duroc-breed pork from Gunthorp Farms in northern Indiana. The pigs are raised out on pasture with plenty of room to root and roam, and they’re never given antibiotics or hormones. The hams are cured with pepper, coriander, mustard seed, honey, bay leaf, and for a bit of sweetness a dose of mead from Arvin's Acres, a nearby meadery in Delphi, Indiana. Then they're smoked over peach wood.
Grandma would definitely approve as long as you don't leave out her secret ingredient: love. I'm sure you've got plenty of that lying around.
