Our Easter Plans This Year (Menu, Traditions & the Saturday Before)
What Easter looks like at the Whitaker table — from Saturday egg dyeing to sunrise service to the ham Jake carves every year. Plus our full Easter menu with links to every recipe.
What Easter looks like at the Whitaker table — from Saturday egg dyeing to sunrise service to the ham Jake carves every year. Plus our full Easter menu with links to every recipe.
A make-ahead Easter brunch casserole loaded with fresh herbs, sharp cheddar, and Gruyère cheese. Assemble the night before, bake Easter morning while you get the family ready for sunrise service. Feeds 10-12 easily.
Clara’s simple no-bake lemon icebox pie with graham cracker crust, creamy filling, and candied lemon slices — an Easter favorite found on a faded recipe card in Nana Ruth’s tin box.
A beautiful spring garden salad with candied pecans, goat cheese, lemon vinaigrette, and edible flowers — the perfect light side dish for Easter dinner. Easy enough for kids to help, beautiful enough to make the table shine.
Easy honey-herb Easter ham glaze with rosemary, thyme, and Dijon mustard — the carving tradition that makes Jake’s Easter.
Overnight Easter morning cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting — make them Saturday night, bake Easter morning.
Simple, forgiving pizza dough that comes together in minutes. Friday night pizza made easy.
The school called at 11:15 on a Tuesday. Mason had a fever — 100.2, nothing scary, but enough that the nurse wanted him home. I pulled into the pickup lane with Duke’s nose already out the window (he goes everywhere with me on errand days, like a hundred-pound copilot who sheds on the console), and… Maggie’s Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup (The One That Fixes Everything)
The ten weeknight dinner recipes that actually save the day in our house. Tested by three kids, a pipeline welder, and a 110-pound dog who never misses a crumb.
Three ingredients. Ten minutes. One very proud seven-year-old. Mason made these peanut butter cookies entirely by himself — Nana Ruth’s recipe, now his.