What are the sweet smells of Easter in your home?

The Easter traditions have changed a lot for me over the past few years. My family is no longer close, and I didn't even bother to cook today. But, I do remember the kind of Easter you describe. It all seems so long ago. Enjoy your day!

We had a lovely brung this morning. It included breakfast pizza,ham,bacon,muffins,potatoes,all kinds of juices,waffles, and fresh fruit. It was very yummy and the best thing was with everyone helping out, it was actually little work. I appreciated the fact that since I worked all night,my children and their families had it all ready when I got home this morning. It was a nice morning.

In my house we had ham and pineapple, with scalloped potatoes. Scalloped potatoes always remind me of my dad, rest his soul. He once told me my scalloped potatoes were just like his mother's. That to me is a super high compliment.

We are always making a special Easter food. It's actually a Russian speciality but it's so good that Estonians have grabbed it from them (and not only the Orthodox Estonians!) It's pasha (pronounce: p-a-s-h-a, s and h separately, it's actually Easter in Russian). There are a lot of recepies, boiled and not boiled, I used an easier method this year. It's made of curd. For a 1 kg of curd goes 300 g butter, beaten up into foam with 300 g sugar. Then I added 6 egg yolks, one after one, vanilla sugar, a lot of raisins, candied orange peel, ground nuts and almonds, and mixed it all up with curd. At the end 300 g whipped cream went in. Then I lined a big sieve up with wet cheese-cloth and poured pasha into it. It was staying in refrigerator couple of days, so the water came out. The right day to eat it is Easter Sunday. I decorated it with chocolate... It's very, very good but, alas, gives a ton of extra calories.

This year my family has suffered through my unemployment so we didn't get to enjoy the usual aromas of Easter. We had leftover pork tenderloin, baked beans and mac n cheese. A friend came by around 9 pm on her way home and gave me some a ham and a squash casserole (my favorite!). It was a genuinely sweet move on her part, as I lost my grandparents two years ago and that's where I would get to enjoy those items on Easter. My husband and daughter do not eat squash, so the little casserole she brought for me will do me for two meals! :-) As far as sweets, well we didn't enjoy anything other than sweet tea. My 15-year-old was quite disappointed that the Easter Bunny didn't leave her any candy, but then again she knows we're broke! Thank goodness it's not Christmas...it would have broken my heart!

Your dinner sounds so delicious. Hmmmmmmm!

well we only eat eggs on easter hahahah (justjoking) nothing special.

Oh wow lucky you, although I do not like coke and never had any of my meals cooked with coke in them. Our typical meal for Easter is fish we have it different ways but we had it this year done in coconut milk it was wonderful, and we cooked it on the hot plate, and then we have a small dessert after our dinner our dessert was a chocolate mud cake which we all enjoyed.

Sounds like my house-- We do carrots out of the garden- YUM.. baked ham with onions, mashed potatoes, macaroni salad, rolls, baked beans (grams)- so many yummy treats. My daughter wanted to make a cake- She made a bunny cake- She is 10.. it was so cute- Everyone loved it- She did a great job- He only has half a head left! : ) I love holidays-- they bring family close together!

Oh yes, our ham has made the house smell yummy! We have baked sweet potatos, macarroni salad, green beans, deviled eggs, rolls and two cakes! I am so glad that calories don't count on holidays! Ha!

We had Easter dinner at a relative's house, so I didn't have the regular food cooking at home. I did make some cinnamon rolls for the kids for a breakfast treat though. That left the house smelling really nice all day. :)

Ours has to be the basket of spring flowers that we bring in the home,, Easter Sunday we go out for the day somewhere and have a meal out. Thats our treat. What nicer than having a meal cooked for you then going for a walk in the country or down to the coast somewhere! Lynn-Marie

our ham smells yummy to..i use vernors ginger ale...never tried cola before...we had basically the same menu but we had cherry pie and chocolate pir for dessrt...i love all the leftovers....cant wait to make black bean soup and scallopped potatoes with ham...and macaroni and cheese with ham...dipped strawberries sound really good right now....happy Easter enjoy your evening

To be honest, we never have a specific Easter dinner. I made Mexican beans and rice for dinner tonight! On Easter Sunday, I'm normally too stuffed full of chocolate to even eat a proper dinner, maybe just a salad or something?

after attending the mass we have our lunch at a restaurant and after eating have some shopping in the mall and go home feeling tired and sleep

Today there were no Easter aromas in my house!!! We went to our daughter's for brunch and I did NO cooking...it was very weird!!! I did all the fruit and made devonshire sauce for dipping strawberries...I also did the veggie tray and the dips for it..so there was no inticing aroma from a turkey, ham, duck, roast or lamb...It was probably a first!!! We had a wonderful little brunch though..my son in law is a great waffle and pancake maker..so he wowed us with his terrific pancakes made in cute Easter shapes for the kids..He made a homemade syrup...and I had the devonshire and strawberries so we could chose a topping...then we had fresh crab and shrimp...yummm.... as my grandkids love seafood!! We had homemade cocktail sauce that I made for the seafood and it was all wonderful!!!! I made it out of there without any candy..on purpose..so I was happy.. trying to be a better eater these days...and lose a couple of my winter pounds!!! So yes...today's Easter dinner was a brunch and didn't have my homemade dinner rolls, or biscuits or my french toast souffle..or any real cooking...I have done that all plenty of times and next year it will be back to our house with the dinner that will fill my home with tantalizing aromas..today I really didn't miss them...I was too busy eating good food!!!

the sweet smell of easter are the easter eggs,baking of the cake,making pudding,making jelly.also i love the smell of beef and pork dishes.i also love the smell of chicken being fried.