During Easter time, it is wonderful to enjoy the Easter holiday just with your closest family too. Creating an enjoyable and wonderful Easter menu doesn´t take a fortune. Here are some tips on how to organize your menu.
A good way to start planning an Easter meal is to calculate the amount of the guest coming to enjoy the Easter meal. Remember to ask whether they have any food constraints or limitations such as allergies and start to plan the menu.
You could decide whether you want to plan the menu as buffet style or by having different courses of meals.
While choosing these, you could start thinking whether there are some younger people among the guests, who are in their growing stage. Or whether you have some older guests coming who consume less energy.
If you have some nice springtime napkins or tableware now is the time to take it out of the storage. During the springtime, I personally take some removed branches of my backyard, for example from the cherry tree, and replace those in the vase.
Here some ideas for the buffet-style menu
- Decide what style of food you would like to prepare
- How many guests and evaluate how much each guest on average is going to eat
- Check the food allergies of guest and think whether you are able to create a menu that doesn’t include those, or create some dishes suitable for the guest with food limitations
- Select a suitable amount of tableware and sets for presenting and serving the food
When serving a different courses styled Easter menu, check can you prepare the foods beforehand. For the main course, a dish that you can reheat easily before serving it to everyone’s plates could be a good option. Thus, to make things simple when serving, just combine all the ingredients to the plate and add the reheated/ or heated part of the meal to the plate and serve.
Some of the food leftover from the meals might be used still during the next meal and as well as the Easter decorations…