What’s in your Pascha basket?

[All4Christ]

Right now I’m finishing up a recipe of Sirynaja Paska and have eggs dyed red (finally) with natural onion skin dye, paska bread, fruit, kielbasa for my hubby, cheese for me, deviled eggs and some other things yet to be determined

For anyone interested in what a pascha basket is, I attached a photo explaining the meaning of the Pascha basket.

For those of us whose tradition doesn’t have Pascha baskets - what are your plans for your Pascha dinner?

 

[Monk Brendan]

Right now I’m finishing up a recipe of Sirynaja Paska and have eggs dyed red (finally) with natural onion skin dye, paska bread, fruit, kielbasa for my hubby, cheese for me, deviled eggs and some other things yet to be determined

For anyone interested in what a pascha basket is, I attached a photo explaining the meaning of the Pascha basket.

For those of us whose tradition doesn’t have Pascha baskets - what are your plans for your Pascha dinner?

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There's variant of this where the Pascha basket has enough food for 3 days, after what it says in Exodus. "Let us go three days into the wilderness, and there sacrifice unto the Lord our God."

THIS is what Moses was telling Pharoah, according to the Bible.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Bourbon, cheese, ham, yadda

 

[timothyu]

Right now I’m finishing up a recipe of Sirynaja Paska and have eggs dyed red (finally) with natural onion skin dye, paska bread, fruit, kielbasa for my hubby, cheese for me, deviled eggs and some other things yet to be determined

OK ok wrong thread, pardon my intrusion, but I've got to ask. That sounds Ukrainian to me and similar to a supper I attended last weekend with a family who celebrated early on Gregorian Easter to accommodate a visiting daughter. I've wondered since coming to CF what the overall difference is between the Ukrainian, Greek Eastern, Russian, etc Orthodox churches and how many are represented here.

 

[Anto9us]

I was sick on easter.
My son is Orthodox - he recently got married and moved to Austin - his apartment is walking distance from an Orthodox church there, as well as the hospital where he is in Nursing School for a second bachelors (RN) - Pascha is one week later than Easter this year, right?
The Greek Orthodox wedding in Atlanta where her parents' church is was most amazing wedding I ever saw.

 

[Anto9us]

I plan on going to Bush's Chicken sunday.
Should I get three days worth of chicken dinners and put some in fridge?

 

[All4Christ]

OK ok wrong thread, pardon my intrusion, but I've got to ask. That sounds Ukrainian to me and similar to a supper I attended last weekend with a family who celebrated on Gregorian Easter. I've wondered since coming to CF what the overall difference is between the Ukrainian, Greek Eastern, Russian, etc Orthodox churches and how many are represented here.

Orthodox Christians typically don’t celebrate on the Gregorian Easter, though I know some culturally keep the traditions and celebrate in different churches. Do you know if they were Orthodox?

Every Orthodox Church shares the same faith even if it isn’t the same ethnicity. My parish has a Slavic background, even though most of us aren’t ethnically Russian, Ukrainian, etc. My husband is from the Carpatho-Rusyn area, so I like keeping some of the traditions. Many adapt the Pascha basket to whatever their favorite foods are - or something equivalent in their culture. Perhaps cheesecake instead of Paska cheese? it all sounds good.

We probably are split fairly evenly among Greek, Antiochian, Russian and those of us in America, the OCA (Orthodox Church of America)

The services are absolutely beautiful. I’ll be heading to the next one tomorrow morning

 

[All4Christ]

I plan on going to Bush's Chicken sunday.
Should I get three days worth of chicken dinners and put some in fridge?

Sounds like something your son would love to have!

Since you couldn’t make Easter this year, maybe you could go to Agape Vespers with your son. It’s in the afternoon on Pascha (this Sunday afternoon)

 

[timothyu]

Do you know if they were Orthodox?

Yes Ukrainian Orthodox and as I said celebrating meal wise a week early to accommodate a visiting daughter.

Thanks for the info. So no Ukrainian Orthodox? I thought there was a vast number of them in the US as there is here.

 

[All4Christ]

Yes Ukrainian Orthodox and as I said celebrating a week early to accommodate a visiting daughter.

Thanks for the info. So no Ukrainian Orthodox? I thought there was a vast number of them in the US as there is here.

Apologies for misreading that

Yes, there are Ukrainian Orthodox in America, though I don’t think there is one in my area. We have a Serbian, Greek, Antiochian, Russian, and Orthodox Church of America parishes in my area. I’m honestly not sure how many there are.

 

[Anto9us]

Thx for the thought, All4Christ, but my son is now 100 miles away. His Nursing School is through the Texas Tech "Austin campus" - which is actually a part of a hospital. Ten males in the program out of thirty future RN's. It is cool that they found a new Orthodox church so close to their apartment. They are Gung Ho Orthodox. Enjoy your Pascha!

 

[gzt]

Cheese, Gromit!

 

[truefiction1]

Right now I’m finishing up a recipe of Sirynaja Paska and have eggs dyed red (finally) with natural onion skin dye, paska bread, fruit, kielbasa for my hubby, cheese for me, deviled eggs and some other things yet to be determined

For anyone interested in what a pascha basket is, I attached a photo explaining the meaning of the Pascha basket.

For those of us whose tradition doesn’t have Pascha baskets - what are your plans for your Pascha dinner?

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How much onion skin do we need to do about 50-60 red eggs?

 

[truefiction1]

How red will the eggs get using onion skins vs red food color?

 

[All4Christ]

How much onion skin do we need to do about 50-60 red eggs?

Oh, I’m not sure...probably a stock pot full? I went through about 3 tries with multiple recipes to get it to work. I ended up bringing the onion skins (mostly yellow with some red), water and some vinegar to a boil and simmered for 30 minutes; strained it out, let it cool. Then I put eggs at the bottom of a saucepan and covered it with the onion dyed water, brought it to a boil, turned down to low and simmered 15-20 minutes. I also used brown eggs.

It turned out to be a “merlot” red, but still red!

 

[truefiction1]

I'm way too hungry to be thinking about the food that I plan to have in the basket tomorrow.

 

[timothyu]

es, there are Ukrainian Orthodox in America, though I don’t think there is one in my area. We have a Serbian, Greek, Antiochian, Russian, and Orthodox Church of America parishes in my area. I’m honestly not sure how many there are.

Well thank you anyway.

 

[All4Christ]

How red will the eggs get using onion skins vs red food color?

I posted the color mine came out. While I’ve seen websites with brighter red, mine was a deep dark red.

Fair warning - it took three nights for me to actually get them to work with the color in the photo I posted - the red dye certainly is likely easier. I do Like having the natural dye though without all the chemicals.

 

[truefiction1]

Oh, I’m not sure...probably a stock pot full? I went through about 3 tries with multiple recipes to get it to work. I ended up bringing the onion skins (mostly yellow with some red) and water to a boil and simmered for 30 minutes; strained it out, let it cool. Then I put eggs at the bottom of a saucepan and covered it with the onion dyed water, brought it to a boil, turned down to low and simmered 15-20 minutes. I also used brown eggs.

It turned out to be a “merlot” red, but still red!

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Thanks. That looks pretty good (the color, that is, but also to eat right about now). I wonder what it would look like had you used white eggs vs brown. We plan to do the eggs tomorrow. I hope it works out.

 

[All4Christ]

Thanks. That looks pretty good (the color, that is, but also to eat right about now). I wonder what it would look like had you used white eggs vs brown. We plan to do the eggs tomorrow. I hope it works out.

This was with a white egg. I did one white alongside the brown to make sure I had one that worked I didn’t know which would work better, so I covered all my bases.