What will be in your Pascha basket?

[cobweb]

I'm a convert so I don't have any traditions on what "has to" be in there.

Last year I cooked a roast, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, rum balls, 2 BK big kids meals, a bottle of wine, and a bottle of vodka. I spent most of the day Holy Saturday cooking. I don't want to do that this year.

 

[gzt]

What "has" to be in there? I've heard that it's traditional to have meat, cheese, and wine, specifically pig meat because we're not under the old law. I usually just have sausage and cheese rather than anything prepared. We usually have a potluck right after liturgy, so it's usually good to prep something, but it's something simple if we do something other than sausage.

 

[cobweb]

What "has" to be in there? I've heard that it's traditional to have meat, cheese, and wine, specifically pig meat because we're not under the old law. I usually just have sausage and cheese rather than anything prepared. We usually have a potluck right after liturgy, so it's usually good to prep something, but it's something simple if we do something other than sausage.

I meant that there are some folks who have traditions that they follow about what to put in the basket. There is one lady in our parish who does a boiled beef jello every year. There are a few that make Paska (bread or cheese depending...) and it HAS to be in there or to them it isn't a Pascha basket.

I just want some ideas for easy yummy food.

 

[choirfiend]

Cook in advance. You can make Pascha bread and Cheese Pascha well before Pascha itself, and freeze them.

Bread, cheese, meat, ice cream, kielbasa, hardboiled eggs, salt, honey, butter. None of it really requires cooking, except the meat and eggs, and that's just boiling.

I like to bring a veggie b/c its a lot of heavy food, so something like broccoli with cheese sauce.

 

[Damaris]

Pick up something from Hickory Farms and call it a day.

 

[Mary of Bethany]

I'll have paska & kulich for sure. Also meat & cheese slices & crackers, and wine.

Some people stop by KFC or Chicken Express.

Mary

 

[Kristos]

Spit lamb - well done.

 

[Blackknight]

I've seen a lot of hard boiled eggs and sausage.

 

[Kristos]

maybe some Sambuca to irritate the Greeks and anti-Roman contingent

 

[cobweb]

I'm thinking something with bacon and cheese.

 

[Anhelyna]

My basket usually has pysanka , butter, salt, cooked ham, sausage and cheese , I've even been known to put a little smoked salmon in my basket. It's a very small basket and I'll often have some flowers round the edge as well

 

[choirfiend]

Make Bacon wrapped cheese sticks...cook bacon til cooked but still soft, wrap around cheese sticks, heat slightly in microwave before eating. I dont eat meat but it sounds good!

 

[ma2000]

 

[Monica child of God 1]

Real cheese paska (from the church sale) and "fake" cheese paska. The fake paska is cream cheese butter powdered sugar, craisins or raisins soaked in booze and toasted almonds. My son prefers the fake one

Kulich from the church sale. I usually bake my own bread from a challah recipe, but this year I might buy fresh challah from a bakery and go easy on myself.

Fage Greek yogurt!!!! a bottle of olive oil and a jar of salt. Milk chocolate. Maybe some wine too. Jalepeno Cheetos or Cheez-its

We don't eat out of our baskets after the service, except to maybe munch on some chocolate. The parish puts out kulich, paska, slab bacon and sausage. People do pull out bottles of wine. I go for the coffee with half and half.

For the meal after Agape Vespers, I think I will make paneer in korma. I usually make mac and cheese.

M.

 

[katherine2001]

I plan on giving a $10 donation for the building fund for the women's monastery at Goldendale, WA (Fr. and Matushka have a daughter who is a nun there, so we are collecting money), and in return, you get a loaf of Greek Pascha bread. I usually also have some ham and cheese slices and maybe a couple of other things. It will depend on whether I can afford to buy anything. I usually barely have enough just to get the things I actually need. If I don't, I'll have those things and maybe some Green Onion dip and some potato chips. We make baklawa this weekend (our ladies group makes it just before Nativity and Pascha to raise funds), so I will have some in my Pascha basket as well--it is de bomb!

 

[Coralie]

de bomb!

 

[xenia]

Fried Chicken!

 

[Greg the byzantine]

You all make me wish we had that tradition hahahahah.

We always break the fast with avgolemono soup at home after church. If I were to make a basket it would probably be filled with a mountain of cheeses

 

[katherine2001]

Fried Chicken!

That's one of the first things I plan to do after Pascha--go to Albertson's and get some of their fried chicken. I can make 4 or 5 meals out of that.

One year, someone stopped by Little Caesar's and picked up a pizza on their way in to church! I kind of like that idea too, especially one of their pepperoni, sausage, and bacon pizzas.

 

[-Kyriaki-]

You all make me wish we had that tradition hahahahah.

We always break the fast with avgolemono soup at home after church. If I were to make a basket it would probably be filled with mountain of cheeses

Me too And yes, avgolemono! Yummmmmm. We don't take a basket, but we have a heavy table at home... always the good table that noone uses normally, with avgolemono soup, flaounes, chicken nuggets (my SiL's favourite), chocolate, wine, and hönigkuchen Yumyum.

Oh, and tsoureki - Greek easter bread And eggs.