Good Friday and Easter Sunday--a weekend of good eats!

So every year my dad does this awesome Good Friday fish fry and meal. Luckily, J & I were able to make it this year, and were excited my brother, sister-in-law, niece & nephew made it in from out of town as well.

This year on Papa W's menu: grilled tuna steaks, grilled zucchini slices, grilled shrimp skewers, homemade coleslaw, fresh rye bread from a local bake shop, breaded (fried) shrimp and crab cakes. PW makes the BEST crab cakes! He also made deep fried crab & Parmesan cheese ball appetizers that were AMAZING. (I definitely need to get the recipe!) 

Our family likes to laugh a lot and indeed we did. The first moment was when PW announced it was time to say grace, and I kicked off the Christmas Vacation grace scene by saying "I pledge allegiance to the flag..." and my SIL added "Grace died years ago." then began singing "And the rockets' red glaaaaare..."

The second time was when trying to juggle the "story" of what the crab balls and fried shrimp were for the kids. My nephew didn't want fish so everything was "popcorn chicken" and my niece wanted fish sticks so we could tell her they were fish. We're pretty sure my nephew knew none of it was chicken (he's 7) but the defeated look on his face trying to follow the rule of eating "just one", with his one chipmunk cheek stuffed with the (not going down) piece of fried shrimp was just priceless. (He didn't eat it in the end.)

I helped PW make a wonderful creamy lemon mustard sauce for the tuna and crab cakes. Delicious!  Here are the crab cakes, don't they look awesome?

Everything was delicious! Aside from the sauce, I didn't contribute much to the Good Friday meal. I DID, however, contribute the pepperoni bread that was prepped and ready to be put in the oven at 11:45pm, so it could be done just in time for the famed Good Friday Midnight Snack!

Easter Day, the feast was yet again at my parents' house. Mama W got the table all set and ready,

and also prepared some sides, sour cream cucumbers and chunky applesauce with whole cranberries.

PW slow roasted the Easter ham on the grill,

got the bread basket and rolls ready,

some broccoli with a side of buttered bread crumbs for anyone who wanted them, and I kept an eye on my macaroni & cheese quiche in the oven. Yes, you read that right--Macaroni & Cheese Quiche. I promise a separate post in the next few days specifically about the quiche and I will definitely include the recipe. Pretty easy and it is DELICIOUS!

Since I am not a big meat eater, here is my plate:

(The Mac & Cheese Quiche is the tall, piece of pie-looking item on my plate!) And J's, complete with ham and bratwurst:

I chose a nice bottle of wine for J & I to have with our dinner, and my brother also shared the bottle with us--Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais-Villages. Perfect--not too dry, not too sweet, and was a perfect partner to the variety of food we had prepared.

It was wonderful and we will definitely make that a regular wine in our wine rack!

We had a wonderful weekend full of family, friends and great food, and I hope you all were blessed with the same.

Stay tuned for the Mac & Cheese Quiche post and recipe!