The new and old of Easter 2010

This year for Easter dinner we added a few new things to the traditional favorites. Along with my mom's southern ham recipe and her famous mustard sauce we added carrot souffle, which will now be added permanently to the menu.

 The new
Carrot Souffle`
  Ingredients
1lb fresh carrots
1/3 cup butter
3 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cut carrots in 1/4 inch thick slices. Combine with butter and cover; microwave on high 7-8 minutes until tender. Process carrots in food processor with remaining ingredients. Transfer to greased 8x8 baking dish. Bake 30-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes; serve.
Makes 8 servings
This does not have to only be eaten for Easter it could compliment any meal. This dish is sweet so it is great for those picky vegetable eaters.

The old
Mustard Sauce
combine
1/4 cup dry mustard
1/2 cup  apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
Beat 2 beaten eggs into above mixture. Gradually beat in 1 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Place in microwave for 5 minutes. Stir and cook 5 minutes more. Great on ham. Store in refrigerator.

Southern Ham Sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
 1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon garlic vinegar
Pack the ham with the above mixture and cook according to your ham baking requirements. Then baste with the sauce until ham is cool.

Our next adventure we are tackling is apple butter! We just got through reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by  Beth Hoffman and every time the charcters in the book felt sad, sick or lonely they had toast with apple butter! We now crave toast with apple butter! They were also eating beaten biscuits and cinnamon rolls but that is for another day. What can we say we are influenced by what we read in our books. Not too long ago we were both reading Janet Evanovich books and the characters were always going to Cluck in a Bucket for chicken. All we had was Kentucky Fried. The chicken in our imaginations was much better. So you will probably figure out what we are reading by what we are eating.