Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday Breakfast Coming April 19th

[j_daddy]

Yup, you read it right. There will still be an Easter Breakfast at 812 this year, it'll just be in celebration of the Greek Orthodox Easter. All breakfast foods will be sprinkled with goat cheese in honor of Greek Jesus

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[ckirisi]

Yay! You know, I still celebrate Greek Easter, despite being a witch. I grew up with lamb roasts. Are you familiar with the red eggs tradition?

[j_daddy]

I've always found giving up the holidays I grew up with difficult, so I stopped trying to give them and just tried to put a Pagan spin on them. I'm not familiar with the red eggs tradition so you will have to enlighten me a little bit. On another note, I've never eaten lamb, and for us traditional Easter dinner was ham. Tonight it was Long John Silvers though.

[ckirisi]

Well, I mean, so many of them were pagan to begin with, and just adapted to fit Christianity. Easter/Eostra, c'mon... Eggs and bunnies?

Anyways, there is a special dye that you buy at the greek store, it's very deep, like a blood red color. You dye the eggs in it and vinegar, and then polish them with olive oil. The Red is to symbolize the blood of Christ, and olive oil is a sacred anointing oil for Greeks.

If you ever want to do a lamb roast, I grew up preparing lambs for them.. Let me know. It's pretty easy. A whole lamb is usually ~$100, you can freeze a lot of the leftover meat.