A dozen each to color

Saturday night, we couldn't go to bed until we'd colored a dozen eggs each. 

Earliest Easter for the rest of our lives

Easter Menu March 23, 2008

Appetizer -- Veggie Rabbit (see recipe in previous post)

Leg of Lamb -- I fixed lamb for my Mother.  I found this recipe at http://www.recipezaar.com/55600 and like it much better than what I tried on my Easter 2007 post.  If I didn't cook last year's so long, it would have been much better.  

Spiral Ham (our kids haven't grown lamb tastebuds yet)

Small yellow potatoes with drippings from lamb

Karelian Rice Pastries (see recipe below)

Egg butter

Broccoflower and Carrots, steamed
Jello Eggs on bed of lettuce

Blueberry muffin bunnies

Peeps tulips
Dessert -- Strawberry Shortcake

Title: Karjalan Piirakka (Karelian Rice Pasties)

Description:
Comes from the Eastern part of Finland, Karjala, where Mummo was born. Nowadays they are popular all over Finland. Served often at our Finnish dinners. Always a part of our Christmas Eve dinner.

Ingredients:
For the Rice Filling, use the recipe for Rice porridge on this site (Dec. 2006).   Just omit the sugar.

For the crust:
1 c water
1 1/2 t salt
1 2/3 c rye flour
2/3 c all purpose white flour
Mix water in bowl, salt, stir, add flours slowly. It will be a sticky messy job. If too sticky to roll, just add a little more flour. Can make ahead and put in a ziploc bag and roll out when ready.

For egg butter:
1 cube slightly softened margarine or butter
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped,
a tiny bit of salt since butter already has salt
Mash and mix together.

Directions:
Roll out crust in a thin oval shape. Place rice porridge in the middle. 

Pinch sides of crust up around the filling. 

Place on cookie sheets close together. 

Bake at 375 or 400 depending on your ov

en, until light brown. When light brown, open 

your oven and lift up one to make sure the bottom isn't brown. They do not taste good if they are. One the stove top, melt a stick of margarine and some water in a kettle. Use tongs to remove each pastry and dunk it completely in the mixture. Prepare a couple of old towels laid out with wax paper on them. Place the dunked pastries on the wax paper and then wrap the wax paper and towel combination up over them to keep them warm. This process softens them. Mummo says to keep them under the towel as long as you can stand it. She samples them at many stages.

Serve with egg butter, or cheese or lunchmeat or plain butter on top of the rice part.

Blue Venom, Furious Racer Receive Pinewood Derby Awards

Blue Venom was the name of car 26 in this year's Pinewood Derby.
It received the "Best of Show" Award.
Furious Racer was the name of car 27.
It received the "Best Paint Job" Award.

Kids Race Down Main Street in Snowshoes

The 91st annual American Dog Derby race was held this weekend. We got to see just the Snowshoe races, but it is an activity well worth seeing. In the real musher team race, the big news was that one team was trampled by a moose, but are all okay. Two other teams stopped to scare off the moose. While this was happening, kids were racing downtown on Snowshoes. Lots of snow and good weather. For race details go to www.americandogderby.org.

Fun In The Sun Cake Contest

This year's Cake Contest theme for the annual Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet was "Fun in the Sun". On the upper left, is the sand Dad concocted for the "Building a Sandcastle" cake. We used the mold from the Hogwart's Castle bundt cake and recipe posted earlier. The sand is made of: plain sugar, brown sugar, raw cane sugar, graham crackers and oreos blended together. The sand looked so real that one parent couldn't bring herself to actually eat it because it seemed too real and others didn't dare eat it because it felt real to the touch. The other themed cake we made was "The Cub Scout Team". We used the Krazy Cake recipe posted earlier and used buttercream frosting. We used M&Ms for the "C". We found the idea on www.familyfun.com and altered it slightly. The baseball has some of the sand on it to make it look played with.

Whew! That's over and tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Good thing the kids already made their Valentine's for FHE activity.

Color, Culture, Energy Abound in Youthful Celebration
Some 2,000 youths blend serious reflection with entertainment on the eve of the Rexburg Temple dedication.
Photos and text by Laurie Williams Sowby

We Celebrate, then Dedicate a new Temple

Saturday we celebrated, then Sunday we dedicated the new Temple.












It looks like Angel Moroni is blowing a hole into the clouds on what started as a foggy day for the dedication.












Going to inspect the cornerstone.
















Here are some links below to articles about the cultural celebration and dedication of the new Rexburg temple. If you paste the link into a browser you can open the articles too. I viewed them with great interest.

http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/080212rexburg2.html
We know the two boys in the red sweaters and woman holding the sign. We also know 1 of the 4 men in the fur coats and 2 of the girls dressed in white, standing in line.

http://www.postregister.com/

http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/

http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_8219679

http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/rexburg/

http://www.kpvi.com/global/story.asp?s=7850815