Easter Feast...Spiral Ham

We had our Easter feast last night, Good Friday. My mom was visiting and leaving Saturday. Friday was a beautiful day for a hike into Tod Inlet with the kids. There is an incredible number of flowers in bloom from triliums to daffodils to hyacinth from the gardens that once existed down there. Not wanting to be a slave to the kitchen for a day I picked up a Spiral Cut Ham at Costco - removes alot of the work precut and less waste. We had asiago whole wheat biscuits, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, and salad...ohhh and dessert, lemon curd strawberry trifle. Dessert was planned based on the fact that I had half an angel food cake from the night before to use up and who could walk past those fragrant strawberries in the grocery stores right now- turned out to be a keeper when a silence over took the table as it was served.



Whole Wheat Biscuits with Asiago Cheese (16 biscuits)
1 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. white flour
4 tsp. baking powder
2 T. sugar
3/4 t. salt
1 1/2 c. finely grated asiago cheese
Mix together and add:
1/3 c. evoo
3/4 c. milk
Roll to 1/2" thick, cut and bake at 425 for 15 minutes

Spiral Ham
30 minutes prior to finish roasting stud with whole cloves and glaze with mixture of 1/3 c. molasses and 1/4 c. grainy mustard - turn oven to 400 and complete roasting - do not drain pan juices

Roasted Asparagus
Coat with olive oil and sea salt and fresh ground pepper - roast at 400 for about 10-15 minutes on stoneware baking pan. Remove and rest 5 minutes before serving.

Strawberry Lemon Trifle (serves 6-8)

2-3 hours before serving mix:
3 c. fresh cut strawberries
1-1/2 T. contreau
3 T. sugar

Prepare lemon curd - tip: my lemon curd did not set so I added (1 pkt of knorr gelatin disolved in 1T hot then 1T. cold water) whisked into my curd about 1 hour prior to serving - thankfully set it up nicely - I didn't include the recipe since it did not set well this time??

1/2 angel food cake (cut into cubes)
Prepared whip cream

To serve line individual serving dishes (glass are best so you can see the layers) with cake chunks, scoop marinated strawberries over with some juice, add lemon curd, more cake, more strawberries, whip cream and fresh strawberries to garnish, along with a strip of lemon zest to fancy it up.

Happy Easter!