I have been getting ready for this day all week.  I hard boiled a bunch of eggs, and some of them were dyed.

Yesterday I took a British Baking zoom class called Bake with a Legend.  One of the recipes called for glacé or candied cherries.  I couldn’t find them in the local stores so I bought frozen sweet cherries and used this recipe to make them myself.  The recipes were for Howard’s Chocolate Cherry Hot Cross Buns & Calabrian-style Easter Nests.  Here is the class in action in our kitchen.

Here are Howard’s finished bakes.

And here are my hot cross buns (I struggle with piping),

and my Easter nests.

This morning I got up early getting things ready.  One of the tasks was to make a fruit salad.  The poultry got to enjoy the leftovers from this.

The stanchion worked well again, and the calf was able to nurse on both sides completely so that is a win.

I let the cross beaked hen out of her pen as her companion chicken had died.  We will put wetted food out for her in the chicken pen.  Hopefully this will work out for her.

We also put out the Easter eggs in the orchard this morning.  Fortunately we were blessed with amazing weather.  Can you see the eggs?

I got the rest of the food together which also included carrot cake, pickled eggs, and deviled eggs.

When the grandkids arrived, they wanted to meet the calf first.  Here is William petting him for the first time.

This is Jay, his mother, also petting him.

And William was able to feed him his electrolyte solution.  This may be his last bottle as his scours seem to be resolving.

Here is Thomas and Diana meeting him.  Everyone was enamored with him.  After a discussion, it was decided by William and Piper to name him Jameson.  It seems to fit.

Tom made London Broil, oven baked potatoes and steamed asparagus. Everything was really good in my opinion.

After eating there was the Easter egg hunt.

Then they got to got through their loot.

There was quad riding in the mud out back and another visit to the barn to pet Jameson.  The weather was perfect, and everyone seemed to have a great time.  Another Easter done, but this one without any drama, which is good.

P.S. I finished this book this evening.  It was more about theory in my mind rather than specific of Indigenous foods.  But I did learn a lot and have some information to follow up on.  It is a good book if American Indigenous foods are an interest to you as they are for me.