easter, part 1 - its all about the food!

I love food. I love to eat food. More than that though, I love to feed others. My children laugh at me and warn visitors that they had better be hungry because mum will feed them! And its true. Food and the act of nourishing both family and friends, gives me a great sense of satisfaction, a feeling that I've cosseted and nurtured and filled hungry bellies and now all is right with my beloved ones.
This means, of course, that there is always an abundance of food at my table - in fact, I like so much abundance that there are leftovers! Leftovers are good because that means that everyone has eaten their fill……if all the pots and dishes are empty then oh dear, maybe someone hasn't had enough; maybe they had to stop before they were properly filled up; perhaps they will leave the table with rumblings in their belly and thoughts of raiding the fridge on their mind!! (Leftovers are also good for man-lunches the next day which saves me from extra preparation of sandwiches and suchlike!)

So that brings me to Celebration Food. In my mind celebrations always need food. Outings always need food. Just a quick jaunt to the local park, always needs food! Someone is bound to be peckish and the inevitable question "mum, is there anything to eat?" will arise and then what would I tell them? Wait till we get home? Sorry, eat grass!

Anyway, I digress. I wanted to tell you about our Easter - because a large part of our Easter is food! For as long as I can remember, right back to when I was a little girl, we have been having a bountiful Continental breakfast after our early morning basket hunt. My mum used to set a fine table with all sorts of cheeses and breads, jam and coffee, all of which were eaten right along with chocolate bunnies and coloured eggs. And I have continued the tradition. We head out into the cold morning to search for our baskets that the 'Easter Bunny' ahem, has hidden sometime in the earlier hours (in the dark!) of the morning. Then when everyone has tromped through the garden beds, upturned all the empty plant pots and eventually found the basket with their name on it, we return to the house to eat ourselves silly with loads of chocolate bunnies good food and warm beverages. Naturally there are always leftovers!!

Some years we head off after breakfast to explore, an as yet unknown to us, part of our island and I'll share this years destination tomorrow.