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Oh my God. Just had the Easter dinner out of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. A whole lamb (roasted of course in the yard), loukaniko sausage, pastichio, spanakopita, meatballs, pasta, greek salad, magiritsa soup (google it), feta cheese, garlic bread from Costco (the one with the big hunks of garlic baked in) and I suspect much more that I can't even remember. Then dessert, which included koulourakia Easter cookies, flourless chocolate cake (I made it), shortbread (again, me), chocolate chip cookies, creme caramel, tiramisu (not very Greek, but good), galaktobouriko, and again much more. It was insane. My cousin remarked that it reminded us of growing up and having the big holiday meals at our grandma's house - way too much food EVERYWHERE. Quite an enjoyable day.

And for anyone who is interested, this is a quick one minute shot of church last night at midnight. The Greeks hold Easter services at midnight Saturday night. There's a song particularly for Easter that gets sung in a candlelit service exactly at midnight - the lights were already on, but here's the song.



Afterwards, our tradition is that we go to White Castle at 2am and get sliders :-) And we did.