"Here comes Peter Cottontail, hoppy down the bunny trail..."
Easter this year was a small family event, dear hubby and sons. Instead of the traditional ham dinner, the boys asked for lasagna, so that is what I made.
My mother-in-law had Franciscan Desert Rose which my sister-in-law has inherited. She isn't really a dish person, so each trip we visit her or she us, we bring dishes back. My favorite local antique store also has a huge amount of Desert Rose, so I am slowly gaining quite a collection of it. It's also become my favorite Easter set. I think I've mentioned, I am not a pink girl, so I mix it with a lot of my green depression glass. I used rattan chargers to make the table less formal. I have been looking for these chargers forever! As a child of the 70's every house had them, Amazon didn't have them, Home Goods didn't, I finally found at Cost Plus World Market. I think they will go with a lot of different tables.
The plate stack had the rattan charger, followed by a Desert Rose dinner plate, a cranberry glass bread plate, with a Jeanette Cherry Blossom berry bowl on top. Each bowl had an Easter egg in it.
The glassware is Fostoria Versailles ice tea glasses in pink and green and Waterford Mourne goblets. The silverware is Towle Candlelight. To further add a bit a casualness to the table, a pink buffalo check napkin in an adorable bunny napkin ring finished off the setting.
The bunny perched on the compote came from Home Goods and it is not Franciscan, but it certainly does match!
The centerpiece was a green depression glass console set with matching candlestick holders, a gift from my brother. In the console bowl sat a chubby happy bunny from Fitz and Floyd. The tablecloths are my sagey green as an under cloth and a pink and white matelesse with flowers and ribbons and bunnies. It is reversible, I put the pink side up. You can see part of it in the picture above, there was no tag on it, I bought it from the local antique store.
The dinner was yummy! And, lot's of leftovers! Lasagna always tastes better the second day!
A homemade no-knead bread and salad completed the dinner. I have to admit, I had been afraid of breads and yeast, I tried the no knead bread loaf and it is so easy and good, we make it all the time. A recipe from a dear dear friend, sour cream poundcake (I added lemon rind) and blueberry compote were desert.
I hope you and your family had a Happy Easter!
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