Easter Weekend

Easter seems to be the favorite holiday in our family (although I do love Thanksgiving!) We enjoy many traditions and are working to keep some of them intact as our family grows and moves into new phases of life.

We don't have anyone young enough to enjoy Easter egg hunts anymore and we are veering away from Easter Baskets but we love spending time with our family. This year was an eating adventure as we moved from one food event to the other.

Some of the eating highlights included lunch at Bella and Maxwells followed by a mind-boggling buffet at a beach club.  Burgers at Grease was the fare before a shrimp boil that included a delicious coconut cake made by our aspiring pastry chef, Hannah.  The one tradition we managed to keep this year was our Easter morning brunch at Testa's. It was crowded but worth it. My end of the table ordered Eggs Benedict (and not to be outdone by the far end) we ordered a stack of pancakes to share.
We finished of the culinary weekend by enjoying southern style shrimp and grits by a local caterer while watching the Miami Heat win an exciting game against the San Antonio Spurs. (We were still licking our wounds after watching the Gators get slammed by Michigan.)

It was a fabulous weekend and we will certainly work on new traditions as the old ones live in our memories. Hope your weekend was wonderful!

Beautiful Easter afternoon at the beach!