Dear Liza,
Grandpa Nelson, Auntie Bridgett and I have an Easter picnic planned at Laurelhurst Park with Auntie Katie, Cousins Jasper and Kestrel, and Katie’s pal Douglas. We are providing most of the food, so there was a lot to do!
First, of course, was cookies. Donna Spicer’s sugar cookies always turn out delicious, so I made a double batch.
As you can see, I have included the “traditional” Easter dinosaur. (Maybe it is traditional somewhere…)
Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I iced them with plain white frosting and painted them with food coloring.
The colors are sort of Easter-ish, even if there are no bunny cookies. Cats, yes, and flowers, and a happy face.
But you can’t have a picnic of just cookies, so we made some deviled eggs.
We sliced the eggs a little differently, mixed the yolks with spices and mayonnaise, and filled the eggs back up.
Then Auntie Bridgett put on the tops and gave them little eyes made of peppercorns.
Little chicks hatching from their shells! Aren’t they cute?
So now, the night before Easter, I feel ready for the picnic. We have cookies, deviled eggs, fruits, veggies, meat and spreads, pickles and other goodies. Auntie Katie will bring lots of bread, and we’ll be fed!
So now I can watch Yul Brynner give in to Charleton Heston in “The Ten Commandments” and head off to bed.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 