Wednesday's Food Section: Easter Ham!

As we gear up for Easter, we're coloring our eggs and getting our Easter bonnets ready, let's not forget to prepare for the Easter ham! First, a review of your carving technique:

Looks like an expert source. Let's sharpen our knives:

Excellent. Now, how should we carve the ham?

Like a pro! But, what about baking the ham? For that, we turn to our friends at Old Forester:

See, they even threw in a bean bake recipe for free! You'll be the hit of the Easter parade with that one! Bon appetit!

Friday Happy Hour: some R&R after the Easter egg hunt

Now, here's an Easter brunch!

This is from a booklet called The House of Seagram presents "Seasons with Spirit" A Guide to Entertaining at Home. It's not dated, but probably circa 1985 or so.

Perfect for your Easter preparations -- something for your drunk uncle, something for your grandma with the sweet tooth, and something for mom and dad to steady their nerves while the kids have the run of the house jacked up on Easter bunny chocolate. Then we can all enjoy our ham and carrots.

I think Nancy Reagan would have been proud to serve this after the Easter egg roll on the White House lawn.