Happy Belated Easter to one and all. I spent a lovely holiday with James, Jayleen, Becca, Cari, Debbie, Jason, and Karina. I didn’t realize it until yesterday, but James is quite the cook. We needed at least 20 people to even have a hope of eating everything that he made!! It was all so delicious though; I left his apartment after 6 straight hours of eating, or so it felt like. I was stuffed. In addition to the normal fare of veggies and avocado ranch dip, cheese and crackers, and deviled eggs there was foccacia bread, at least 20 homemade baguettes (yes, 20, I’m not kidding), make-your-own-pizza with homemade dough, burritos, margaritas, and two different kinds of chocolate truffle souffle — with vanilla ice cream on the side — for dessert. Oh, I’m getting hungry again just thinking about all the awesome food James made.
One of my favorite stories about Easter this year, though, is the new tradition I learned about, and let me just say: I can’t believe I’ve spent 28 years without finding out about or taking part in this because it sounds awesome. For Mexican families in Texas, Easter involves draining eggs of their filling, refilling them with confetti, wrapping them in tissue paper, and then smashing them on people’s heads. Seriously. How have I never gotten to do this?? Easter gives you free reign to smash eggs on people’s heads! What could be more fun? A Google search turns up a lot of hits for these things, called cascarones, and there are some people that make really cool cascarones that look like sharks and whales and frog princes. They take some time to make, so apparently people start stockpiling them in January! This is by far the coolest holiday tradition I have ever heard of, and I am rather disappointed that Jose forgot to bring me back a cascaron from Corpus. The bum.
I looked for the alligator yesterday morning, under the premise that since the first time I saw him was on Thanksgiving, maybe he’s a fan of spending the holidays near my apartment. Alas, if he was around, he was laying low.
I did a reasonably good job of accomplishing everything on my list this weekend. The only thing I didn’t make any headway on was taking a bunch of clothes I don’t wear to Goodwill. But I took my car in for its 15,000 mile service (oil filter, air filter, rotate the tires, state inspection) and got it washed so it shines, I cleaned off a good portion of my Tivo by finally watching the shows, I washed clothes, I vaccuumed…I even got a pedicure! In short, I was Suzy Homemaker for the weekend and am now feeling much better about the state of my apartment. I know you were all worried about it.
Sounds like you had a nice weekend. Martha Stewart filled hollowed out eggs with white chocolate on the Today show on Friday. They looked yummy.
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah,
I’m amazed how every year I come across someone who has never participated in getting an egg cracked over their head. 🙂 It’s so fun when we have someone join us for Easter that has never been a part of this fun old tradition.
Happy Belated Easter to you. See ya soon!
Sam
Geez, it never even occurred to me that someone would have never played with confetti eggs. I grew up in the Valley, so I guess that explains it. I thought everyone did that! Well welcome to the confetti party. I look forward to seeing your master pieces next year.
Sarah, I’d like you to meet Aden (http://www.aspenleafhosting.com/adenbeans/). She also discovered confetti eggs this weekend. What a strange little world, reading two new to confetti egg blogs within a few hours of each other.
I had my first experience with those eggs yesterday. Cool. I cracked one on Ashton’s head. She was about to cry until I did it to Jenna. Fun times.
The craziest thing…Eva Longoria is talking about those eggs on David Letterman right now. One day I know nothing about them, the next day everyone’s talking about them…me, Sarah, Eva Longoria.