Easter Ham vs Passover Lamb

I eat lamb and cabbage rolls

The only possible Christian answer is Pascha (Easter, in English).

And my wife makes Kulich

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We have spiral ham, yummy!

What ever gets eaten at the end of the Lenten fast should, IMNSHO, be slowly roasted on the spit. We usually have lamb, but I would never say no to a nice wild boar that has been roasting for 6 or 7 hours.

i've had wild boar before in Andalucia, Spain and it was very nice.


Steve

We have a huge potluck after the Agape Vespers (we've had our Paschal liturgy 11:30pm to 2:30am) Pascha afternoon. We have ham, beef, lamb, chicken (every meat you can think of basically). I had never had lamb before I became Orthodox and now I love it. Luckily we do have quite a few Greeks that cook awesome lamb (you can't overcook it because then it is like rubber). We have Orthodox of every ethnicity too, so we always have kulich (an easter bread that is awesome) and Pascha, an easter cheese (that as one of my former priests with a Russian MIL used to say has every dairy product known to man in it).

Anything and everything. Lent is over on Easter, and it's time to eat fried donuts soaked in run and mozzarella sticks.

But generally turkey. We never did name in our family, and we don't eat much ham. I think my wife would love me forever, though, if I surprised her with an Easter lamb this year.

we observe Easter and eat lamb

I am not sure how symbolic it is... Jesus is the Lamb of God...
or it could just be that lamb is a bit more of an expensive meat and fitting for celebrating the chief feast for Christians (Easter>Christmas)

I grew up Jewish and never knew anyone who ate lamb for Passover. They eat chicken or roast or something, but not lamb.

christianmomof3 said:

I grew up Jewish and never knew anyone who ate lamb for Passover. They eat chicken or roast or something, but not lamb.

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Yes, that's an important note. The lamb that used to be eaten by the Jewish people was the lamb that was sacrificed in the context of temple worship. Without the temple, there's no sacrifice; without sacrifice, there's no particular significance for the lamb.

Also, kosher chicken is delicious and I always enjoy going over to my friend's house for Shabbat because his wife is an amazing cook.