EASTER DINNER 2023
Easter,
which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is
Christianity’s most important holiday. It has been called a moveable feast
because it doesn’t fall on a set date every year, as most holidays do. Instead, Christian churches in the West celebrate Easter on the first Sunday
following the full moon after the
vernal equinox on March 21. Therefore,
Easter is observed anywhere between March 22 and April 25 every year.
Orthodox Christians use the
Julian calendar to calculate when Easter will
occur and typically celebrate the holiday a week or two after the Western
churches, which follow the
Gregorian calendar.
This years observance of Easter is April 9, 2023 and definitely colder
than it was last
Easter
which was on April 17, 2022. This introduction is essentially a copy and past from
my Easter 2016 web
page.
I have five (5) web pages celebrating Easter going back to
2000 and
wasn't planning on doing a Easter meal this year, but remembered I have
a large Butterball turkey in our youngest daughter's freezer and needed
to use it up before it got freezer burn. This was more or less a
last minute plan and I called it our Reader's Digest Easter Dinner,
since there wasn't a tremendous amount of various food items, but plenty
of the essential things we like.
Our dinner was scheduled for 5:00 PM, but somehow I was running about
an hour behind! My multi-tasking skills were a little lethargic
for sure.
SAFETY FIRST
For
decades, I have been doing
deep fried turkeys for various family
gatherings and the past few years with all the reported fires caused by
the turkey fryer grease fires, I have moved the turkey fryer
burner/turkey pot in the yard as an extra means of safety. Most of
the turkey fryers/pots come with a small coat hanger type apparatus to lower
your turkey into the hot oil and that is no doubt the major reason since
your hand is too close to the hot oil and you do get some splatter from
the hot grease while slowly lowering the turkey into the hot oil and you
drop the turkey into the hot oil and the splash over oil ignites!. I solved that safety issue
by making a long metal EMT rod with a hook on the end allowing you to be
a couple feet away from the oil as you lower the turkey into the hot oil.
I have in the past, deep fried turkeys on the deck and carport for decades without
any issues, but
Murphy's Law never sleeps.
THOSE
ATTENDING
Those attending our Easter dinner aka supper
were Laura, Travis and Trevor Huneycutt, Shane Hough, Lisa,
Xander and Lily Gonzales, Joyce Porter aka my bride and yours truly Bill
aka Mickey Porter. I prayed to God through Jesus Christ our Lord
and Savior and thanked Him for His many blessings for allowing us
another Easter and each and every day that He allows and to
bless the food to the nourishment of our bodies!
PS: It
would have been great to have our West Coast family with us; Bill Jr.,
Nicole, Will and Jake.
OUR MEAL
Our meal consisted of
Deep Fried Turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet
gravy, green
bean casserole, yellow corn, cranberry chutney and home made buttermilk
lard biscuits.
FOOD PIXS TAKEN
What a "beautimous" looking
deep fried turkey ready to be carved by yours truly!
The cornbread dressing and giblet gravy is definitely a favorite of my
bride aka
Joyce.
Notice I was way behind in getting a few pixs taken. My fork took
priority..............grin if
you must!
My bride's home made
buttermilk lard biscuits were
"off the chain good", in other words Awesome!
A FEW ADDITIONAL PIXS TAKEN
Miss Lily made a couple trips to the turkey platter and biscuit basket.
Xander McKnight Gonzales with a turkey leg.
Yours truly's plate. No washing plates today!
Trevor and Travis Huneycutt.
EASTER EGG HUNT FOR MISS LILY
Miss
Lily wanted me to hide Easter eggs for her and how could her PAW PAW say
no!
Miss Lily is normally non-stop!
I hid the eggs which were twenty-four (24) and Lily found 23. I
looked myself and couldn't find the missing Easter egg. It will
turn up next time I cut the grass in all probability.
RETRIEVING ONCE USED COOKING OIL
My current
stainless steel turkey pot which I have had for many moons, the drain
spout freezed up I guess from the heat. I tried to free it up, but
didn't want to put too much pressure on the valve, of which I could
damage the pot itself and had to go to plan B in order to capture the
once used oil for later usage without incident. I have wasted at least one half
gallon the last time trying to get the oil into the red funnel and it
stay onto the plastic cooking oil container and finally made a Rube
Goldberg maybe an Ethiopian engineered apparatus that would do the job.
As evidenced by the pix, the contraption works. I used scrap aka
unallocated wood and a few deck screws and two rubber bands to complete
the impromptu project.
In closing, we had a great time. When family and friends can
get together and share a meal, it doesn't get much better than that.
As I often publish on this website at every opportunity,
"Two of the Greatest Ships that ever Sailed,
Friendship and Fellowship" and we definitely sailed
together.
Our Pastor/Bishop
Sam Abee at the Wadesboro Church of God
here in Wadesboro, NC gave a powerful spirit filled Easter sermon
titled, "The Eighth Day" and
the Spirit of God (Holy Ghost) manifested Himself during the service.
We also did communion representing the broken body of Christ and His
shed blood on the cross for the remission of our sins.
Web published
by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 04-10-2023.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
