Happy Easter!

Slightly late for an Easter post, sure, but hey, I got sick.

No, not that sick.

Yes, in a time of global pandemic and heightened contamination precautions, I managed to get a minor head cold. I'm feeling much better today though, and even made it out onto my porch with my laptop for some much needed fresh air after spending all of yesterday camped out under a quilt on my couch watching James Bond movies and eating half a box of white cheddar Cheez-Its (the king of all Cheez-Its in my opinion). I'm trying to shake off a little of my grogginess in time to take a nice afternoon walk.

I can't possibly believe this terry cloth romper was ever cool (source)

Anyway, Easter. Right.

I don't generally make a big fuss over Easter at the best, non-pandemic, of times. For some reason, my work doesn't classify it as an official holiday and it always seems to land on my weekend to work. I would normally head over to my aunt's house after work but of course I couldn't do it this year so I missed out on seeing my family and, tragically, having a good excuse to dress up (just joking, I don't need an excuse. I do like showing off a little though).
Despite these (very necessary) set-backs, I determined to make it a special day all the same. Unfortunately though, Easter crept up on me this year and I wasn't prepared to make our traditional ham-feast. I didn't think to pick any up on our last shopping expedition and I didn't want to be irresponsible and make a trip when it wasn't strictly necessary. No worries though- I had a good scrounge around my quarantine stash and came up with a pretty decent alternative.

Yes, that is a Kurt Vonnegut altar candle.

A little hard to see with all that ambiance maybe, but I made garlic butter baked chicken thighs adapted from this recipe with rosemary roasted potatoes and dill carrots, pared with the porter I talked about here. It was good, though I suppose I'm biased. We ate on the small table in our "office" because it was a little more romantic and also our kitchen table looked like this:

Eldritch Horror, not a game to be taken lightly... or with minimal table space. It takes so long to just set up that once you do, there's no clearing it off for dinner. We totally lost that game by the way.

For dessert, I made aquafaba meringues which are made from the juice leftover in a can of chickpeas (read about that weirdness here). It whips up exactly like egg whites and is a great waste-not-want-not tip. Also, you can give the meringues to unsuspecting family and friends and once they've finished, you can inform them that they just ate bean juice cookies, it's fun.

I topped the cookies with Lemon Krimi Skyr and crumbled graham crackers to make a sort of Frankenstein version of a lemon meringue pie. Again, I really nailed it here and had to stop myself from eating the whole batch.

As a last piece of Easter goodness, I had ordered something from Amazon a while back and in these days of more uncertain shipping times, I thought I'd be receiving it later in the week. The Amazon Easter Bunny pulled through though and I got home from work with the package waiting for me on my desk.

Just a little something I slipped into my cart along with the more necessary things. Its the OG nerd watch, the Casio CA53W-1 Databank. Coming in at a whopping $18 on Amazon, this dream come true was a no-brainer purchase. I love watches and appreciate the more complicated movements of traditional analog ones but there's something about Casio's vintage range of digital watches that I absolutely love. One day I'll ramble on more about my ever increasing and slightly weird watch collection but I'll leave it there for now.

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter weekend and is holding up well in isolation!