EASTER SUNDAY

It would have been a beautiful morning for an Easter Sunrise Service on the beach.  Unfortunately, we overslept.  That is an easy thing to do when you are on vacation.  Too bad as it was a walk across the street.  It doesn't help that we are now 2 hours behind with a time change plus daylight savings time.  We have been lucky if we wake up by 9AM, (7AM TN time).  We did the next best thing though and watched our home church Easter service.  Dave streamed it through my nook into the TV.  

We invited George and Kathy to join us for Easter dinner.  It just seemed appropriate to celebrate this special day with our new friends.  We are missing our family today and wanted to spend the day with someone special and not by ourselves.  Kathy told had mentioned an easy recipe for BBQ that I would like to share.  I made my "famous" potato salad, coleslaw and Impossible pie.  I make the potato salad off the top of my head, so can not share a recipe for it.  But, since we are not using white sugar, I found this great recipe for Coleslaw that uses maple syrup.  It was delicious!  Plus, I have been craving coconut pie.  I brought my cookbook with me with family recipes.  I remembered one that would be great for camping.  It's called Impossible Pie.  It's an old Tupperware recipe from the 70s.  It's very close to a custard pie and makes it's own crust.  Our meal was delicious and am sharing the recipes with you as follows:   

Coleslaw with Maple Syrup

• 3/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon 
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 small head of cabbage, cut in strips or shredded (or bagged coleslaw mix)
• 1 carrot, shredded
• 2 tablespoons parsley
• salt, pepper and celery salt to taste
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• DIRECTIONS

• 1. In a serving bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, maple syrup, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, and pepper to taste. Mix until well blended.
• 2. Add the cabbage, carrots, seasoning and toss evenly with tongs until well coated.
• 3. Refrigerate the slaw for at least 1 hour to let the flavors meld. (May be covered and refrigerated for up to 1 day.)
• 4. Toss the coleslaw well before before serving. If desired, garnish the bowl with a sprinkle of parsley.

BBQ Pork Roast

1 Pork butt roast or tenderloin

1- 12 oz can root beer

Jar prepared BBQ Sauce

Salt, pepper & garlic salt to taste

Season Pork roast and place in slow cooker.  Add can of root beer.  Start on high for one hour & turn down to low for approximately 10 hours.  Meat should be tender enough & separate with a fork.  Add a little of the BBQ sauce and serve with a slotted spoon.  You can serve with buns or by itself.  Put rest of BBQ sauce out for people to add as they like.

Impossible Pie

4 Eggs                                                    3/4 cup sugar
1 stick butter (1/2 cup)                             1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup flour                                            1 cup shredded coconut
2 cups milk

Blend ingredients together.  Pour into 2 pie pans & bake at 350 for 1 hour.  I used turbinado "raw" sugar instead of white, so needed to melt butter & sugar together first for granules to melt.  I also cooked it in my convection microwave oven for 35 minutes.  It came out perfect!  Enjoy!