Easter Tradition!!!

We had such a great time this weekend, with great friends. Lucas had a blast. We had some friends that are from Brazil but live in New Orleans that came to spend Easter with us. Lucas and his 3 friends played all day long.
Friday we had a traditional Brazilian dinner. It is a tradition in Brazil to eat Cod Fish on Good Friday. We have in Brazil a salted dried Cod Fish that I could not find here in USA, so I used regular fresh Cod Fish instead.

Here is the recipe:
3 tomatos
Green onion
200gr black olives
1,5kg Cod Fish
Olive Oil
2 Onions
2 Green Peppers
5 Potatoes
Slice the potato, tomato, onion, green pepper and green onions. Boil the potatoes with a little bit of salt for 15 min. Season your Cod Fish with salt. Make some layers starting with your potato, Cod Fish, onion, green onion, green pepper and olives.
Put lots of olive oil on top of it, cover with aluminum foil and bake it for 45 min at 360 degree. Serve with white rice and enjoy it.

Hummm it was delicious. Tasted just like home!!!

Saturday morning we went egg hunting with the kids. We had lots of eggs to hunt all over the place. I loved to see the kids face every time they found an egg. there is nothing better than seeing a smile in a kids face!!!

On Sunday, Mr. Bunny came to visit and left us our Easter Basket and our Brazilian Chocolate Eggs.

Lucas' chocolate egg was almost his size. He loved it. He ate way tooooooooooo much chocolate and we did too. Those big chocolate eggs are our tradition in Brazil. Mr Bunny brings us those chocolates eggs in different sizes, taste, and color. Some will come with small chocolate inside, some with truffle and others with toys.....and they all taste soooo good!!!

How was your Easter? What is your Easter Family tradition?

Easter Delicious Ideas!!!

My friend Regina from Bargain Bombshell Blog and I attempted to make some Easter Bunnies inspired by Bakerella. I've mentioned Bakerella before in another post. I am a number 1 fan of Bakerella. The blog is awesome, she is creative, professional and she is great. If you haven’t visited Bakerella yet, you should do it now and I am sure you will love.

Here is how our Easter Bunnies turned out.  Not so bad for our first time and probably my last time, LOL. I had a hard time covering the oreo balls with chocolate. It is not easy if you do not have much experience (like us) covering it beautifully like they did at Bakerella, but I will get better, I will keep trying. Instead of cake, we used some Chocolate Oreo Balls. Have you tried those Oreo Balls before? No?? How come?? I am addicted to it. It is so easy to make and so delicious. You got to do it.

Here is the recipe:

Chocolate Oreo Balls

1 package of oreo cookie.

8oz of Cream Cheese

Chocolate

Break your cookies in small pieces, (I like to break it before even open the bag). Mix the cream cheese with your cookies and then make some small balls. Put it on your freezer for 20 min just to get harder. Melt some chocolate (black or white) and dip your oreo balls on it. Put it back on the refrigerator for 15 min and enjoy it. Best of all, you can freeze it.Okay, you probably know already that I am the Freezer Queen. I do freeze everything that I can just to make my life easier. I always have some Oreo Balls in my freezer for those crazy days that we crave some sweet, if you know what I am talking about. LOL

You can use your oreo balls instead of the cake  to make a lot of recipes from Bakerella. I love their Cake Pops, cupcakes, cake balls, desserts, .....it is all so pretty!!!!
Are you cooking or baking anything delicious this easter?
Happy Easter to all of you!!!

Easter Egg Hunt

On Saturday we were invited to go to an Egg Hunt. I was so excited! That was going to be my first time going Egg Hunt the American Way.  It was supposed to be awesome, and it was.

We got there around 10 am and would not leave until noon. There were a lot of things for kids to play and Lucas wanted to try everything… Well, not quite everything. We tried to put him inside one of those inflatable’s jumpers but as soon as he got his face there, some kids that were playing accidentally put him down, so he did not want to go back there. My husband and I were like, well, I don’t think Lucas will enjoy any of those things, those are for bigger kids….and when we saw, he was running towards the biggest slide by himself, and he did it!!! He did it 1, 2, 3, 4 times. He loved it!!!

After spending an hour going up and down on those slides, it was time for the big event of the day. There was a helicopter throwing 10.000 eggs on the field for the kids to go hunt. Lucas in the beginning did not care for the eggs. He was just amazed by the helicopter. He could not take his eyes off it. We got 5 or 6 eggs for him. After the hunt was over and most kids had left the field we strated throwing eggs around him without him seeing it and when he started finding it, he understood what was going on and he wanted to find more and more. Some of the eggs had prizes inside and we were so lucky that we got 3 prizes – a marble game, colored chalk and a ticket to McWane Center.

I was so happy that we went there and had a great experience, great time with great friends!!!
Now we are planning on having our own Egg Hunt on Sunday. We will have some friends from New Orleans here with us. They are actually from Brasil too, so we will have a American/Brazilian Easter. I will tell you guys later how we celebrate Easter with kids. It is fun too.

Easter Bunny Craft

I was searching online for some Easter craft ideas to make with Lucas and I found those cute little bunnies that I loved.  I am not very talented but it looks like I can make it. Why not!?!?  LOL (stop laughing, I will try ok!).

I think those bunnies will be great to decorate your house, your table for an Easter brunch with families and kids, and a great family fun activity too. I am also thinking about using some of those bunnies to display on top of the table and/or on top of each one of my guess plates too. I think it will look adorable and everyone will love it, can’t wait to put my hands on it!!!

I found this Tutorial at V and CO blog, go here and you will be able to see  it. Have fun and send me pictures of yours, I will love to see it.