Last Sunday, we hosted our largest annual Easter Brunch ever! Unforunately, I was too busy and totally forgot about taking pictures so all of these are post-brunch photos.
Brunch was especially fun this year because three of my old friends from my hometown joined us to celebrate! There are about a dozen Campolindo High School alumni living in DC from my graduating class and it's so great to have a little taste of home when you're 3,000 miles away.
But I must say that it was a wonderful success and we even got to use the beautiful three-tiered serving dish that Bill and Pat got us for Christmas (but Mom and Dad Merschat brought it up for the weekend and we opened it up on Easter Eve... what perfect timing!)
We stuck with some tried and true recipes for our brunch menu:
Chocolate Cupcakes (featured above with robin eggs on top)
Strawberry and Rosemary Scones (PERFECT for spring brunch)
Red Pepper Hummus (Michael also made an extra batch sans pepper for Mama Merschat)
Chicken Salad Sandwiches (featured on our beautiful new serving platter)
Lox and Bagels
Mini Quiches
Fruit Salad
Mimosas (of course!)
And the highlight of the afternoon was the Merschat family tradition of Easter Egg "dutzing." I can't find any reference of "dutzing" (or any other variation on its spelling) via google but I did find this link explaining German Easter Egg Battles.
So you take some beautifully decorated Easter eggs that took hours to decorate and dye...
...and then you pick a partner and smack the eggs together! One egg will crack, the other will not, and the winner "challenges" another opponent with a non-cracked egg until there is only one winner. The winner gets good luck all year long... and this year Mama Merschat got all the good luck with her winning mushroom egg.
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