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Tiffins ( Indian ) for best bargain lunch I would not touch with a pole. Too much hype and too little authenticity. Nothing Indian about it except the uncook like taste of its sauces and sweetishness of it., MSG comes to mind.
There are better bargain Indian lunches. Of course if you are a lazy SOB and rather stay put on ur butt then walk a block go for it, it does leave you full like a fool.
I give credit to its owner ( a Wharton grade ) whose marketing skills bar none is what makes the college a rave, another "Quiznos" franchise in the making.
But calling it Indian Cuisine....pluzze.

I use unsalted for baking and salted for everything else.

It makes me crazy to eat baked goods without enough salt. They are are either too sweet or bland. To my palette salted butter balances sweetness and enhances the flavor(precisely why we use salt at all) of the other ingredients like chocolate chip cookies that have a wonderful caramel flavor when you bite into it! And baked goods that aren't sweet, like fresh bread, don't need additional butter on top to make it palettable if there's adequate seasoning in the recipe. I use salted butter without exception(nice even distribution through your recipe!) but I don't use refined table salt when the recipe calls for salt. I use coarse sea salt, milder and more nutritious. It all works out in the end.

We made reservations, and it is all good!

Years ago, I gave a dinner party right before Easter and, unthinkingly, served rabbit. A guest exclaimed, "You mean we're eating the Easter Bunny?" Much laughter followed. Since then, we have always had rabbit for Easter dinner.

Easter is a sad holiday for me--my mom has passed away, and my father celebrates Orthodox Easter--for me, Easter is chocolate and rabbits and pastels, for his family Easter is having the kids be quiet while the adults roast huge chunks of lamb on open spits. I invited him out for my Easter last year--to his favorite restaurant--but my stepmother just lectured me about how I don't understand that my Easter is 'fake' while hers is 'real.'

This year, I think I may spend it alone with chocolate.

Being Polish, Easter is almost as big a deal as Christmas in our household. ;-) No work at all is supposed to be done on Easter - even peeling eggs is considered work - so the contents of the basket are used a lot. Ours typically includes lots of eggs; kraszanki (eggs boiled with onion skins), boiled eggs dyed with food colouring, and I've taking to doing "dragon's eggs" for the peeled eggs (soft cooked eggs have their shells cracked all over, then cooked again in a mixture of tea, soy sauce, and other ingredients, which leaves interesting patterns after peeling), and wax resist dyed blown eggs we use every year. No one in our family likes the traditional Babka, so I make an egg bread, shaped into a wreath. Then there's ham, kielbasa, salt, butter, cheese and horseradish (I try to find a piece of root instead of prepared horseradish). We add some chocolate, too. Our one non-traditional treat. ;-)

I've got a photo of last year's basket here, minus the wax resist eggs. link

Others include things like fruit, wine, rye bread, as well as a candle. The filled and decorated baskets would be taken to church for blessing on the Saturday. I always loved seeing what other people put in their baskets.

It's Nick Malgieri's cake which is also very much like Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party cake. http://www.nickmalgieri.com/recipes/6-cakes/coco_rasp_cake.html
For Easter I use lemon curd and my mother says it is the best cake she ever ate. No lie!
It is the best cake I ever made. I sometimes use a cream cheese frosting but I have made the 7 minute one per the recipe too. Both are great.
This cake is a winner and people ask me to make it ALL the time.
My husband loves it with lemon and raspberry. That is just how he rolls.

Jerzee you are more than welcome Just PLEASE bring your coconut cake! ;-)

We are breaking with tradition this year--braised beef short ribs. The side dishes are yet to be determined:)

Garibaldi's in Charleston on Friday and on Saturday a 24 inch pie at Pizzeria di Giovanni on Saturday.

I'm eating whatever my big brother makes for us! Sadly, there won't be asparagus, because he hates it. But there will probably be lamb = YUM.

And then services at the greatest Catholic church ever, located in Oak Park, IL.

Traditional fare - A large shrimp platter, baked ham, asparagus, potato salad and pierogies, babka (pascha bread), green beans, coleslaw. For dessert, chocolate in quantity!

(Forgot to mention that the Poles (which is, um, us) also include their traditional blessed food from their basket - hardboiled eggs, fresh Polish sausage, a soft homemade cheese, butter molded in the shape of a lamb, beet horseradish, salt, and of course the Easter pascha bread with a candle stuck in the center, which gets lit for the blessing. All this food is traditionally much of what you avoided during Lent. I've seen some of these baskets - they're the size of hampers, complete with bottles of wine or bubbly, chocolates, and other extra goodies, all wrapped in beautiful embroidered cloths. Really amazing to see!)