GASTRONOMICAL: St. Pats/Easter - Green Eggs and Ham?!

so i'm working like a slave on all my homework and really just getting batty and John's sister Karen emails me to say that this year she wants to do a joint St.Pats and Easter thing and what day can both John and I make it so the whole family can be together. i'm like, St.Pats AND Easter? i realize they're both really close this year and it would give us all a chance to celebrate both, and all together; but to me this just seems like somebody getting away with only feeding me once. also, i'm latin, and therefore only irish by injection; and easter, well, as i said, an opportunity for food and drink, not to mention chocolate. still, it's an opportunity to do the food and drink thing, you know; and get together with the family, which i love. and i love Karen and Wayne, not to mention that Karen's a good cook and she and Wayne keep a very well stocked wine fridge. and i do love good wine (Todd, Karen and Wayne's son, calls me a wine-aholic) kids say the darnest things don't they? ;-) so i'm down with the whole joint celebration thing and then i start thinking about are we going to have a leprechaun with bunny ears or a green easter rabbit for the egg hunt? and of course the food and drink, and naturally in my state of mind i think dr. seuss and start quoting green eggs and ham to Karen. everything has become blog fodder, what can i say? it's like those ink blot tests, it all looks like food or sex to me. last year John and i were going to miss the St.Pats get-together because we had a flight to Tulum on that day, and then, if any of you remember, we had that freak ice storm and the flight never got off the ground. of course, it wasn't bad enough to keep us from going out and eating and drinking to excess so we all met at a place in jersey called "the crow's nest" which was doing a full blown St.Pats thing complete with bagpipes and the requisite menu. i showed up with green hair and ate corned beef and cabbage like a true irishman. anyway, here's some pics of past St.Pats get-togethers.

Karen, Wayne, Mr. C, Shivann(see you DID make it to my blog) and Todd