You could do a room temp sliced ham, some room temp pesto on linguine, passing a bowl of chopped tomatoes to crown the pesto, your salad, bread, a small anti-pasto platter, dessert and that's it The grouch needs to be warned and then ignored. Enjoy your holiday.
kades
Thanks for your suggestions.
"Well, I agree with some of the others. I always go all out for family guests with a holiday meal, otherwise I wouldn't do it and just not invite them, or have a potluck. I'm afraid with such a simple meal you will appear uncaring, although I'm sure that's not the case." - Kayelle.
Inasmuch as all of the guests have eaten rather fabulous meals at my place (countless times) and appear to enjoy coming here to eat, I believe that they will understand and sympathize with my reason for a truncated Easter meal, namely, my being fed up with doing big meals at least for this year only. Of course I will explain this in advance in a diplomatic way. Many thanks for your opinions!
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