Perhaps also consider trading the carrot salad for something green -- either a broccoli salad (Ruth's Prize-Winning recipe found on the Web), or a tossed green salad (perhaps with grape tomatoes) with a simple vinaigrette. With your existing menu, I'd lean much more towards the tossed green salad, to help balance out a menu that is heavy in starch and sugar as it is. Green beans, as you suggested, would be lovely for your hot veggie!
You certainly don't need appetizers, unless people will be drinking any sort of alcoholic beverage before-hand. Even so, the appetizer offered needn't be elaborate, by any means. A bowl of mixed nuts, or a dab of chive cream cheese smeared on celery sticks, with a sprinkle of paprika for colour, will certainly suffice before your Easter feast.
Your lavender cookies sound delightful, and so fitting for the Spring/Easter season! Peach crisp sounds lovely, too, although again you have two items that are a bit lacking in colour. You can remedy this somewhat by making Chocolate Covered Strawberries (they'd look really pretty on a silver tray, alongside the lavender cookies), and/or by considering a bit more colourful alternative to the Crisp, such as Strawberry Angel Food Dessert. Served either in a glass serving bowl, or in crystal stemware as individual servings, this dessert gets raves every time I serve it. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Strawberry-... .
If you make Chocolate Covered Strawberries, the recipe I use can be found at http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-C...
If you serve cupcakes for dessert, I would suggest you consider Lemon, which works so well with Spring and Easter. To add colour, I would suggest you garnish the top of each with a single fresh raspberry, and perhaps a small mint leaf as well. Alternatively, a small cluster of fresh blueberries and raspberries (3-4 berries total) would be very pretty, too! My favourite recipe for Lemon Cupcakes is at http://www.joyofbaking.com/cupcakes/Lemo... ).
In case you want even more ideas to explore/consider, I found some additional appealing Easter dessert ideas at the following links:
http://www.southernliving.com/food/holid...
http://www.chow.com/galleries/188/easter...
Whatever you decide to make, I'm sure your Easter dinner will be delicious!
Cupcake cheesecakes!!! They are delicious and simple to make! Here is the post to the site that has the recipe on it. :)
http://www.empowernetwork.com/edwardssta...
I'm in charge of making Easter dinner this year, and was looking for opinions on my menu. There will be six of us as of present. Please leave suggestions on my menu, and add your own recipes! Thank you :)
No appetizers.. If you think I need one leave suggestions!
Main course:
Ham
Pineapple Casserole
Carrot Salad
Sweet Potatoes, mashed
1 or 2 types of green veggie(string beans?)
Dinner Rolls
Dessert:
Lavender Cookies
Some type of Crisp (peach maybe?)
Cupcakes (flavor suggestions please!)
