Easter Traditions For The Home

Grass is growing, tulips are blooming, bunnies are hopping, all signs that Easter is around the corner.

Time to ferret out all the Easter decorations stashed in the closet, or – better yet – spring, (appropriately enough!) for some new ones.

Pottery Barn, 262 Plaza Frontenac, is a good place to browse and get those goodies they might need before the holiday. For example, a large assortment of Easter baskets and fillers, like a mini set of six Crackle Easter Egg candles and an egg vase filler with speckled natural and blue robin eggs in a vase or wire nest. Put a Bottle Brush bunny, made from buri palm fibers, on your table arranged with Debossed bunny plates. 

Send a soothing scent around your home with the English Garden Diffuser and Candle. You will find these and many more unique items to give your home that fresh Easter atmosphere. For more information, call 314-996-2630 or visit www.potterybarn.com.

Find that perfect table setting at Williams-Sonoma, 260 Plaza Frontenac, Begin with Easter Story time or Easter Meadow dinnerware for your table, then add chick or bunny tiny taper holders. Fill apothecary jars with colored alabaster eggs, and have your guests find their chair with little egg place card holders. A variety of Easter-themed linens will complete your setting.

Let the little ones (and big people too) have a go at egg art with the Easter Egg Decorating Kit with dyes, pom-poms, markers and stickers.

Besides making a festive Easter atmosphere, Williams-Sonoma suggests a menu of Fava bean and Manchego salad with citrus vinaigrette, cider-bourbon glazed ham, herbed potato gratin with Gruyère, sautéed snap peas, asparagus and shell peas with spring herbs, lily four biscuits with honey butter and red velvet layer cake with cream cheese frosting. Recipes, other menus and food items can be found at www.williams-sonoma.com/eastermenus. For more information, call 314-567-9211. 

If you would rather spend time hunting Easter baskets than cooking, Dierberg’s will provide the entire meal with the only thing required of you is the drive to your nearest store. Their holiday menus consist of a main course and sides. All you have to do is pick up your dinner.

Entrees include Honey Crusted Boneless Sliced Ham Meal, Stuffed Pork Ballotine Roast, Crumb topped stuffed Salmon and prime rib. Chose sides such as bake pineapple gratin, vegetable medley, cheesy Texas potatoes or carrots and sugar snap peas. Desserts and bread are also included. Prices start at $42.00. Call your local Dierberg’s or visit www.dierbergs.com to select and order. 48 hours notice required.Stores  in this area include West Oak, 11481 Olive Blvd., 314-432-6561; Warson Woods, 9901 Manchester Rd., 314-919-0600; Brentwood Pointe, 8450 Eager Rd., 314-962-5009.

Of course, Easter is not Easter without baskets, eggs, chocolate bunnies and all matter of things sweet. Bissinger’s Chocolatier, Plaza Frontenac, 1701 S. Lindbergh Blvd., features all of these and more to satisfy the kiddies and adults. 

Bissinger’s sales director Mark Ebling said they want to make Easter memorable for kids. “The stories and traditions that have gone on for generations. We have special Easter items and keepsakes like our collectible paper Mache eggs with beautiful Easter artwork, a plush bunny holding a box of sandwich cookies enrobed in our European chocolate and hand decorated. That’s a lost art, and children remember things like this.”

Bissinger’s is also featuring petit fours made with delicate layers of cake and raspberry filling, or a carrot cake.  And what would Easter be without chocolate bunnies, and beautiful Easter baskets, all made with Bissinger’s high integrity ingredients and containing no high fructose syrup. So, not only are they delicious, but good for you! www.bissingers.com or call 314-367-9750.

For your Easter table, or to remember a special friend or relative, Ladue Florist, 9776 Clayton Rd., is featuring a wide variety of colorful Easter arrangements. The most popular, the traditional Easter lily, a very fragrant flower, is only available at this time of year which makes them a special treat. The yellows, purples and pinks in fragrant flowers like hyacinths and tulips, iris, and hydrangeas say spring to everyone. For more information, call 314-994-7304 or visit www.ladueflorist.com.