Darina Allen's recipe ideas for family lunch on Easter Sunday

WELL, Lent is almost over and if you are one of those virtuous souls who have been abstaining for the past seven weeks now is the time to feast and savour the rewards of your fasting. 

Years ago there would be a surplus of eggs particularly as this is the time the hens go into overdrive and start to lay with gay abandon.

They too are super excited that the winter is almost over; Eileen has hatched out a batch of chicks in the incubator just in time to thrill our grandchildren and visiting friends of all ages.