One of the hardest parts of putting meals on the table is not the actual cooking, but the planning of what to cook. While Thanksgiving dinner can be a huge amount of work, there are traditional dishes that can help with planning. Turkey is traditional and dressing (or stuffing), green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, baked sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin or pecan pie. One could add a salad or vegetable, but it will probably be ignored in favor of the other items. Christmas dinner is more uncertain. One could do a rerun of Thanksgiving, but otherwise what would one do? The grocery store seems to favor ham or if you are flush with cash, the Prime Rib. If you get too frustrated you could settle for Chinese carry-out. Easter is an ever greater puzzle. Lamb would seem a logical choice but rarely done in the U.S. Ham is on the grocer’s agenda. How did we think of Easter ham? Was it because it rhymes with lamb in the crazy English language spelling? In the end it is more important who is sitting around the table than what is sitting on the table. So relax. If you are lucky enough to be with the people you love, then the dishes will be more savory and the desserts sweeter because of the tasty company.