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Elegant Mother’s Day Lunch Menu

May 4, 2017 By justalittlebitofbacon 2 Comments

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This year for Mother’s Day, how about a Mother’s Day Lunch Menu? I have a selection of elegant, lighter recipes (and a great dessert!) which are sure to please mom, while also incorporating lots of great, seasonal fruits and vegetables.

This Mother's Day Lunch Menu is full of ideas for a light and elegant meal! Everything you need from a fruity cocktail to an easy dessert. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

If you are totally about brunch, I posted a Spring Brunch Menu recently, with rhubarb cake and a crustless quiche and other fun, brunch recipes! So, go there, because that menu is just what you want.

However, I thought I’d mix it up here and go for a Mother’s Day lunch menu instead. Sometimes mom just wants some lunch! I say this as a mom. Lunch is good. 🙂 Especially an elegant lunch full of all sorts of healthy foods, like blueberries (shhh…they totally make that cocktail healthy), spring peas, radishes, avocados, mangoes, and more.

I’m not sure what I’m going to be eating for Mother’s Day this year, since I have a pile of family coming to visit. (So much still to do!) However, between my brunch menu and this Mother’s Day lunch menu, I think I have it covered.

I’ve started off this Mother’s Day menu with a refreshing Blueberry Mojito. Blueberries, lime, mint, and plenty of rum are mixed with sparkling soda water to make a cold, fizzy drink which will get things off to a great beginning.

Once everyone has drinks in hand, it’s time to serve the Chilled Spring Pea Soup. It’s a very cold, thin, elegant soup – perfect for this menu! And, yes, it does have a little bit of bacon in it. 🙂 Or not quite bacon, since I went with crispy prosciutto here, but you could certainly use bacon or thinly sliced pancetta.

For a salad I thought my Spring Snap Pea Greek Salad would be great since it has fresh, spring vegetables with the flavors of a Greek salad. This is a new recipe on the site, but one I’ve already made a bunch of times! One note: Do not cook the snap peas for more than 2 minutes. Any longer and they get mushy. Say no to mushy snap peas.

Onto the main course! For a main I decided that my Shrimp and Mango Tacos would be light, elegant, and provide plenty of fresh flavors, in keeping with the rest of the menu. I really love the fresh mango salsa I made for these tacos. It’s so good! Sweet and tart and spicy. However, it’s not quite the same if you don’t make the Avocado Crema to go with the tacos. It’s a little more refined form of guacamole and just perfect for the tacos.

Which only leaves dessert! And what a yummy and easy dessert I have for you today. My No Churn Cannoli Ricotta Ice Cream is both simple to make and amazing to eat. It’s like frozen cannolis and sure to be a crowd pleaser. Or a mom pleaser. And that’s the point here, right? Making mom happy? Right! 🙂

Fresh Blueberry Mojito - This blueberry mojito is full of fresh blueberry and mint flavor, and is an easy and refreshing summer drink perfect for sipping out of a straw. Great for cookouts or a warm evening on your deck! | justalittlebitofbacon.com
Fresh Blueberry Mojito
Chilled Spring Pea Soup - This elegant and easy chilled pea soup is full of fresh flavor and is great as a light meal or the first course of a celebration dinner. | justalittlebitofbacon.com
Chilled Spring Pea Soup

Celebrate spring with sweet snap peas and spicy radishes all tossed with feta, kalamata olives, and scallions in this Greek snap pea salad. | justalittlebitofbacon.com
Spring Snap Pea Greek Salad
Tangy Lime Avocado Crema - Avocados are pureed with lime juice and a touch of sour cream in this Avocado Crema. Great as a taco topping, a sauce, or a dip! | justalittlebitofbacon.com
Tangy Lime Avocado Crema

Easy Shrimp and Mango Tacos - Spicy sauteed shrimp are paired with a quick and flavorful mango salsa in this recipe which will have dinner on the table in a flash. | justalittlebitofbacon.com
Easy Shrimp and Mango Tacos
No ice cream machine? Try no churn ricotta ice cream! It's spiced with cinnamon and topped with toasted pistachios and chopped chocolate. Cannoli filling in frozen form which you can make in minutes. | justalittlebitofbacon.com
No Churn Ricotta Ice Cream

This Mother's Day Lunch Menu is full of ideas for a light and elegant meal! Everything you need from a fruity cocktail to an easy dessert. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

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  1. Lawanly Lucca says

    May 15, 2017 at 8:33 am

    What a yummy selection! That shrimp and mango tacos with the avocado cream… good lord ;p

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    • justalittlebitofbacon says

      May 17, 2017 at 11:35 pm

      Thanks! And those tacos are really great! 🙂

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