With guests arriving for the whole Easter weekend, there’s only one thing to do: get a blood sugar baseline for the weekend.

In a sense, like most Polish religious celebrations, food plays an important part, but like most Polish religious celebrations, it begins with a fast.

So my experiment — stuffing tenderloin with pepper-encrusted bacon, prunes, and green onions before smoking — will remain untasted until later in the weekend.

Such a temptation.

But there are other temptations.

More appropriate temptations.