How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

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With Easter around the corner, egg-y recipes and crafts are popping up left and right. This got us thinking about hard boiled eggs, one of our favorite ways to eat eggs. Hard boiled eggs make a quick snack or lunch with loads of protein, and taste great cut up in salads or mashed with mayo for egg salad sandwiches. You can eat them for breakfast too! Hard-boiling eggs is a basic kitchen skill. They seem easy, but they can be fussy… shells cracking, green rings forming around the yolk. Here is how we boil eggs so that they are cooked […] Read more »

Basic Knitting: Long Tail Cast-On

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Casting on is the term for putting your first yarn stitches onto a needle for knitting. It is the very first thing you will do when you knit. There are a number of ways to cast on. Here we demonstrate the long tail cast-on, which gives a nice stretchy edge. This is especially useful for hats and sweaters, which need to expand when you put them on. It is also just a good basic cast on, so we use it for almost everything we make, even non-clothing items. Abbie insisted that I (Mrs. Brown) do this demo, so for the […] Read more »