Coloring Eggs With Natural Dyes – Brown Eggs vs White Eggs {an experiment}

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We love family traditions. Everyone looks forward to our traditional Easter breakfast! Each year we serve homemade Crumb Cake (Grandma Brown’s recipe) and colored hard-boiled eggs. Some years we keep it simple and just buy food dye from the store to color our eggs. The table is lined with little cardboard boxes with holes, and cups with bright vinegary liquid. But other years we make the dyes ourselves. This year we decided to make our own dyes again. We thought we’d try a little experiment while we were at it, and dye both brown and white eggs.  Some people dye […] Read more »

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 »