Eggs!

  

The Orthodox Easter has just gone this past weekend, I thought I'd share some samples of the eggs I dyed this year, an Easter custom we retain in Romania. These eggs are leaf decorated and hand dyed in red cabbage and onion skins. Here is a link to my eggs from last year (my first cabbage dying adventure).

 

Egg load

Hope everyone had a happy Easter, whether celebrating or not! Here is how my eggs came out this year. 

I attempted dying them with red cabbage as opposed to the traditional (in my part of Romania) onion skins. 

I think you really need white eggs if aiming to obtain a proper blue, otherwise they will end up a variety of  tones, anything from a greyish duck egg to a mauve-brown or even khaki green! After the initial frustration, increased by the refusal of the dye to set (even after an all nighter and plenty of vinegar added in), I really grew to like the lichen colouring and the mottled appearance.

Happy Easter everyone!

photos credit:   Explora Cuisine

I thought I'd share with you a style of naturally dyed Easter eggs traditional to my country.

My own eggs - which I color every year following this technique - have not happened this Easter due to insufficient prep. There is not much planning required at all - you just need to have handy sufficient onion leaves - but I'm a total airhead. The pathetic shop dye colored eggs I've ended up with serve me well.

I found however this wonderful blog post by Romanian fellow Alina from Explora Cuisine that has stunning photos to guide you through all stages of the process, and if you scroll down you will find the guidelines in English of how to produce these eggs.

Alina is based in Toronto and her food themed blog is bilingual, which is great. I tell you, this lady whom I've only just discovered myself  is amazing. Her blog is a heaven for the foodie, and brings up recipes from home that I yearn to taste, explained  very clearly and with lots of helpful pics (I'm a visual learner).

Thank you Alina and I hope you ladies and gents enjoys this!