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| GH April 2017 issue |
When I see a magazine with good
ideas, I share it on this blog. Good
Housekeeping Magazine April 2017 issue titled Spring Fun is such an issue
for Easter. The magazine contains all kinds of Egg and
Easter decorating ideas. It includes the
secret to perfect boiled eggs with stages from runny, soft-boiled, or
hard-boiled. If you want the eggs for
hiding as Easter eggs, you may want to check out The
Best Way to Make Hard-Boiled Eggs as it also links to recipes for leftover
eggs.
Most of the egg decorating ideas
images (and how to links) are in their on-line slideshow below as well as many
more than in the magazine: 75+
So-Adorable Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
If you want to color your boiled
eggs for Easter, that was not in the magazine so I did a search to help out my
readers. You can buy an egg
coloring kit to do so. Or if you do
not want to purchase a kit, How
to Color Eggs Using Food Coloring is a good video for your boiled eggs
showing the traditional method. The tips in this VLOG are similar to what we
did when I was a kid, except mom did different colors in mugs so each of us
kids could dunk out favorite color. We would
put an egg in our mug and mom would set timer for 2 minutes. After the timer went off, we could take
pastel egg out and put in another before timer was reset or if we wanted our
egg darker just put it back for another 2 minutes.
The GH issue included recipes for
deviled eggs. After all, we have to do
something with those eggs the kids like to hunt but do not want to eat. Most of the deviled egg images (and either
tips or how to links) are in their on-line slideshow, as well as many that were
not in the magazine: 30
Eggs-cellent Ways to Make Deviled Eggs
If you want more basic deviled egg
recipes, here are two favorites of my boys.
They say I make the best deviled eggs, but I think it is the way I make
them rather the ingredients. My tips for
great deviled eggs is to make sure you smash-up the egg yolks before adding
ingredients or it will not come out smooth and well blended. Then blend in the creamy ingredients with the
smashed yolks before adding other ingredients so you end up with a smooth and
creamy center rather than a clumpy stuffing.
- Savory Dill Relish Eggs (my husband's favorite)
- Devilishly Good Eggs (my son's favorite)
When looking for my deviled egg
recipes online, I also found this cute decorative idea for your next BBQ party:
Little
Devil Deviled Eggs. Or if you want
to make colorful eggs, How
to make Red White and Blue Deviled Eggs is a post that features dying the
egg whites for patriotic parties. The idea
can be used for other colors (like green eggs for St. Patrick’s and Christmas
with red too, or doing pastel colors for Easter).
Peeling the egg without tearing it
apart is a challenge for pretty deviled eggs. The method I use is in video https://youtu.be/2Z5GkSoIbq0 although I want to try this other video method
with a glass next time https://youtu.be/FkWISKfgqZ0
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| Bunny Bottom Cookies |
Besides the egg stuff, there was a cute
idea for sugar cookies that uses a large round cookie and two small egg-shaped
cookies. Instead of buying lots of
candies to do decorations, you may want to consider dying some of the frosting
and piping it onto the paws. You can
find the same cookie idea at links below:
- Bunny Bottoms (made from scratch recipe)
- Bunny Butts (made with ready-made dough and frosting)
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