Eggsellence...

One of the things about living in the UK rather than the US which is funny is trying to do Easter Eggs - it's very hard to get white eggs here, almost all of them are brown. There's no difference in taste or anything, it's only a matter of different hens laying different coloured eggs, and normally, I couldn't care less what colour my eggs were, as long as they are fresh and free-range. The ones from the farmers' market taste a lot nicer than supermarket ones, actually, (not suprisingly) but they are all brown. As I say, normally, it doesn't matter, but at Easter, it's nice to have white eggs, so you can make all these pretty pastel shades. Usually when we dye, we have to make do with lovely shades of dark red and purple, which have their merits, but... However, this year while looking at eggs in the supermarket, I had a stroke of luck - found duck eggs on sale, which are white - hoorah! So we have 3 formerly brown eggs and six more pastelly specimens, which started out white. We made some crayon patterns on them first, to act as a resist.



Those of you who are eagle-eyed will spot that there is a yellow dye cup on the table, but no yellow egg - the yellow just didn't really take, so Alex wanted to overdye it. Probably needed a lot more yellow in it! But anyway, fun was had, and the eggs will be consumed over the next few days- just as well we didn't have dozens, as eating them up always becomes an issue.