I am at a loss at this time each year. What do i do with all these eggs?
This Easter, at the time when I want to be reflecting on Christ's life and resurrection and the gift of eternal life with Him in heaven - instead, this year i was hung up on irritability and eggs.
The irritability was based on upon my own selfish nature and frustration with our current living arrangements. But the eggs - that was just plain craziness.
My sister and I believe that our grandmother, Boo, makes the best deviled eggs in the world. They are delicious and we always eat them all within a day. So when we were planning our super casual easter picnic this year, i thought: "i'll make Boo's eggs, it will be a cinch."
Oh how naive i am.
Here is her recipe:
8 hard boiled eggs,
Kraft (not hellman's) mayo to taste,
1 can of Underwood Deviled Ham.
Doesn't that sound simple? It does, but of course I decided to use hellman's because i am stubborn like that, and then i accidentally forgot about the eggs cooking when i went to put frank down for a nap and they cooked for 3 times the length of time that they are supposed to, Oh and of course - Underwood deviled ham spread tastes like feet. So when i put it all together in the food processor - it was just nasty. Perhaps Boo has some sort of magic with the deviled ham. she is quite an amazing cook after all. But just as with Ma Maw's chocolate pie - i believe there must be something missing to this recipe. I will watch her make them next time.
In the meantime, i ended up with a dozen hard boiled eggs without filling, a dozen hard boiled eggs for dying and a dozen hard boiled eggs for the second batch of deviled eggs - which i thought were actually really good. Here is the recipe for those: Buttery Dijon Deviled Eggs. I chose a recipe with butter because i figured they would taste good with butter. everything tastes better with butter - and apparently deviled eggs are no exception.
so now here is a question that i have always wanted to know: what do you do with all your dyed eggs? for real, do you eat them after dyeing them and then hiding them and stuff? Even after all that time that they get all warm and the dye sneaks into the whites of the egg? and do you feel as guilty as i do throwing them away?
Hm. I have a dozen boiled eggs stinking up my refrigerator and waiting to be dyed because if we had actually done it before or even on Easter, that would be so conventional. Maybe we will dye them tomorrow. Since I am the only person in my family who eats eggs, I will probably eat a few, maybe at breakfast. The rest will stay in the refrigerator until approximately August, at which point I will find them and throw them away. And feel kind of bad about it.
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