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A Hybrid Easter

April 4, 2010 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments

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This year for the first time……..
We attempted to use Natural Dying techniques to color our eggs.

(And before you get all “eggy” and Easter Bunny…Pagan Fertility on me….I’ll have you know that my daughter….on her own accord prayed this evening that we would not get caught up in all the chocolate eggs tomorrow and forget what Easter is really about!)

Ha. She thinks she’s getting Chocolate!

(Doesn’t she know that at precisely midnight tonight her mother will be found scouraging the kitchen cupboards, for any kind of sweet morsel left over from Halloween? (A holiday we’ve also discussed at great lengths but that’s another post) Seriously, instead of writing this I should be pulling out the fridge and checking to see what kinds of goodies have fallen behind it over the last year…..lest the kids get only Easter eggs in their baskets. (Baskets that I haven’t found yet).

Anyway, back to the egg making.

So, having laid somewhat of a foundation with the wee ones, I thought a little Easter Egg fun wasn’t completly out of the question.

So this afternoon we scoured around the house for anything and everything that might leave a lasting color on our eggs. Here’s what we came up with:

BlueBerries for Grey/Blue:

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Orange Peels & Curry for Yellow:

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Coffee for Beige/Brown:

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Beets for Red/Pink:

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Okay, you got me.

I didn’t really have Beets in my fridge. Totally made an extra trip to the store for these….buy hey, we picked up some eggs while we were there, and those were completely necessary.

We had great fun all ALL afternoon making the different dyes and letting our eggs soak up the color! (Yes, we added vinager to make the color stay….we’re not complete doofs.) Okay, well we might have forgot it for part of the afternoon….but NOT the whole afternoon.

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For first timers, we had a blast, and the kiddos thought Mom was a flippin genius pulling out a trick like that.

(Kuddos to Me)

And then of course we helped the colors along a bit with those Natural little Tabs that you can pick up in the Organic Kits at the Whole Foods Store. You know the ones…..

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So here are the Natural Eggs (on the right) with the Hybrid Eggs (on the left):

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(Again….they are Hybrid because we added just a tad of those Natural Powders to our Natural Dyes)

All together they make a pretty Spring Basket:

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I think the Coffee Eggs are my Fav!

Anyone Else Use Natural Dyes this year? What worked….I’m jotting down notes for next year!

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Filed Under: EasterCrafts Tagged With: easter activities, easter crafts, easter eggs, homeschool, natural dye, Recipes

Chicken Sausage? Who’d a thought….

October 31, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

I have never tried Chicken sausage.

(on purpose anyway….I’m sure that there has been some random chicken parts have been thrown into the usual cheepy hot dogs I buy at Wal-mart.)

But this is the first actual PACK of Chicken Sausage I bought, with the word Chicken written in larger then an 8pt font.

Anyway, to continue on with my Trader Joes Kick…..I thought I’d show you just what I made with it last night.

The recipe is from Cooking.com and it’s been one of my favorties.

Only problem is that it doesn’t call for Chicken Sausage…..just chicken.

But after seeing all those beautiful pasta commericials for Olive Garden, I’m pretty sure I saw a sausage looking one…so I think it’s going to work!

So Here’s what I did:


First I sliced the sausage and fried it for a while…yum.

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Then I diced up some veggies (mushrooms, onions, carrots) and fried them too:

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I started the noodles ( I picked up a pack of these delicious fellas’):

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For the sauce I used these babies (and the rest of the Trader Joes Whip Cream):

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It turned out really pretty too look:

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And finally I pilled them all together on a plate:

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Soooo Yummy!

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: cooking, mom, pasta primavera, Recipes, trader joes

String Cheese Salad

October 7, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

What do a tomato, an avacado and a string cheese have in common?

They’re all ingredients in String Cheese Salad…

My newest “Throw something together, it’s 5 O’Clock and we don’t have anything to go with the chicken, and we can have Cheddar Pringles again, kind of a meal”

Seriously, the kids love that there is string cheese in it!


Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: cooking, Recipes, salad

Easy Peasy Applesauce

September 21, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

Today’s Happenings:

Here is a link to the recipe we used, Delicious!

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: applesauce, homemaking, Recipes

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