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I love a good, juicy ham on Easter and Christmas (and any day in between). Too often the hams we’ve had are dry, expensive and sickeningly sweet, even when we bought the high-priced, big name hams from the ham store. It’s enough to make a person sit down and cry into her taters. Therefore, we took it upon ourselves to find the cheapest, tastiest method…
Easter is a fun time for families, but for my family, it is all about our faith, and our faith is all about Jesus. At Easter it can be easy to get wrapped up in the Easter breakfast and the Easter basket and the Easter ham and the Easter eggs and the Easter buffet and the Easter chocolate and the Easter brunch and the Easter…
Last year I posted several articles about hard-boiled eggs. They were some of my most popular posts of all time. Apparently, you people are all about the incredible edible egg! And why not! Eggs are awesome. In honor of the amazing egg, here is a round-up of my best hard-boiled egg posts, as well as some newbies. Check out this picture sent in by my…
Eggs have a natural protective coating that keeps the inside of the egg fresh despite the porous nature of the shell. When you boil hard-boiled eggs, you wash the protective coating off the shell, taking away nature’s preservative. If properly refrigerated, hard-boiled eggs are generally considered edible for a week after they are boiled. (No need for confessions here about how long any of us…
This basic deviled eggs recipe is open to a lot of variations, including the stuffed egg chicks down below. Enjoy. Deviled Eggs Recipe Ingredients 12 hard-boiled eggs 1/2 cup mayonnaise (or to your preference) 2 teaspoons mustard 1/2 teaspoon salt pinch of pepper, optional paprika optional green onions, red bell peppers, or any other pretty garnish Directions Peel eggs. (Read How To Boil an Egg…
It is Easter week. In the midst of the eggs and the pink dresses and the choir and the breakfast prep and the ham and the buffet planning and little girls in curlers, there is this, the true necessity of Easter, the true darkness that brought about the joy of Easter Sunday morning. It is the true reason why I am a Christian. Not because…
Few kitchen tasks make a person feel more inferior than the often bewildering process of peeling hard-boiled eggs. Here are some save-the-day (or at least save-the-egg) tips for a clean, easy peel (almost) every time: Peeling Hard-Boiled Eggs: The Prep Boil the eggs properly. To learn how, read How to Boil an Egg: Making Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs. There are other recipes which have you boiling…
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