Delicious Feta Omelet

There are a bajillion ways to cook an egg. I love eggs. They're just so yummy. Here's a recipe for an easy and healthy omelet:
Ingredients:
3 eggs
Feta
Tomato
 Green onions

First, beat the eggs and add in some salt and pepper if desired. Then pour the eggs into the pan. The trick to an omelet is to move around the cooked eggs and tilt the pan to fill in the spaces so there's always a layer of egg on the pan.

Then just before the eggs are cooked (they won't be so slimy looking, that's how you know they're done) sprinkle some feta cheese around. I love feta so I added lots! I also used a feta and herb blend.

Next, slide the omelet onto a plate making sure it folds over in half. Then add diced tomatoes and chopped green onions.

Enjoy! Mmm I want another just thinking about it!

How to Naturally Dye Eggs and a winner!

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As Jordan stated yesterday, we were lucky enough to spend the weekend together. On Thursday we were silly at the thrift store:


On Saturday we decided to be crafty. After toying around with a few crafty ideas we decided to dye eggs using natural ingredients. We consulted this website for different ideas on ingredients. We had most everything on hand but did run to the grocery store for a few items and more eggs. We decided to experiment with stuff we had around the house as well as recommended items. Here's what we used:

1. Yellow onion skins

2. Strawberry jam

3. Red grapes

4. Sweet potato skins

5. Orange peels

6. Parsley and cooked spinach (bought frozen)

7. Carrots

8. Blueberries

9. Red onion skins

Boiling up the goodness

We boiled each of these items with a few tablespoons of vinegar and a pinch or two of salt. We eye balled everything and laughed a lot as we cooked. After letting these items boil for about 20 minutes each, we strained them into glass jars and let them cool.

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As Jordan said, she blew the eggs first. I only successfully emptied one egg, but she got 8 done in an hour! Because our eggs were floating, we had to put baby food jars on top of them to get them fully submersed. This is what the yellow onion looked like after about 30 minutes:

Then we left the eggs to soak all night long. Here are our results:

Becca chose her favorite egg, the speckled "dinosaur egg" (blueberries). We're not positive why we got that result, but maybe it's from the amount of salt we put in.

We loved experimenting with different ingredients and seeing the results. Some of our experiments left us underwhelmed, but we enjoyed the process so much it didn't really matter. There's probably a reason why those ingredients weren't recommended ;) What can you find around your house to make your own natural dye?

The best way to make hollow eggs

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Lani!

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• Sculpey buttons,
• A scrapbook layout kit,
• A cookies 'n' creme cupcakes kit, or
• A set of 10 charm squares from vintage fabric,

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This weekend, we Wayward Girls got to spend some time together! Saturday night, Jaime and I experimented with an Easter-themed project. We've tried this before, but this time, I got to be the resident egg-blowing expert.

(I know, I know. You wish you could have a wayward & crafty weekend.)

What you'll need

• Eggs!
• Egg carton or other secure egg holder.
• Straight pin.
• Candle lighter or matches.
• Skewers, preferably metal (the bamboo ones we used tended to shred).
• Bowl or container for catching egg contents.

How to do it

1. Rinse the egg and place it securely in one of the wells of the egg carton. Sterilize the pin with the candle lighter. Using the pin, poke a hole in one end of the egg.
2. Turn the egg over and seat in the well again. Poke a hole in the other end. With the pin or the skewer, enlarge the hole until it's between 1/8 and 1/4 inch wide.
3. Poke the pin around inside the egg to break the yolk.
4. Hold the egg, big hole down, over the catching bowl. You can use a straw, but we just used our lips to blow through the top pinhole. Really, really hard.
5. Once the egg is empty, rinse and dry.

Wayward & Crafty Tips

(AKA what we learned)

You must break the yolk! (Break it good!) Poke the pin around in there until you see yolk on it when you pull it out. Then cover both holes with your fingers and give the egg a good shake.

Use corsage pins (see picture at right). They're bigger and longer than dressmaker pins, which makes them easier to hold.

Carefully chip away at the hole to make it larger. A big hole = easier to clear out the egg. Of course, you'll have to balance appearance with easiness.

Be careful! At least one egg got blown up.

You can save your egg contents to use again later. Large eggs hold about 1/4 cup of liquid. However, you will get very small bits of ground shell (and possibly larger pieces) in the eggs, so use at your own risk.

Good: flowing like liquid. Bad: flowing like . . . egg yolk. The unmixed part of the yolk is a lot harder to get out.

And the #1! Take! Home! Lesson! was: DON'T BLOW OUT EGGS BEFORE YOU DYE THEM!! We thought they'd fill with the dye and submerge—but that just wasn't the case.

Have you ever blown eggs? What did you find worked best?