How to make deviled eggs

‘Tis the season for eggs, whether painted, dyed, tea-stained, or hidden on the lawn. While you’re having fun decorating your eggs, don’t forget to make some to eat, too.

Kids love deviled eggs, and by learning to make them, they learn how to hard cook an egg, peel it, create a filling with their own choice of embellishments, and use a pastry bag to make their egg beautiful.


How to hard boil (or hard cook) an egg

• Start with very fresh eggs, preferably from a farm stand.
• Place eggs in a heavy, flat-bottom pan, and cover with one inch of cold water.
• Place pan over high heat, and bring to a boil.
• Just when the water comes to a rolling boil, remove pan from heat, cover, and let sit for 15 minutes.
• Your eggs are ready!

To peel an egg: Drain the water from the pot, and gently agitate the eggs in the pot to crack the shells all over. Then, under running cold water, peel each egg, dry on a clean dish towel, and set aside or refrigerate until ready to use.


Deviled eggs

First, a basic version:

6 hard boiled eggs, peeled, cut in half lengthwise, yolks mashed in a bowl
2 Tbsp mayonnaise
2 tsp yellow mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
3/4 tsp Old Bay seasoning
1 tsp distilled white or cider vinegar
1/4 tsp black pepper
Salt to taste (you won’t need much, if any)
Paprika or the thin tops of chives, for garnish

In a small bowl, combine the mashed yolks with the mayo and mustard. Stir in the Worcestershire, Old Bay, vinegar and pepper. Add salt if you need it.

Slice a tiny bit off the outside of the white egg halves, so they'll sit flat on the platter. Fill the whites evenly with the mixture (with a pastry bag, which makes them look pretty, or with a spoon), and sprinkle a tiny bit of paprika on each for garnish. If you wish, stick a small piece of chive or two on the top!

Now, for variations:

1. Mix in some avocado with the egg yolks and mayo.
2. Mix in some sour cream with the yolks.
3. Mix in some chopped tomato, or parsley, or dill.
4. Mix in some dried herbs.
5. Mix in some dry onion soup mix.

In other words, have fun!

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This Post was written by Lydia from The Perfect Pantry

Happy Easter!

Wishing all our readers a very Happy Easter! We hope you enjoy the next few days in the warm spring weather with your family and loved ones.

May your children have a blast with the egg hunt ;-)

We'll be back next week with new articles and interesting lunch box ideas.

Warm regards,
Your Daily Tiffin Team

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What's in your Easter basket?

I think Easter is a holiday loved by all young and old. I personally love Easter because it marks a change to my favorite time of year. I think about picnics, barbecues, relaxing in my hammock. For Soeren he likes Easter because of the excitement and fun an Easter hunt brings along with it - and of course the candy, sweets and chocolates.

Does it always have to be tons of sweets and chocolates in the basket? Tom and I discussed this last year and decided to try and create a more or less candy-free Easter basket for Soeren. The result was that he did not even realize that there was less candy in his basket.
He was happy with the other items we had placed that the lack of sweet things went unnoticed.

This year we're doing the same thing. We've discussed this with the grandparents and uncles etc. and all have agreed to cut down on their offerings of sweets in Soeren's baskets.

So what are the alternatives that one has? I admit going to the stores becomes a bit of a tough task finding quality items to fill the basket and often I find myself in the chocolate aisle thinking "maybe just this one treat!" It's easier as there is a larger and newer variety every year.
Here's what I did this year. I made a list of a few items that Soeren needs and might like to have.
The list looks pretty good and I thought I'd share it with you. Maybe you would like to use one of the ideas for your own candy-free basket.

• As the weather is only going to get better, Soeren will be spending most of his afternoons outside. Either in our sandbox or with the other kids in the neighborhood. So, I have a beach set on the list with a small rake, spade and bucket. Ball games are popular amongst the kids in the group. So I found a nice ball game where each player attaches a type of Velcro plate to their hands and has to catch a tennis ball with it. Other interesting ideas would be skipping ropes, swim tubes or toys or colored chalks to draw on the sidewalks.
• Arts and craft supplies. Paints, markers, crayons, coloring books, stones, shells, beads etc. These are always needed and a great way to spend rainy April days indoors.
• Play-doh, Matchbox cars, small Lego sets/figures are additional ideas that many kids really love getting.
• Of course the list would not be complete without books. We love books and it is always a part of any gift we give Soeren. There are sets of Encyclopedias for different ages available on the market. Soeren gets one new edition every event. This time we bought him an edition that describes and discovers the five senses.

What about you? What's going into your Easter basket? We would love to hear your ideas and thoughts on this.

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Reminder!
Our first event on the Daily Tiffin this month is Show Us Your Lunchbox. Hope you will join us and allow us to peak into your lunch. Deadline April 20th.

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This Post was written by Meeta from What's For Lunch, Honey?