We have four dozen hard boiled naturally dyed eggs in our refrigerator.
Instead of sitting down on Saturday and making a list of foods we needed for eating, I looked up natural egg dyes and made a really bizarre grocery list instead:
6 red onions
Small head of cabbage
6 yellow onions
1 fennel bulb
1 bunch of carrots
6 yellow apples
6 oranges
I had paprika, tumeric, dill seed, green tea, and frozen blueberries at home. I also got a gallon of milk, good tomato soup, and a loaf of sandwich bread.
Those were what I used for the dyes. Except the milk and bread and soup. Those were for lunch.
I got up and went to yoga, and then it was nice to spend the day in the kitchen after being in restaurants all week. I made the dyes, and boiled the eggs, and set everything up slowly on the table. I left for an afternoon run, and when I returned, the girls were home and already at work. They didn’t seem to mind the weird colors – I think it sort of intrigued them. The results were pretty, and the dishtowels are now stained pink and yellow and purple, but that’s okay.
On Sunday afternoon, I sat down to map out meals for the start of the week. They have a common theme. You’ll never guess.
I’ve also pickled onions, but I have no idea what to do with the rest of them. We’ve eaten the carrots and the fennel and I made a salad with the peeled oranges and apples that we’re still munching on. The rest of the cabbage is about to make a slaw. It’s kind of fun to take a different jumping off point for food. We’ll see how novel the eggs are in a few more days. The toasts tonight were divine, and just how I wanted Monday to end.
