jendefer ,
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I was going to wait until Easter to show off all my eggs, but I'm too excited about how the onion skin ones turned out today. We wrap raw eggs with wet skin from yellow and red onions, secure them in old stockings, and boil them for 15 or so minutes. We like to put leaves or flowers against the egg first so that we can get some extra patterns and color. I love the variety!

We've also got red cabbage and red wine eggs underway, and this year I'm trying carrot, too.

On a cookie rack above a dishcloth sit hardboiled eggs. Four eggs on the right are wrapped in stockings tied closed. The onion skins within are barely visible. Five eggs to the left have had their stockings removed. Now the wet onion skins are clearly visible, wrapped around the eggs to varying degrees. The skins vary from yellow to red to dark red. (The bottom right has an almost white egg with touches of orange. It spent half an hour in carrot water.)

Nine hardboiled eggs died using onion skins. Some eggs are mottled brown (from red skins). Others have patches of yellow or lighter brown (form yellow skins). One egg (top middle) has the white ghost of a cilantro sprout that was placed against the egg before skin wrapping. One egg (top right) has an almost blue patch from some really, really dark red skin. The center right egg shows faintly green mottled leaf shapes from the dandelion leaf place against it before wrapping.
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