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Happy Easter!
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I don't usually celebrate religious holidays, but this year I started to feel like I'd like to do some traditional stuff, even if they have something to do with religion. After all, holidays are all about family and good food.
And if we want to teach Gemma things about all religions we could very well start with the one we've been raised into. ^_^
So for Easter I decided to make a bit of traditional Romanian food: red eggs, ciorbă de miel (sour lamb soup) and cozonac ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozonac ).
For now I only made the eggs. I used the traditional method: I dyed them using red and yellow onion leaves!
And I got the patters using leaves from some random plants.
It was really fun to do and it was my first time! I used a recipe I found online. Next year I will try to improve it and get a brighter red. 
The cozonac will be the biggest challenge as it is quite tricky to make. The soup is easy to make... lamb meat is pretty expensive though! So I will only make a little.
Do you use a natural method to color the eggs? Do you color eggs at all?
In your family are there any special foods you eat on Easter?
Hugs!

So for Easter I decided to make a bit of traditional Romanian food: red eggs, ciorbă de miel (sour lamb soup) and cozonac ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozonac ).
For now I only made the eggs. I used the traditional method: I dyed them using red and yellow onion leaves!



The cozonac will be the biggest challenge as it is quite tricky to make. The soup is easy to make... lamb meat is pretty expensive though! So I will only make a little.

Do you use a natural method to color the eggs? Do you color eggs at all?

Hugs!

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Lovely! I did some like this, but they didn't turn out this strongly colored. Haven't photographed them for some reason, so here is a quick pic I just took with my phone XD : www.dropbox.com/s/15p08twkz4dz…

Nooo, if the leaves are wet before attaching them. Because if they are wet they stick well and the colored water doesn't get under them. If your eggs got colored but the patterns didn't remain it might be because the leaves didn't stick well on them. I imagine you used fresh leaves, so the water couldn't go THROUGH them. 

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