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The Great 2023 Easter Potato Hunt?

It started out as a joke, an internet meme, then leaked into the real world- potatoes as an alternative to eggs for Easter egg hunts. 

The price of eggs has been historically high over the past year, but the price of potatoes has risen only 13%. So why not have children decorate potatoes and hunt them for the holiday?

 Once potato producers heard of the joke, they jumped on it, hoping to sell some potatoes and maybe start a new tradition.

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The Perversion of The Easter Bunny: 1907 To Today

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Happy Easter!

Stock Photos from Ramona Heim/Shutterstock

 

Dye your Easter Eggs naturally – Croatian style

This is the way that older generations in Croatia used to dye their eggs back when artificial dyes were expensive and hard to come by. Plus, it’s a great way to teach kids about reusing and repurposing household items to reduce waste.
 All that you’ll need for this project is: ~2 cups of onion peels (both red and yellow work) 2-4 slices of beets (optional) Eggs for dyeing – brown or white are fine 1 tablespoon vinegar Old nylon stockings Scissors Water for boiling Pot A small scrap of pancetta, bacon or some other greasy cured meat. Alternatively use vegetable or coconut oil.

 First, you’ll need to head out to the yard and pick some wildflowers, leaves and stems. Get creative! There are all sorts of beautiful shapes and patterns you can choose from. You can find clovers, daisies, vines – anything with an interesting outline that would fit on the side of an egg would work here! Next, take your stockings and cut them up into 4-5 inch (10-13 cm) segments. You’ll need as many of these as the eggs that you plan to dye. If a segment has both ends open, tie one into a knot.

  In the meantime, put your onion skins and beet slices into a pot and fill with just enough water to cover the scraps. ring to a boil and then add the vinegar. Once the water takes on a deep red color, turn off the heat and let the water cool. Remove the scraps.

Select flowers and leaves from your collection and place them on an egg. You can typically get 2-3 items on there easily. While holding the plants in place with one hand, wrap the egg in a stocking. Make sure your foliage is in the place you want it and tighten the stocking while tying the other end into a knot. Repeat with all your eggs. When all your eggs have been adorned and wrapped, add them into the cooled, dyed water and bring to a gentle boil. Simmer for 10-15 minutes. Rotate gently if needed. You can take them out earlier if you want a paler color, or leave them in even longer with the heat off (to prevent the shells from cracking) to get an even deeper effect.
When ready, remove the eggs and let them dry in a carton. When ready, cut off the stocking and remove the flowers and leaves to reveal the imprints left behind.

Take the pancetta slice and rub on the eggs to give them a nice shine.

 Enjoy!
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Easter bunny

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Residents of Belle View Mansions in Southbourne dress up as chickens and erect a blow-up Easter bunny to show support for the NHS.
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Easter Beagle

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Busted Bunny

“He had this.”

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Easter egg from the heart

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Funny And Creepy Easter Bunnies

Robert E. Jackson curates a great gallery of unsettling Easter Rabbits .

 

Easter puzzle

If you want to have an Easter egg hunt but do not want to leave your seat, this brainteaser is for you.

 

Easter covers - The New Yorker

“Theology of the Tax Cut,” Art Spiegelman

 Spanning from 1993 to 2010, these often whimsical images reflect the buoyant spirit of the season.

Easter Recipe – Ham in Bread

Ingredients 

Ham (cooked) – 1kg

 Flour – 500 g 

Sugar –1 tablespoon

 Yeast

 Butter – 200 g 

Milk – 200 ml 

Eggs – 6

 Egg yolk –1

 Salt

  Instructions
 1. In a clean bowl sieve the flour – add the yeast, sugar, salt, melted butter, warm milk and eggs and mix together. Then use a beater to mix well.
 2. Place the dough in a dish (make sure the surface is sprinkled with flour), cover and leave at room temperature for 45 minutes.
 3. Cut the skin off the ham.
 4. Grease a tray with some fat and sprinkle flour on top. Put the dough on top and then place the ham on top of the dough. Paste the ham with an egg yolk and sprinkle with flour.
 5. Now wrap the ham in the dough. Place in a pre-heated oven (180°C) and then cook for around one hour.
 6. Once it is cooked you can cut and serve. (so it does not burn you can cover the top part with foil) Check out the video, with English subtitles here.

 

Easter Eggs Hand-Painted with Colorful Folk Art Illustrations

Using a fine paintbrush, Dinara Mirtalipova embellishes the wood and porcelain eggs with delightful designs reminiscent of Uzbekistan’s age-old arts and crafts culture.
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Sleeping Bunnies

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The Rules Are Suspended for Easter

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An Easter Feast Made Entirely of Chocolate

Jen Lindsey-Clark, the Chocolatican, has been busy this month. 

As a master chocolate artist, her skills are in high demand this Easter.

If you have a larger appetite, then she has prepared a feast for you.

 

Easter funnies

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There'll be plenty of this this weekend

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Easter bonnet

 John Robertson