When dear fellow bloggers Jai and Bee announced the new event "CLICK", I was very much excited. But the theme, i.e., EGGS made me think!! How can one get a creative idea out of eggs? An egg is an egg, white and oval, in what ever angle you try to take a picture of it :)
When I asked a dear friend of mine for an idea, the answer was, "I can't think of anything except boiling it and cutting into half and swallowing :)"
Hmmm... tough, it was for me, becoz I am not good with camera, and I was whiling away the time drooling over the lovely entries sent by my fellow bloggers here.
When I put on the thinking cap, many ideas flashed... and I decided to go with this - Pickled Deviled Eggs!!!
Ingredients:
Hard Boiled Eggs: 4, peeled
Beetroot and Red Cabbage: 1 cup each, chopped
Water: 2 + 2 cups
Vinegar: 1/4 + 1/4 cup
Cloves: 5 + 5
Cinnamon: 1 inch
Salt: 2 + 2 tsp
For Deviled Eggs:
Mayonnaise: 2 Tbsp
Dijon Mustard: 1 Tbsp
Pepper ans Salt: to taste
How I did it:
- Boil the Beets and Cabbage in separate vessels, with all the ingredients.
- Simmer for 30 mins.
- Sieve them into 2 dry jars, and let them cool.
- Now add 2 eggs in each jar, cover and leave it in the fridge overnight.
- You get pink eggs (from beets) and blue eggs (from cabbage).
- For the Deviled eggs:
- Cut the eggs into half and scoop out the yolks.
- Mash the yolks with a fork or spoon, add Mayonnaise, Mustard, Pepper and salt and whisk till smooth.
- Fill the eggs with this and serve.
To Make Egg Mice:
- Take a peeled hard boiled egg and cut off a thin slice from one side.
- Cut out 2 "V" shapes for "Ears" from that slice.
- Make a cut on the top to insert the ears.
- Draw the eyes with tomato ketchup and the whiskers with mustard and pierce a clove at the back for the tail.
And the Verdict:
The platter looked so attractive and colorful. It is even ideal as a center piece on a dining table during dinners or parties.
Kids will with no doubt enjoy these!!
Food Event:
This is my entry for the CLICK event being hosted by dear Jai and Bee of Jugalbandi.
48 comments:
Hey they look really colourfull
Wow, beautiful colors Cinnamon! I didn't know Red cabbage can turn eggs into such a bright blue!!! And the mice are sooo cute... very creative indeed!
The natural dyes are jewel-like and gorgeous, and the mice are adorable!
Wow! This really innovative Cinnamon and such pretty colours too. The mice look so cute.
very pretyty. thanks for participting in CLICK!!
very creative of u! they look adorable
Wow...total wow. How did you get such beautiful colors. So cabbage yielded blue , would never have thought of that.
The Egg Mice are too cute, very clever
Very Cute! Great idea and lovely colors! :)
Very cool! Blue from cabbage? I had no idea!!
Beautiful!
I love your pickled eggs. Pink/red from beets but you got the blue color from cabbage??? Wow! I would never have thought of that!
chooooooo cute:)
Hehehe..Spanz Superga vundi...Asalu Blue color vasthundani ela thelsu neeku...chaala bavundi idea....Great Entry raa
Awwww... Cute as cute can be...
Very creative presentation with beautiful colors!!!!!
Those colors are edible too.How beautiful. I thought I had the scariest Eggs, your devils/mice are scarier!!:D
Love the use of natural food coloring for the translucent look! Great entry!!
BEAUTIFUL :) Loved it, especially the mice :) it did bring smiles on my face :) I have tried natural dyes on eggs , during Easter time, but I didnt get such dark hue when I used beets....
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wow..awesome.
Beautiful colors and lovely entry.
waaaw, very beautiful template with a theme of fall leaves. looks real nice.
loved the cute looking mice too. very creative!!
Nice colors Spanz! Also that white mice looks so cute! Nice photos
Lovely entry ..:D and the colors are beautiful..:)
hey they look good and very colorful
such cute eggs, wow cabbage can turn eggs to blue thats new to me,mice look very very cute and eatable
Those mice look so cute.and pickled eggs with natural dyes is so innovative!loved all the photos!
this is so lovely!! now i am all the more reluctant to do something about my entry :( dont have any great ideas yet..
looks really lovely! a beautiful entry!!
Wow! Coloring the eggs is truly a brilliant idea :)
And those mice are *cute*!
wow such colourful eggs, they looks just beautiful....
So creative. Viji
Amazing colours...
You have me grinning from ear to ear :D I love your entry!
amazing pictures! those mice are really cute.
oh those egg mice are soo cute!
That is so sooooooo creative!! I LOVE your entry!
Your egg mice really look so cute...Beautiful picture!
Waaaav...never knew one can get soo innovative with eggs..
Colorful,colourful,colourful...super photos!!!
Thank You All for lovely Comments... and I was thrilled to see everyone leaving nice notes!!!
The process of dying eggs was very exciting.. and I am glad that all of you liked it!!!
Thank You all once again!!!
Awww, these are adorable! What a cute presentation for such an economical ingredient.
Not sure..if my previous comment got through. Just stopped by to say.."cute develish eggs"
Pictures are so cute and colourful.
Definitely one of the finalists Cinnamon!! thanks for sharing the wonderful idea for colors! your hard work and creativity shows in the pics!:)
Your egg mice are too cute...you are truly creative! :)
natural colours and mice are looking cute.Noce creative idea.
Thank You Girls for the nice comments.... I am so happy that everyone liked them :)
looks so beautiful!!
Lovely lovely eggs!! Sure is a fun way to eat those boiled eggs and I am sure kids love them too!!
I wonder how I missed them!
lovely picture, cinnamon..loved the butter chicken too.........
Wow..what a great site here, I'm sorry I haven't found your blog before. These pictures are really talented and cute!
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