Did Somebunny Say Easter Eggs?

 

Holiday Time! With Easter and Pesach overlapping this year, I've been a busy bunny. Dan wanted to colour some eggs, which these days he can take care of alone. We'll have a dozen hard boiled eggs to get through after Easter (the dye is food safe) but that's not a problem as everyone enjoys devilled eggs, egg salad, or even, an egg loaf. What's an egg loaf you ask?

Why this is! Egg and Olive loaf to be specific, from a 1973 issue of Gourmet Magazine.

You Will Need:

12 hard boiled eggs
1 stick butter, softened
1/3 cup diced celery
1/4 cup pimento stuffed olives, diced
2 tablespoons minced onion
Salt and pepper
(I added some radishes from the garden to be extra fancy)

Peel the eggs while still warm by running under cold water. Place in a bowl with the butter and with a potato masher, mash them coarsely. Stir in the rest. Line a loaf pan with buttered wax paper and pack in the eggs. Chill several hours before serving in slices.

I made that back in 2010, but I can't remember if we liked it. I didn't go out of my way to make it look good! 

Also cooked this week...

Sicilian cauliflower with chickpeas, capers, anchovies, and fried raisins. Quick and easy, everyone enjoyed it. 

 Most weeks I do some sort of stir-fry, this one was green beans, red peppers, and tofu. I added some ginger, garlic, and onions as well. Again, quick weeknight cooking but better than anything I could purchase pre-made in the freezer section of the grocer. 

Now that everyone's fed, let's move along to the clothes. 

I'd prefer a longer dress, but the print was too good to pass up. 

It reminds me of Colonial American fabric, though it would have likely been on a lighter background like this image I swiped off the internet

I wore my antique mourning brooch, or as Dan calls it, "Some dead guy's hair". He doesn't really appreciate the concept of mourning jewelry. 

I enjoyed the outfit even if I felt like a good wind might expose my behind to half of Omaha. 

It wouldn't be the first time, nor the last.

What are you looking at, pervert?

I had hoped this skirt would work for me as I have a good deal of brown in my wardrobe, but unfortunately, it didn't. I have it pinned and belted here, but as the day wore on it kept twisting around and looked lopsided . It was too bad, but I'll be moving it along as it has a nice bit of swing to it and on the right person will be a great piece. I am however keeping the odd little tee shirt even if the stripes on such soft fabric seem to bend and warp with every move. 

Cute bakelite sailboat brooches.

The shirt is originally Chicos, and the belt is Michael Kors, neither of which being the sort of thing I'd buy unless I was thrifting. 

The belt came with a bunch of branded logo crap hanging off it, which I removed. It is bad enough on handbags, but I definitely don't need all that stuff swinging from a belt. I don't know about you, but I'm not usually impressed by brands that sell in outlet malls-at least not enough to worry about signaling what brand I'm wearing. It isn't Hermes.  

Another dress that's just a bit shorter than I'd like, but was okay for an unseasonably warm 89 degrees F. day that ended with wild storms, a couple tornadoes nearby that didn't do much damage, and some hail. It was a strange night with the weather radio going off, tornado sirens in the neighbourhood, but in the end, very little actual rain. We're still in very dry, windy conditions facing wildfires and very dangerous conditions. There's a wildfire raging in the wildlife refuge and you can smell it and feel ash on your skin when outside for more than a minute. It is going to get worse if summer is as dry as projected. I've lived in Nebraska for 21 years, and this is the worst I can remember for fires. 

Anyway, 89 degrees F. is a bit warm for this time of year, but I found something sleeveless to wear with a cardigan for indoors where it is always too cold. 

The belt is a vintage Vera scarf I had that was a rather perfect match. I'm going to unpick the elastic on the waist as it hits in an annoying spot and would probably give me an extra inch or so in length. I've never gone in for flounces and ruffles, but something about this dress spoke to me. I think I had something like it in the 70s that was probably a hand-me-down from the 60s via my sister or cousins. 

The brooch is missing several stones and is horribly chipped, but I'm reluctant to fix it up-I rather like the aged look of it though seeing the photos I have to say it doesn't look quite that damaged in person. Well, it might, my eyes are terrible! 

You've seen all these pieces before

Vintage shoes

Tapestry belt

Some things just work so well together that I'm loathe to try styling it differently. 

You've seen this dress before as well. This time I made a belt from a sash belonging to a blouse. 

Vintage shoes are thrifted, handbag was my mother's

Tonight was the first night of Pesach (Passover) and we had a seder. Not a big affair, but we went through the entire ceremony unlike most years where we cut it short. It was nice, and relaxed with just Dan and myself. I don't get to spend a lot of time with him now, so I appreciate what we do have. This spring break has been lovely, we've even found time to do some birding. There's pelicans migrating in now and it is such a sight to see that many of them at once. 

I didn't snap photos of the meal because it wasn't anything you haven't seen before, though I did a chuck roast rather than a brisket, cabbage slaw and a potato pudding from a mix. I'm not grating potatoes anymore. We'll have a week of not eating wheat, barley, or oats. Some traditions allow rice and beans, some are okay with corn, and so on. It is 8 days, no one will die of malnutrition from going without corn.

And tomorrow, we'll do Easter.  

I hope you have a lovely holiday no matter what you celebrate, or a nice Sunday if you don't.