This is how I made them. First make the hard-boiled eggs. I’ve always been confused how exactly you are supposed to hard-boil an egg, different people have their own opinions on how to do it. In my recent experience this has worked perfectly:

Hardboiled Eggs
1. Fill pot with water, enough to cover the eggs when they are submerged.
2. With the eggs in it, bring the pot to a boil.
3. Cover pot and turn off heat, let stand for 10 minutes.
4. Put the eggs in cold water. I’ve read that this step is important, not just for cooling down the eggs but the cold will help make it easier to peel the shell off afterwards.

Now after you have your boiled eggs, we need to put cracks all around the shell. You can do this by tapping the egg with a spoon or whatever way you’d like. Maybe rolling it around on a hard surface, the idea is just to put a bunch of cracks into the shell.

Then I used food coloring gel, mixed with water in cups to dye the eggs. The food coloring gel is not great, but it was what I had lying around the house. You may be able to find better food coloring.

I left each egg in the dye cups for about 10 minutes.. I wanted to leave them much longer but I was too impatient! So I took one out and peeled off the shell, and it looked pretty cool. I repeated this step until all my eggs were done. The many different colored marbled eggs looked great together.

I’ve been putting them sliced up, on a piece of sour dough toast with some light miracle whip and salt&pepper. Easy breakfast, YUM!

It really fills my heart with joy when I hear a good love story, and I am especially happy to hear it from my friends. This past weekend one of my friends told me how she hates when her fiance makes the bacon flavored sausages he likes to eat for breakfast. She wakes up smelling the bacon and wants it, except there is never bacon only sausages! She does not like to touch the raw meat so she never makes the bacon for herself. “Why can’t we have some pancakes and bacon for breakfast once in a while?”

So of course she starts to get mad when she comes down the stairs, following the delicious aroma of bacon that teases her constantly. Was it sausages? NOPE!!! Heartshaped pancakes and bacon! Real bacon! He made her a special breakfast because he said it was her special day. The first time she will try on her wedding dress! Awwwww..

Prairie dogs are very social and often greet each other with kisses!

One Good Bumblebee’s collection.

An integral part of the American scene for approximately 50 years, PEZ Candy has been enjoyed by generations of Americans. PEZ was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over 70 years ago in Vienna, Austria. The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint… PfeffErminZ. Today, over 3 billion PEZ Candies are consumed annually in the U.S.A. alone.

Luckysundae makes beautiful bento lunches for her children twice a week!  Her work has been published in Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes. Take a look at all her delicious creations on her flickr.

Federal officials are likely to close Pacific salmon stocks from Oregon south to the Mexican border, The New York Times has reported.

“The Central Valley fall Chinook salmon are in the worst condition since records began to be kept,” the newspaper quoted Robert Lohn, regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries in Portland, Ore., as saying. “This is the largest collapse of salmon stocks in 40 years.”

The possible culprits? The newspaper listed two possibilities: A battle on the Sacramento River between irrigation advocates and environmentalists and fishing groups, and abnormal fishing conditions that might be affecting the food chain of young salmon.

[The Boston Globe]

View more of Sakurako Kitsa’s handywork.

Bentō (弁当 or べんとう, Bentō^?) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware. Although bento are easily available in many places throughout Japan, including convenience stores, bento shops (弁当屋, bentō-ya^?), train stations, and department stores, it is still common for Japanese homemakers to spend considerable time and energy producing an appealing boxed lunch. [Wikipedia]

Bento can be very elaborately arranged. Contests are often held where homemakers can compete for the most aesthetically pleasing arrangements. The food is decorated to look like people, animals, or characters and items such as flowers and plants. This style of elaborate bento is called kyaraben.