I love to make these homemade chocolate Easter eggs for my family.  They are quick, easy, and delicious.  I use two kinds of chocolate (semi-sweet and white) for dipping so that I have two different types of eggs. Ingredients: 1 pkg. (the size that makes 4 servings) of instant chocolate pudding 1/3 c. boiling water [...]

Kulich (Russian Easter Bread) This bread is baked in a 2 lb. coffee can so that it comes out tall and once decorated, resembling the traditional onion-domed Russian church. The initials XB, signifying Christ is risen, are put on the top of the bread. In many traditions (we do this in our Catholic church), breads [...]

This is a Genovese Easter pie. It is delicious but can be a lot of work to make from scratch. I use store-bought Phyllo dough for it to make it a simpler recipe. The 12 eggs used in this recipe are supposed to symbolize the 12 Apostles. Ingredients: 2 lbs. spinach, washed and chopped ½ [...]

So, what did you do with your palm leaves from Palm Sunday?  Me? I’m attempting some simple palm weaving!  Here are some links to instructions on how to weave palms into a variety of shapes from crosses to crown of thorns: http://www.socialtampa.com/westtampa/palm_sunday/palm_weaving.htm http://www.italiansrus.com/articles/palmweaving.htm http://www.origami-resource-center.com/palm-weaving.html http://www.mahalo.com/palm-weaving http://www.squidoo.com/FoldingPalms     I made two palm crosses.  The first [...]

These are simple but effective methods for dyeing eggs using alternative natural materials as dyes.  It’s best to begin by making sure that the outsides of the eggs are thoroughly clean prior to attempting to colour them so that the dye adheres properly.  As opposed to many other dyeing methods, you start here with raw [...]

Ingredients: 6-8 slices of bread 3 eggs 1/2 cup maple syrup 1 cup milk 1/4 cup light cream Salt and nutmeg to taste Instructions: Cut the crusts off the slices of bread if desired.  Any kind of bread will work here – whatever is your preference but some really delightful ones to use are raisin [...]

For any of who have been participating in the Craftsocial chats on Twitter, you probably know that at February’s chat, we decided to have a “lightbox along” in the month of March.  Many of us have blogs or in some other way like to share pictures of our artistic creations and we were discussing how [...]

MAPLE NUT FUDGE Ingredients: 2 c. sugar 1 c. pure maple syrup 1/2 c. milk 2 T. corn syrup 1 tsp. vanilla 1 c. cup chopped nuts (if desired…I prefer walnuts in this) 1 T. butter Instructions:  Combine the sugar, syrup, milk, and corn syrup.  Bring to a boil and stir constantly until it reaches [...]

This is an absolutely delicious maple vinaigrette.  I love to use this on a salad that I have garnished with nuts such as almonds or pecans.  It’s good with fruits added too – I like chopped apples or pears, mandarin orange segments or raspberries with this.  I can imagine that strawberries would be good with [...]

These ATC’s fold open.  Here’s the outside view.  The base of the card is a piece of silver foil coated card that came in some sort of package I bought.  This side though was the plain white side so I covered it with this crinkly silver tissue paper I bought at a card shop a [...]