This is looking a little back in time because I've been slack about updating recently!
Back in March, we experi- enced our first Easter in Switzer- land. We had Good Friday off and went to a service at church and then had lunch there afterwards. After that, 5 people came over to our house for an Easter egg dying party. I was all ready to do it the way I've always done it - with egg dye pellets in water and vinegar, but my Swiss friends had a different idea in mind. First, Rosalie and I went out into the yard and picked clover, grass, flowers, leaves and other interesting things found outside. We then came back inside and proceeded to place the plants in interesting designs on the (raw) eggs. After our "placing" was complete, we wrapped each egg in a six-inch section of cut up pantyhose. This was the most difficult part of the process and the other girls were much more adept than I at it. The next step was to drop or hose-enrobed eggs into boiling onion skin water. Earlier in the week I had seen a bag of onion skins for sale in the grocery store (the flaky, brownish skin on the outside of onions). I was very confused as to why anyone would buy the skins without the onions and was glad to find out why someone would! After boiling the eggs, we took them out and took their hose off and viola! we had eggs dyed a beautiful shade of brown with shapes of flowers, leaves, etc on them! We did do some pink, blue and green eggs as well (by the method I am accustom to) but I really enjoyed learning a new way of doing things and discovering this new aspect of Swiss culture.
The finished product! Isn't the chicken cute - it's made out of a cardboard egg carton and a few pieces of cut out paper.
In front of Lake Lugano - we took a funicular up to the top of the mountain in the background later that day.
From the top of San Salvadore - beautiful view! (The panoramic picture above is taken from here)
About to enjoy our delicious desserts!
