CRAFTS AND CREATIONS WITH KMOM14: Easter Eggs

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Monday, June 22, 2009

BABY SPINACH OMELETTE

Great way to sneak something healthy into a breakfast! I really didn't taste the spinach nor did it have an overly crunchy texture - just a bit wee bit of spicy cheese flavor and brings a lively blend of yellow and green to the breakfast table.

It is based on the following recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baby-Spinach-Omelet/Detail.aspx This is for 1-2 servings

4 medium eggs
1 cup torn baby spinach leaves
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste
Non-stick cooking spray
Fork
Frying pan
Spatula

Beat the eggs in a bowl with a fork.

Add in the torn baby spinach leaves, parmesan cheese, onion powder, nutmeg, salt and pepper.

Mix together until well blended.

Spray the frying pan generously with the non-stick cooking spray, then pour mixture into the frying pan and cook on medium heat for 3 minutes.

Use the spatula to flip the omelet over and cook the other side 2-3 minutes (mine was done at this point). If it is still too runny for you, reduce heat to low and continue cooking 2-3 minutes, or until it is done to what you like.

Monday, May 25, 2009

CHEESY EGG CASSEROLE

I got this recipe from Baking Bites

http://bakingbites.com/2009/05/cheesy-egg-casserole/#more-3223

This is a good recipe for a breakfast carry-in or if you are feeding a lot of people and want to serve something a little bit different, but still please the mainstream crowd.

I ended up cutting the ingredients down from the original recipe by 1/4 and it still made 12 large pieces. It is not as cheesy as I thought it would be for containing 3 types of cheese, it was more eggy with a surprize creamy salty taste in some bites due to the cubes of cream cheese in the recipe.

9 large eggs
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
8 dashes salt
1 1/2 cups milk (any kind)
3/4 cup cottage cheese
6-oz cream cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1/4-1/3 lb shredded Monterey jack cheese

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking/casserole dish.

In a large bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together eggs, flour, baking powder, salt and milk.

Stir in cottage cheese, cream cheese and shredded Monterey jack cheese.

Pour into prepared baking dish.Bake for about 45 minutes, until eggs are set and casserole is not “wet” in the middle.Dish will deflate slightly as it cools. Cool for at least 10 minutes before serving to make slicing easier.Dish can be served hot or cold.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

DIVA DESIGNER EASTER EGG - LACOSTE

Izod Lacoste was THE trend when I was in college, so I decided to make a Lacoste themed Easter Egg to add to our basket.

Items used:

Green Easter Egg

Lacoste ad (I found this in the current issue of "Interview" magazine)
Scissors
Craft Glue
Fabric paint (I used Tulip brankd Glitter with gold sparks)

Cut what you want to put on the egg and decide how you want to position it.

Glue the items to egg.

Outline the items glued to the egg with fabric paint, then write "Lacoste" in fabric paint where there are bare spots on the egg. NOTE: You will need to do this one side at at time to allow the fabric paint to dry on the egg.

DIVA DESIGNER EGG - EMPORIO ARMANI

This were made from and ad and an article on Armani with his picture in the latest issue of "Interview" magazine.

Because the width and height, it would not curve around the egg without wrinkling, so I had to put small cuts in the top and the bottom of the letter and the picture.

The items were glued on with craft glue, then I used black glitter fabric paint to outline the edges.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

EASTER EGG SEEDS

I read of this project on "Can't Stop Making Things" and knew I just had to make it for my son's Easter Basket.

http://www.cantstopmakingthings.com/2009/04/easter-egg-seeds.html

At the above hyperlink there is a hyperlink to where you can download a label to tape or glue to a box of Tic Tac breath mints. I don't have a printer, so I had to improvise and make my own label out of a bit of an index card with the words "Easter Egg Seed" printed on it and glued that to a bit of paper from Easter advertisements and found a picture of plastic eggs and glued it to the index card portion, then glued the entire piece to a box of orange and red Tic Tacs.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Pink Dragon Egg

This is the same concept as the dragon egg below, except the egg was already pink and I used the glue gun to make the design on the egg then I covered it with glitter pink nail polish that has stars in it and put rose pink

nail polish on top of the glue.

Monday, February 16, 2009

DRAGON EGGS

If you love mythical beasts and medieval memorabilia this is the craft for you!

I made these for my son and will put candy in them for Easter and they can be used as desk or shelf decoration after that. This project was inspired by the link below at Instructables by KaptinScarlet.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-gorgeous-Dragons-Egg/

These are the basic materials, but I also used red paint and glitter fabric paint that was not in the picture.

As I had everything on hand except the eggs, my only cost was the eggs and they had them 30% off at JoAnn fabrics so they only cost 69 cents for 6 eggs; therefore my cost was less than 15 cents per egg. If you had to buy everything from scratch from the Dollar Store and/or a craft store, you could still get by with spending around $5-7 and you would still have a lot of paint, the glue gun and glue sticks when you are done.

The eggs that I used are a little larger than standard Easter Eggs, but you could also get standard ones from the dollar store and would get more eggs.

Each egg takes about 1 glue stick and even though I used 3-4 coats of paint, it did not really take much, so I estimate the cost to be less than 15 cents per egg.

Take the hot glue gun and draw a design on the egg and do the top and bottom sections separately.

At the top on this one I used tear drop oval sort of shapes.

On th bottom I just zig zagged and squiggled and then connected some of those shapes.

I mixed the green and gold paint and painted the bottom of the eggs, then let that dry the paint the top of the eggs.

I put another coat on again doing the same thing (see the bottom of the egg at the side) and although they look old and molted and probably more authentic that way, I didn't feel they were pretty enough for Easter, so I mixed red and gold paint and painted them.

For the final coat I didn't mix the paint, I just swirled it once and then painted the egg for a more mottled appearance.

Here are some of the finished eggs.

The one on the left I left more greenish and only painted with a bit of the green and the gold and I also used a swirl pattern on the top instead of a tear drop oval.