Blowin' Eggs

     Easter's been over almost a week but here at my grand daughters' house in Los Angeles the eggs that they colored on Easter Sunday are still sitting out on the kitchen counter.

     I expect the eggs will continue sitting on the counter for a while longer, maybe a few more weeks or months. Or maybe the family will just leave them out indefinitely for decoration, they're so colorful and cheery, and the children had so much fun coloring and decorating them with their Uncle Tommy, who flew into L.A. with Tom one day before me.

     Of course after a while they may decide to put the eggs away, in which case they could store them in an egg carton until next Easter.  In fact I brought the eggs in their cartons with me from Columbus;  I just packed the cartons of eggs in the middle of my suitcase, buffered well by the clothes, and hoped they wouldn't break during my first flight to Portland or my second to Los Angeles.  Actually only two of the eggs cracked a little - I threw those two out - but the rest withstood the plane trips in my suitcase just fine,

...and were in good shape for dyeing,

...and stickering.

    Anyway, it's nice that, as long as nobody drops or otherwise breaks them, these Easter eggs will keep forever.
     Because these Easter eggs aren't really eggs anymore.  They're just the shells.  I blew out the insides before I left.
     I was taught the art of egg-blowing many years ago by my Hungarian mother-in-law,  who was an expert at it.  She could make the tiniest, practically invisible pinprick in either end of a raw egg and by blowing through one pinprick, force every bit of the insides of the egg out the other pinprick.

   I, on the other hand, have never mastered my my mother-in-law's finesse, either in the tiny hole-making or the egg-blowing.  As you see, my holes look like little craters.

     Happily, no one's ever minded, 

...and, stored in a carton, these Easter eggs will last forever.

     Or until somebody drops one.

     How To Blow Eggs:
    1.  Rinse off a raw egg.
    2. Using a metal skewer (my preferred tool) or a sharp knife, poke a hole in either end of the egg.

    3.   Pick off any loose pieces of shell, then, holding the egg over a bowl, blow through one of the holes.

     4.  Wash,  rinse, and dry the egg shells,

..which are now ready to decorate.

      As for the eggs blown from their shells,

...you can make scrambled eggs.