The Hard Hearted Chef: Evil, Wicked Deviled Eggs

My baby sister was here over the holiday weekend.

 Jennifer is a Pamper Chef representative, and she always has the coolest

 gadgets with her, which we use, and I hide in the dishwasher until she leaves.

Hey, I'm no idiot.

One of the things she brought this time was a knife with a

 V-shaped blade.

My Evil, Wicked Deviled Eggs never looked so sinister!

Now, eggs are okay on a low cholesterol diet in moderation.

My recipe amps up the flavor and cuts the fat drastically, so relax a little

and enjoy a treat.

Place 1 dozen eggs in a sauce pan and cover them with cold water.

Bring them to a boil, let them boil for one minute, then turn off the 

heat and let them sit for 10 minutes.

Drain and cover with ice until cool.

Tap the egg lightly all over against a flat surface.

The shells should slide off.

 Score the egg in a zigzag pattern. This is where the knife came in handy.

 Squeeze gently to separate the halves.

 Dump all your hapless yolks in a bowl.

 Set the jagged halves aside in pairs.

 Now for the tasty part...

Sunny's Evil, Wicked Deviled Eggs

12 egg yolks

1 tablespoon prepared horseradish

2 tablespoons stone ground mustard

1 teaspoon roasted garlic steak seasoning

2 tablespoons pickle relish

2 drops of Cholula hot sauce, or your favorite brand

Fat Free Miracle Whip

Whole peppercorns

With a fork, smash the yolks up really, really, really fine.

Mix the first six ingredients until smooth. It should be a little dry.

Dollop in some Miracle Whip a little at a time, mixing thoroughly,

until you have a stiff, yet creamy, bowl of yellow glop.

Take the requisite chef taste.

Zesty, huh?

 Pick a platter and arrange a bed of lettuce on it.

 Take the bottom half of the eggs...

...and nestle those little suckers down in the lettuce.

 Nab a ziplock bag, fold the top down, and spoon the glop in.

 Squish everything down to one corner, twist the bag above it,

 and snip a small bit of corner off.

 Pipe the yolk stuff into the bottom egg halves, heaping it high,

and then set the top half...well, on top.

A good slice of yellow should show in the middle.

 Give each Wicked Egg some peppercorn eyes.

 That is one creepy little treat.

 Take THESE to the next party at Aunt Millicent's.

Let's see how popular her German potato salad is then!

I'm having way too much fun with that silly little knife right now.

The Pampered Chef is fun to wander through just for the heck of it.

I think I found about 8 gadgets I never knew existed that I REALLY had to have!

Bargain Basement Bunny

 Have you done your after Easter discount shopping yet?

Score yourself a plain, or even plain old ugly, bunny on the cheap.

 Nab some pretty napkins while you're at it.

 Mix up a little decoupage medium on the cheap.

 Now, separate the plies (layers) of the napkins so you have just

the thinnest layer with a pattern.

 Tear off strips of the napkin.

Brush some of the glue mixture onto the curved surface, and smooth the bubbles

out with a finger, pressing down the edges.

 Repeat.

 Pay attention to contours and details.

Wet the paper down with more of the medium if you need to.

 Once everything is covered, brush a coat of the stuff over the whole object.

Let it dry and apply another coat.

If you'd like, you can then give it a coat of spray sealer,

especially if this is going to be a garden decoration.

 Mr. Bunneh is going to live indoors though, so it wasn't necessary.

 Have you just created your own little bit of art,

only to box it up for a year?

 Hey, bunnies don't disappear after Easter!

It's still Spring, and we didn't choose anything holiday oriented as an embellishment, did we?

This little rabbit can have a home on my antique icebox for the next few months.

The other two?

Um....not so much.

Easter Roundup

Post-holiday greetings from the couldn't-sit-still-if-we-tried

family at Life in Rehab!

We all hope our Besties out there had a fantastic Easter,

Passover, Vernal Equinox, or whatever else you may have celebrated in the last

couple of weeks.

Our revelry in the Rite of Spring went a little like this:

Cell phone message sent out to friends:

"Hoppy Holiday from the Easter Sunny!"

 Button covers I've worn since certain smelly legal adults were toddlers.

Our big basket stuffer this year was skimboards for the whole family!

 Adventures in decoupage.

 The kitchen island Spring centerpiece.

 The Pink Lemonade Cake with Starburst Jellybeans needed something...something...

 S'up, Peeps?

 Downtown Bunnyville was established on the coffee table.

 The little wooded bunny band was a gift from my mother when I was 1.

That would be 1962, boys and girls.

"Come at me, Bro!"

 "I wear the faces of my enemies in victory!"

 Yeah...I've taken his Game of Thrones privileges away.

 He's not really all that tough.

 Non-alcoholic Grapefruit Bellinis.

Recipes and project plans are coming this week!