I arrived in Stuttgart last September and one of the first curiosities I noticed in the supermarkets’ fresh egg section was colored eggs. I thought to myself, that’s bizarre, I wonder what the deal is, then incuriously turned the page.
Later on I happened upon a blog, I forget which one, that explained that the colored eggs in Germany were hard boiled eggs. Huh, I thought, that can’t be good. They’ll probably be hard to peel and have that unsightly greenish/black ring around the yolk.
Easy to peel.
Perfectly cooked.
Still, what do they do with all these eggs? They take them on picnics. These are called picnic eggs and apparently, the Germans are so busy going on picnics that they don’t have time to boil eggs 😀 If I could only convince them to boil quail eggs.
Egg salad
8 hard boiled eggs, chopped
2 tbsp chives, chopped
1 celery branch, sliced
1 1/2 tbsp French cornichons, chopped
1 heaping tbsp grain mustard
Salt and pepper
Mayonnaise to desired consistency
Mix everything together and mound on bread slices.
Yum. There is nothing better than a well made egg sandwich!
I suspect they come from Easter eggs originally. It’s an old tradition to dye eggs in the Greek Orthodox church:
http://maddogtvdinners.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/easter-eggs/
I think they used to just do red, but now it’s all the colours of the rainbow.
Yours look great 😉
We also dye eggs but only for Easter. Don’t you?
No but my next door neighbour does. Interestingly the Orthodox church and the Catholics/Protestants don’t necessarily have Easter on the same day – the church calendars are different.
The Orthodox Easter and Christmas are different dates from the other Christians.
True, but Christmas is always the same day, be it 24/25 or 6/7. They don’t change the days as per Easter, due to it requiring a Friday, Sunday and Monday.
Very pretty, I thought they were just for Easter too. Love a good egg sandwich 🙂
Thank you Chica. We always boiled and colored our own for Easter baskets.
The colored eggs make sense as they are like Easter Eggs. Such pretty pictures as usual.
They are very pretty but they have nothing to do with Easter. I think I also read that the coloring distinguishes them from fresh eggs.
Oh the Germans, so efficient in every way.
I’ve heard it said 🙂
These are beautiful! I like that they do this year round. Very festive. 🙂
How pretty! That yolk is perfect.
I know Mona, I couldn’t believe it!
my favorite quick protein fix 🙂
Bahaha. That is excellent.
Thank you.
That is AWESOME! And I have to say that it is amazing to think about perfectly hard-boiling that many eggs. Let alone coloring them! I would totally keep a dozen in my fridge at all times, picnic or no picnic!
I know. I started out sneering but ended in total admiration 🙂
How cool is that? Beautiful and perfectly cooked!
Way cool Tessa 🙂
oh how cute..yet another way us americans are uncool compared to the rest of the culinary world 🙂 …love egg salad recipe, looks just beautiful…lovely post..sarah
Thank you Sarah. As a huge melting pot of many cultures, you would have thought we’d have the best of everything but I think what we’ve done is, while readily adopting other cuisines, we then adapt them, flavors and ingredients, to the familiar. Take Tex-Mex.
Oh yes spring is here! your egg salad sandwiches look delicious.
How convenient, its already cooked. I would think like that as well, having the color bleeding inside and hard to peel
I love the idea and they look so cute !