This is how I know I’ve been cooped up with downcast distance-learning teens for too long: I spent multiple days dyeing T-shirts and damask napkins with food scraps and foraged plants from my ...

Dyeing eggs wrapped in onion skins -- the dry, papery exteriors of onions -- produces marbleized or mottled eggs in shades from beige to amber to russet, depending on the color of skins you use and ...

Can you really make dyes in all colors of the rainbow with vegetable scraps and other earthy organic things? Tons of Pinterest posts claim that you can. We wanted to be sure. So we tested some of the ...

If you’re looking for the perfect teal color for your Easter eggs, you may want to ditch the coloring kit this year and instead reach for a head of red cabbage. Onion skins, cabbage, turmeric and ...

Artists and crafters tending flower or vegetable gardens can harvest so much more than blooms and veggies this summer. We can harvest color, folks - and lots of it. In her new book, “A Garden to Dye ...

Ihated onions as a child. I complained bitterly when they turned up in the salad dressing, sharp and pungent, overpowering the sweet lettuce and carrots, and leaving a harsh aftertaste that lingered ...

To try Aglaia's recipe for pickled huevos haminados, eggs dyed with onion skins, click here, or click here for a slide show of the egg dyeing process. "Do you like my red eggs? I made them as we do in ...

Like most people, I grew up on Paas eggs, glowing with chemical dyes and artificial colors. My memories are vivid: the sulphuric smell of boiled eggs, the sharp hit of vinegar in my nostrils, the ...

A one-hour workshop on dyeing eggs with everyday materials, including onion skins, rubber bands and vinegar, will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4, at the German American Heritage Center, Davenport. It ...