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Deviled Eggs – 12 Deviled Egg Recipes for Leftover Easter Eggs

April 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs photo by Dystopos on Flickr

One of our favourite ways to use up leftover Easter Eggs is to make deviled eggs.

Deviled eggs are always a favourite around my house. My kids love them for picnics, potlucks, parties and snacks. Deviled eggs are quick and easy to make and there is an endless variety of recipes.

Tip: You can make any of the mayonnaise based recipes lighter by using light mayonnaise or mixing mayonnaise half and half with low fat (or no fat) yogurt.

12 Deviled Egg Recipes

  1. Special Deviled Eggs
  2. Classic Deviled Eggs
  3. Dijon Deviled Eggs
  4. Bacon Cheddar Deviled Eggs
  5. Spinach Deviled Eggs
  6. Spicy Deviled Eggs
  7. Tarragon Deviled Eggs
  8. Curried Deviled Eggs (my personal favourite)
  9. Hummus Deviled Eggs (no wait – this is my favourite!)
  10. Sun Dried Tomato and Chive Deviled Eggs (who says I need just one favourite?)
  11. Deviled Ham Deviled Eggs
  12. Scotch Eggs with Sausage (not eggsactly deviled but close)

Related post: Looking for another way to use up those leftover Easter Eggs? Check out 12 Egg Salad Sandwich Recipes.

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Frugal Holiday: 8 Frugal Yet Fun Holiday Entertaining Ideas

December 12, 2008 By 9 Comments

The holiday season is in full swing, money’s tight but you want to get together with your friends and family. After all that’s what the holidays are all about – good times with the people you love. I’ve come up with a list of ideas for parties and get togethers that won’t break the bank.

  1. Tree trimming party – gather your friends and family around to help you decorate your tree. Serve hot apple cider and cookies and make sure you load up a bunch of great Christmas Carols on your stereo.
  2. Sledding or skating party – invite the gang to meet you at your favourite sledding hill or ice skating pond for a couple of hours of fun. Have a snowball fight, make snow angels, remember how much fun snow can be.
  3. Tree-cutting party – instead of buying your tree from a tree lot this year head out to the country to a Christmas tree farm and cut your own. Pack thermoses of hot chocolate and sandwiches and have a winter picnic while you’re out. This is especially fun if you have several families rounded up to go.
  4. Board game night – invite a group of friends over to play some of those old favourites like Monopoly, Scattergories or Rumoli. A tray of cookies or sandwiches within easy reach and you’re all set.
  5. Have a neighbourhood potluck – assign each household a course: appetizer, salad, soup, side dish, main dish, dessert.
  6. Craft night – for those of you who love to craft and are trying to make last minute holiday gifts, get together with your like-minded friends to share few hours of crafting while you catch up with your friends.
  7. Cookie exchange – gather up a bunch of friends, assign each a type of cookie (you don’t want everyone to make Snickerdoodles do you…. hmmm… or do you?), everyone makes enough of one type of cookie to swap with the others. This is a great frugal practise. Instead of buying ingredients for several types of cookies you only buy ingredients for lots of one.
  8. Food exchange party- Why limit yourself to just cookies? Why not gather with friends and batch cook cabbage rolls, lasagana, stew, chili and other freezable make-aheads.

Feel free to add any of your own frugal yet fabulous holiday entertaining ideas in the comments below!

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