Great Friday

Today is a big Christian holiday, Great Friday. It is considered to be the saddest Christian holiday, because it's the holiday that commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The date of this holiday varies from year to year, in our church it can be somewhere between April and first week of May. But in case you wonder how come it's today, wasn't it seven days ago? Yes, it was, but for Christians that use Gregorian calendar, our church however, among few others, still use Julian calendar.

Some people are already fasting, before Easter, but for all fast is necessary on Great Friday. This means you can't eat any animal or animal product, beside fish. Usually I am not a fan of this food, because I don't like fish, but today we had a nice meal. Fish was the only one that I ate, and besides that, we had a lot of veggies, fries.

Just like any holiday, there are customs that follows it. Main custom today is coloring eggs. During the years, we tried so many techniques and did many colors, some were good, some not so good. Some were also not so eatable, and eggs would be colored under the shell. But since last year, we decided to try out only natural colors. My grandma traditionally does eggs in bulb, and my mom use neutral ingredients to get all the colors.

In the morning, I collected different types of weed and leaves for coloring in the bulb. This is not so hard since we have so many different plants in the garden, and my grandma didn't do too many eggs. Leaves are put on eggs, and eggs are put in a woman thin sock. This way the sock will hold the leaf, and the rest of the egg will be colored.

For colored eggs we used many different natural ingredients. We got red and pink from beet, blue from red cabbage (yeah I know how it sounds), yellow and orange from turmeric, and green by making egg yellow first, and then putting it in blue (not mixing colors). But there are so many options for each color, depending on what you currently have to use, or can get. Since you do egg by egg, this also takes more time. The only thing I would suggest, is to use only white eggs, if you want colors to be more vivid. We had mix, not only white ones, so we had different shades, as you can see. 

It was fun to pain eggs before, but also I think this way of coloring them is very good, because shades are nice and also you know its all natural and good.

All photos I used in this article are original and taken by me.

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