McCormick, the company that makes spices and food dyes, has a new gadget on its Web site that helps you make custom colors for your Easter eggs (or cupcakes, or frosting): the Color Creator Tool (although that term seems to be confined to the press release - if you search the site it won't show up.) You click on a color wheel to select the color you want, and the wheel tells you how many drops of this color and how many drops of that color are needed ("dusty rose" eggs call for 14 drops of red and 6 drops of blue, for instance).
As for hard boiling eggs, Mother has a fail-safe method: Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover them with cool water. Then put the pan on the stove and turn the heat to medium-low. Let the water come to a gentle boil, then turn off the heat and put a cover on the saucepan. In 15 minutes, the eggs will be perfectly hard-boiled. Remove them from the pan and refrigerate until you are ready to dye them.
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