This entry is all about food: weird, home made, or delicious...
Saturday evening, Mom and I had the rest of the food we bought at Hmong Village. The strangest of all the food we got was eggs. They came in a package and looked like this:
We asked for more information about the eggs and the vendor told us that the egg shell is poked open, contents are removed and mixed with soy sauce and fish sauce then returned to the shell and baked in the oven. I found
this recipe online and it seems somewhat similar to the vendor's description (minus the barbeque step). Mom peeled the shell away, cut the egg into pieces, and this is what it looked like:
I was warned that it may look blue-ish, but I didn't expect it to be so blue! At the time we bought the eggs, I was really excited. As the day went on and I had time to think about it, my anxiety grew. By the time I sat down for dinner, I already decided it would be disgusting. Turns out, they aren't that bad. Still, we only ate one between the two of us. It had the texture of a hard boiled egg, which was strange because there was no separate yolk. Overall: strange.
Also that evening, we tried stuffed chicken wings (tasted fishy to me), Hmong sausage (too rough and fatty for us), and cream cheese won-tons (finally, something familiar!).
On Sunday, I made Potato Leek soup from scratch. There was waaaay too much bacon but I enjoyed it anyway. I used
this recipe from Allrecipes.com (my favorite place for recipes.) I used home made turkey broth in place of chicken broth, so it is fairly dark in color.
At the St. Paul Farmer's Market on Saturday, I bought Indian Corn popcorn and gave it a try on Sunday.
The instructions are as follows:
- Place one cob in a covered microwave bowl or a small lunch bag and fold over top of bag.
- Place bag in microwave and set on high.
- After approximately 20 seconds, corn will start popping (the loud BANG scared me half to death). When popping begins to slow down to one second between pops, remove bag from microwave.
I emptied the bag into a large bowl, poured a little melted butter and salt on top, gave it a couple of shakes, then devoured it! .
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| The bag overflowed a little bit. I'll have to figure out how to keep the bag closed next time! |
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| This is what the popped cob looks like. |
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| The yellow variety goes well with a glass of Pinot Noir. :-) |
And now, I should probably unpack. I have been chipping away at it slowly, but at this rate I won't be done until 2012! I sure could use a helper... any volunteers?
