Kulinarya Cooking Club–Tinola

I haven’t been able to post for a while.  Between 2 months of on and off of illnesses (flu, bronchitis, and the sniffles) and a few complications in with my pregnancy I  haven’t had the energy to cook or even eat.  You know what is the worse thing for a food blogger, not wanting to eat or cook.  I can’t wait until I get my appetite back.  It has been a fun winter.  On top of all of this, I also started the last set of classes for my masters program.  If it wasn’t for work, I wouldn’t have time or energy to look at a computer.  Unfortunately this means I need to slow down with my blogging. 

I was Scared, Very Very Scared

I’m pretty gutsy when it comes to food but for some reason, this one slightly scared me.  I have no idea why either. 

Here is some background:

Whenever The Husband and I watches TV, I totally hoard the controller and we watch anything food like food network, the cooking channel, TLC, and the travel network.  The Husband hates how much food stuff I watch.  Amazingly I actually don’t get hungry  but watch the different shows for ideas. 

One day we were watching Unique Eats on the Cooking Channel and one of the topics was Scottish Eggs.  For some reason, The Husband had to have it.  He gets like that when we watch any food stuff.  He curses me on a daily basis because he is hungry and he wants what ever food is on display.  It is a fun game for me.  So I told him, I’ll make him some for breakfast that weekend.  Well he remembered and reminded me to make some.  I was thinking…Dang It…I was hoping he would forget.  So I told him to start boiling the egg and I’ll cook it.  I love fried food like the next person but for some reason, this scared me.  It is a whole egg surrounded by beef and deep fried.  I know this is similar to Embudito (Filipino meatloaf) but I steam mine not deep fry it.  I went basic for recipe and since I had 1/2 a pack of Italian sausage in the fridge, I figured I will just use that. 

My Version of Scottish Eggs

2 Hard Boiled Eggs

1/2 Package of Italian Sausage (about 4-6 oz)

* If you used ground beef, I would season it with salt and pepper and add a little flour and egg to bind the mixture.

Directions

1. I was totally experimenting with this and I just took the Italian sausage and wrapped it around egg. 
2. I took a small sauce pan and filled it about 1/4 up on the pan with oil and fried. 
3. Turn it multiple times so it will cook evenly.
4. Serve

The Husband loved it.  He just had it with ketchup and rice.  I only had a little bit of it and it was good but it wasn’t my cup of tea.  He ate the whole batch. 

Happy New Years

I meant to post this yesterday and I would love to say I was busy cooking, drinking (non-alcoholic for me), or even partying but instead I have been reading this blog for two days.  It is called Hyperbole and a Half and it is quite hilarious.  I’m actually currently reading it right now ;D.  So instead of doing any thing productive, I was reading the blog but I did clean.  I have this thing about the house being clean on new years but I didn’t do the traditional superstition things that a few people does like hang grapes.  I did make sure The Daughter jumped at  midnight so she would grow (it is wishful thinking). 

I was planning on writing a self reflections of the last year but instead I wanted to with everybody a wonderful New Years Day and I hope everybody has a prosperous and an happy upcoming year. 

I did actually come up with a few goals that I would love to achieve this year. 

My cooking

* Make a soufflé

* Really hone in my bread skills

* Mastering a simple cookie

* Work on my decorating skills

My Blogging

* To work my grammar

* To be more humorous (I’m sorry if my sense of humor is kinda off the wall or that it is just funny to me)

Life

* Finish my graduate degree (so so close)

* Have a healthy and happy baby and not to abuse The Husband in the process (He received quite a bit of pain with The Daughter)

And ultimately, have a happy and healthy family. 

 

Thank you for reading my self discovery and supporting me.  Lets have a great year!