A Party Experiment

[mishalak]

Marbled Tea Eggs
I tried this recipe today while I was home sick.

Slightly Modified:
6 Eggs, boiled and cooled
½ cup Soy Sauce
2 Star Anise
2 Tablespoons Black Tea
6 Cloves
Cold Water

Gently break the shell of the egg all over then put in the cold water with all other ingredients. Bring to a simmer and cook for three hours.

It produced a rather good tasting egg and I think it could work for The Crew of Grenadine party at MileHiCon. Perhaps do a third of the eggs this way, a third colored with beet juice, and a third just plain. Jane has said that she might be able to help me peel eggs on the Thursday before the convention. I'm thinking the right number to do would be 2-dozen.

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy...

[daedala.livejournal.com]

You can also do the same thing with "red sauce" or "master sauce":

2.5 c water
2 c soy sauce
1/3 c rice wine
5 smashed slices of ginger
2 stars anise, broken up
2 ounces Chinese golden rock sugar, or 1/4 c sugar and 1 T honey
Optional: chopped scallion, 1.5 in cinnamon stick, 1 t orange peel

This is also amazing for cooking chiken in. (boil the sauce, dunk the chicken, simmer until done, about 20 min). I'm not sure if the eggs are as good if you don't cook a chicken in it first.

I got this from Barbara Tropp's Modern Art of Chinese Cooking.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think I'll try this next week. I buy a lot of chicken sinc it is cheap. Tofu for the same reason. What I wish I could live on is fish... Juicy sweet...

*beaming with pride*

[protonboy.livejournal.com]

Martha Stuewart would be proud!

Re: *beaming with pride*

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Well I don't know about that, her head would probably explode if she saw the apartment right now. I should clean now that I'm feeling better.

Exploding Heads

[protonboy.livejournal.com]

...her head would probably explode if she saw the apartment ...

*LOL*

I <3 U mishalak

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Grenadine Crew? You mean Minicon's attempt to corner the market in Grenadine has not been successful?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

What, you didn't see this thing the first time? I'm just shattered that everyone doesn't read my journal like it was critical for graduation. <grin> Yep, I thought it was a cool name and I actually make Grenadine so I doubt you could corner the market from me!

If it works out then I might try to build a Crew of people who want to throw parties at other conventions. Like say... Minicon, Worldcon, and Westercon.