Onion Rings!

Nicely sliced onions.

 All right.  I made onion rings again, and this time took fancy pictures for you. :)  I started by just taking a large sweet onion (any large onion works, but I prefer sweeter ones when I'm only eating onions) and slicing them.  You can slice them in half if you want to make onion straws instead.  Both are delicious, trust me!  Change the thickness depending upon your preferences.  Just know, this is a light breading, and it's nice to have them thinner for some crispness.


Soak the onions in the egg and milk wash, and the throw them into a mix of flour and whatever seasons you want.  At a minimum I suggest adding salt and pepper to it, but you can add other savory spices.  Whatever you want.

Onions soaking in an egg and milk wash

Onions in flour and seasoning mixture

 

Cooking!

 Cook those onions in oil that's heated to between 350 and 375 degrees Fahrenheit.  I do it by the color of the onions, when they're a nice golden brown.  It's a couple of minutes.  I definitely overfilled the basket this time, so, I suggest not putting too many in there, because it can crowd them and increase the cooking time.




 Here's a bottle of my super secret rub.  I really can't tell you what's in it :)  But it's delicious, and has a slight bit of spice and kick to it.  The small amount of heat is nice with the onions.

Homemade Rub.  Shh...

All done and draining!

  When the onions are all done cooking, spread them out on either paper towel or a paper bag.  Also, be sure to sprinkle those bad boys with salt immediately.  It makes them extra delicious.  Just let them cool a bit and away you go!  Happy nomming :)

Sprinkle with salt and done.

Scotch Eggs!

Boiled eggs in the fridge.

For Easter and spring break, my family and I went to Walt Disney World.  It was tons of fun, and while we were there, we ate at the England in Epcot, the Rose and Crown Pub.  It was there that I tried my first scotch egg.  It. Was. Delicious!  And since I have finally gotten my own deep fryer, I am here to share my recipe with you.

I started with soft boiling eggs.  Four eggs in cold water, bring it to a boil, and then let them simmer with a lid on for about 8 minutes.  After, I put them in the fridge to chill.

Behold, the beauty of a peeled egg.

After they've chilled, I made sure to peel those eggs like it's nobody business.  I absolutely hate peeling eggs.  It's like slimy and painful all at once.

Breadcrumbs, Eggwash, and Sausage!

After the egg is peeled, you should get the egg wash ready (I used one egg, and a splash of milk... I don't measure things when cooking, I'm so horrible about it.)  I also got the breadcrumb mixture together.  I used Panko, thyme and parsley.  Again, I don't measure... I just kind of do it until it looks delicious.  Next time, I might try rolling them in flour with my homemade rub, because that stuff goes on everything.

Sausage meaty masterpiece :3

You'll want to wrap the eggs in sausage after that... I found it was easiest just to flatten the sausage (I just use Jimmy Dean's) in my hands, but unfortunately I have small hands and it's not exactly easy to flatten enough for the entire egg.  So I would make two pieces and then try and put them together.  I rounded them out until everything seemed nice and covered.  After you do this, just dunk the meaty mess in the egg wash, then roll it around the Panko mixture.

Ready to fry!

Put the panko coated deliciousness into the deep fryer and let it go.  I found that about 5-8 minutes was needed to cook the sausage all the way through.  It probably doesn't need as much time if you make your sausage thinner, but I thought I had it pretty thin.  Who knows!

mmmm oil

While it's frying, feel free to mix up some mustard sauce.  I use Coleman's Mustard powder with some mayonnaise, lemon juice, Worcester sauce and cayenne pepper.  I personally don't like it, but my dad enjoys it, so I mixed it all together :)

Looks delicious, but I'm not a fan.

After it's all said and done, you should have a delicious fried, crunchy, sausage eggy mess.  It was scrumptious and I highly recommend it!

It's done!

Omnomnomnom

Pictures of things I've made previously.

Potato Soup!

Star Wars Cookies for May the 4th, 2012

Scrambled eggs with Onion, Bacon, Cheese, and Spinach

Steak, Baked Potato, and Asparagus

Dinosaur Grilled Cheese

So, teasers, I guess you could call this.  I'll do better write-ups when I actually have the time and more pictures than just the end products.  So, I'll be posting and captioning just a ton of my foodworks over the past

Lemon Meringue Pie

while. 

Ribs!

Enjoy

Chili!

:)

Note: The Formatting is awful because I'm getting used to Blogger again.

Homemade Hot Chocolate

Apple Pie Pi

Scotch Ale

Scones! SO MANY SCONES!

Prebaked Pumpkin Pie

Pork Tenderloins with Homemade Rub and Hickory Smoker Chips

Crepe filled with Cinnamon Apples and homemade Whipped Cream

Epic Meat Sammich

Obligatory First Post

Okay, right ... So, first post, and everything, because, this is where, I'm going to be a comma abuser, and, I'm going to show lots of sweet food pics.  Okay.  Bye.

/lettheawkwardnessensue