Happy New Year!
Dec. 31st, 2008 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerI have to stop laughing. See, Mitsuko (my wife) had a new recipe for a meat roll that she wanted to try for New Year's. Basically ground meat, with uzura tamago (little quail eggs) boiled at the center, and the whole thing rolled in sesame seeds. But the recipe called for cooking them in the microwave. The first one, she tried the way they had recommended -- wrapped in plastic, kind of like a sausage. And it exploded.
The second one, she skipped the wrapper, and it came out okay.
The third one has just exploded. I got a peek at it before she cleaned up, and realized -- the eggs are exploding! Thinking about it, given the way that a microwave heats liquids, they really are little bombs hidden in the meat rolls.
I've suggested that she try piercing the eggs, if she wants to make any more. I think the grumbles mean that she's done. And she says she salvaged enough meat crumbles -- the explosions left the meat in pretty big chunks.
There's something about ushering in the New Year with exploding meat rolls that really tickles my fantasy. I wonder if I can convince her to make some more for midnight?
And I got to eat at least part of one quail egg -- pretty tasty, even if it had popped.
The second one, she skipped the wrapper, and it came out okay.
The third one has just exploded. I got a peek at it before she cleaned up, and realized -- the eggs are exploding! Thinking about it, given the way that a microwave heats liquids, they really are little bombs hidden in the meat rolls.
I've suggested that she try piercing the eggs, if she wants to make any more. I think the grumbles mean that she's done. And she says she salvaged enough meat crumbles -- the explosions left the meat in pretty big chunks.
There's something about ushering in the New Year with exploding meat rolls that really tickles my fantasy. I wonder if I can convince her to make some more for midnight?
And I got to eat at least part of one quail egg -- pretty tasty, even if it had popped.
