Boil the eggs. 10-12 min depending on the size. (You want them throughly hard boiled.)
The ingredients (for 10 eggs):
- 100g rock salt
- thyme sprigs (at least one for every glass)
- laurel leaves
- 2 onions or 4 shallots (quartered)
- caraway
- dried hot red pepper
- mustard seeds
- schinus fruits (dried)
- white, green and black peppercorns (whole)
- juniper cones
Cook everything in water for 10 min. (Tip: test how many glasses you will need for all eggs and fill the glasses (minus the eggs) to the brim with water. That's how much water you need. Better to have some decoction left over than having too less.)
Fill the glasses first with the eggs then the decoction. See to it that onions and herbs are equally distributed to all glasses. Fill them as high as possible and close them tightly.
Leave them be for 3-4 days (don't put them in the fridge - better the window seal). Eat them all within 8 days.
Now the eating instructions:
Of course you can simply cut them up and put them on bread or whatever you want but the traditional way goes like this:
(Sadly, I haven't been able to take pictures of this. We all were too enthusiastic to be bother to stop and take pictures.
Maybe next time. *g*)
Peel an egg.
Cut it in two equal halves (especially the egg yolk).
Remove the egg yolk carefully and put it to the side for the moment.
Fill the holes with: mustard, balsamic or red wine vinegar, salt & pepper and olive oil
Carefully put the egg yolk halves upside down on the now filled holes.
Put the half quickly in your mouth and chew!
Tip: The first time you eat it like that you might want to have something cold to drink at hand.
The vinegar burns a bit on the way down.
While I like Meggle's garlic / herb butter it's still a long way from tasting homemade. There's nothing better than fresh, homemade herb butter.
Okay, here's the thing: translating a recipe into English or rather finding the English names for herbs and spices is pretty difficult (at least for me) but I tried my best. :)
I prefer to use vegetal margarine. 500g in this case.
Melt the margarine slowly in a water-bath.
While the margarine is slowly melting prepare the other ingredients:
- basil, chive and parsley (fresh or frozen. not dried) / chopped
- sun dried tomatoes (those that come swimming in oil) / diced
- one onion / diced
- garlic (I used Chinese garlic) / circa four cloves / pressed
- blue fenugreek (aka Schabzigerklee aka Trigonella melilotus-coerulea)
- celery salt
- salt (preferable rock salt. tastes good and helps with any unwanted ghosts)
Next add the rest of the tomatoes, celery salt, Schabzigerklee and a bit of rock salt. Start with just a bit of each, taste it, add more, taste it again... that's best way to go at it, in my opinion, because the amount needed depends heavily on how much flavour the garlic gives off and the quality of your herbs/spices.
Then add the onions, basil, chive and parsley. How much you use depends on how thick you want the butter to be.
If it doesn't taste strong enough for you yet try adding more Schabzigerklee, it works as a natural flavour enhancer.
Pour the finished herb butter into a Tupperware and put it for 5-10 min into the freezer (or 30 min in the fridge).
Bon Appétite!
Haven't used this blog in - lemme check - almost two years. Wow. But hey, I did have an Livejournal account for months (years?) before I started to really use it and now it's my favourite blog/journal. Maybe there's still hope for Vox then.
Right now I'm busy scanning family pictures from 1917. World War I. Meaning most men are in uniform and posing proudly for the camera.
It's a bit weird to look at them, my blood relatives I know nothing about but their names. Well, it's a bit confusing that some names have been used so often in my family. Like Louis. I don't know how many Louis have been in my family but there are quite a lot. The fact that I'm related to the largest Showman families Europe's doesn't help, either.
Good thing, though, that my last name comes from my father's less known showman family. Being a Vorlop does have it's disadvantages. It's too well known and not always in good relations. *embarrassed cough*
So yeah, my family name is nicely inconspicuously and would I be living in the UK, Canada or the States it wouldn't stand out at all. Since it actually is British. Hm, I think the first ancestor of my dad's side of the family who moved from Britain to Germany was born 1847. My mom has it written down somewhere. Knows even his place of birth and parents' names. Hence if I ever want to find out how far back that branch of my family goes and if I still have living relatives in the UK... I probably could.
Though, mostly I've a hard time understanding why... why is it for some people so important to know who their ancestors were? Or what's so special about it when you can say you have family all over the world when maybe you yourself never even left your home town? Yes, I have family in Canada, the States, Australia and probably the UK. But I would much rather go there myself! Though, I have to admit it's handy if you already have family in a country you want to visit (family that you were in contact with prior to your visit). Having a granduncle in Vancouver is awesome! But sadly not good enough to count for immigration. *sigh*
Canada, I miss you so.
What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it!
On my desktop it's a picture of Die Toten Hosen from their MTV unplugged concert. On my laptop is a manip of Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester made by lexalot.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5.
Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your
closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is
closest. [This was not MY instruction, it came with the taggy thing.]
6. Tag three people
Chad knew how to find the hospital - that wasn't the problem. He supposed he wanted to see for himself, to see how far his mother had slipped since he'd been away, before going to see her in person. But the decision had not been a conscious one; now aware of his reasoning, he regretted it.
Marshall Moore - The Concrete Sky
(which fell out the bookshelf last night and hence was the closest book)
as for 6. -- tag yourself people! just like I did. ^^
a bit on the spoilerish side... so beware:
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?
It's called Kasperl 2000 going like "grandpa, grandpa, why don't you pick up? - cause I'm dead, spezi."
Why did I choose that one? Actually 'cause it's the only ringtone still working on my cell. Something destroyed all other files. *whine* Haven't found the time yet to get new ones up. And it was a present of a friend. *g*
More testing VOX and its functions. But hey, this book *points to the right* is a good one. It's funny and witty, it's slash and has very likeable characters and a good plot. *loves it*
<- this one I'm still reading. I'm at the last pages , though. An interesting and intelligent read. Not a book I would ever have bought for myself, my mum gave it to me after she got it for her birthday from a friend. Funny, though, I haven't read even one of her books but now her autobiography. heh.
Everyday there are new places for us to discover. Today it's VOX for me.
Thanks to kentucka for the invite. *hug*
Let's wait and see if I can become friendly with VOX or not. Everything is possible.
i know sometimes i can be very nitpicking but its Pezi ;) http://www.kasperlundpezi.at a must-see site if you speak german... read more
on QotD: Can you hear me now?