Cooking Lesson: Dagron's College-proof Drumsticks

Heres a page from my book of self invented college culinaries. Today's menu: my own receipe of delicious drumsticks. 

Time required: 24hrs of marinating, 40 mins of baking

Materials:
-6 medium size chicken drumsticks

Spices:
-Kimlan soysauce (50mL)
-Bull's Head Brand BBQ sauce (1 tsp)
-Chopped parsley (1 tbsp)
-Black ground pepper (1 tsp)
-Sesame oil (1 tsp)
-Minced garlic (2 tsp)
-Maggi Sauce (1 tsp)

Other essentials:
-1 large ziplock bag
-1 conventional oven

Directions:
1) Place all listed materials into large ziplock bag. Mix well. 
2) Allow the drumsticks to marinate for at least 24hrs (for a thorough flavor). 
3) When ready, preheat oven to 400F. Place drumsticks onto tin foil-covered tray and bake for 40mins. 
4) Serve. 

Important: Remember to plan accordingly as the 24 hrs marinating is required to have a crispy-on-the-outside-juicy-on-the-inside finish. 

Enjoy.

rOar

Cooking Tips

Aight, this is an update on the tea eggs I was talking about the other day. So I decided to try making some today. Heres some trial-and-error I had to deal with:

1) 4 yellow Lipton tea bags only manage to add little flavors in 8hrs of broiling. Mental note: use black tea leaves next time. 
2) 1 tablespoon of soy sauce is NOT enough. Prepare to add a good 30-50mL for a batch of 10 eggs.
3) 3 aniseeds would be better than 2. 
4) Prepare to add more salt and 5-spice pepper according to personal taste. 

I'm letting the eggs sit overnight. We'll see how they are tomorrow. 

*Update: The eggs have sat overnight (a good 24hrs), and the flavors only manage to penetrate about half way in. Use more soy sauce and tea leaves next time. 

**Update 2: I left another patch for 48hrs. The results are similar to those sitting for 24hrs. 

rOar

Cooking Lesson: Tea Eggs

We all have something that we want that we would give our kidneys for. This is what I would give mine for: Tea Eggs!! These little buggers are small packages of deliciousness overload at an extremely cheap price. In Taiwan, these are sold in EVERY convienence stores. But here in the good ol' US of A, these little bundles of joy have become a rarity. 

But have no worries, for I shall teach you how to make them with easy to find materials!

Materials: 
-10 large eggs 
-1/4 cup red tea leaves OR 3 red tea bags
-2 aniseeds (may be harder to find)
-5 cups of water
-1 teaspoon of peppercorn seeds

Spices:
-2 teaspoons of salt
-1 tablespoon of soy sauce
-1 tablespoon of 5-spice powder

Directions:
1) Place eggs into a large pot, and fill water until all eggs are covered. Bring water to boil, then turn off the stove. Cover the pot and use the steam to cook the eggs. Cover for 15-20mins. 
2) Remove eggs and place into cold water bath. Gently crack the egg shells (with spoon) so that the eggs can absord the flavors during the broiling process.
3) With a new pot, place the remaining ingredients (tea bags, water, spices, etc) and bring to boil with low heat.
4) Place the cracked eggs into the pot, and broil for at least 1 hour on low heat. 
5) Remove tea bags after 1 hour, and the tea eggs are ready to be served. 

TIP: If you want more flavors, you can let the eggs sit in the pot overnight, and enjoy them next day. The flavors will be rich by then. 

I can almost smell it already. Ahhhh...

rOar