#tea eggs

[seadolph]

tea eggs my beloved.... i miss them. i want to eat them so badly

for @quezify's eggtober!!

#eggs #eggtober2023 #eggtober #tea egg #tea eggs

[ariadventures]

Tea Eggs!!

You know what I haven't written in a while? A cooking/food post! Someone asked me something on Twitter which got me thinking and I figured I'd finally write about making food again, so I'm pretty happy to have something to post on here again.

Immediately at the start of writing this I understand why recipes come with a background story, because cooking IS personal and at least, since I'm not a recipe blog, what investment do you really have in this if I'm not saying something about it? But I'll put the extraneous details after the recipe. This is far from a formal recipe and just a musing of what I did. I mostly did it to taste but these are some approximate measurements:

6-8 eggs 4 cups of water 4 bags black tea 3 tablespoons dark soy sauce 2 tablespoons regular soy sauce 1 tablespoon sugar 4 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons Shaoxing wine 1 teaspoon five spice powder

Important to note: Make as many eggs as you want as long as it'll all fit in the marinade you make - it's gotta cover all of the eggs, no peekin' out. If you need less marinade, i.e. you're putting it in a tight ziplock bag, feel free to halve or otherwise divide the ingredients to fit.

Make the marinade in a saucepan with all the ingredients besides eggs. I started boiling the water and put the ingredients in one by one. I cut open the tea bags and dumped it all in. The five spice powder is out of convenience - if you look up all the spices included in it, like sichuan peppercorn and star anise and cinnamon etc., and have all of those on hand, you can use those as well, but this is a simple recipe for a simple person.

After mixed and boiling, let it cool off to the side.

Soft boil eggs in another pot, put them in an ice bath afterwards or run them under cold water for a few minutes, whatever your jam is.

Gently (GENTLY!!) use the back of a spoon or something to crack the eggshells while leaving them on, but not break through too much of the egg. The marinade is pretty strong so you could theoretically just completely peel them and soak them for a shorter amount of time, but I like to make them traditionally.

Put the eggs into the marinade and simmer/warm them for like, an hour. After that, let the marinade cool down again, cover it, and refrigerate it for up to 24 hours. That's it!

*Notes*

The dark soy sauce is mostly for the marbling/color of it. If you want a darker marbling, you can add more and reduce the salt. Like I mentioned, I did a lot of it kind of by vibes, so I added in a little more soy sauce and salt myself.

I had a test egg after I simmered them for an hour. Simmer? Warm? As long as it's not boiling, you don't actually want to thoroughly cook the eggs unless you're okay with super overboiled eggs. Tasted good, but did taste so much better after soaking for a day. I note soft boiled above because when you simmer them they do cook a bit again, and traditionally it is hard-boiled, but if you want them not overboiled you should do the soft boil initially.

As seen in the picture above, I marinated it in a saucepan overnight and put some clingwrap over it. My first attempt I only made 3 eggs, and they fit in a mason jar so I just put it all in a mason jar and used maybe half of that recipe above. If you don't want a big ole saucepan, you can also put the marinade in a big ziplock bag that'll stay securely tight. As long as the marinade is covering ALL of the egg!

This is what I mean by marbling! OBVIOUSLY these pictures aren't great (I have never claimed to be a photographer) but this is just to show what the end result should look like. Sometimes the marbling doesn't really come through but it still tastes nice!

I grew up with tea eggs always at the grocery store and able to grab 'em any time I wanted. They were usually always warmed in a crock pot as you grabbed them with tongs, but since I'm not running a crock pot for days as I finish eating them all I have them cold and they're still glorious. You can honestly marinade them 8-24 hours or so, I just like marinading for longer so the color really comes through and for more of the taste to soak in. Marinade them too long and I think they'll get too salty. It's a great subtle flavor, and you can reuse the marinade for another batch if you're making more in a short amount of time (refresh ingredients a lil that may have evaporated) or I know you can theoretically cook meat and vegetables in that marinade so you'll have something tasty from it.

I'm (AS USUAL, everyone moans) having culture feels and been wanting to cook more as a result. Most of it has manifested in veggie soup or varying noodle dishes, but tea eggs are near and dear to my heart and honestly I am so glad they were easier to make than I thought. I have a lot of weird vibes and euughh, trauma 🙄 over being in the kitchen just due to weird family stuff I grew up with so cooking is a real chore for me. Ultimately this uses two small pots (saucepans? pots? whatever they're called) and a tablespoon so the dishes to clean afterwards is minimal.

I really like the tea eggs and I really like that I can make them now, and I wanted to share that. I will probably fixate on them for a hot second! They've got such a nice flavor and my whole apartment smells good after. Let me know if you make any! Thanks for reading.

#Ari cooks #tea eggs #I also realize when I write these posts I refer back to them so it's helpful for me to write down the process as well #I was trying to find my chili noodles recipe a few months ago and I did!! #Ari adventures #I hope you enjoyed the zoomed in low-res photos of my fingers

[eirenical]

Been awhile, but the tea eggs are burbling away!

(Ok, I turned off the heat so they technically aren't burbling anymore, but they should be ready to be a tasty treat later today! ^_^)

#food #eirenical cooks things #tea eggs #braised tea eggs #eirenical.photos #one of my favorite snacks #^_^

[miauta]

HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY QSMP!

I wanna thank all CCs, admins and wonderful people of this fandom for amazing year and all happy memories I made in it~

#qsmp #guapoduo #misclick duo #hide duo #tea duo #quackity #qsmp eggs #qsmp foolish #qsmp jaiden #qsmp etoiles #TOO MANY PEOPLE TO TAG LOL

[tea0w0stache]

“.. No. As far as I know, only John Dory really .. knew him. And- Grandma of course. He doesn't talk about him though.”

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hashtag jd parentification ‼️‼️ haha. im normal about him i promise. [someone please ask me about it.]

edit: there's a fic now <3

#tea draws #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #trolls jd #trolls john dory #angst #comic sketch #autistic artist #do i even tag the others theyre just eggs #trolls bruce #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls branch #brozone #reference to chapter 3 of gmahwj

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

“mia why did it take you 45 minutes to make an instant noodle”

well uh

well

look i got more ingredients in my kitchen than good sense okay

#i have friends to hang out with and projects to finish but no ridiculous pot noodle brunch is what my brain says #food #there really isn't recipe unless you want the recipe for the tea eggs or the beef shank #the tea eggs are an easy search online and the beef shank..... gonna have to interview my mom about that #well you know the saying #either the ancestors airdrop the correct vibes into my brain or i eat bad soup those are my options

[chamoemileclown]

is the sky red or is that just the sun coming up?

#totally normal tea party that will forever be haunted by the sins of purgatory #qsmp #qsmp fanart #qsmp art #qsmp eggs #qsmp purgatory #purgatory 2 #purgatory event #qsmp tubbo #qsmp sunny #qsmp sunnysideup #qsmp watcher #tubbo fanart #tubbo

[daydreamorama]

Tea eggs

So I started making tea eggs, and now I'm addicted. and you should be too. (thanks @eirenical for the addiction and the instructions, and suggestions on my experiment!)

I started with this link https://tiffycooks.com/authentic-braised-tea-eggs-easy-and-inexpensive/

I modified the directions to add sichuan peppercorns (I chose maybe like a large pinch, it was subtle, I'd do more perhaps)

They were good but the extra simmer of the eggs results in hard chalky yellows and rubbery whites (and the stereotypical green surrounding the yellow) (still very enjoyable)

So I decided to experiment and see if I could skip the simmer step.

Read more to see how it turned out! (spoiler: I was happy)

Instead right after cooking the eggs, I chose an almost hard boil of the yolks or 'jammy'. I cooled them down, wacked them with a spoon, and shoved them right in the refrigerator cold broth (I reused the same broth from other times)

I was worried that without the simmer step, the eggs wouldn't soak in the flavor as much, so I peeled the top two eggs before placing them in.

The next day I took one of the pre-peeled ones.

The flavor was much more mild than than those with simmer, but it was good. And the yolks were the texture of the borderline between gooey and solid, exactly as I expected.

Because the flavor was so mild, at this point I peeled a couple more eggs and put them back in the broth. They barely had any spiderwebbing.

The next day they were much darker

You can see some nice coloring as the whites started to change color. Still a little mild.

At this point I went in and peeled all the eggs. Through the next 3 days I continued to enjoy the and flavor got stronger. Though perhaps more on the subtle side when boiling, but the quality of the texture of the whites and the yolk more than made up for it for me!

TL;DR Skip the simmer step if texture is more important than strong flavor, but if you do peel the eggs and give up on that cool marbling look and just be a little more patient.

In the future I'm going to continue to peel and skip the simmer step!

Hope you enjoyed daydreamorama experiments with food!

#Tea eggs #a brief interlude from fandom to become a food blog #has alt text

[couch-house]

lab sleeping arrangements (post sponsored by the way my cat sleeps on my feet)

#stc #sth #sonic the hedgehog #sonic the comic #dr ovi kintobor #porker lewis #exit sonic #fleetway sonic #fanart #doodles #id in alt text #cont. from my thoughts that kintobor was terrible at taking care of sonic and himself Properly #evidence: The Egg #they also would just crash on a chair parked near the lab #and when theyre up on the floating island this happens Again #they each have like an actual House in mushroom hill (left over from the emerald hill folk) #and knuckles has several semi-permanent places to sleep around the hidden palace #but they keep sleeping in the damn lab.... #also post-exit sonic regularly drinks tea now 👍 hes resigned himself to caffeine

[grillbyz]

Thinks ab Gaster and how he haunts the narrative a normal amount. Thinks ab the unused text hidden in deltarune chapter 1 and 2 a normal amount.

#undertale #deltarune #utdr #gaster #w.d. gaster #it is 3am we are having a real normal one chat #i have. to draw smnth for the unused text. #but also just in relation to undertale. thinks ab gaster's followers. thinks ab the core. thinks ab goner kids words. #you Cannot give me a character thats doomed by and then haunts the narrative whos implied to Care and expect me to be normal about it #'looking forward to this' that post one ab gaster looking for connection the valentines card. #bites teeth. #what does it mean to create. what does it mean to exist. what does it mean to be alone. what does it mean to reach out and connect. #we may not be normal ab silly egg man who may or may not exist #blood cw #jic bc meme #i need. to know ab dess and kris and gaster and the red bunker. what is going on in there #need to rb that one art of dess and gaster having tea

[fullcravings]

Matcha Sugar Cookies (V/GF)

#vegan #gluten free #matcha #green tea #sugar cookies #cookies #baking #tea #green #color #summer #tea time #dessert #recipe #dairy free #egg free #apple sauce #tapioca free #gluten free flour #eatwithclarity

[scoutingthetrooper]

#food #delicious #tasty #morning #breakfast #english breakfast #eggs #fried egg #sausage #beans #tomatoes #mushrooms #black pudding #toast #mug #drink #tea #bacon #meat

[jacky93sims]

ONI Iced Lemon Tea and Pastry Egg for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from ONI, low poly. Lemon Tea is a drink available in the fridge anytime. Pastry Egg is a dessert available anytime (hamburger cooking skills required). Invisible plate is required for both (included).

DOWNLOAD HERE

#the sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 cc #sims 2 download #the sims 2 cc #ts2 download #4to2 #4to2 conversion #food #sims 2 food #pastry egg #lemon tea #iced tea #lunch time #dinner time #breakfast time #drink

[dracononite]

another batch of treat icons! ✨

#my art #ych #icon #comm #commission #anthro #furry #food #fries #cosmic brownie #boba tea #rainbow sherbet #egg on toast

[absolutelyegg]

"you never bother to find out what it does to someone, being stuffed in a stone box for weeks, or months, or even years?"

i seriously hope that this wasn't just a throw-away line they put in the show except it probably was, that they make the decision to touch upon what happened to her, and that we can see her heal from it

#arcane #vi #egg gifs #her trauma and inner demons are likely equally as unique and haunting as jinx's #and i don't think her experience should be understated #i wanna see more of vi's please #the one thing that i find really unfortunate about this show (and shows in general) is how short they are #i would have killed to see moments that we didn't see on screen #like what happened between caitlyn and vi on the boat from stillwater #i really want to see what jinx was doing or possibly saying while preparing for the tea party #just stuff like that i dunno #filler episodes come back i need you </3

[blackbutler-sideblog]

“What kind of butler would I be if I couldn’t do this? ☺️”

*Ciel forfeits the contract*

#the boy just wanted some eggs and tea #seb@ciel dni #black butler #kuroshitsuji #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #kuroshitpost #black butler memes #kuroshitsuji memes