Continuing with our theme of Eggs this week is this little doozy! Check it out!
There is a little hole in the wall Chinese restaurant in Albuquerque called Chin's Chinese that first introduced to my love affair with Asian food.
There is a little hole in the wall Chinese restaurant in Albuquerque called Chin's Chinese that first introduced to my love affair with Asian food.
The first thing I had?
Egg Drop Soup.
I must have been five or so at the time, (this is the first I remember of Chin's at least), and my family and I went out to eat which was a treat.
They brought me a starter soup to tide us over while we ordered, and I looked at the interesting looking stuff in the bowl before me with curiosity and a growling stomach.
That one bowl was all it took to get me hooked.
What I wouldn't give for Chin's Egg Drop soup right now!
Well Catherine has a taste for Asian food as well and decided to make a meal out of it.
She had the rice, check, she had sweet and sour chicken, check.
But what about the soup?!
She turns to her trusty Pinterest account and the rest is infamous Pinstrosity history.
The Original
Looks delicious doesn't it?! And it just happens to be lunch time over here! Now I need Chinese stat!
But how did Catherine's turn out?!
The Pinstrosity
Looks less than appetizing yes?
Catherine explained to us that she followed the directions, minus the scallions which she doesn't like, and this was the result.
Her husband was brave enough to taste it, and said it tasted like it looked, in Catherine's words this was "Egg Drop Puke".
How can you avoid this happening to you?
Try a recipe that doesn't seem too good to be true. While I admit Egg Drop Soup is one of the more simpler recipes in the book, it shouldn't seem like a complete no brainer.
The recipe she used said to drop the whole egg in there and whip it with a fork to give you the egg "shreds" that are normally very tasty.
According to several other recipes I found you should grab some of the egg on a fork and drop only small portions in at a time. The smaller pieces guarantee that the egg will cook right away assuming you have the boiling broth that is needed for this recipe.
Moral of the story here is that if it seems to good to be true, or just too easy, it probably is.
Isn't that how it goes for Pinterest though? Once you have learned this valuable lesson it makes life SO much easier.
One good recipe for Egg Drop Soup I found is on All Recipes Website. I LOVE this website and the reviews for this recipe are through the roof!
Happy Friday Pinstrosipeeps!
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