Pinterest Cooking 2

Been awhile since I've done a blog..but this morning seemed like a great one to do some pinterest cooking. Now so far I have only done hard "boiled" eggs and a potato thingy but maybe I'll do more later on today and add it.

My first experiment was this pin: HERE

So basically instead of boiling the eggs you bake them..seems simple enough. Mine are still cooling (which they didn't say to dunk in ice water like you normally would so I am just letting them air cool). I am so impatient and tried them before they were totally cooled..they are actually really good. It totally works! It took about the same time as boiling them but without the mess of water and a pot. Because you put them in a cupcake tin they don't make a mess (as long as they don't break) so clean up is nothing!

Here is a quick pic of how mine came out of the oven:

You can see that the couple in the back got speckled from being in the oven, no big deal though, we dug into like 3 of them from the front and they each had a couple spot inside, I guess you could say they burned slightly, but you can't taste it. Still super yummy and thanks to our last trip staying in a hotel I have a new found love of eating them with Tabasco sauce (YUMMM). So I think I will stick to this method from now on, oh I forgot, taking the shell off it about the same too..what I personally do to take off the shell is take the egg, tap the top tip on the counter gently, then tap the bottom and then I tap the sides slightly rolling it in my hand (not sure if I explained that well..I can always upload a video if need be) but that cracks all the shell and usually it is super easy to remove it from there.


My second experiment is from this pin: HERE

Now this claims it is better than fries, hmm..we shall see. If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life it would totally be french fries..lol So again I just followed the directions and let me just say that it isn't the easiest thing to thinly slice a potato without going all the way through. Also a few slices were crooked so some of the thin pieces were actually cut off but I just put them back in their spots.

This is mine:

 (as you can see they didn't always open apart when I cut them)

This is my mom's:

(she kept cutting all the way through)


They don't look as pretty as the ones in the picture but we shall see how they turn out..So I was cooking them for the time they said, I looked at them and they didn't look that brown so I did 5 min more. Took them out and they were still raw so I put them in for 15 more min. (My potatoes are HUGE so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, I didn't think so since they are being sliced thin but I dunno) so after the 15 min I took them out and they still were pretty raw, back into the oven for another 25 min.

Here they are ready to go into the oven:

(when I was adding the Olive oil I manually separated most of the pieces.)

This is them after the 45 min:

Then after 1 hour:

(Getting better but still not good enough)

After 1 hour 25 min:

Okay mom's potato (on the right) is super crispy on top but on the bottom it's still raw, mine was 'eh' crispy on top and more like a baked potato throughout. I ate mine because it was yummy but only okay, probably won't do it again. I'm chalking it up to a Pin-FAIL :)