British Isles

So I'm only a few months late posting this.  SOMEONE said they'd been checking the site every day waiting to see how we're progressing. We still need to finish up with England and Ireland, but we'll share our little bit of Scotland with you and then on to Italy!

When we "visited" Japan we found the land of carbohydrates.  With Scotland as our first British Isle destination, we left carbohydrates behind and found the land of PROTEIN! At this point I can't remember what the stew was called, but it was oyster wrapped in bacon wrapped in steak!  We got fresh oysters from  Whole Foods packed in ice. Breaking them open the next morning was a challenge though.  My middle daughter was in charge of getting them open and out (because, frankly the slimyness grossed me out!  I've delivered 2 babies and I get the willies with oysters...go figure) 

After undressing the oysters, smashing the beef, wrapping it all together and letting it simmer down to a wonderful smelling stew we got the scotch eggs going. 

Scotch eggs are simply magical! A hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage rolled in breading and DEEP FRIED!!!!  Oh my!  They were the size of soft balls, but oh so good!  They even beat out the bacon! The boys helped squeeze lemons to make the lemon mustard dipping sauce.  Unfortunately the sauce didn't go over so well, but it was fun to make :)

Finally, it did seem like we should have something on the fresh healthy side so we cleaned and sliced fresh strawberries topped with a dollop of real whipping cream and mint from our neglected (and now dead) chocolate mint plant. That along with a few shortbread cookies, made a fantastic dessert.

All in all we came up with some lovely Gentos and heard a little about our family history (related to Mary Queen of Scots...no really!).  Hopefully we'll get England and Ireland done before the year is over:)  Happy eating!