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So, I suppose we should do a quick recap:

Risking almost certain powdered-soup poisoning, Tom and I decided that we were going to cook a set of four appetizers from Worldly Entertaining Party Ideas From Around The World, a “worldly” cookbook that was published by Lipton in an attempt to get everyone to stock up on much-needed instant powdered soups and bottle salad dressings.

Last week I showed you two surprise successes from our New Year’s Eve table, Scotch Eggs and Pure’ Madrileno. They were good, despite the soup.

This week I bring you Steamed Pork Buns.

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These are pretty much packed with salad dressing.

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Our soup-and-salad-dressing-based feast. Except for the beer, which I’ve heard has very little soup in it.

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Not like the buns, which have a good deal of salad dressing in them.

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A LOT of dressing. More dressing than meat, I think.

But maybe it’s best to just drown your ingredients in dressing. It’s less painful for them that way.

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Because you are just going to put them on a flattened refrigerator biscuit anyway. And then steam them. Which, as it turns out, is a horrid idea.

See, right here should be a picture of all of the bottoms of my steamed buns stuck to their steaming rack. Because refrigerator biscuits melt when they are steamed. They literally melted through the holes in the rack. However, when it is New Year’s and you are talking to people on the phone and trying to cook horrible food, sometimes you forget to take a picture.

Also, you might be a bit embarrassed, and would rather pretend it didn’t happen like that.

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And then you might make your husband fake a photo, to make it look like the buns are whole when in reality it is basically just the tops of the buns lying there on the plate.

Pretty sad, really. Pretty, pretty sad.

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But not as sad as this face.

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“Bad, huh?”

“These are disgusting. The biscuits have basically turned to glue.”

“How’s the inside?”

“What inside? All I have is a top here. The inside fell out completely.”

The Verdict: Bad. The brand of refrigerator biscuits we picked did not stand up well to steaming. Most of the buns were ruined before they even got out of the oven. Finished buns were chewy and tasted like a flavorless paste. The few that did have filling in them were okay when warm, but basically inedible when cooled. Yuck!

Anyone need more salad dressing?

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