Guest Post: Adventures in Cooking with Heather
…or, “How NOT to Make Russian Haired Sausage.”
Transmition from Heather:
Apparently the following (http://englishrussia.com/?p=3344) is the latest amusing foreignesque food to hit the Internet. And being that I have my own apartment which features its own kitchen in addition to a a large research grant from UNH and far too much free time, I decided to attempt this. Thankfully my roommates were not home to try to dissuade me.
HINT: Just because that video at the bottom appears to be in Russian… it is not! In hindsight this would have been useful to watch.
on my way home from work I stopped at hannafords to pick up hot dogs and spaghetti. I decided to make two of these and called my friend Dave to come over for supervision / so he could make one too.
By the time he walked over I already had started attaching full pieces of spaghetti to my first hot dog. This rapidly became heavy and absurdly porcupineish! Please note that my haired sausage was much larger than my head.
This, of course, caused some problems. Namely that the spaghettis would not fit in my pot. (In my defense, I swear we had a larger pot once.) Improvisation time! I ended up having to remove some of the spaghetti on the bottom so it would sort of mostly fit in there. Watching it all collapse into the pot was entertaining though.
Here is Dave reminding us the more efficient and obvious way to avoid this problem… His Haired Sausage looks much better than mine. Neater, certainly! Though Dave came closer to actually making russian haired sausages more accurately than I did, we were still off by a little bit. You are actually supposed to break the spaghetti in half and then shove it THROUGH the sausage. Oops.
Either way they WERE delicious and possibly mildly nutritious. If you like meat and pasta I do recommend them!
I’ve gotta say Heather, I’m very disappointed in the lack of things on fire in this cooking adventure. Try harder next time!
Heather Froehlich is so sexy she doesn’t need cooking skills, pants, or a respect for gravity. She spends her time hunting legendary pronouns that have not been seen by humans for hundreds of years.