Quorn picnic egg appreciation

You can probably tell by the amount of times I blog about sweet foods like cake how much I love it! Chocolate is my number one favourite food. However, it has a new close contender ... the Quorn picnic egg. This has to be one of the best savoury snacks out there, even better than a bag of crisps. In fact, they are so nice that they are becoming a delicacy - we have only found them in one shop (Waitrose) and they are usually sold out. VH goes in to look daily for these rare scotch eggs, and today he got lucky, there was one pack remaining. They are like Fabergé Eggs.

As a child, I loved scotch eggs , but as a vegetarian I haven't been able to buy ready-made scotch eggs, so I was over-joyed when I saw this new product in the supermarket a few weeks ago. They consist of free-range egg mayonnaise in a Quorn 'sausage' meat, covered in bread-crumbs. I have tried to make my own vegetarian version of scotch eggs with VH in the past, but they turned out as catastophy scotch eggs. Unlike these perfectly formed, delicious Quorn eggs.

I am glad that they have made the eggs picnic-sized with egg mayonnaise with them, as I don't like scotch eggs which have a hard-boiled egg in the centre. As well as having egg mayonnaise rather than a whole egg in the middle, they also benefit from having Quorn sausage meat rather than real sausage meat in them, as they taste the same but without the pig bones. I encouraged VH to try a real scotch egg recently, as he had never tried them before (I think they are British) but he was put off as the meat had some bone in it (or cartilage, vein or something - VH isn't sure exactly what it was). Gross! With Quorn picnic eggs I don't miss meat at all, I think they are tastier than the real thing, and healthier too.