OK, so I was stumbling around on the Internet when I found the AllRecipes.com Dinner Spinner (iPhone app). I don’t know that AR will have a lot of paleo/primal recipes to choose from–or, at least, there won’t be a paleo/primal category to choose from. However, me being me and free being free, I tried it out. I did a search for appetizers utilizing… oh, I don’t know… let’s try pork. Well, one of the first recipes to pop up was a recipe for scotch eggs! I had never heard of nor even tried scotch eggs until about 3 months ago when I tried some at Tir na nOg in Raleigh, NC.

First of all, scotch eggs are good. I mean, hard-boiled eggs, covered in sausage and breadcrumbs and deep-fried. Um, yeah, they are really good. And, really, aside from the breadcrumbs, they are not all that bad for you… and, depending on the quality of the sausage, I’d say that they are downright good for you!

So, now I’ve got to find a primal replacement for the breadcrumbs that will keep the texture right. Time to confer with the Great and Powerful Google. A quick search for “primal scotch eggs” and there’s Mark’s Daily Apple rightthere at number one. Link one is to the forum where a few users have some great ideas: shredded coconut, almond flour, pork rinds. Link two is to a post from Mark called Primal Bloggers Around the Net. One commenter, Krys, points over to some scotch eggs at Caveman Cooking which is pretty simple in that it’s eggs wrapped just in sausage and then baked.

Now I’ve got a few options to try out. I love coconut and the idea of shredded coconut, sausage, and eggs deep-fried sounds really, really good. Then again, encasing eggs in sausage and baking them sounds really, really easy.

Adding these in with all of those recipes from over at This Primal Life, sounds like I have my work cut out for me in the kitchen.