Ultimate Recipe Swap - Making Potstickers

On Sunday I made approx. 120 pork pot stickers. I looked at several recipes online and kind of came up with my own recipe.

Measurements are all estimates - I don't measure
I'm going to guess and say this will make about 60 pot stickers - (I started with about 3lbs of ground pork)

• 1 lb ground pork
• 2 green onions finely diced - I whizzed mine up in the mini food processor
• chopped garlic - I used the jarred stuff about a heaping tablesppon
• 2t ground ginger
• 2t soy sauce
• 2t hoisin sauce
• 1t sesame oil
• 1t pepper
• 1c cole slaw mix - sauteed with sesame oil & chicken stock til wilted (about 4-5 mins)- cooled then chopped
• premade wonton wrappers

Steps:

• Mix filling (don't cook) and start making pot stickers.

• Brush edges of wonton wrappers with water, add small amount of filling and pinch edged to seal.

I used a little empanada press - it helped but wasn't the greatest because I had the square wonton wrappers.

I still have a ton of filling (I made about 3lbs) and a lot of wrappers left, but I ran out of cookie sheets.

I lined the cookie sheets with parchment paper and the wontons and froze them. Once frozen I placed into meal sized bags.

This is actually how much meat I had left AFTER 

making 120+ pot stickers - good thing it is freezable! At least 1lb.

Wet the edges of the wonton wrapper

Add about a tsp of filling

And pinch to seal edges

These can be taken right out of the freezer and cooked - frying/steaming time will need to be adjusted.


Cooking steps:

• To cook these I add some (2t) canola oil to a skillet with a lid over med heat.
• Place pot stickers in a single layer not overlapping or touching.
• Fry several minutes without moving. Once they are seared on the bottom, they should move easily.
• Add 1/2 of water to the pan and put the lid on.
• Turn temp up to med-high. Let them steam for about 6 mins.
• Take one out and cut to ensure it is cooked through.
• Remove them to a plate.
• Dip pot stickers into dipping sauce and enjoy!

Of course, I forgot to take pictures of these before we scarfed them all down - I have several dozen in the freezer, so maybe I will remember next time :)


Dipping sauce (serves approx. 2 ppl)
2T white vinegar
2T cold water
1t sesame oil
1t chopped garlic
2t soy sauce

Tweak to suit your own tastes.

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Favorite Ingredients Friday - Easy Hamburger Stroganoff

This is one of my family's favorites.

Hamburger Stroganoff

1Lb lean ground beef
chopped onion - as much as your family likes
chopped garlic - again to your liking
2 tins cream of mushroom soup
4 oz cream cheese
2 pk beef bovril (or boullion cube)
splash of Worcestershire sauce
a tin of mushrooms or you can use fresh
1/2 c sour cream
Pasta - we like spaghettini (thin spaghetti)

1. Set a large pot of water on to boil.

2. Cook the beef, onions and garlic until no pink remains in the beef.

3. Drain the grease from the beef.

4. Add the soup, bovril, cream cheese, mushrooms and Worcestershire sauce.
This is the time to add salt and pepper or seasoning salt.

5. Heat over medium heat, the cream cheese will melt through - let it bubble a bit.

6. Turn down to a simmer and stir in sour cream. Once mixed turn off heat.

7. Cook the pasta to your liking.

8. Drain pasta.

9. Put pasta on plate and top with generous heaping of beefy sauce.

10. Enjoy!

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What to make for dinner? Hmmmmm

Ever have one of those days? I do - frequently actually :)

I found this cool cooking site today - Lisa Cooking.com.

She has LOTS of quick easy kid -friendly meals.

And lots of pictures - I hate food blogs without pictures, don't you? I mean, how do I know my version turned out right if I can't see what it is supposed to look like - I won't buy cookbooks without pictures either - I'm picky that way :)

That's a Lasagna Rollup over there - looks nummy don't it ? :)


Hmmm now I have too many ideas and still don't know what to make for dinner ARG!

Sold the house!

We signed the papers today and after the inspection, it will be final on Monday.

Woo Hoo! I finally have my house back to myself.

No more having to make the beds each morning, no more not cooking so the house won't smell and so we won't have any dishes in the sink, no more having to wash, dry and shine the sink each and everyday - sometimes more than once, no more vacuuming the room 4 times a day (just to get the few pieces of lint), no more telling the kid to not touch any of his things in case he messes up the room.

And finally, no more having to leave the house at a moments notice because some stranger wants to look at it.

All done! Yah!

So now I have to get back to cooking, using up food from our freezers and pantry, and also get back to my packing.

Tonight dinner was from the freezer, a chicken lasagna for K & I and pizza bagel bites for the kid.

I have a bunch of bananas in the freezer that I am going to turn into muffins soon.

I also have to start contacting utilities to change our address.

Lots to do - 5 weeks to do it all.