Chinese Dumplings (Potstickers)

Chinese dumplings

 

We made a bunch of these and froze them.

 

I combined two recipes for this; a home made dough recipe for the wrappers (we can't find the right wrappers at any of our grocery stores).  Plus a recipe from Test Kitchen for the filling.

 

Filling recipe:  Pork and Cabbage Dumplings

Dough recipe:  Hot Water Dough

 

 



 

Chiles Rellenos Casserole

I've not been blogging much at all, so I thought I'd get caught up with some of the pictures (and food) that we've done over the last couple of months.

This is a Chiles Rellenos Casserole , recipe is from Cooks Country.

More to come!

Squam Arts Workshops

Wow, what a weekend!  Here are some pictures from Squam Arts Workshops Spring 2014.

Getting ready to leave:

My Cabin:



View from the Lake



View from the Lake, on our private dock.



One of the two twin bedrooms.  There was also a single room in the cabin as well, sleeping 5.



Cabin's private dock



Cabin Living Room



Me and my cabin mates.  From the left:
Me, Carolyn, Jill, Pat, Martina

Yarn Bombing is when yarn-related items are used in unusual ways, like to wrap around ordinary objects, such as canoes - here is a Canoe Cosy:

More Yarn Bombing scattered all around camp.



I made these owls and added them to someone else's beautiful scene; I hope they weren't too upset, but Squam is all about mellow.



The beautiful sunlight scene that I added the owls to.

I had a class with Franklin Habit; I took his picture, but I don't know if he'd be OK with me posting it or not, so I'll wait until I can ask if it's OK. 

I loved his class, and here's an example of what we accomplished in the morning - Mosaic Knitting.

I was so busy with homework for my Nancy Bush class that I didn't get a chance to take a picture with her.  I'm sorry about that, but I really enjoyed her class (even with the homework), and look forward to taking another class with her again.


There was lots of contemplation around the lake.  If you recognize yourself in any of these pictures (hello you from Greenwood Lodge), please contact me via Ravlery and I can get you a high quality image file.

People stood in line waiting for the Art Fair to open.

Sadly, it had to end

Now tomorrow, it's back to work!

Lunch for the week, 3/30/14

Tim was going to be gone all last week, so last weekend I made Baked Chicken Parmesan (which he hates, he can't stand the smell of the Parmesan cheese).

Here are ingredients:

• Boneless skinless chicken breasts
• butter
• garlic
• dry mustard
• Worcestershire sauce
• Italian bread crumbs
• Parmesan cheese 

 

It's not terribly pretty going into the oven.

And not much prettier coming out of the oven, but it sure is delicious.  As you can see, I have my lunch containers for the week all set up and ready to fill.  I also made Rice Pilaf to go with the chicken. 

This was too much chicken for the week, I ended up having to throw some out, I couldn't finish it.

And here are some cute cat pictures I can't resist adding.

Patch is a good jumper, he jumps from the desk, and doesn't knock anything down (most times). 

 

 


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They both love bags, Oscar loves to snuggle inside any bag he can find.





Nap time for three kitties!

Patch loves catnip, he likes to roll in it (see all the flakes around his face).
 

Patch is my buddy, he likes to snuggle when I get home from work.
 

 



 

He's too big, but Oscar still likes to get as high as possible (he's over a door next to the ceiling).
 

And Oscar likes the Christmas tree!

We will be making seafood casserole for dinners next week; will try to get pictures up of that.



Weekend Food - March 15/16

Once Tim had the cinnamon rolls from my last post, he said we had to make them again this weekend.  So we did!!

 

I made Fast Bread dough again.

 

Here are the rolls after I rolled out the dough, put in the filling, rolled, cut and put into a prepared pan.

 

For the goo in bottom of pan, I used my mother's recipe from her 60 Minute Cinnamon Rolls. 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 After baked, before we turn them out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And after being turned out of the pan (ready to eat).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were all finished making these by 9am, then went to the grocery store and BJ's Wholesale.  We were done with errands and were home by 10:30!

 

We did a good job with not eating these cinnamon rolls all at once; as of Monday morning, there were two left.  I took one into work for a co-worker, Casey, and ate the last Monday night after work.

 

 

Also on Saturday, we made mom's Mock Quiche.  It's mock because there's no traditional pie crust, it uses store bought salad croutons to absorb the egg mixture, and it's all combined with onion, green pepper, bacon, cheddar and Swiss cheeses.  I remembered to take a picture before we put it into the oven, but forgot to take one after it came out of the oven.  And now, it's all divided into small lunch sized containers, so you'll have to imagine. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then on Sunday, we made Fast Easy Bread Taco Braid.  I used sour cream only, added salsa (picture below), used onion and green pepper in the taco meat, used my own (homemade) taco seasoning mix (think Old El Paso); there was also a can of black beans and a cup of cheddar cheese. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fast Easy Bread dough rolled out really easily, but I did make a couple of mistakes with this recipe. 

 

I made too much filling for the dough.  The recipe called for 1/2 pound of hamburger to make the taco meat for the filling, but because I need lots of protein, I doubled it and used a pound of burger.  Plus I added onion and green pepper to the taco meat, adding more volume to the filling. 

 

Once I added the filling and tried to braid it, I should have used some milk to seal the edges together.  Because this is how it looked before it went into the oven.  Messy at the top and bottom, but with pieces of dough overlapped over the top of the filling.  Actually, I'm kind of embarrassed about how messy this turned out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is what it looked like after baking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The extra filling spread the unsealed dough edges apart from each other.  And since I added the black beans on top of the taco filling, they dried out a bit, so they're not as tasty as they might usually be.  The cheese did protect the beans a little bit.

 

So next time, I'll use less taco meat in the filling (save some aside for some other purpose, for make some smaller ones and freeze for later).  I'll also mix the black beans into the taco meat while it's simmering, to let them cook, and be protected from the heat from the oven by some of the taco sauce from the meat.  And I'll use some milk to seal the edges together when I braid the dough.

 

But in the mean time, we'll have to suffer through eating some delicious taco/bean/cheese/bread stuff.  We all have to suffer for our art!