Recipe @ MindSay

What you will need!

3-4 Large Skinless Boneless Chicken Breasts
1 Napa Cabbage
1 Bok Choy
2 Large Carrots
2c Bean Sprouts
3 Sliced Green Onions
3 Cloves Garlic (Minced)
3T Chopped Cilantro
1tsp Ground Ginger
1T Crushed Red Peppers
1/4c Vegetable Oil
1/4c Sesame Seed Oil
1/4c Soy Sauce
2 packs eggroll wrappers

Makes Approx 40 eggrolls.

To begin start with a large bowl filled about 1/4 full with cold water to keep your veggies from wilting as you prepare them.

I started with the bok choy.


And then the same with my Napa Cabbage


chopped up the green onion


Shred up some carrots!


oils, ground ginger, crushed red peppers and diced garlic ready to roll :D


Into the skillet they go, very low heat.


Add veggies and 1/4 cup soy sauce!


cook on medium heat for about 15 minutes or until tender, add cilantro remove from heat.


Place chicken in skillet, add 1c of the juices from the veggies


Cook until done, allow sauce to reduce


It's about this time that I realize I forgot the bean sprouts -_-... IN THEY GO!


Allow chicken to cool, dice and mix in with veggies


all ready to go!


Place filling diagonally in the wrapper...


Tuck bottom flap under filling...


moisten side flaps with water and fold over...


moisten top flap and roll over :D


repeat! :P



Some people prefer to deep fry but I like to pan fry them, you can control the heat more this way, cook about 1 minute on each side until they are crispy and golden brown :D Some people like to add a tsp of nutmeg to the oil before frying, but I'm not a fan of that :P do what you like though, thats the best part of cooking!



you can also make a yummy dipping sauce for them by mixing equal parts rice wine vinegar and soy sauce with some minced garlic and crushed red peppers.

Here's what I had for dinner. I totally made it up, but there are certain things that you can't go wrong with: onion, garlic, bell pepper and cabbage. So.. how about simply putting them all together!?

Stir fry the onion, garlic and bell pepper in some olive oil. Add laurel for taste and safflower for color, then a little bit of salt. Finally, add a 1/4 cup of water and lots of chopped cabbage. Close it and let it the steam boil the cabbage (2 mins at full fire). When the cabbage is beginning to soften, stir everything and cook for 2 more minutes.

If the onion and bell pepper are too sweet, add lemon juice or vinegar, they work as great replacements for salt.

It's really easy to build something from this simple recipe: add mushrooms, add some pasta with a nice tomato sauce with oregano and thyme. Also, try adding some pre-prepared textured soy protein to the initial stir fry.

I find it really hard to feel satisfied when I solely have vegetarian food, but I suppose that's a habit..

Things I did whilst enjoying Earth Hour:

- Knitted a few rows on the scarf I'm working on.

- Read a few chapters of a book I bought ages ago but never have time to pick up.

- Wrote a letter to a friend by candlelight and pretended I was in Colonial times where this was standard procedure.

- Realized how ridiculous it is to be nostalgic for something I've never experienced (you know, living in Colonial America) but continued to do it anyway.

- Played a quick game of 'Tissue' with my cat (I throw it up, he bats it around).

- Planned my 2 cooking lessons for this upcoming week (cookies with my reading group, Hawaiian Pizza with my writing boys).

- Decided to spend the hard-earned, not-really-there-to-spare $200 on an iPod in the next upcoming days.  I have the iPhone, and I am so NOT a tech person, but I use my phone...for phone purposes (SHOCK!).  I dial the digits and I send the occasional text; no pictures, no checking-of internet, no music.  If I could go back in time, I would not have let my father and the saleseman talk me into it because I DON'T USE IT.  So I need a music player.  I've made a solemn promise that if I do this, if I spend this money, I will use it to go on at least 2 long walks a week (3 when school lets out).  I like to listen to music when I work out, and this will afford me that opportunity.

*Earth Hour sorta turned into 'Earth 3 Hours' because I was so engrossed in stuff (especially the first 3) that I looked up and it was 11:45.  Oops.  Oh well; can't wait for next year's!

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Taiwanese Dumplings

 

I made them again today, with a few minor alterations. The people in the cooking group are Taoist so they don't eat onion and garlic.... but I do. The great thing about them is that I imagine I could make them stuffed with whatever I happen to have at home. I reckon mushroom and carrot would be nice.

 

Aunty Sue didn't cook anything apart from the fungus when we made them at her house, and they were lovely and fresh tasting, so if you're pressed for time just throw them together.

 

 

Ingredients:

1. Chinese or Savoy Cabbage- shredded
2. Dried Black Fungus- soaked and finely diced
3. Onion- finely diced
4. Garlic
5. Chilli
6. Grated Ginger
7. Soy Sauce
8. Salt
9. Peanut/ Sesame Oil
10. Gow Gee Pastry (Kind of like round won-ton wrappers)

 

Method

 

1. Add a little salt to the shredded cabbage to draw out some excess moisture, let it sit for a while and then squeese out the water.
2. Stir fry the black fungus and toward the end add a good dash of Soy Sauce, stir fry a little longer and then set aside
3. Stir fry the onion and when it starts to colour add the cabbage.
4. Add the garlic, ginger and chilly and stir fry for a little longer
5. Remove from heat and mix in the mushrooms
6. After it cools down wrap the dumplings. (See the video below)
7. Drop the dumplings in boiling water
8. When they rise to the top add a little cold water (this supposedly makes them more chewy)
9. When the water comes to the boil again, they are ready.
10. Remove and drizzle with some sesame oil for flavour and so they don't stick. I only had concentrated sesame oil at home so i just mixed a tiny bit with peanut oil.
11. Serve with whatever dipping sauce takes your fancy. I used a Vegetarian Fish Style sauce that "Aunty Sue" gave me at the last class mixed with some soy and chilli.

I found the following on you tube. It's the same style of wrapping I did, quite simple but you could also just fold it over and make sure the edges are sealed.