First Try Pot Stickers

My “Two New” for this week is a cheat, kind of. I didn’t get to make two new recipes this week because of an over­abun­dance of work — at both my 9–5 and my per­sonal web­site design ser­vices (of which I am not com­plain­ing). How­ever, what I did make was tough and it took two peo­ple in the kitchen to make. So — ha! That’s how I’m jus­ti­fy­ing my per­sonal fail­ure this week.

Hand­some and I made pot stick­ers last night. I acci­den­tally pulled ground pork the other night to thaw and rather then let­ting it go to waste, though, we both worked long and hard days, we decided to give pot stick­ers a whirl. So at 8:30 last night we started peel­ing gin­ger, chop­ping scal­lions, and joy­fully play­ing with my food proces­sor. Well, he joy­fully played with my food proces­sor. I am a lit­tle con­cerned that he enjoyed it to much and I will come home tonight to find that every thing in the kitchen has been processed.

I have only made pot stick­ers once before with my friend and her mom but the lit­tle tips and tricks I got from that expe­ri­ence really helped. We used a com­bi­na­tion of his moms recipe and Ming Tsai’s. We def­i­nitely need to improve our fill­ing por­tion con­trol.  Goldilocks would have been very dis­ap­pointed if she’d stopped by last night. Over­all, though, for out first time mak­ing pot stick­ers and it tak­ing til 10 to eat din­ner, it was pretty darn close to perfect.

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4 Comments

  1. Tanya Says:

    I think they look great, we have made them a few times and mine end up pretty sad look­ing. I think Owen is actu­ally bet­ter at fill­ing them them me! Love your new blog design, and the pinup is awesome!

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  2. Lydia Mancini Says:

    Looks very yummy I would like to try it

    Always
    Lydia

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  3. Lamb Says:

    Yum! Aren’t they the biggest pain to make? I gave home­made pot stick­ers a try once after read­ing online they they were *easy* to make (darn you, Alton Brown!) They tasted great but took FOREVER!

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    Kita Reply:

    I read an Alton Brown recipe for pot stick­ers and they sounded like lit­tle meat­balls in won­ton wrap­pers. Which could be good, but def. doesn’t sound tra­di­tional. He also uses like 5 bowls to scram­ble an egg so I take noth­ing he does as easy. His episodes where he explains things have started to grow on my recently though. Hooow­ever, I think pot stick­ers are a big mess to make but once you throw it all in the food proces­sor and get to pinch­ing those won­tons shut it really is worth the effort. It seems to be the clean up we hate around our house. lol

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