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March 19, 2006
The Dumpling Factory
One of the cooking magazines I subscribe to, Cuisine at Home, often has recipes for homemade dumplings. I've always been intrigued, but I haven't came across the dumping wrappers at the Co-op yet. When we found some in Sunset Park the other day, it seemed like fate. We ran home and bought some stuffing ingredients (based on what we thought should go in a good vegetarian dumpling), and made them the next day. The stuffing took a bit of patience -- we didn't get the crimping aroung the edges to work quite right, and it gets boring. We were wondering if this becomes the kids' job in households with children (like shucking corn or peeling carrots). The novelty wears off pretty quickly. We made enough for dinner, ate, and then moved the assembly line to the living room to finish up the job and freeze the rest. The stuffing goes like this: grab a wrapper, put a teaspoon of stuffing on it, wet the enges, seal it, make some effort to crimp something, give up, dip in flour, set aside. Repeat. They cook quickly, so it'll be nice to have a supply in the freezer, but this is not going to be one of our regular staples, I don't think. We got so bored with the stuffing that we started talking about starting a company with both our initials in the name: CDDC. It's lame, and it's short the Cindy Derek Dumpling Company.
Posted by csageday at March 19, 2006 07:19 PM