potsticker

I don't really cook. With only one person eating, most recipes seem to result in me having leftovers for the next week. I'm also not a big fan of the mess/dishes it creates. I'll bake for special occasions like birthdays or holidays but that's really the extent of it. Every once in a while I forget the work involved in food preparation and I get the urge to make a meal. And I do. And then I don't cook again for four months. I'm fortunate enough to live close to some very fine eateries, so whenever I get tired of microwave meals, noodles, or cereal I have some great options.

All of this being said, I am working on amending my ways. Since my boyfriend officially moved in this summer, the household food consumption has gone up, so I don't think cooking will be as much of a waste of energy. There's normally only one days worth of food left over and that makes for good work-lunch material. However, I'm still not in love with the art of cooking, so I've decided to make one meal every week I'm off of work. That's two meals a month, folks. Which is still two more than I made otherwise.

This was this week's meal: pork pot-sticker dumplings and fried rice.

I made this recipe once before and what I remembered about it was that it was messy, time consuming, and delicious. The messy part is the inevitable oil splashes from frying and the time consuming part is filling and sealing 160 wonton wrappers one by one and then frying them in a pan in batches. I think the number is more around 50, but it feels like 160.

This time when I made them, I was smarter about the time consuming part (not the messy part, that was just as bad as I remembered) and I watched Bleak House on amazon prime while I filled my potstickers *side note: I didn't think this latest adaption was that great but I still have a girl crush on Gillian Anderson from her X Files days and Dickens seems to have intentionally made most of his characters caricatures in this novel, so how can I blame the actors for hamming it up a bit?*

Anyway, Bleak House made the time pass a lot more quickly and made the gains outweigh the cost a bit more. I recommend watching something to pass the time if you ever want to try these. There's not a lot of ingredients and it's pretty tasty, so basically it's a winner.

Here's a link to the recipe in case you ever want to give it a try:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/potsticker-dumplings-92007.aspx