Happy New Year!
February 5, 2019 4:52 PM
I know we had fish tacos yesterday, but our official new year's celebration happened on Sunday, making and cooking dumplings.
Our dumpling filling consisted of ground pork, onions, and chives. We actually had to look in three different grocery stores just to find ground pork. Giant Eagle only had a pound left and Whole Foods sells pork for $5.99/lb! It's a good thing I have a lot of grocery store options.
My friend also made a filling with ground turkey and carrot. It kind of reminded me of shumai.
We pan fried the pork dumplings and boiled the turkey dumplings. Everything was delicious. Next time I think I'll up the ratio of chive to pork. I love chives.
All in all, it was a successful dumpling party. I definitely want to have more of these in the future.
Chili with Chocolate Ice Cream
January 29, 2019 5:00 AM
That's right. I saw this Fire and Ice Chili recipe from How Sweet Eats, and I was so intrigued by the fact that she put chocolate ice cream in her chili.
I actually looked for dark chocolate ice cream in three different grocery stores, but I couldn't find it until I went to Whole Foods. And then I spent a whole $9 (!!!) for a Haagen Dazs-sized thing of Jeni's ice cream, which is ridiculous.
Okay, but I gotta admit, Jeni makes pretty good ice cream.
This was a really interesting tasting chili. It was sweeter and less tomato-y than I'm used to, but I liked it. Not sure I'll ever make it again though, mostly because it took two hours, and that ice cream was stupid expensive.
But if I ever see it on sale, I'm totally trying the coffee flavor.
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