Dumplings look so good!! Will definitely be making that this week. Thanks for everything you all do for us. You’re definitely appreciated here on the east coast. Love y’all!!!!
Reading your emails and books NEVER fails to make me smile. And these days that is mother loving priceless. Worth every penny. Thank you for sharing your work with us lucky bastards.
I have a teenager who is more or less obsessed with things like bao, sushi, and dumplings. She gets assigned dinner duties one night a week and tonight she made these. The filling is great and the green onions especially got extra compliments. For folks who are not experts in frying-and-steaming methods, be aware that hot oil gets very hot and water boils/vaporizes at a much cooler temp than the oil... Our lid was glass and it shattered in the frying pan due to the temperature change. Must say, the Bang! when it shattered made us jump and watching the central part of the lid literally crumble into the frying pan was weird. The kid sat by the trash for a while studying the fracture pattern in the glass ("This was tempered, right?"); we tossed the lid and the contents of the frying pan, washed up, and tried again. After that, we found that a metal lid leads to lower stress levels (although the steaming process is noisy as all get out), that using just a tablespoon of water for steaming works fine, and that two minutes of steaming resulted in some damn fine dumplings. Thanks for providing the incentive to get out of the kitchen comfort zone!
I’m so glad you guys are back! This is a great article and can’t wait to try the recipe
Dumplings look so good!! Will definitely be making that this week. Thanks for everything you all do for us. You’re definitely appreciated here on the east coast. Love y’all!!!!
Reading your emails and books NEVER fails to make me smile. And these days that is mother loving priceless. Worth every penny. Thank you for sharing your work with us lucky bastards.
You have talked me into tofu! And I LOVE the candid behind-the-scenes intel.
I have a teenager who is more or less obsessed with things like bao, sushi, and dumplings. She gets assigned dinner duties one night a week and tonight she made these. The filling is great and the green onions especially got extra compliments. For folks who are not experts in frying-and-steaming methods, be aware that hot oil gets very hot and water boils/vaporizes at a much cooler temp than the oil... Our lid was glass and it shattered in the frying pan due to the temperature change. Must say, the Bang! when it shattered made us jump and watching the central part of the lid literally crumble into the frying pan was weird. The kid sat by the trash for a while studying the fracture pattern in the glass ("This was tempered, right?"); we tossed the lid and the contents of the frying pan, washed up, and tried again. After that, we found that a metal lid leads to lower stress levels (although the steaming process is noisy as all get out), that using just a tablespoon of water for steaming works fine, and that two minutes of steaming resulted in some damn fine dumplings. Thanks for providing the incentive to get out of the kitchen comfort zone!
I can’t wait to make these!! I just got some squash at my CSA pick up