Dumplings

Potstickers, gyozas, whathaveyou. A while ago some friends and I had spent the afternoon making batches of Chinese dumplings and frying them up for dinner. We each went home with freezer bagfuls for a rainy day. This rainy day I pan fried some of the pork and yellow chive dumplings, making sure to get nicely browned, crispy bottoms. For the dipping sauce I like to mix equal parts soy sauce and rice vinegar, grated garlic and a dash each of sesame oil and Tabasco sauce.

Breakfast

Stuff on toast is the best. Fried some sausage, and with the bit of grease left in the pan, I threw in a handful of baby spinach (just the amount I needed to get rid of in my fridge), and a loosely beaten egg with some salt and pepper. Top the mix onto some pieces of toasted garlic-buttered rosemary & garlic bread.

Spring Dinner

I've never had cooked radish before, so when I saw this braised radish recipe I had to go out and grab a few bunches of those cute little red radishes that have been popping up at Kin's Farm Market lately. I didn't have time to stop by a charcuterie, so I substituted some fatty side of pork and added spinach to the dish.



I also whipped up a salad, using the blood oranges I bought on a whim a few days ago. Generic organic herb salad mix (picking out the massive quantities of dill that were in there), blood orange slices, toasted pine nuts, some mild goat cheese and a vinaigrette made with white balsamic vinegar, blood orange juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.

Easy Pasta on a Thursday Night

Pasta is probably the easiest thing to make and take to the office as lunch. I hastily put together a dinner and lunch for tomorrow from scrounging around my fridge. Pizza night yielded some leftover ingredients I had to get rid of: some chopped tomatos and mushrooms. I also had a random pack of turkey sausage, which I broke up into ground meat. I played it by ear and came up with rotini with turkey sausage, mushroom, tomato, basil, sun-dried tomato and capers.