for the love of all that is holy... please make it stop!!!
now, i have spoken before about our intense love for (Chinese-style) dumplings. they are delicious and they make for a light, satisfying meal at this time of year. no exaggeration... there is ALWAYS a bag or two of frozen dumplings in our freezer. they are the go-to dinner plan for days when we cannot be bothered to cook and we do not have enough of an appetite to justify getting something delivered.
what does that have to do with zucchinis? patience, Little One.
i would truly love to make them from from scratch, but that is quite the chore because of all of the work involved in kneading, shaping, stuffing, and pinching all of that dough. in short... the dough is the problem. [you may recall my previous dough-cheating attempt at dumpling making.]
enter zucchini "dumplings". seriously.
cut zucchinis into rounds, and scoop out most of the innards.
make whatever kind of dumpling filling you like (i chopped the scooped-out bits and added them to the filling). then just start stuffing!
there was a bit of leftover filling, which was turned into naked dumplings.
you can pretty much treat them like any other dumpling from this point on. we went the bamboo steamer route this time around, but we have also had past success with the old pan-fried-dumplings treatment.
the best part is that this is a totally wheat-free way to get a dumpling fix when my allergies are acting up. tasty... and i do not have to follow it up with a handful of antihistamines. everybody wins.
brilliant, utterly brilliant. Now, if I could just learn to like zucchini...
ReplyDeletearound here this summer the main highway is now highlighted with a series of strange but charming "burma shave" type signs, announcing, "fresh strawberr" (too many letters not enough sign), "fresh pick butte corn" "fresh picked peas"
and in case you forgot, "fresh strawberr" as the closing event. No clue, however, as to where all of this is, except I suspect it was somewhere near the beginning sign, meaning by the time you've reached "fresh picked peas" you realize you have to turn around and go back.
One of our neighbors has been advertising 'fresh eggs and dog
food"
All the way home I wonder, every time, if that's dogfood or dog AS food. eeuw.
(I hope you realize that by buying zucchinis from those people you have merely encouraged them to Plant More next year.)
that is hilarious. i did not consider that i may be contributing to the zucchini overload. now i will have to think twice about ever buying them again. that is one protest that just might save the world.
Deleteyou can use the same stuffed approach with lots of other veggies. mushrooms are particularly nice (add the chopped stems to the stuffing), and those mini sweet peppers they usually sell in a bag of mixed colors are really tasty for this sort of thing.
or you can try cabbage. dip the leaves in boiling hot water for a few seconds to soften the, then dunk in cold water, pat dry, and use as a substitute wrapper for the dumpling dough. that last one is especially good with savoy cabbage.