Sunday, 2/19/17

Since I didn't have to work today, I was looking forward to this involved dinner: pot stickers, cheddar-hominy fritters, and a mango salad (from here). I wouldn't call dinner a disaster, but it was not without its challenges: the pot stickers took much longer to cook than indicated, the fritters splattered like CRAZY and seemed like they weren't going to hold together, and the salad required more modification than I would have liked (no good fresh mangoes, I forgot to marinate the beets, my avocados weren't ripe, and I didn't have nearly as many almonds as I thought...). The kitchen was in shambles. Then the pot stickers were fine, Jason had the brilliant idea to cook the remainder of the fritter batter in the waffle iron, and salad was OK. The fritter recipe is from "Small Victories" and the flavors are so, so good. I am loving this book. The pot sticker recipe is from the NYT and I took some liberties: precooked the cabbage-pork filling and dded some hot chilies and sesame oil, doctored up the dipping sauce a little. Carter liked them, which was gratifying.