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I made soup dumplings just now! ...by which, I mean that I successfully steamed frozen dumplings I bought in Chinatown. But hey, tasty!
(For those unfamiliar, these are xiao long bao, not dumplings you put in soup -- though you could -- but dumplings made so the contents liquefy on being cooked and thus contain hot 'soup' when you eat them at the right temperature.)
I'd also thrown in some other dumplings, and an egg, intended for medium cooked but it came out more soft. I've taken to lining the collapsible metal steamer basket with paper towels and some left over paper-with-holes from a dim sum order, to prevent sticking; this works, but I suspect the towels are slowing down the steam process.
Today has been a blah day, from not enough sleep and maybe other things, I felt sluggish. But then I felt sluggish about feeling sluggish, if that makes any sense, and forced myself to go for a walk, which helped.
Recent reading: the 1953 "when we get back from Japan" book, some cartoons from which have been making the rounds on social media. But you can read the whole thing here: https://archive.org/details/when-we-get-back-home-from-japan/mode/2up
I was particularly tickled by the page on masking, saying that the Japanese would put on a mask when they had a cold, or in crowds when they didn't want to catch a cold. 1953!
(For those unfamiliar, these are xiao long bao, not dumplings you put in soup -- though you could -- but dumplings made so the contents liquefy on being cooked and thus contain hot 'soup' when you eat them at the right temperature.)
I'd also thrown in some other dumplings, and an egg, intended for medium cooked but it came out more soft. I've taken to lining the collapsible metal steamer basket with paper towels and some left over paper-with-holes from a dim sum order, to prevent sticking; this works, but I suspect the towels are slowing down the steam process.
Today has been a blah day, from not enough sleep and maybe other things, I felt sluggish. But then I felt sluggish about feeling sluggish, if that makes any sense, and forced myself to go for a walk, which helped.
Recent reading: the 1953 "when we get back from Japan" book, some cartoons from which have been making the rounds on social media. But you can read the whole thing here: https://archive.org/details/when-we-get-back-home-from-japan/mode/2up
I was particularly tickled by the page on masking, saying that the Japanese would put on a mask when they had a cold, or in crowds when they didn't want to catch a cold. 1953!
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Date: 2023-01-21 21:35 (UTC)From:It does occur to me that a bed of spinach leaves probably wouldn't work well, because they shrink to almost nothing when cooked. Is cabbage more robust? I think lettuce shrinks too.
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Date: 2023-01-22 00:58 (UTC)From:One nice thing about lining the steamer with leaves is that any juices that come out of the things on top will be partially picked up by the leaves.