Happy New Year

Yesterday was the start of the Lunar New Year, so as of today it is officially the year of the water snake. Mom and I enjoyed a homemade feast. We had pot stickers, Vietnamese eggrolls, and japon noodles. Mom and I had it at Kim Son the other day and had to try in at home. Mom says I nailed it. :)
  It's amazing how much more tender and flavorful homemade  dumpling and egg roll wrappers' are then store bought. They're pretty easy to make; all you need is water and flour.

Mix 1cup flour and 1/4 plus 1tsp water and kneed until satiny (you'll know it when you get it). Cover and let sit for 30min. It'll feel a little like play dough. Dust with flour if it starts to stick.
 If you're making dumplings you can either divide the dough in half again and again until you get 20 equal sized balls or do what I do and pull balls about the size of a quarter out of the dough and roll them out flat (into circle or square it doesn't matter). Cover the wrapper with flour and your good to go.
For egg rolls you need about twice to amount of dough roll in a rectangle shape and fill along the short end.








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