Reformatted Leftovers for Lunch

Just as Scott had an excuse for not posting in several days, so did I. On Friday, my cell phone (Blackberry Tour) decided to stop working, and because of the holiday weekend, a new one didn't arrive until yesterday. And since I use my phone to upload pictures directly to the blog, that meant no more pictures of meals (with one exception which I'll get to later). Add to that, I was moving into a new apartment with Hannah on Monday, and we were rather busy. For most of that time, my meals were rather unspectacular- simple, quick, and filling to keep things going.

Finally, I cooked our first real dinner last night. And I guess in the excitement and fun of eating on our dining room table for the first time, I forgot to take a picture. We had stir fried cabbage over rice, and boiled pork and cabbage wontons with a soy-ginger dipping sauce. I had never made dumplings before -- it turned out to be rather tricky and time consuming. The entire batch gave me 55 (!) wontons, and we cooked up 20 of them for dinner in a pot of boiling water. When we finally sat down, the work appeared to be worth it -- the wontons were as tasty wontons from a good Chinese restaurant.


On that note, for today's lunch, I fried up the leftover cabbage stir fry and rice, along with some leftover broccoli, with an egg to make a simple fried rice dish. To go along with it, I fried up a small batch of the leftover, uncooked wontons. Fantastic! They were superbly crispy on the outside and didn't taste very greasy. Even better than our first batched of boiled ones.

After dinner, Hannah baked up some lemon bars using Meyer lemons we picked from the tree in her mother's backyard in SF on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, Hannah and I had lunch at a Mission tacqueria, which I snapped a picture of. Maybe I'll get around to posting it at some point.