wrappin'

Because it was so gloomy and rainy, I decided to spend all Saturday afternoon in the kitchen. Nuno and I started out making salad rolls for next week's lunches. We made so many we had to stop only because our largest container couldn't fit any more!
Next up, a brand new experience for us, turkey dumplings! The recipe indicated that we would be making 80. The filling included ground turkey, iceberg lettuce, mushrooms, green onions, soy & sesame oil.

I think I may have found my new calling - dumpling assembly.

Too bad it begins to get a little monotonous and by the end I was pretty spaced out. I don't think listening to Yo La Tengo while doing all this helped take me out of a dreamy state.

Here's our army of dumplings. We froze most of them.

But we steamed a bunch for dinner along with some of my absolute favourite dim sum - shrimp dumplings and pork shao mai. The turkey dumplings were the best of the bunch. Definitely worth the hours of labour!