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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
I have never seen won ton or egg roll rappers in the UK supermarkets ..though spring roll ones you can get. London has a huge China Town though and I have no doubt I can get them there if I just get off my bum and go into the city.
Coleslaw Mix is another thing I never see in the supermarkets here but if you have a food processor it really isn't hard to blitz your own in seconds.
The odd thing is, that I have clear memories of making potstickers as a teen all the time but haven't since then. I must have found the recipe somewhere and figured out how to do them from stuff my mom had because I remember my sister asking for them all the time (I was her cooking slave until I left home).
btw..with Asian cooking I find Savoy cabbage works well.
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Personally I love all cabbages. I explained why I used head cabbage this time as I already had it for my decronstructed cabbage rolls I had for dinner tonight. BTW Damn Yummy. Hell I will jot down the recipe for any who are curious in a few. I did mention baged mixed though cause it is often has multi uses and is available nearly everywhere stateside.
Well my snack, ok lets not lie these are full sized meals. I am trying to gain about 20 pounds (yeah hate me or whatever but it is as difficult for me as it is for others to loose weight, plus I naturally cook health concious). I regress.
Tonight I made a quick pasta with garlic clam sauce. Total time - cooking time of pasta (I cheat and start water in electric kettle) so water was boiling in 2 minutes and from there it was 8 more minutes to plating.
Salted water a good amount, tossed in about an candy bars width of long noodles (standard). In sauce pan, 1 small can of baby clams, 2 cloves of crushed garlic, splash of garlic oil (I keep cloves in some oil in fridge and just keep adding cloves), packet of crushed red pepper curtesy some pizza place, splash of white wine, finished it with two pats of butter after wine was near gone. Tossed in some chopped herbs (parsley and chives from window garden). Splash of pasta water and then mixed it up. No cheese on this.
Also had turned on toaster oven. Took out a hotdog bun. Opened it up and broke the seam so it was two pieces. Rolled it flat with a rolling pin. Brushed each side with garlic oil. Lightly salted it and toasted it on each side about 1-2 min.
Opened a small can of diced tomatoes. Diced up some kalamata olives. Cut up some basil (window garden), added some sea salt and pepper, stire in some olive oil. Put 3/4ths back in fridge for eggs in morning and piled rest on my toast.
Figure my total cost of this was about 4 bucks max. Though I had enough clams to make enough sauce for 2-3 servings. oh yeah and took about 12 min including plating.