In honor of the new year of the Ox, the Swensons threw a Chinese New Year party this weekend as our cultural contribution to Utah. Brynne and Sam, Adrienne and Max, Melissa, Clinton and later Grant came over and feasted on, well, a legitimate feast. It was an official party, as you can tell, because I broke out the table cloth and cloth napkins. High class.
The menu (this is mostly for dad):
Egg drop soup with fresh spinach, napa cabbage, green onions, enochi and shiitake mushrooms
Drunken chicken with stir-fried baby bok choy, ginger and shiitake mushrooms
Steamed Gai Lan (Chinese broccoli) with oyster sauce and hot peanut oil
Fried Rice
Pork and Shrimp pot stickers with five sauces (sweet chili, soy/worchester sauce, ginger and red vinegar, hot chili garlic, etc.)
Mango coconut sticky rice (not technically Chinese, but oh so good. Thanks to Adri, who made this delicious treat)
After dinner, we retired to the living room for a fun game of Balderdash. Shane was victorious, despite his glabrescent associations with L.T.A.B. and Plennie Wingo.
Are those homemade potstickers? Can we get the recipe????
It’s basically this recipe, but I didn’t entirely follow it. I used different proportions of things and I used napa cabbage and green onions, too. I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to mess it up.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tylers-ultimate/potstickers-with-spicy-dipping-sauce-recipe/index.html