Herb Cream Cheese Dumplings – Late Night Binge

I was so overwhelmed at how easy it was to make crab rangoon, I decided to experiment a little more with the ingredients I have left—cream cheese and those dumpling wrappers. Since I bought plain cream cheese, I thought it would be boring if I didn’t add anything else. Luckily, I saw that I still had a little of McCormick’s Italian seasoning left, so I just sprinkled around half a tablespoon of it onto the cream cheese plus added a little chili powder before mixing it really well and wrapping it up. But that was the tricky part, the wrapping-up part.

Earlier, Poi helped me out with the wrapping and it was almost disastrous. I had to “support” the dumplings with the tongs to keep them from opening up. So this time, I thought I would practice on how to close it up properly. I really couldn’t.

I ended up just scrunching the sides and it somehow looked like a flower. Haha. Well, at least my lousy skill turned out to looking something like art—or not.

Bottom line is that it tasted delicious. Perfect late night binge while watching season 2 of Dexter.

Asian Fusion Saturday--Crab Rangoon, Kimchi Fried Rice, and Laksa

There was an abundance of crab in the household today (rolls eyes) so I decided to try a new recipe with crab. I was actually searching for fried rice recipes (I can’t get enough of fried rice), but somehow I was redirected to the crab rangoon recipe page. Needless to say, I decided to try it out.

A friend was visiting so I let her help me with wrapping the crab/cream cheese mixture, but it was a disaster! Haha. In the end though, it was edible and they said it was actually good. Another nice appetizer I could do quickly. And it’s easy to do too. Just make sure if you decide to let someone else help, that person’s competent enough to close up the dumpling wrappers.

We ate this with some kimchi fried rice and laksa. Asian Fusion Saturday, if you must say.