Recipe 24: Wonton Tacos

I loosely followed this recipe. I just used shredded Mexican cheese and Gardien Mandarin Orange Crispy Chick'n for the filling.

Recipe 50: Spring Roll Dipping Sauce

Back in July I made a spring roll dipping sauce to go with some rolls I had bought frozen. I followed this recipe I found online, although I do not think I put the corn starch in it. It was simple and easy, although the corn starch would be good for a not so runny sauce I ended up with, but that did not bother me.

Recipe 21: Shrimp and Tofu Dumplings

I am way behind on my posts, although only slightly behind being on track to do 100 new recipes this year. The shrimp and tofu dumplings I made back in March. I made a huge batch and froze them. They turned out pretty well. It took a whole day to make them, but they have lasted until now.

Recipe 4: Miso Soup

To go with the Tempura last night I made Miso Soup. The tempura may have ended up tasting fine, although not quite right, but the miso soup was all wrong. I followed this recipe. After it turned out tasting bad and looked way too dark I looked at the miso paste package and found it called for way less miso paste than the recipe I was following.

It ended up way too strong of a flavor. Definitely another recipe I am going to do again and try to get right to my taste. This time with way less miso paste. The miso soup I am used to has a very light color and yesterday my miso soup was very dark almost black rather than light brown.

Recipe 3: Tempura

At the beginning of the year when I asked my brother for ideas of things for me to make he asked for shrimp tempura. Last night (Wednesday is me cook night and game night at our house) I made tempura with some help from my dad. I mostly made shrimp tempura, but tried some broccoli and mushrooms as well.

The recipe I used for the tempura can be found here. I tried it with both all purpose flour and wheat flour. I kind of liked the taste of the wheat ones better, although the all purpose is like what you get at Japanese restaurants. My brother did not like either. I think because we put too much batter on them (mostly the wheat ones) as well as did not cook them long enough (both kinds).

Overall I liked them and it did at least taste right. The consistency of the batter was not right. Definitely something to practice and perhaps try again to get right.