I am a fashionista. There probably isn't a bag I don't know or a style of shoe I haven't owned. Though maybe a bit of an exaggeration, Carrie Bradshaw's declaration that hanging in her closet where she can see it is where she likes her money, I have been known to sit in my closet and play dress up for no justifiable reason. Given the fact that we aren't going much of anywhere or doing much of anything in these times, I decided to move the closet to the kitchen and put a skirt on a dumpling. Have you had the pleasure? A slurry comprised of water, corn starch, flour, and seasonings (I like salt and onion powder) cooks down while steaming the dumplings to eventually form a delicate, crispy lattice onto which the dipping sauce clings before shattering in the mouth. A well crafted dumpling is delicious in its own right, but who wants to be a minimalist when you can be the belle of the ball?
Three things come to mind when I think of Germans. Punctual. No nonsense. Bread snobs. I have the pleasure of being married to one who is none of the first, some of the second and all of the last. Oh, how I would dismiss his lamentations of this country's destruction of the hallowed loaf, my ophthalmic tendons straining under the tension of several robust and persistent eye rolls. Then I went to Germany for the first time and experienced their breads. After tasting everything from rustic loafs with rich-flavored crusts that crunch in the mouth without the assistance of a toaster to my favorite r osinenbrötchen, a slightly sweet triumph of a bun bursting with a nearly mathematical balance of raisins-- I was forced to admit: Germans know their way around a boule. So, when I was in need of an edible scaffold with which to build up butter and jam and decided to make English muffins, I was nervous about my husband's critique. See the "no-nonsense" reference above. The tri...
WTF? That is awesome! This looks like the child of your cooking and your science olympiad.
ReplyDeleteHAHA! Once a mathlete, always a mathlete!
DeleteHonestly En I don't know which is more delicious, your writing or the photos of the dumpling. Both leave me wanting more!
ReplyDelete:) Thank you, dove!
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