Take a Dump(ling)
Mom tells me that in the old days, when new Chinese immigrants wanted to meet other new immigrants for dating/courtship/mate selection, they'd throw dumpling parties. Everyone sitting around the table, kneading dough, scooping meat, chatting about home away and the new home here. I do agree that it's much easier to chitchat when your hands are busy and your mind isn't forced to only focus on conversation.
Is this a theme party? It's a little too late to celebrate the Lunar New Year -- and not as hip as the upcoming slew of Valentine's Week singles parties... Let's make Take a Dump(ling) an IT'S-TOO-COLD-TO-DO-ANYTHING-BUT-EAT event -- and while you're here you can wish M & L "bon voyage" as we head down to Washington DC and NYC next week for a gallery-hopping scrapple-hunting holiday!
Les Deets:
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Prep time: 3PM-ish
Eat time: 6 or 7PM-ish
The plan: to make dumplings, cook them, eat them
Feeling ambitious. Will attempt to make dumpling wrappers, but ready-made will also be purchased as back-up.
Marz will experiment with brown rice flour.
Will make the standard pork and napa/chives filling, as well as a vegeterian one.
You may participate in the filling/folding/pleating, or you can just come and sit and chat and watch. (But really, it's all about the process than it is about the result!)
Bring your own friends. Drop-ins welcome.
We don't have very much room in our freezer to hold uncooked dumplings, so be prepared to bring some home with you ^_^
RSVP by Thursday afternoon so we have a number to work with
Disclaimer: A delicious meal is not guaranteed -- but you know the company will be pretty awesome.
Is this a theme party? It's a little too late to celebrate the Lunar New Year -- and not as hip as the upcoming slew of Valentine's Week singles parties... Let's make Take a Dump(ling) an IT'S-TOO-COLD-TO-DO-ANYTHING-BUT-EAT event -- and while you're here you can wish M & L "bon voyage" as we head down to Washington DC and NYC next week for a gallery-hopping scrapple-hunting holiday!
Les Deets:
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Prep time: 3PM-ish
Eat time: 6 or 7PM-ish
The plan: to make dumplings, cook them, eat them
Feeling ambitious. Will attempt to make dumpling wrappers, but ready-made will also be purchased as back-up.
Marz will experiment with brown rice flour.
Will make the standard pork and napa/chives filling, as well as a vegeterian one.
You may participate in the filling/folding/pleating, or you can just come and sit and chat and watch. (But really, it's all about the process than it is about the result!)
Bring your own friends. Drop-ins welcome.
We don't have very much room in our freezer to hold uncooked dumplings, so be prepared to bring some home with you ^_^
RSVP by Thursday afternoon so we have a number to work with
Disclaimer: A delicious meal is not guaranteed -- but you know the company will be pretty awesome.
posted by Lottie at 2:39 PM
5 Comments:
I think parentheses on 'Take a Dump(ling)' are counterproductive; it makes it vulgar not cheeky. Where sans paren is cheeky not vulgar
That said, I will be there, with both cheeks at the ready.
Correction: This is definitely hipper than upcoming V-day celebrations. Who needs love when we've got starch and meat combined!
Oh Mariza and her brown rice. Some things never change...
he he he.
it didn't really work.
well we still have that lump of dough in the fridge. can't let it go to waste!
maybe we can make little turds, glaze them, then bake them. then hand them out as parting gifts at our next event!
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