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I haven't made gyoza for ages. Chris asked me to show him how to make them so this morning a quick lesson in the kitchen and we had lunch. They aren't perfect but they were good.
For a step by step tutorial, from one I consider an expert, visit my friend Jen at Use Real Butter and see how she does it. Jen calls them potstickers. I know them as gyoza as I learnt to make them when Ryoko stayed with us in Auckland.
I bought prerolled wrappers but maybe someday I'll make my own dough.
Jump in, It's time you learnt to swim.
We swim up the pool
We swim down the pool.
Now we get out and shake a tail feather to dry.
Except these little ducks couldn't get out and needed help in getting back on dry land.
...and even then one got left behind and it took Chris an hour to find the mother and family to return the baby duckling to it's home in the park pond.
You'll need a clean jar, lemons, salt and lemon juice.
Scrub lemons to remove wax coating. Ideally use unwaxed lemons if you can get them. Slice into quarters leaving one end attached.
Place a tablespoon of rock salt into centre of lemon and place in jar. Cover with lemon juice and seal. (I would normally squeeze lemons for this but today have taken the easy way and used bottled juice.) Store in a cool dark cupboard for 1 month. To use rinse lemon quarter and remove pulp. Cut peel into slivers and use in recipe.
It was after I started making these I discovered I didn't have a jar big enough to take more than one lemon.
Others have made preserved lemons and written far more detailed recipes.
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Welcome to 2009. I hope you all had a wonderful break over the holiday season. I certainly did. With a month off chemo treatment I was able to enjoy eating again. One evening a friend invited us over to celebrate the New Year and served some wonderful duck rillettes he had brought back from his recent visit to France ......which he served with Cristal champagne....of which I enjoyed several glasses.
But it's back to chemo tomorrow so I thought I'd get a post in before then.
Many of you will know my friend Maryam with the delightful blog My Marrakesh. It's where I get my daily dose of the country I most want to visit.
Recently I've been working with Maryam on developing some recipes for her upcoming book on her life in Morocco. These ruby red jewels of the pomegranate fruit were part of yesterday's recipe testing.
Patience Gray, in her book Honey From Weed, suggests the best way to eat them is outdoors while walking, one sucks the seeds and spits the kernels on the wayside. Probably not acceptable in a city street. With the remaining seeds I crushed them and drank the juice. Delightful.
Maryam is a finalist in the Best Middle East or Africa 2008 Blog Awards. Voting is open now for the week. If you enjoy My Marrakesh I'd love if you could vote for Maryam here.
