KITCHEN ADVENTURES: GENERAL JINJUR. Postscript since I forgot to write about this in the sorrel/beets post. I already told you all about learning to make crispy baked wontons. Last week I went absolutely crazy for them! I seriously could eat these things three meals a day.

This time I filled all the wontons with the same stuff: chopped button mushrooms from the store (the Mushroom People at my farmer’s market weren’t in town, whimper, but otoh this is a great recipe to use up cheaper ‘shrooms), chopped garlic, a bit of dried rosemary, cream cheese, s&p;, and fresh ginger. Fold up, rub w/olive oil, bake in oven for maybe 8 minutes at 375 (until mostly golden, with some crispy and blistery bits), tell yourself that this time you will wait until they’re cool enough to eat, plant your face in them anyway and burn the roof of your mouth again.

These were fantastic, incredibly easy (they sound fussy but aren’t, at all, and you can make them in big batches assembly-line style), and the ultimate snack-turned-meal. I would replace popcorn for movies with these. Also, if you cover the leftover wrappers carefully they won’t dry out so fast; I got about three days from this package with virtually no waste, eating about 16 wontons a day. (Sixteen was the number which fit onto my baking tray, four rows of four.)

I’d hoped to make dessert wontons filled with chopped strawberry, cream cheese, dried rosemary and cinnamon, but that didn’t work out. I’ll try it later though!

More Gay Catholic Whatnot posting later, maybe not tonight but very soon. Plus whatever else shambles over the transom….