family dinner
Hey hey! How was the weekend? Hope you had an amazing one. Ours was the perfect mix of relaxing, fun, fitness, and… very little on the chore/productivity front. We’re hoping to use today’s off day to catch up on some things around here. I’d love to hear what you were up to!
Friday night, my Uncle E (the mastermind behind this vegan sushi, lavender salmon, and the best past salad ever) came over and we cooked family dinner for everyone. He asked me to pick up some steak and chicken, and that he’d bring over the remaining ingredients.
The house we’re renting has an incredible kitchen island, which was quickly filled with crab puff supplies. He told me, “Here’s how you make a crab puff. Now make 300 of them.”
Lollllll…..
The crab puffs were super easy to put together. I added a mixture of chopped crab meat and cream cheese to the wonton wrapper, and pinched it up like a little basket.
Once they were ready to go, the frying party began. We fried them in vegetable oil until they were golden brown and crispy, then topped with chopped scallions.
While I was wrapping and frying the crab puffs (and fearing that I’d catch something on fire in the frying process), Uncle E was busy slicing, dicing, and chopping for the stir fry.
He stir-fried tons of veggies (cabbage, onion, mushrooms, broccoli, red bell pepper) along with some chicken, garlic, soy sauce, salt and pepper. He added scallions and fresh cilantro to the mix. On another burner, udon noodles were softly boiling in chicken broth, and he pan-seared sliced steak with lemon juice (KEY), a little soy sauce, salt and pepper. After the steak was cooked, he stirred in the noodles, and added chopped scallions and cilantro.
The house smelled amaaaaazing.
While he was working the burners, he dictated an AWESOME dressing recipe for our house salads. I’ll make it again so I can share it on the blog this week -I need to measure everything!- but it was carrots, ginger, oil, salt, pepper, and chopped herbs. It was like a ginger green goddess dressing, and SO.so.good.
Cooking with Uncle E is one of my very favorite things. I feel like I have to take notes the entire time, because he’s teaching me so much along the way!!
(The jelly on my sweater was a gift from Miss P. I gave her a PB&J sandwich to eat in the car, which was a huge mess haha, and ended up wearing her in the Ergo and smearing jelly all over myself. #momlife)
A picture of the final feast: surf, turf and turf.
I have a lot more pics to share from this weekend, so I’ll be back soon, and also have some fun fitness-related content for the blog this week. Also, mark your calendars: Winter Shape Up is starting two weeks from today on January 30!!
Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll see ya very soon.
xoxo
Gina
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You and your uncle look so much alike!
thank you! definitely related 🙂
That food looks delicious! 🙂
it was! hope you had a great weekend too 🙂
Oh my goodness – that looks delicious! Guess we’re having stir fry tonight. Yummin! Nothing could be better for this beautiful, snowy day in Denver. 🙂
This weekend, we were back up skiing in the mountains – just like every weekend for us, but this time with two friends visiting from other states. It was so much fun, but the home cookin’ definitely is making me feel the need to eat a bit healthier for the next few days, ha.
Thanks for sharing that deliciousness!
XO, Jessica
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that sounds amazing!!
I can’t wait for that salad dressing recipe! I’ve made some great Asian style salads but the dressing always falls flat.
same! this is by far the most flavorful one i’ve had
That salad dressing sounds YUM! Also, I’m super stoked about WSU!!
YAY, can’t wait!
What a fun way to spend time with the family! Dirty or clean…haha
hahaha!
Mmm looks yummy!! Would love to see pics of the new digs like you did when you moved to San Diego! 🙂
i can definitely do that!
Awesome! 🙂
Aww, that looks like a fun night! I can almost smell the stir fry, yum. Looking forward to the recipe for the dressing, sounds really fresh and light!
yes, it’s so good! hope you had a wonderful weekend 🙂
That meal looks soooo good. Your uncle is so handsome, good looks run in the family 🙂
I’m excited for the shape up, whoo hoo!
he is a good-looking guy 🙂
thank you! so excited!!
I’d love a recipe for the crab puffs and that dressing! Everything looks amazing!
we didn’t really have a recipe for the crab puffs; everything is in the post that we did! just mix crab meat with cream cheese, fill the wrappers, and fry. they were super easy!
i’ll share the dressing soon- i’m making it again tomorrow!
xoxo
Exciiiiiited for Winter SU!
YESSS! so glad you’re joining in
It looks like an enjoyable time. Oh ho I wish I could cook like this.
This looks amazing — I want to make crab wontons!
they were so good and super easy to make!
I can barely look at these pictures because I’m super hungry right now and everything looks SO YUMMY! I wish I could transport the plates from my computer to my kitchen 😀
Also excited for Winter Shape Up – yay!
That dish looks amazing!! So cool that you and your Uncle share a passion for food and cooking : )