Catching up

Yeah, I've been slacking a bit but it's been a busy week.  So we're going two meals for the price of one here. 

Wednesday night I had french onion style Salisbury steak and tonight I had pork pot stickers.

 The first picture is the stuff for the Salisbury Steak.  We've got ground beef with parsley, green onions, salt and pepper, onions, beef broth and red wine, garlic and tomato paste, sugar, flour, thyme and salt.  The second picture is the stuff for the cheese toasts, french bread and swiss cheese.

Here we have the actual Salisbury Steaks.  The first pic is the patties ready to go into the pan, second pic is the patties halfway through cooking and then finally the completed patties.

After cooking the meat the onions and sugar went into the pan and got cooked until the onions were slightly carmelized and then the garlic and tomato paste were added.

Once the onions were done the flour, beef broth and wine went into the pan for a few minutes before the patties were added back to the mixture.  At this time the pan was covered and simmered for about 10 minutes.

The bread got topped with the swiss cheese and put in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes.

Tonight was pretty simple, the top picture is everything needed for the pot sticker filling, ground pork, green onions, red peppers, salt, pepper, brown sugar, cayenne pepper, egg, mustard, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. In the second pick the wonton skins were stuffed with the filling.  Then the pot stickers were placed in a pan with a bit of olive oil until browned then steamed with a bit of water.  The final pick is the final plating.  The mixture in the middle is Hoisin sauce, rice vinegar and sugar.