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Even with a sewer line problem and also had to have the hot water tank replaced, we still had our annual Pot Sticker making party at the Felt House hold. We made a bit over 600 pot stickers and other than the meat, Tofu and vermicelli noodles, everything else in them was from the garden. Plenty of prep work as the wife and I spent Friday night and Saturday prepping everything and then Saturday night making the filling for the pot stickers. Most people are not aware that water is death to a pot sticker and as such, you have to squeeze as much water out of the ingredients as possible. So Tofu was in a vice for 24hrs being squeezed dry, water chestnuts were squeezed, Monge bean sprouts were squeezed. Next came the cutting up of Spanish Sugar Sweet Onions, green onions, fresh garlic, cooking of the vermicelli noodles and then cutting them up, seasoning everything to proper taste before mixing in a 50/50 mixture of ground sausage and beef and adding some eggs. You start by breaking up the tofu and then in goes the cut up noodles and the rest of the veggie ingredients and then season to taste. Then you have a finished veggie mixture that allows for veggie only Pot stickers if you like. This is a carnivore household so in goes the meat into containers to keep it chilled only taking out a small amount as the pot sticker making process goes. Then you have the assembly of the pot stickers and finished uncooked pot stickers. From here you steam them for 15 min, cool and start to freeze them on cookie cooling racks in the freezer so they stay individual in the bag for use across the holiday season. End result is gallon freezer bags of yummy pot stickers to be pan fried, put into Ramen and many other wonderful soups / dishes. Bon apatite Yes we do take breaks while they are being steamed to enjoy some fresh hot out of the pot, pot stickers with home made sauce on them.

Thanks, yes Triglycerides are at 99 so good there too. The daily gym working out and cooking with the wife from our garden helps greatly in our quality of life. Will post about our family annual pot sticker making party. We love to eat here and plenty of good food, but we also love to be active in outdoors life from hiking, skiing, mountain biking, etc. being physically active while eating yummy food is a way of life here. Totally agree some great BBQ in Texas, just missing the physical fitness from what I observed living there for a year.

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Hey CCAP, our recipe is not written down, it is in my wifes head. She tells me what to get and I get everything and then just play the good Suo chef. Ours is so large, the amount of cans of water chestnuts to the 5 lbs of Tofu that I would have to spend some time thinking on how to reduce it down to a small amount recipe, but can do it during the holidays once I have my work done. Here are two very good authentic Korean Mandu recipes that you can use as a guide. Korean Dumpling (Mandu) Recipe (thespruceeats.com) Mandu (Korean Dumplings) - Korean Bapsang Use one of the above recipes and you can copy my ingredients I list above to get close to from the mother land Mandu mixture.

You all eat well. Shirley...

Pan & bolts cleaned & painted. New filter, gasket going in:

Status on the Felt Household. My 62 year old sewer line finally failed and so had to have them replace a section of the line and then 52 feet of liner from the cleanout in the garage to where it connects to the cities 6" line. Then the liner went in: Then the repair section was installed. Now awaiting inspection this Wednesday between 9-11am and they will then fill it up. You can see my bigger natural gas line and the water line.

I googled the rear for the Impala. And sure enough, it is big enough. And sure enough, I see the rake being steep. Just sitting inside it, to me, the rear seemed tiny, but I see that its the rake that gives that illusion. Like I said, I never driven it. I wish I did though. About the Iron Duke. The car reached 198 000 KM and change (123 000 miles) with literally no issues. Lots of little bangs and dings and busted headlights because of me looking at a really hot girl and not realizing there was a car in front of me... and flat tires and the rear suspension letting up and my dad having to Frankenstein a repair using and welding airplane parts to it, but the Iron Duke roared along. I finally totaled it. Put it out of its misery by wrapping the car around several miles of highway fence. No front or rear bumper. Headlights and taillights nowhere to be seen. The car squished between the 2 doors left AND right side. Im lucky to have NOT been impaled or decapitated by any of the fence. Long story short, because the story does not finish there, I started the car and the Iron Duke did what she always did. She fired up like any other time ready to be driven again. Too bad the body that she was in was a phoquing mess... LOL

Grumpy... More fastback content... I have always loved this photograph....

Valve covers got glass-beaded and primed. Exhaust manifolds got blasted & painted. Valley pan is painted.