A favorite in my family is Pot Stickers. When I was a child,
my mother would make huge batches of this Chinese appetizer for dinner. There was five
us and it was an all day process, pressing one teaspoon of the meat mixture at
a time into the wrapper.
When my husband and I got married, my father-in-law thought
he won the lottery, when he found I knew how to make these. My father-in-law wore contacts and traveled
several times a month for work. Air travel dehydrated him to the point his
contacts would get uncomfortable to wear. He sound found that if he ate pot
stickers, twenty minutes later his eyes would not be so dry.
To be honest, I always thought he was pulling my leg and
used it as an excuse to get me to make them for him. It was not until I wore
contacts, I was able to test his theory. I was surprised to find that my eyes
did not feel as dry after eating them. Strange, I know! I would not recommend
though you give up eye drops for pot stickers.
Today I made 100 hundred pot stickers for a friend of my
husband. A few weeks back, we had them for dinner and my husband took the leftovers
to work. There was more than enough so he shared them with his friends. On
Thursday, I got a text from husband asking if I would consider making 100 pot
stickers for this person. At first, I
laughed off the request until a response came that it was serious request. So I
sat watching the Oakland A’s playing the Chicago Cubs and made pot stickers all
afternoon.
