baozi & jiaozi

from la westie's mom:

I) Baozi recipe:
a) dough - add ingredients in the bread maker in this order:
1) 1.5 cups of water
2) 4 cups of all purpose flour (be accurate, otherwise you may
end up too wet or too dry)
3) 2 Tbsp sugur
4) 1 tsp salt
5) 2 tsp yeast (active dry yeast or break machine yeast)
Set the bread machine to "dough" and start

b) the meat ingredient - 1 lb ground pork, 1 egg, 1Tbsp cooking wine, 1 tbsp
soysauce, chopped scallion, grated ginger root, salt and sugar
(by taste), mix these ingredient in a bowl.

c) making the baozi - knead the dough for 1 - 2 minutes; cut
into 32 pieces; roll it flat; add about 1 Tbsp meat ingredients
in the middle and then pull the side together until you seal the
meat ingredient
d) steam - put baozi in a steam pan and add water in the pot.
cover and heat until the water boil. then boil the water for 20
minutes. make sure you add enough water in the pot at the
begining, so you won't burn the pot to dry.

II) Jiaozi recipe:
a) dough - add 1 cup of water and 3 cups of flour in the bread
machine and set at "dough" and start
b) meat ingredients - same as the Baozi
c) making jiaozi - knead the dough until it fells smooth; cut
half anf roll half into about 1" diameter string and cut into 1"
long; roll into circle and wrap small portion of meat ingredient
into the wrap.
d) boil the Jiaozi - add water into a cooking pot (half full)
and heat until boil; add Jiaozi; stir and continue boil for
about 5 - 6 minutes until the Jaizi looks puff up.

horchata

horchata : http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Lolas-Horchata/Detail.aspx

with modifications: add the cinnamon when blending the rice and water. i recommend grinding up the rice later with mortar and pestle afterwards to make it really fine. then we used evaporated milk and sweet condensed milk to make it a little more creamy. definitely let it soak overnight. super goooood!

crepes

from allrecipes: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Crepes-2/Detail.aspx

add cinnamon and little bit of sugar to the batter. maybe add powdered sugar for topping?

i have tried these fillings: banana, strawberry, nutella. next time i will use other fruits and even make savory ones. mushroom and spinach and egg are always a nice combination.

mango sweet coconut rice

here is the basic outline for mango sticky rice.

-glutinous thai rice
-coconut milk
-sugar
-water
-mangos

pour half the can of coconut milk (should be really saturated) and mix with water and sugar. then cook the rice with it. make sure the liquid level is above rice slightly. after rice is done and just before serving, add the rest of the coconut milk as topping.