{"id":6041,"date":"2011-09-07T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2011-09-07T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:46:10","slug":"lean-cuisine-asian-style-potstickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"Lean Cuisine &#8211; Asian-Style Potstickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who knows me knows how much I love Chinese dumplings.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a terrific photo of me at a small restaurant near the Great Wall in China &#8211; a dumpling restaurant, and we ordered the entire menu!\u00a0 (For about $4).\u00a0 And you&#8217;ve probably read about Portland&#8217;s unique mash-up dumpling food truck <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2010\/06\/portland-or-the-dump-truck\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well today, we ventured into another $1 meal from Lean Cuisine, chicken and vegetable dumlings with ride and an asian-style dipping sauce.\u00a0\u00a0 Hmm. Sauce?\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t see that.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions called for 8 minutes at half power in the nuking machine, then a rest period for 1-2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Done.\u00a0 The result?<\/p>\n<p>Not so bad.\u00a0 Better than yday&#8217;s Lean Cuisine<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2011\/09\/lean-cuisine-philly-style-steak-panini\/\"> panini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dumplings heat unevenly, and I prefer mine steamed, and not fried.\u00a0 These had kind of a combination texture, as if you steamed them first, then lightly fried them.<\/p>\n<p>The rice?\u00a0 Peas and carrots included, something I never saw in China.<\/p>\n<p>This meal will set you back 260 calories, 2.5 grams of fat, 49 carbs, and 22% of your daily sodium intake.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d buy them again.\u00a0 (I added the tomatoes, from my condiment garden!)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6042\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dump1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6042\" title=\"dump1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dump1-1024x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lean Cuisine Chinese Pot Stickers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who knows me knows how much I love Chinese dumplings.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a terrific photo of me at a small restaurant near the Great Wall in China &#8211; a dumpling restaurant, and we ordered the entire menu!\u00a0 (For about $4).\u00a0 And you&#8217;ve probably read about Portland&#8217;s unique mash-up dumpling food truck here. Well today, we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6041\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lean Cuisine &#8211; Asian-Style Potstickers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[730,997,2090,2935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}