Trying out these store bought dumplings. Everything is so expensive these days, noticeably when we dine out. With a tight budget, I try to cook mostly at home. I wish work wasn’t so busy so it allows me more time to cook (lunch and dinner). For now, these work.
All stuffed, literally and figuratively, and ready to be shipped. It took a Herculean effort from marketing and coordinating the logistics, to wrapping and freezing 1,150 dumplings, and arranging for pick up and delivery, etc. We did it! $2,130 raised. 100% will be donated to Asian Americans Advancing Justice! Thank you ALL for the support.
Here we go! 1,150 dumplings, we are ready! My sister has 15 packs and I have 9 stored in my fridge for a total of 24 packs! Let’s roll up the sleeves and get to work.
The biggest challenge we faced was finding storage to freeze the dumplings. We’re talking about over 1,000 of them! Luckily my sisters live fairly close by. We also have a friend who’s willing to lend us her freezer (also in our neighborhood, she came and picked up wrapped ones).
With friends’ and families’ help, we were able to pull this off, wrapping the 1,150 dumplings in record time – 5 hours!
Today some of us took a day off from work so that we can start prepping the ingredients (marinating the meat, chopping the vegetables, and mixing them altogether). We have over 100 orders (1,000+ dumplings) to fill tomorrow. With the number of people helping, we decided to wrap the dumplings in two separate locations to avoid overcrowding since not everyone is fully vaccinated. Hope it all goes well.
Since the start of 2021, the Asian-American community has suffered a series of senseless violent racist attacks. It became personal when my 80-year old mother can no longer take daily walks around the block, the only activity she has in connection to the outside world, in fear of her own safety. As such, my family and I joined Dump the Hate project – a fundraiser to fight racism and anti-Asian violence, and to support our AAPI community.
100% of the proceeds will be donated to Asian Americans Advancing Justice – a non-profit organization dedicated to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans.
We have involved almost everyone on my side of the family to get this project rolling, from marketing to coordinating the logistics, etc. My 10-year old niece designed the flyer, and 13-year old nephew put out the order form (via google form). He’s also responsible for the email correspondence. On the day of, it will be all hands on deck.
Some hot chicken dumplings for lunch today. Always keep a batch of frozen ones in the freezer. This certainly comes in handy when work gets in the way.
Still couldn’t get over how vibrant these vegetarian dumplings are –
Happy Mid-autumn festival everyone! Today is also the lunar 15th of the month which is my veggie day. I wasn’t planning to make anything fancy for tonight, luckily I had some vegetarian dumplings to go with this perfect meal!.
Homemade dumplings for lunch today. The plan was going to make it and freeze them for future use. When I was done wrapping, I just crave for them. Sure, why not eat it fresh?!!
Happy to be have to provide a decent for the family and grateful my boys are not picky eaters. They do eat a lot though, but still willing to do some exercises after every night to burn off the calories. (￣▽￣)
Dinner – stir fried glutinous rice cakes. I like to pan fry some of them so it is crispy on one side and chewy and the other side. That’s what I called the perfect way of making these rice cakes.
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