Saturday, March 10, 2012

Crab Rangoon Recipe


Crab Rangoons
What you will need:
One 8oz Package of Cream Cheese
8oz of Canned Crab
Won ton wrappers
Green onion sliced thin
1/2 teaspoon of Garlic powder
1 teaspoon of Soy Sauce
1 egg white
This recipe will make about 40 crab rangoons

First off I like to use the fluffy whipped style cream cheese. Put the cream cheese in a bowl, open the canned crab meat and drain the liquid off so you have dry crab meat.  Then add the crab meat and the green onions to the cream chese. Next you add the soy sauce and the garlic powder. Mix this until smooth. I like to use a spoon, but my wife uses a blender. Next, fill the wonton wrappers with about 1 teaspoon of the creamy crab and cheese mix. Brush the edges of the wrapper with the egg whites and fold the wrapper in half. I lay them on a cookie sheet and freeze them for 1 hour so that the cream cheese doesn’t melt out of them in the hot oil. Fry them at 325 degrees until they look golden and crunchy.  They don't need to fry very long.  The wrappers are really thin so they burn quickly.


If you eat them before they cool, the cream cheese will still be hot which will cause the filling to run out when you bite into them. However, when they are allowed to cool they will be crunchy on the outside and smooth and creamy on the inside. When my wife and I lived in town and she would make homemade cashew chicken,  I would go and buy crab rangoons from a Chinese restaurant and bring them home. However, when we moved out to the secluded country the rangoons would be cold before I could get them home. So, I decided to try and make some at home on my own. Now, it's become a tradition that I always make the crab rangoons any time my wife makes homemade Chinese chicken. This is the one thing I can make that my wife can't, or so she lets me think.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Fluency Blog Reflection

2/3/12

The blogging assignment was not as bad as thought it was going to be. At first I thought “oh no, I really don’t want to have to put my thoughts on the internet.” I actually found it kind of freeing. While writing blog posts were far from the highlight of my week it was more enjoyable than I had originally believed it could be. At first I had difficulty writing things and when I looked at the writing prompts, I would just say “yeah right I am not going to try writing about that.” After the first week I tried a couple of the prompts, some I was happy and some were abandoned very quickly. The best part of this assignment was it gave me the ability to try different styles of writing and I was able to choose what style I wanted to try. I feel that my successes were mainly when writing about subjects that were more personal to me and things I believed in. The post I probably enjoyed the most would have been what I considered my persuasive essay on why we shouldn’t take baths. When working on this post I used some of the tips we have learned about first drafts and freewriting and just getting in there and letting our thoughts flow. When I was done I was actually impressed with what I had written. It seemed to me that it had a certain amount of personality that I often feel my writing lacks. When I first saw this prompt I thought well maybe I can do that but was not sure I could. Some of my failures included the story I had written about the daughter moving back in with her parents. The story prompts that I tried were the prompts that I struggled with the most. I noticed that the more I wrote the easier it got for me and the less time I would have to spend on it. This was probably a combination of my thoughts flowing more freely to the paper and my typing skill increasing as well. One thing that I found interesting was that I actually started getting excited about writing. When I would sit down and get ready to write I was not sure what I was going to end up with. The sense of achievement I felt when I actually enjoyed writing about something and also enjoyed reading what I wrote was what amazed me the most.