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Ginger Chili Dipping sauce
There was an ENORMOUS bunch of green onions in my CSA share this past week; a testament to 'Growth' despite our hostile desert environment! (actually, onions like it here don't they?) I'll happily sprinkle a few here & there but this glorious bunch called for something special. Found this easy step by step recipe (with pictures!) at MOMOFUKU for 2. There are SO many recipes out there for green onion pancakes! I chose one of the first recipes I came across which looked good and didn't require the purchase of any ingredients I didn't already have on hand. (Good recipe but the dough tends to dry out very quickly in my 80 degree/table fan cooled kitchen so a few minor adjustments will have to be made next time-maybe a little oil in the mix.)
Fun fun fun with dough! While needing, rolling and forming the dough into green onion filled coiled buns; I couldn't help but think of playdough. I've seen (and made) my share of this magical dough as I taught preschoolers for over four years. (A long, long time ago!)
Ah, playdough!!
A childhood next door neighbor (and partner in many an escapade!) and I got into a great deal of trouble for throwing a lump of homemade playdough with great force straight up onto the ceiling! We were pretty young so I can only surmise that we were testing the limits of our little universe with this experiment. The trouble, and reason we got caught, was that it was REALLY sticky and it didn't come back down! There it was s-l-o-w-l-y stretching down from its point of contact; suctioned onto the popcorn ceiling. Our giggling was abruptly silenced when we were discovered by parents-we gave ourselves away in the hilarity of it all! (But than again how could we have denied involvement if we hadn't gotten caught red handed? "Nope I didn't have any playdough... how on earth did it get up there?!!?") The logic of childhood!
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