Try Something New- Wontons

We love Wontons and Chinese food!
We decided to try making them without spending to much money and eating lots of Chinese food.
It was Delicious.
We had four kinds.
1.plan cream cheese
2.cream cheese with avacado
3.meat
4.meat/cream cheese

My favorite was all of the above. Stephen LOVED the meat.
Delicious... Here is the recipe we used for the meat.

WONTONS


4 Servings

1/2packagewonton skin
1/2cupvegetable oil
1tablespoonsoy sauce
1/2cupground pork
1pinchground pepper
1clovegarlic
2sprigscilantroOptiona


Make sure you don't over stuff the wonton. The skin will get burned before the pork is cooked.
For filling: Mince garlic and cilantro. Mix all ingredients together, except for the wonton skin and vegetable oil.

To make the wonton, put half a teaspoon of the filling in the middle of the skin. Pick up one corner and fold it to the diagonal corner. Pick up the 2 ends that have 45 degrees angle (the ones where the fold is) and wet them with a dab of water on you finger. Pinch the two corners together. You will want to prepare all of your wontons before frying them, so that you are not trying to manage both the hot oil and getting the wontons folded.

Heat up the oil in a frying pan or wok at medium heat. To test when the oil is hot enough, stick a wooden chopstick in the oil. When the oil is ready the bubbles will come up from the chopstick. Fry the wonton until golden brown. Watch the heat carefully. Keep turning them to cook them all the way through. You may want to break open the first couple wontons to make sure that the centers get cooked.

This recipe will make 25 wontons. Serve hot with the sweet and sour sauce below.


Now we are going to try and make my FAVORITE Brazilian dessert- Cuscuz. I have been craving it since we got home from Rio last October.

This for Less- Little Black Dress

My cute cousin Heidi asked me to help her find a black dress for a wedding. I thought I would do a post on it. Her budget was around 50 dollars.

This: Anthropologie Night Fever Dress- here for $158.00
For Less: Target Merona Wrap Dress here for $24.99


Product Image Merona® Women's Easy Care Easy Wear Wrap Dress -  Black

Also Shabby Apple is having a 20% of many of their dresses... here are a few of my favorites from their Black section. Black Dress with Black Wrap Around Collar and Bowtake 20% of $86.00
Black V-Neck Button Collar Silk Dress
take 20% $88.00

If you need any help finding ANYTHING (clothing, furniture, etc) for less let me know. Email me and I can help you the best I can for free and do a post on it. I know that money is tight and no one has to spend full price.
email me: parsonsrosie@gmail.com

Deals

This website is pretty neat... one deal at a time running all day long...

mamabargains.com

DIY, $1 & $10

Thought some of these were clever and inexpensive!!!
$1 DIY

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:How to's and other $1 DIY projects:


$10 DIY

These ones were my favorite...


#1.

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:apartmenttherapy:

1. Find a old shutter

2. take a piece of plywood and screw it on the back of it... (this is so the mail wont slide out)

3. Hang it your done!


#2.

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Bike Lazy Susan

how to here

Baby


I decided to have some fun with some fabric I had and some onsies for a gift for my good friends new baby Lorilie...



I forgot to take a photo of the cupcake one with her name on it, it was super cute.

Locals

Check out this blog.
A new favorite, full of great Utah deals and coupons. It also has other coupons and deals for non- Utah residents.
The most recent deal is for fathers day...
Utah Deal Diva

Sunscreen

Reviews on sunscreens and what to look for.
Watch this so you are prepared this summer.
(don't waste your money!)