MOLO

Deciding to make soupy dish and should be a one meal dish to save time and less preparations. Suddenly, i thought of dumpling. Kids love dumpling and they are in for soup.

Tonight it's going to be a riceless, light dinner without compromising vegetables. What can be best but---

MOLO

makes 44 pcs wontons

For Wonton: you can do this ahead and freeze.

250 g minced pork

1 tsp LKK Superior Light Sauce

1 tsp sesame oil

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

Dash of garlic powder

Dash of onion powder

1/2 pc minced carrots

white part of spring onions

1 pack wonton wrappers

For the soup:

1 head garlic minced

1 small onions minced

2 tbsp EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

1/2 julienne carrots

1 pork boullion

dash of black pepper

1 c of water

1 pack baby spinach

*** salt and fish sauce --optional

Toasted garlic and greens of spring onions for garnishing.

Method:

In a bowl, mix all  wonton ingredients.

Scoop about 1/2 tsp and place in a wonton skin and seal.

Place in a tray lined with parchment paper to prevent sticking of the wonton on the tray.

When everything is wrapped, RTU.

In a pot, place EVOO and toast half of the minced garlic. Remove and set aside.

In the same pot and oil, sauté garlic and onions. 

Add 5 cups of water and heat to a rolling boil.

Add bouillon, pepper, carrots. Taste and adjust seasoning by adding fish sauce or salt but this is not necessary as the broth is well seasoned with the pork bouillon.

Slowly Add wontons and simmer til all the wontons float. That means it's cooked.

Serve with toasted Garlic and spring onions.

Almondigas

    I can't imagine that this recipe ever existed long enough not knowing that it was called as such. Why I am saying this, because this used to be one of our family  menu (usually misua soup, minus the almondigas of course, need not to elaborate on that) as our day to day survival ;-).   It has been our everyday food but on other days our Mamang has to invent ways to vary it : misua with meatballs, shredded chicken, minced pork with patola or drop egg or spring onions, which were by the way very often occasions as in --"once in a blue moon,"  but on most days, this dish is originally with sardines. Yes! Youngstown sardines (green colour) the one's so popular in its time...there you go, now I revealed one of our family's hidden treasures =D, ssshhhhh, I hope my siblings might not read this post =D.

    Indeed, life is very tough during those times that we need to be contented on what is on our dining table.  Though, you call it so "poor--ish", but we call it a blessing--for we have food for the day! Well, that's how life is, we would never be here now if not for those blessings!... I am starting to be nostalgic so before I may reveal more of our "hidden treasures =) here is the soup of the day...

Alphabet Soup

I totally forgot to introduce sopas to Paige when she started taking solids. Thanks to her I get to introduce this delicious soup to Kai at 8 months with the help of an interesting pasta--San Remo Soup Pasta which I found at Sheng Shiong-Tekka.  Since Paige tasted sopas, she kept bugging me to cook one for her and Kai.  Raining as it has been--- today, she's one lucky kid!