Making Chinese Dumplings
Making Chinese Dumplings: A friend came to our house over the Holidays and made these for us. To me it was a magical process with fingers flying and dough swirling, for her it was an everyday ordinary occurrence. Then there is going out for cheese burgers that is an ordinary occurrence for me that might seems magical to someone from far away.

CHEESE BURGERS

They’re all about red checkered table cloths with
towering mustard and catsup squeeze bottles
shoved aside for the yellow plastic basket filled with
the crinkling oily cheese stained paper
we pull apart to find our prize
Cheese burgers in paradise!

How did I put this all togher? Margo Rody  in her Tuesday Tryouts today offered a Jimmy Buffets concert of “Cheese Burger in Paradise” and a suggested we write about getting back to our routines after a flurry of Christmas activity.  Routine? Boredom, sometimes. Then there are the familiar everyday rituals that make life grand. Nows the time to look for them 😀  What are yours?

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  1. Making food is indeed a ritual–at least, it should be. Food feeds our bodies, our temples–if its preparation isn’t worthy of a ritual, what then is?

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  3. The heck with the cheeseburgers [one of my favourite things to eat]; bring me the dumpling maker [an even more favourite thing to eat]. I grew up on these. Folded a fair few at one of the temples.

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  4. We had so many dumplings that’s what we ate for Christmas lunch yum! I’m still all thumbs, but my daughter grew up going to these friends home so she’s got mad dumpling skills 🙂 Now I have to reread your bio to see what temples you visited.

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  5. We had chicken and duplings over at your folks a couple of times. Your dad made them. That was the only dumplings I ever really liked. I think about those every once in a while. It wasn’t too awfully long before he passed away. We’d just happen to be in Ponca and he’d invite us over. Ahhhh, more good memories.

    Neal

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    1. What a sweet memory. Thank you for it. Bisquick Chicken and dimpling was a staple at our house for sure. Once on a vacation my grandma made them and added salt then my mom added salt, too. I remember eating them because we were camping that was all there was but boy were salty! I “hooked” Jim by serving him Chicken and Dumplings 🙂

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  6. This is a grrreat post.
    My writing group met this am and we used the prompt as one of our prompts…it got some wonderful ideas going … it is always interesting how men and women differ … 3 men 2 women this am…women talked about daily routines and superstitions, and men talked about routines in playing sports !
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    Forgot about the Bisquick Chicken and dumplings…a staple in the sixties as an overseas Navy wife !

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    1. Just when I thought I was just whistling in the wind I get a surprise like this 🙂 🙂 🙂 It is a sort of pin ball prompt from Margo to me and then you pass it on to your writing group… men in your group…great! Oh how much I want to know more about what they wrote… superstitions?. I’ve missed my group because of the holidays, sigh.
      When I learned that someone was coming over to make dumplings for a party, that was suppose to be finger food, I had no idea what it would be, because all I knew squishy Bisquick dumplings swimming in a big pot of chicken 🙂 more smiles!
      Thank you Siggi

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    1. Oh I can see Homer Simpson’s drooling face when you say that, Cheese Burger! 🙂 I’m making Chicken dumplings tonight Yum!

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