Fun with Postickers!

[Amy Lewis]

I had an idea the other night and it turned out to be a good one too. I had
recently made my first batch of potstickers at home using the Su Gow
wrappers you can get at Safeway, and since those turned out pretty well I
thought about what else I might be able to fill them with.

I got the idea of using crab meat, jack cheese, avacado and onion. Its
tedious but its well worth it! I got some of that crab meat (prolly the fake
stuff) and jack cheese, an avacado, and a white onion.

I used a cheese slicer to cut thin strips off the block of jack cheese, then
cut these into inch square pieces, then cut the stack of them diagonally so
that I had a bunch of little cheese triangles.

I then cut a few thin slices of the onion, stacked them up, and cut them in
to 8 pie-like slices, then cut the avacado into suitably small pieces to be
able to put two of them in each potsticker.

Then you wet the outside edge of the wrapper with a fingertip dipped in
water, place a triangle of cheese on each side, a couple pieces of the union
in between them, a piece of the avacado on top of each of the cheese
trianges, and a wad of crab meat in the middle.

Then you just fold it closed, pinch the wet inside edges together lightly,
and use the tip of a fork to seal it around this edge by pressing the tips
of the tines into it along the edge you are sealing.

Then put a tablespoon of garlic flavored olive oil in a 12 in. skillet
(non-stick preferred) and over medium heat lay your potstickers in the pan
so they are not croweded together. Brown lightly on one side, and turn them,
brown them lightly on the other side, and then put in about an ounce of
water and cover. Cook 3-4 min. or until the pan is dry.

That's about all there is to it.

Also you can use lots of other things to fill them with, like beef and
cheddar cheese, or ground turkey with sage and onions, or ground pork and
apple. Use your imagination and enjoy :)

Amy