Muke's growing journey

A couple of people have asked me to post recipes this week. I’m constantly writing up new recipes—I’d say it’s some sort of compulsion—though, as I’ve mentioned once or twice, I don’t usually post them here because I might confuse stray googlers. I plan on startin’ a separate blog for stuff like this sooner or later… but till then, here’s a couple for ya.

Anyway. Here are a couple of recipes I concocted this week. I’ve been using the heuristic I mentioned before of putting together recipes that focus on things I already have; I only had to buy the blueberries for the cake, and I already had like 3/4ths of the egg roll ingredients. If you make either of these, don’t at all feel constrained to follow directions to the letter: these things are made by experiment, and there’s certainly ways to do them better.

Blueberry sour cream cake

Ingredients

• 3/4 c sugar
• 3/4 c sour cream
• 5 Tbsp butter, melted
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 1/2 c flour
• 2 c blueberries
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 Tbsp baking powder

Instructions

1. Mix sugar, flour, salt, and baking powder together.
2. Beat in sour cream, eggs, butter, vanilla, and mix till smooth.
3. Fold in blueberries.
4. Pour into a greased and floured pan and bake at 325° till done—I used a 9″x13″ pan, and it was ready in about half an hour… your mileage may vary.

Calorie estimate for the whole cake is about 2450 calories.

Egg rolls (B)

Ingredients

• egg roll wrappers (about two packages)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 4 green onions
• 1 lb meat (recipe suggests pork; I used vegetarian chicken)
• 2/3 tsp salt
• 2 1/4 Tbsp soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 3/4 c bean sprouts (or one comparably-sized package)
• 6 c cabbage and carrot coleslaw mix (or one comparably-sized package)
• 1 2/3 c water
• 1 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1 1/4 c mushroom (I used shiitake)
• 1/3 c cilantro
• oil, to fry in

Directions are left as an exercise for the reader.

I don’t have a good calorie estimate on this one. The filling is about 800 calories total. The egg roll wrappers can run upwards of 1500, depending on how many you end up needing (some brands can be stuffed with more than others, I find) … and once you get to deep frying them all, it’ll only go up from there.

Anyway. Night, all, and see you next week.