Much to Blog

I have many things I wanted to share that Jordan and I have done the past 2 days.

Friday for our date night we went to a store called Many Lands. We heard that they sold the noodle like things to make potstickers and went to get some. 

It was so much fun to look around the store. It's basically a little shop that imports foods from different countries. I went down the baking isle and fell in love. I wanted to try all the different things in cupcakes :) We ended up buying a package of German cookies. Jordan got soooo excited when he saw them. He said his grandma (who's from Germany) used to bring them for him to eat. They were delicious.

So once we came home we went to work making our own potstickers. We used ground turkey, fresh chives, cabbage seasoned with ginger for the filling. You definitely need two people to make these just because there's so much to do all at once. They turned out great and Jordan made the dipping sauce out of rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili sauce. YUM!!

Saturday was a special day for us. We celebrated our 2 year anniversary. Technically it's Monday May 2, but because I work till late on Monday we decided to celebrate early. I had no idea where we were going which makes it more fun....I love surprises. We got in the car Saturday late afternoon and headed up to Sandy to eat at this place...

Neither on of us had eaten here which made it more fun and I absolutely LOVE CHINESE FOOD!!! I tried Italian Soda for the first time and loved it. I got Mango. For Dinner Jordan got the General T'sao and I tried Mango Chicken. Wow were we impressed! This place was definitely better tasting that any other Chinese restaurant I have been to. The food was more authentic. To end our special dinner we split a Virgin Strawberry Daquiri...which I have never had as well. The night was full of many new things.

We came home and then made Alfajores which is a South American cookie. To relate the taste it's basically like a shortbread cookie with caramel filling.

For the filling I took a can of sweetened condensed milk and took the wrapper off. Then I put the can in the crock pot completely submerged in water for 8 hours on low (can also do high for 4 hours).

Then once the can has come to room temperature you open it up and it looks like this...

It's a simple way of making caramel. So good. I'm excited to eat it not only with more Alfajores, but granny smith apples...MMMM

It has been a great weekend for us.