Wonton Recipe

This is one of Darren’s currently most favorite meal:
Wonton soup with meat filling or in Bahasa: Pangsit Kuah.

A friend of mine who is also following this blog gave me the recipe (thanks, Nop!), which I modified a little to match Darren’s taste and for my convenience ^__^

Ingredients:
* 6 pieces of wonton dumpling (readily available in supermarkets, or you can make it yourself if you want)
* 50 grams of minced meat (chicken, beef, or pork if you like. I use pork)
* 2 pieces of chicken feet, boil with 500 ml of water, bring to boil to make chicken broth (or you can use any kind of chicken broth that you like to use)
* 1 carrot, cut into thin, round pieces
* 25 grams of broccoli (or as you like it), chop roughly
* 2 onions, chop
* 2 garlic, crush and chop
* celery, chop
* chives, chop
* salt, pepper, sugar to taste
Here goes:
1. Deep fry onions and garlic, divide into 2 portions, set aside.
2. Mix minced meat with a portion of fried onion and garlic, a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, some celery and chives. Divide into 6 portions, put each portion into a piece of wonton dumpling. Wrap by joining all 4 corners of the dumpling, use a couple of drops of water to stick them together. Set aside.
3. Boil chicken broth, put the dumplings into it, along with carrot. Wait until they’re cooked (takes some 10 minutes or so). Put the other portion of onion into it, broccoli, celery, chives, salt, and pepper, also sugar if you like. (For Darren I don’t use much of them.)
4. Unless you like chicken feet, get rid of it so you wouldn’t freak certain people out (in my case: hubby ;D )
This recipe makes 2-3 kid’s portion (depends on how much your kid eats. Darren eats it in 2 meals).

It’s so cute to see Darren ate wonton soup so ENTHUSIASTICALLY. He’d ask for his own bowl and spoon, then I’ll put slices of wonton into his bowl. It’s so slippery (even for adults!) to handle so Darren has to struggle to put them into his mouth. He barely uses his spoon, coz it’s easier to eat by hand, even so, he still has to work so hard. It’s MESSY, I’m telling you, but it keeps ALL the usual distractions away. He concentrates with his wonton, and keeps asking for more even while his mouth’s still full of it haha… Maybe Darren likes it is because it makes meal time almost like playing time.

I bought a pack of dumpling which probably has some 25 pieces in it. It expires within 5 days or so, so I usually cook half of it right after I bought it, and cook the other half 2 days later.
If you wonder about the rest of the dumpling, I make some also for Hubby. He LOVES deep fried wonton. It’s the same recipe, only simpler coz you just need to deep fry the dumpling after you fill it with meat, so you don’t need the chicken broth and the vegetables.

Gugukdog

Darren’s been crazy about dogs these past couple of weeks. He borrowed ALL stuffed dogs from his auntie who loves stuffed animals, and bring them to his playroom.
He totally “has” 6 dogs, 3 of them are the dogs from “the Cat and the Dog” brand, if you know what I mean; 1 is a Golden Retriever puppy (named Kenny, like the real one in our house), 1 is an old brown puppy, and the other is a tiny, orange, ugly dog that used to be a key chain, named Chop-chop.

Darren still sleeps with his favorite Panda bear and a little cow headed bolster. But it’s been about a week since he insisted on having Kenny in bed whenever he’s going to sleep. That Kenny dog, has to follow him EVERY WHERE in the house, in the car when we go out to buy groceries (I strictly forbid him bringing it along into the stores, because it’s too bothersome), Darren even wants to bring it along when I take him to the bathroom to pee! It takes a wit to distract him from bringing it into the bathroom.

When Darren wakes up in the morning, he would take Kenny out of the bedroom, and start “registering” each and every single one of his dogs. He knows all of them by heart: Kenny, the “abu-abu” (grey) dog, the “coklat” (brown) dog, the curly white dog, and tiny Chop-chop. He assemble each one of them, line them up in front of the window, and together, watching the wind blowing the curtain (he loves it so much, watching the wind). Sometimes when the day is cold, he put a blanket over himself and his “friends” to keep them from the cold wind ^__^

When we go downstairs, he wants to bring all of his dogs along, but I usually make him choose a maximum of 2. And say he brings Kenny and the grey dog, when we return upstairs and accidentally forgot the dogs, we HAVE to go back downstairs and pick them up! I once got curious, so when I got back downstairs, I took both dog, but gave him only one of them. He immediately asked for the other one, precisely naming which one!

Grandparent's Beloved

Darren’s rapidly learning new words and is now consistently using a 3-word sentences, sometimes even 4-word sentences. For example: “Want more wonton” or "see big wind" or “want big carrot.”

Darren also has this ritual of saying goodbye to his Daddy when his Daddy’s off to work.
He’d remind Daddy to put his glasses on, “ATA PAPAW” (= Papaw’s glasses), “PEN PAPAW” (= Papaw’s pen), and then hug and kiss his Daddy goodbye.

The other day, right before Daddy left, they had this conversation:
Daddy : Where’s Daddy going?
Darren : JA (= work)
Daddy : What for?
Darren : UANG (= money)
Daddy : For whom?
Darren : DEN (= Darren)
Daddy : For what?
Darren : CUCU (= milk)
Daddy : CUCU for whom?
Darren : CUCU EMAK... CUCU KONG-KONG...
When my parents came, my Mom taught Darren that he was “CUCU EMAK” (= Grandma’s grandchild) and “CUCU KONG KONG” (= Grandpa’s grandchild).
Now that’s what we call a “short circuit,” Darren mistook “milk” for “grandchild” because he pronunced them similarly ^_______^