Wanton for these Wontons

Once, back in the ancient history, me and Miss Rabbit were thinking about how fun it would to run a small diner, or food truck, with a target audience that might include those who frequently used certain substances that cause a bit of hunger.
Yep we were thinking about stoner food.

We had multiple ideas, including simplicity of pricing, decor, etc. But when it came to thinking about food? Peanut Butter and Jelly came to mind. I mean, sober, drunk, stoned, PB&J is where it's at.
But sammiches and toast? Boring. I can't charge for that!

This gave birth to Peanut Butter and Jelly Wontons.

So I'm going to try and add picture for steps now, too. Because, well, this is for my attention disabled friends. 

What you will need

• Peanut Butter - I like natural peanut butters, or fresh ground up peanut butter. But that's just my tastes.
• Some sort of Preserves or Jelly - This is what was on hand. 
• Wonton/Dumpling wrappers. Yep, This is an excuse to go to the Asian market.. Everyone that knows me knows this hurts my feeling. Twist my arm even. 
• Water. 
• Optional (and not shown) hot sauce (I use sriracha).

• A pan for cooking in - I love my wok.
• A little oil of choice - Seriously if I had peanut oil I'd probably have used that to keep to a theme.

Seriously these might be some of the easiest things to make. Almost as easy as a standard PB and J sammich. 

Lets get cookin'

Lay out the dumpling wraps.

About 1/2 to 1/3 spoonful of peanut butter.

Wet around the edge of the wrapper, fold, and pinch, pinch, pinch around the edged. I get about 8 pinches each.

Heat some oil in your pan (enough to coat the bottom) and toss in the wontons.

When they brown (about 2 minutes or so) flip.

Remove to some paper towels to let the oil siphon off.

The Sauce

This is simple: Add preserves (2 or 3 scoops), about equal amount water, heat for 30 seconds in the microwave, and mix that stuff up! TADA! If you want to add in your hot sauce, glob in to taste, stir it up. This is a simple, quick sauce.

So how hard was that? Not hard at all. Serve it up! There are so many fun things to do with these. We tried with the jelly inside (ends badly). We tried with honey inside (It melts out as Honey Lava and melts your hands off!). We have also toyed with the idea of adding banana inside but have not yet determined if this is a good idea. Please, try it and let us know!

In the end? Our favorites are a simple dipping sauce like listed above, or drizzled with a little honey before they cool off. You can use Nutella, chocolate, what ever you would normally put on your PB&J and then some. It's a simple, easy to change, lovely little meal. I eat about 10. Rabbit eats like 6. They are filling, you get more than enough peanut butter, you get to choose how much jelly you get, it's all toasty and hot.. Really just be careful not to spill the oil !!!!!

Mm burgers. or "Rock Paper Scissors FTW"

I'm going to do some back to back posting because I think these next two burger joints deserve their own love, for many different reasons.

Starting with the more recent of the two, "Grind Burgers."



Me and Ms. Rabbit were driving around looking for places to eat, and had to make a shell world (Mostly illegal lane change over multiple lanes of traffic in order to turn "Right now!") because we saw a wood fired pizza joint. Well, then we saw a place labeled "Burger Bar." Some quick rock, paper, scissors later, and we were rolling into the burger joint.

Very modern design with high and low tables, really fun filament light bulbs hanging low (Mmm techno lust), and a great logo on the wall (You know then one of the sexy naked lady with her body dotted out for portions of meat).

Sitting down, they bring us over a clip board with a pencil and a paper with dots to fill in and choices to circle. It was time for class!!! So me and Rabbit are good kids and right out name, period, and class at the top of the sheet and get going. Nerd, ho! Ahem. Their menu had a beef burger, turkey, chicken, and meatless. I had the beef. Rabbit being the communist/adventurer/food blogger she is had a turkey burger. Some pepper-jack cheese, peppercinis, and marinated onions later, and I was ready to pick some "sauce." I did roasted garlic mayo and dijon mustard. Rabbit had honey mustard and thousand island on her fancy turkey burger.

Lets talk sides. we got onion strings (a mountain of them. No, really, this stuff was piled 8 inches high), and with dinner fries/potato wedges. With descriptions like

Sweet and Neat (is just the treat)
Short and Thick (will do the trick)
Tall and Thin (easy to put in)

You just know we had to try them out.

They get our drinks out to us quickly, and we begin the game of oogling the place. Very modern industrial. Shiney metal, fun lights, as I've mentioned, and metal chairs. It didn't take long for us to get our onion strings (again, mountainous) with chipotle ranch sauce that was, as Rabbit says, Punch a Baby good. We made it a third of the way through this hike of a meal before our burgers got to us.

Ahh a good burger, it makes me happy. I'm a sucker for onions that are crisp, and these have great flavor and a bit of crunch on a burger that on it's own was flavorful. I'm not sure what they marinate or spice their meat with, but I think I might have to, at some point, slap a hobo to convince them to share their recipe. Rabbits turkey burger, for a turkey burger, was pretty darn good too. I was happy to eat our "short and thick" 'tato wedges with my garlic mayo and random dips in the onions chipotle. I finished my burger, and we ate most of the fries, poor Rabbit could only eat half of her turkey burger (she's a light weight!!!!). Ok to be fair, for $9 each, it's a fair price, these things are huge. My burger filled both of my hands when I ate it, and I have, what the ladies affectionately call "Gorilla Paws."

The part of this adventure that saddens me is two fold. First, we were too full to try ice cream sliders. This made me a sad panda. Second is they have shirts for sale, but in the maroon t-shirt, didn't have my fat-ass-size. I believe they were just out, as it looks like they normally carry a pretty good stock of these.

All and all it's a great place. Over on Tropicana between Las Vegas Boulevard and Paradise, off on the north side, tucked in with some random resort.
Totally worth the "Shell World," to get there.

We Eat Too Many, on the third try, that is.

So most of Ms. Rabbit and my adventures happen in the wonder that is Las Vegas. We drive around looking for food and randomly stop to, as she would happily say, "Nom, nom, nom." Our latest adventure took us down Boulder Highway at 9:00 pm on a Sunday, looking for the afore mentioned "Noms." We started with Sam's Town. We figured they should have a 24 hour Cafe, and we fail. Continue down the road a bit and we get to the East Side Cannery. Their little hole in the wall Cafe ("Snaps") is a bit busy, we wait in line for 10 minutes like good little fatties. We get inside, order our drinks, and begin to wait. And wait. 15 minutes pass, we've gotten a refill, and no Server. We watch as tables around us begin sending cold orders back. I'm guessing they were just understaffed and having a bad night, at least that's what I hope was happening.

We made like a tree, and got the F out. Across the street we go, to the Long Horn, where it's not a palace and it's not a town, and some other lyrics to the radio song. We get in, get seated, and get to order. Their menu is a bit small, but it's decently priced and worth it. I got the Finger Food Basic. Mini Burritios, some cheesy taquitos, wings, fingers, and onion rings. Everything tasted great, for the price. The wings and fingers were medium, but had a great flavor for medium. And I seriously got a plate full of ranch, sour cream, salsa, and ketchup. Rabbit got a decent Patty Melt. This is all besides the fact.

The joy of our night and the orgasm of our hungry coupling was the Strawberry Shortcake. It's $3.99. It's huge. Seriously it had to be 6"x6"x6". Covered in strawberries, whipped cream, strawberry goo. It was wonderful. I do believe Ms. Rabbti "Squeed in her Pants." Even us, two professional fatties couldn't finish it, it was that freaking large.

So, for all of you with a sweet tooth in the middle of a Sunday Night, hit up Longhorn on Boulder Highway. It'll make your noms come true.