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 !!!!!

On a roll! Wait no, Tortilla!

I am on a roll with posting though! This cooking this be fun, yo.

So tonight the Mighty Miss Rabbit was burdened with finding something to make. So she hit up her secret lover (Pinterest) and I can only assume she typed something like "OMFG what can I make that isn't too hard and I can still con Kobold into cooking tonight!!!"

Ok she doesn't con me as much as I enjoy helping, and then she sneaks away and laughs maniacally. It works.

So what did we do?
White Sauce Enchiladas.

Thanks to the awesomeness that is Gimme Some Oven we had something to go off of!!

We pulled up their recipe and went to the market. And promptly screwed up, grabbed "Mexican Cheese," forgot sour cream or yogurt, and, well, lets just say we might have been distractable. It happens. Don't judge.
The worst part? We didn't notice until we got home. So, we made due:

• 6 tablespoons butter
• ½ cup flour
• 1 can o' chicken stock
• 1 small can chopped Chiles
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• ½ cup mozzarella 
• 10 normal sized tortillas
• Around 1 lb chopped and cooked chicken
• 1 can White Northern beans
• 8 ounces Mexican Cheese
• 1 avocado
• Cilantro to taste

You'll notice it's almost spot on to Gimme Some Oven's. It gets a little weird around here. Mainly because we ain't that smart sometimes. 

Onto the Yummy

Let's start with the chicken (the easy part).

1. Chop up that chicken into bits and pieces as small as you want. Rabbit uses scissors, and giggles. 
2. Throw it in a pan, and cook it!
1. So I didn't add in the spices. But, all we did was add about
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon this awesome citrus chili power I've acquired somewhere.
3. Cook it through. It doesn't take but like, 8 minutes if you cut them small. 

The sauce (the not as easy part!)

1. You get to learn to make a roux!
1. In a sauce pan throw in half of your butter and let it liquify
2. Add in about a quarter of your flour
3. Whisk this until it becomes a lovely gelatinous glob- Cook until it browns a bit
2. Add in about half of your chicken stock, whisking and stirring to get it mixed and no clumpy bits. Let this cook for about two minutes.
3. Add in more flour and chicken stock. Whisk whisk whisk! Continue until you're out of flour and chicken stock. Going a bit slow helps.
4. Throw in your chiles.
5. Add that mozzarella!
6. Stir this occasionally on like, 3 or 4 depending on your stove. Not quite half heat. You'll notice the sauce thickens, the cheese at first forms a ball all on it's own, then slowly (but surely) it'll mix into the sauce and taste yummy. 
7. Add your cumin

While the sauce becomes freaking incredible off to the side, spend some time building your first layer of nom. This isn't hard. Chop some tortillas in half, and lay them out in a roasting pan of some sort (I use one that's like 9"x14"). Make a good covered layer. Throw in some of your beans. I added some sliced cilantro. Throw in some of your chicken, about half. By now your sauce should be saucey and sassy. Pour about a third of it over this layer. I use a spoon to spread and mix all the yumminess over the tortillas. Spread some of your Mexican Cheese over the top. Add tortillas like you did before, and do it all again. More tortillas, and you'll be out of meat and beans! But you have a top. You can stop here, but, I like more sauce and cheese.
 Lay out your sliced lawyers (err, avocados) over the top and make it pretty! 

Cover the pan with foil, and toss it in the oven at 350. You probably should have pre-heated, but who am I to judge?
Let this bake for about a half an hour, and poof, yummy, if improvised, white enchiladas. 

Sere with a cold beer and a shot of tequila! I like Don Julio myself ahaha.