WONTON RECIPES (Won Tons)

Best Wontons Ever!
I LOVE wrapped foods and here is one of my best. I use to make won tons about twice a year, mostly when the family comes home. They are one of my family's favorite. When I want my car inspected free, the mechanic will trade for my won tons. Everyone says mine are the best they've eaten . Over the years I've made them easier making them more my style. I still roll them up like cigar because that was the way I was taught by a Vietnamese family. (see recipe #2, is mine) Make a tamale stand, that where in Arizona I learned to like tamales, anything wrapped!
Vegetarian Chinese Wontons Recipe These deep-fried won tons are stuffed with mashed bean curd. Vegetarians who don't eat egg can substitute 1 tablespoon oil/flaxseed for the beaten egg.
Won tons 1
Makes about 45 - 50 wontons
1/2 cup mashed firm tofu
1 green onion, diced
4 water chestnuts, chopped (optional)
2 tablespoons shredded carrot
1 bok choy leaf, shredded
1 egg, lightly beaten (or leave out)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pinch of pepper
1-tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
2 teaspoons minced ginger
1-teaspoon sesame oil
45 wonton wrappers, or as needed
3 to 4 cups oil for deep-frying, as needed
Hoisin sauce or soy sauce for dipping, as needed
Drain and mash the tofu. Wash and prepare all the vegetables. Lightly beat the egg with the salt and pepper. Combine the mashed tofu and vegetables with the egg and seasonings.

Heat the oil for deep-frying while you are wrapping the wontons. The oil should be heated to between 360 and 375 degrees.
Fill the wontons; lay a wrapper in front of you so that it forms a diamond shape. Wet all the edges of the wrapper with water. Place a teaspoon of filling in the middle. Bring the top half of the wrapper over the filling and seal the edges. See: directions on wrappers.
*Wontons 2
The measurements of the ingredients are like eyeballing your salads that you make up. This is more a method than a exact recipe. Lastly, add a compliment to it with a meat flavor. This idea will help in keeping them light, and not full and heavy.
Mix: Chicken, turkey sausage, or sausage and hamburger *(1)
Bean threads *(2) (read directions on package)
Shredded, cabbage *(3)
Shredded carrots (packaged)
Green onions or chopped onion, or scallions
2-3 clove chopped garlic
2 TB minced fresh ginger (now come ready in jars)
About 2 cups of Safflower, Grape seed oil or a good oil.
Salt, pepper to taste
Hoisin or soy sauce for dipping (or Sweet and sour)
Won Ton wrappers 1 pkg., depends on your family size
*(1) If you can't find chicken sausage, use ground turkey or chicken and add the spice "Sausage Seasoning" If you use beef-half the beef with pork or it will be too heavy. Only use enough meat to season the vegetables sticking it all together. Use very little as possible, not even a pound just a taste of it as a seasoning. Don't use all hamburger because it's too heavy. The rest is vegetables with a package of bean threads. Always use fresh culinary herbs in recipes. I "eyeball" Swiss chard (if added) in this recipe just for color and giving my family some fresh greens. Other vegetable could be added. Remember mix all ingredients in a large bowl like a salad. Left over freeze for another day. If you have company there will be no left over. This is more a method recipe.
**You can use about 1/2 cup of pressed, (flavored) firm tofu or meat substitute instead of meat
*(2) Soaked bean thread in hot water then cut with scissors or a quick chop on pulse in a food chopper. Using bean thread keeps the won tons light. I wouldn't make them without. I buy a big package once a year that has 4-6 bundles inside. Only use one in the package and read the directions on the package, don't do this recipe without the bean threads it keep the Won Tons light.
*(3) Shredded cabbage and carrots are now in packages. It makes up faster and easier. What you don't use I freeze and use later in vegetable soup or broth cooking. You can also chop bok choy leaf shedding it instead of cabbage

Dip: Broil 2 sweet red pepper, charcoals broil them and place in bag to sweat when cool then peel. Chop in food chopper or blender; add fish or the Hoisin sauce to taste. Add a little honey if you want it sweet. And if you don't like fish seasoning, season with soy or Lea & Perrin Worcestershire sauce. Very good dip! Great on Spring Rolls.

To fill won tons, lay a wrapper in front of you so that it forms a diamond shape. Wet each corner with water. Place about teaspoon in the center and bring the two middle sides together (east and west) over filling and seal. Roll from the bottom to the top like a cigar over the rest of the wanton. (Or, Read direction on wontons package. Seal and fry 360 degrees.
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For Crab Wontons 3Use this filling
8 ounces organic cream cheese
8 ounces fresh crab meat or canned crab-meat, drained and flaked
1-teaspoon red chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
Freshly ground black pepper (optional)
1 green chopped onion (or chives)
1 large clove of garlic
*Can sub the imitation crab or leave out. See on package of won ton wrappers instructions for rolling Won Tons.
Deep fry until they are golden brown, about 3 minutes turning once. Remove and drain on paper towels.
* I make this once or twice a year plus, it's one of my family's favorites.

Won tons made just with finely shredded cabbage (in the salad section of your grocery store,) and fresh graded ginger quick style and is great tasting. Add in one package of "bean thread" which make it exotic. http://toughertimestoday.blogspot.com/2016/06/single-moms-start-cooperative-business.html

Chickpea (fiber and protein loaded)

Moroccan Whole Chickpea Hummus

nutritional information

Serves 8

Adding whole chickpeas to hummus gives this dip a hearty, chewy texture. Here the chickpeas are sautéed with onion and spices for extra flavor. For extra flavor, garnish with olive oil, chopped green chiles, and chopped cilantro. (I cut out some of the item and it was delicious, broths for quick starts and soak beans a bit. Good Brain food.

• 2 Tbs. olive oil
• ¼ cup finely diced white onion
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. ground caraway seeds
• ½ tsp. ground cumin
• ¼ tsp. curry powder
• ⅛ tsp. ground black pepper
• 1 ½ cups cooked chickpeas or 1 15-oz. can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
• 2 Tbs. lemon juice
• ½ cup finely chopped Italian parsley, plus extra leaves for garnish
• 1 recipe Classic Hummus

1. Heat oil in saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, salt, caraway, cumin, curry, and pepper; sauté 5 to 7 minutes, or until onion is translucent. Add chickpeas; cook 2 minutes more. Stir in lemon juice and 1/4 cup water, cover, and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in parsley. Cool to room temperature.
2. Spread Classic Hummus in shallow dish, and mound chickpea mixture in center. Garnish with fresh parsley leaves.
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Single Mom's Start Cooperative Business

Single Moms need help feeding the kids the father's not obviously doing. Check on the laws in your area for having carts, stands, or taking orders from you home and delivering tamales, baking breads, ethnic specialty's that others would buy. More; as times become tough to survive, and social agency's are over-loaded, this style of living with some variations will come into vogue. My parents sold vegetable at one time. Grow a Organic produce and trade/sell as we did. Point is you can sell anything. Organize your own co-ops
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From a conversation with a fellow immigrant advocate, Cohen realized that a cooperative business could be a solution because, surprisingly, the law does not explicitly prohibit undocumented immigrants from starting a business.

Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), employers face penalties for knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants or continuing to employ immigrants upon discovering they are undocumented. But the IRCA does not use any specific language to bar undocumented immigrants from owning a business.
“The employment sanctions provisions of immigration law refer specifically to the employment of undocumented noncitizens and were aimed at targeting employers,” says Professor Leticia Saucedo, who researches employment, labor, and immigration law at the University of California, Davis. “It does not speak to undocumented noncitizens as employers, although it does prohibit knowingly contracting undocumented noncitizens for labor.”

In other words, they cannot be employees, but they can be employers.
Carlos Pérez de Alejo, executive director of Cooperation Texas, an Austin-based worker-cooperative development center, recommends that undocumented workers form their cooperative businesses as limited liability companies. That legal structure allows each member to be an owner.
He would know. Cooperation Texas trained and consulted with the women who created Dahlia Green Cleaning, a 4-year-old undocumented-worker-owned cooperative also in Austin.

(Get vender license's, or/and sell on line, or, neighbor hoods by word of mouth, and off food carts.

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But back to Worley’s ABC report on cryotherapy. Upon wearing that “Cold Shoulder” vest, the reporter turned to San Francisco State University scientists to determine how many calories she normally burned, then compared that to the amount of calories burned after 20 minutes of wearing the cold shoulder vest. Rising from approximately 1.4 K calories per minute to 1.52 K calories per minute, the calories burned before and after the test proved that the vest enabled a 7 percent or 8 percent increase — less than the tests that the cold shoulder experts performed and witnessed, which was a 10 percent to 12 percent increase. Either way, with cryotherapy being tested as everything from a lung tumor treatment, as reported by the Inquisitr, to a weight loss addendum, the interest in cryotherapy seems to be on the rise.