Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

People don’t often eat too many soup dumplings, as they can get tired of it after a while, so it’s good to prepare a few other dishes.

Considering that soup dumplings are mainly made with a meat filling, no other heavy meat dishes were made.

In addition to boiled bullfrog, a refreshing mung bean jelly was also prepared.

Even the jelly was made by Cindy herself, not bought from outside.

In fact, the process is quite simple: mix the mung bean starch with water to make a starch paste.

Then, slowly add it to boiling water and stir continuously while adding it.

Keep stirring until it becomes a thick solid consistency.

After that, put it into a container that has been greased. In fact, insulated food containers or bowls can also be used.

However, Cindy thought that a square insulated food container would make a more attractive shape.

Pour into the insulated food container, smooth out the top layer, and put it in the refrigerator to set for a while. After that, season it with your favorite flavors.

When the time was about right, Cindy began to steam the soup dumplings.

As the soup dumplings were ready, the taro porridge was also finished cooking.

She then brought everything to the dining table.

Taro porridge, soup dumplings, boiled bullfrog, mung bean jelly, plus a plate of refreshing cucumber slices that Cindy had prepared especially for summer.

Seeing all this, Morgan Zhekova eagerly picked up a soup dumpling with his chopsticks.

He was amazed to see that the dumpling skin was filled with soup, making it look “DuangDuang” and very elastic.

“I adjusted the proportion of the skin, so it should have a better texture than it did during the competition this afternoon,” Cindy explained, “Be careful though, it’s hot.’

Morgan carefully placed the dumpling into a small plate.

When Adrian Zhekova gently poked the dumpling with his chopsticks, he found that the seemingly elastic skin that was holding the soup so well suddenly broke.

“The skin of a soup dumpling should be thin and delicate,” Cindy said, “I wanted to keep that characteristic. So if you don’t touch it, it can hold the soup and filling well, but if you poke it, it will break.”

Adrian’s tasting method was the same as the judges, showing that he had a lot of experience in this field.

After tasting, he poured a little vinegar into the hole he had poked in the dumpling skin earlier.

Then, he added a few ginger strips on top and ate it in one bite. At that time, the dumplings were still a bit hot but not enough to burn the tongue.

Morgan Zhekova watched and followed Adrian’s steps while eating.

But Adrian could eat a whole dumpling in one bite without any problem.

When little Morgan Zhekova stuffed an entire dumpling into his small mouth, it was immediately filled to the brim.

He took a bite and suddenly covered his mouth in amazement.

His chubby little hands covered his full mouth, chewing for a long time, and only after swallowing the dumpling, he asked Cindy, “The soup leaked out just now, so why was there still some inside when I ate it?”

It seemed that Adrian Zhekova had also encountered the same problem, and he was now looking at Cindy.

Although his gaze was perfectly normal, Cindy’s face turned slightly red from embarrassment.

She couldn’t help but feel like something was always off about herself in front of him.

“I added shrimp and crab roe to the meat filling, so there’s still some soup in it when you eat it,” she explained.

“The texture is very layered,” Adrian Zhekova remarked. He could imagine that the judges must have been just as amazed.

“Cindy, when will the results be out?” Morgan picked up a cucumber strip and started munching on it..