Potstickers, Pork Burgers, & Sweet Potato Fries

Last weekend we decided to try our hand at making some potstickers. We ended up using Alton Brown's potsticker recipe, for the most part. We used an orange bell pepper instead of red, because there was a run on red bells at the grocery store, and we used sea salt instead of kosher, since we already had sea salt, and cut the amount of salt. We also used a cayenne pepper sauce in place of cayenne pepper, since we already had that as well.



They turned out to be pretty good. They certainly aren't authentic (I don't know that the Chinese cooked with ketchup.), but a very good Americanized version. In the future, I think we would use a little less ketchup and more hot sauce (that may be different if you used cayenne pepper and not hot sauce). We also mixed together some soy sauce with honey and drizzled that over the potstickers before we ate them. That really added something to them and would give you another reason to cut the salt in the potsticker recipe.

A couple days later I used the rest of the ground pork and made pork burgers. The ingredients were similar to that of the potstickers. I used green onion, orange bell pepper, chili powder, salt, pepper, and some worcestershire sauce. Those were very tasty. I also made a side of sweet potato fries, which are pretty simple. I just drizzled them in olive oil, added just a little bit of salt, sprinkled on a little bit of paprika and cinnamon, use more paprika than cinnamon, and tossed them. I baked them at 400 for about 30 minutes stirring them around every 10 minutes.