penne a la Maggie: what's for dinner tonight: lettuce wraps and oven baked crab rangoon

Corbin had been pestering me about homemade crab rangoon, so I finally succumbed to his appetite and desires. And I added some lettuce wraps to his repertoire of foods!

Oven Baked Crab Rangoon

Ingredients:

8 oz. of cream cheese

4 oz. of imitation crab

1/4 cup of chopped green onion

1 clove of garlic, minced

1 tsp. of worchestire sauce

1 tsp. of soy sauce

Wonton wrappers

Cooking spray

In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. I found this easiest after the cream cheese had warmed up to room temperature, and after I minced the imitation crab meat.

Take one wonton wrapper, and add a tablespoon full of the cream cheese mixture into the middle of the wrapper.

Adjust your fingers along the straight fold of the wrapper and pinch both hands to the middle. If you find this to be too difficult, just fold the wrapper in half, diagonally!

This recipe made 22 crab rangoons for me! Spray a cooking sheet with oil.

Bake at 425 degrees for 12 minutes, or until the tips have begun to brown.

Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients:

1/4 cup of Hoisin sauce

1 tbsp. of oyster sauce

1 tbsp. of rice vinegar

1 tbsp. of soy sauce

Ground white pepper

2 cloves of garlic, minced

2 slices of ginger, minced

1 small onion, chopped

Olive oil

A variety of vegetables: yellow and green zucchini, mung bean sprouts, carrots, mushrooms and green bell pepper, all chopped. This part is really up to you, depending on what vegetables you enjoy

1 package of soy ground beef, vegan friendly. This ingredient can be optional.

In a small mixing bowl, combine the Hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, rice vinegar and soy sauce.

In a separate small mixing bowl combine the minced the garlic, ginger and chopped onion. Set aside. And in a large mixing bowl, combine all vegetables, chopped. Set aside.

Stir fry the onion, garlic and ginger until they begin to brown, then add in the vegetables and stir fry until they soften, about 3 minutes. Season with some white pepper.

Add sauce mixture and soy ground beef. Continue to stir fry until all ingredients are coated with the sauce and until the soy beef has warmed, about 2 minutes.