I went on a hot girl date in the city and we did it right! We ate delectable dinner, stalked a cupcake ATM (!!!) caught a piano bar set or two and ended with some Starbucks for the drive home. Though the Sprinkles cupcake ATM was novel and delicious, dinner at True Food Kitchen was my favorite.
True Food Kitchen is a restaurant with the aesthetics befitting Chicago cool kids, but with a "gut health" angle this "Marvelous" aged chick can feel smug about. (NOD to my pal Mari Johnson Hahn for adding the gross words 'gut health' to my repertoire.) Andrew Weil's True Food Kitchen offers only Anti Inflammatory cuisine. AND Cocktails. WHAT?
The food was so delicious I almost bought their $30 cookbook right then. I am an Amazon Prime Whore, so I pulled it up for a cool $11 and ordered it as I sat chewing the nom nom food!
This is one of many things I have made since: Edamame Dumplings! We'd ordered these as appetizers, and there was just enough of the light, gingery- garlicky wonton in frothy goodness to be satisfying...the portion was only meant to whet our appetitive: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
These are so simple! You'll basically pulverize the ingredients and fold them into adorable wontons wrappers. I'd never bought these wonton wrappers before...they tend to be in the organic cold case in these parts. They would be great to make raviolis too.
I've made these Edamame Dumplings from True Food Kitchen cookbook twice now. (To be honest we go the plump persons route of pan frying them like pot stickers.) Spoon University has a similar recipe, find that here. These do not keep well, so mange! mange!
I also made the Shrimp Soup with Asian Noodles. It was gorgeous and delicious. But the Edamame Dumplings were the BEST.
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